Jules Jewels #5: Peep-o-licious

(Did you hear that loud clicking sound? That was the collective missile lock for five-bagillion porn spam comments. It’s like my blog just became its own little Death Star.)

So, I’m sitting here trying to be all creative and inspirational and stuff, and all I can think of this: the coffee I’m drinking right now tastes exactly like that particular smell of coffee and cigarettes I remember as a child at my grandparent’s house in Dallas. Not Albuquerque, where they’ve lived and smoked and drank coffee for the last twenty years. Dallas. Because somehow those same collection of smells were totally different in another state.

Annnnd welcome to Random Tuesday! This episode brought to you by: Task Avoidance. With new nicotine flavor! It’s Lame!

(No. I have not started smoking. But I can see why it’d be easy to think that.)

(Especially after I tell you what this post is really about.)

I’m talking about Peeps. Not to be confused with my ePeeps, I’m talking about those ultra-florescent sugar-marshmallow sticks of Easter sweetness that my sister likes to open and set on a counter for a month and a half so they’re the confectionery equivalent to pure granite when she sits down to eat them with a glass of…I don’t know, Tang?! What do people eat with Peeps? Is it like red with beef and white with chicken? So that’d be what, Peeps and tequila?

Maybe that’s what I’m missing. See, I don’t eat Peeps. They are, how you say, muy disgusto. HOWEVER, thanks to our fine friends at the Seattle Times, it seems there is now a far more constructive use for these sugary devils (and hell, the news in general) that I could definitely get on board with.

This weekend the winners of the Seattle Times annual Peeps contest were published. Reminiscent of my good old eBay Days, the Peeps Diorama event is something I’d been looking forward to ever since seeing last year’s submissions because they so reminded me of those times when my coworkers spent a month organizing the Exact Same Contest Only More Awesomer, because they didn’t rely on no wimpy marshmallow building materials. No, they used GOURDS.

While I found this year’s results to be a little anti-climatic (woo! more spam!), I can’t criticize seeing as I didn’t even enter. Because out of all the things that happened in the last year, I couldn’t think of a single interesting thing to Peep-ify. Except…no…that one thing…eh…

Yeah. I’ve got nothing. Here’s a few of my favorites instead:

Marilyn Peeproe