pumpkin carve-off essays 2010

To remind you:

Pumpkin A (Bill Beaucoup’s)

Pumpkin B (movita and 2.0′s)

movita knows you like to hear this stuff, so she won’t deny you the pleasure. This year’s first essay came from one of movita’s co-workers. She’s really into rooting for movita.

Pumpkin A

After researching the origin of the Jack o lantern (which I won’t bore you with), I considered this pumpkin to be quite in keeping with Halloween and very well suited to it’s purpose (which I also won’t bore you with). I wondered what this pumpkin was actually eating…hmmmm….was there a resemblance to a Rutherford there? Perhaps…perhaps not. Appears to have been done free hand …no stencil here! Or was there? Level of difficulty? None! Perhaps the teeth….just a little. Originality? I’ve seen this before….seen it lots …..bored already! All in all a good (not great) entry.

Pumpkin B

Wolf or cat? Werewolf? Werecat? I’ll assume wolf. Stencil! Stencil! Stencil! No free hand here…or is there? Level of difficulty? Some…appears to be very finely carved. (Appearances can be deceiving.) Originality? I’ve seen this before too – not so much as Pumpkin A – not altgether bored. All in all a very good (not great) entry.

…was expecting greater things from both teams. So, based on the entries, and the fact that it is a ‘Pumpkin Carving Contest’ not a ‘Jackolantern Contest’ and that I really have no criteria on which to base a choice other than the ones I made up – I vote for Pumpkin B.

Uh, thanks?

movita’s sister is a writer. movita figured she could count on her vote based on their shared awesomeness. movita was wrong.

I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out whose was HOOS. (See what I did there?) We have, once again, a cannibalized fetus pumpkin and a scary kitty (or is it a wolf?). Did the teams return to their 2009 concepts to improve their execution and artistry and directly address Grasshopper’s scathing reviews? If so: BOLD. Or: LAZY.

AnyHOO, like last year’s Cat And Pancake, the sabre-tooth/wolf is extremely well executed — I suspect by the same hand, though its resemblance to a hockey jersey logo suggests 2.0 wielding some sort of mysterious power over movita. Intriguing. No, I can’t tell whether it’s a cat or dog, and yes, the candle is too visible, but I don’t care, damn it. I just want to know who did it so I can get them to cut in my ceiling paint.

As for the cucurbitacide, I’m impressed by the way this year’s victim has either (1) vomited up it’s entire soul plus last night’s spaghetti or (2) been thoroughly masticated from toe to head, as well as the delicate application of ketchup or possibly freezer jam. The Frankensteinesque studs are a nice flourish, though I might have liked an additional accessory to balance them out, such a silver tooth or mock turtleneck. It may be less sophisticated than the tiger/wolf, but as I have a soft spot for the suffering of others and jack o’lanterns HOO sport six o’clock shadows and pause, mid-chomp, to pose cheerfully for photographs, my vote is with the dead gourd.

Respectfully submitted, yours, etc.,

Typical. She would side with movita’s father.

Also, movita would like to point out that when she showed her students the photo of her pumpkin they all knew it was a wolf. Even the stupid kids.

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