weirdest literary prize eva

[adelaidesean]

I'm boxing up my archives for another drop to the excellent Fryer Library at the University of Queensland--unearthing still more godawful juvenilia in the process. But that's what not this post is about, thank goodness.*

I simply want to commemorate the coolest award I ever received, for the 2000 Inaugural Sydney Writers' Festival Haiku Competition. I've talked about this before, but apart from a brief appearance in the infamous "Haiku Man" video (screened at a certain Brisbane natcon) the embroidered Y-fronts I won** have never been seen outside my office. So here they are, as modelled by the seductive walnut tree in our backyard:



Aren't they purdy? I have no idea how the valuers are going to assess them, but I'm glad they're going to a happy place.

haiku underpants:
just one owner, low mileage
worn only when drunk

* Nor is it about the mounds of homemade D&D modules I'm also donating, plus every scrap of music I ever wrote. Yowza.

** The giant banner I also received, visible at the link above, is going too. That's my second-strangest/coolest publication. Literary festivals should do this kind of thing more often! (Somehow I can't see stuffy old Adelaide Writers' Week really getting into spirit.)

Comments

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

the fewer people subjected to your Y-fronts, the better, I say!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Especially if I'm in them!

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

HELL YEAH! :-)

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TURN Y-FRONTS LOOSE. (http://silence-without.blogspot.com/2008/07/gfu-gfu.html)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I've missed your giant flying things.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

You know, that'd not the weirdest thing I've seen archived in a library's collection...but it's close.

I just wonder how the archivist is going to describe it for the record.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

So what IS the weirdest thing? :-)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I have to remember...oh, the shrunken head in the anthropologist's collection. I can't remember where (this was 20 years ago), possibly Canberra, not the NLA though. Also the lunch left in the box in the Sydney Olympic archiving project.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I like the haikus.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Could I like to them on my site, and add them to my poetry collection?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Of course! I'd be honoured.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I may even calligraphify some one day, when I find my calligraphy gear.