THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO ELIZABETH McCULLOUGH FOR HER WINNING ENTRY. SEE MAIN SITE FOR NEW CONTEST. The C’ville-restaurant-book-title challenge was our most active yet, thanks to all who participated with these funny comments! We loved them all!
The Mixed Bag Challenge: a new question each week for the 15 weeks leading up to the Festival. Prizes include a bag for the best comment each week, and a raffle chance at Festival event tickets for each entry. Check here for last week’s winner.
This week’s challenge: 13. Work the name of a Charlottesville restaurant into a famous book title. [Example? Howard's Enoteca]
Deadline: Dec. 24, Noon. New challenge then!
33 Comments
December 17, 2008 at 5:32 pm
The Pit Stop and the Pendulum?
My best effort so far.
December 17, 2008 at 5:48 pm
ZoCaLong Day’s Journey into Night…
December 17, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Boar’s Head-ipus
Harry Petit Pois-ter
Korea House on Mango Street
Bizou’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
C&O Pioneers!
Goodnight Blue Moon
Ivy Inn to the Wild
South Streetcar Named Desire
Romeo & Jul’etoile
December 17, 2008 at 6:47 pm
OK, well if we can do more than one:
Murder on the Asian Express
Fisherman on the Inland C & O
December 17, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The Sound and the Fleurie
The Old Mill Room on the Floss
Maya Antonia
The Great Bagby’s
Wide Sargasso Si
And of course, the next to last volume of the Left Behind Series:
The Rapture.
December 17, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Pilgrim’s Progress and Christian’s Pizza
The Portrait of a Lady and Five Guys
December 17, 2008 at 8:42 pm
The Milan the Floss
Bang the Drum Slowly
December 17, 2008 at 10:40 pm
extremely loud and incredibly zocalo
franny and kyoto
of mice and mel’s cafe
one hundred years in aqui es mexico
dr. ho’s in venice
death in the old mill room
the brothers l’etoile
maya-tan transfer
appointment in casella’s
December 17, 2008 at 10:50 pm
The Old Man and the C & O
December 17, 2008 at 10:58 pm
A Moveable Feast!
To the Mudhouse
Splendora’s in the Grass
December 17, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Frog in the Kitchen Zinc
by Jim Post
ISBN-13: 9781579390983
December 17, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Frog in the Kitchen Zinc
by Jim Post
ISBN-13: 9781579390983
December 18, 2008 at 2:47 am
Call of the Wild Wing Cafe
Aberdeen Barn Burning
Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House of Mirth
Waffle House of the Seven Gables
Rabbit, Beer Run
Cheeseburger in Paradise Lost
Dragon Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Pita Pit and the Pendulum
Steak Out of Africa
December 18, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The Mudhouse Rules
December 18, 2008 at 2:32 pm
The Bizou in the Crown
December 18, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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December 18, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Ruby Tuesday with Morrie
or perhaps
Wayside Chicken Little
Bon appetit
December 18, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Splendor in the Lemongrass
December 19, 2008 at 1:54 am
Practically Perfect in Every Wayside Deli.
Awfully, disgustingly self-serving. I’ll be back.
December 19, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The Thin Blue Light
The Snows of Guadalajara
Where the Wild Greens Are
The Grapes of Rapture
December 19, 2008 at 11:05 pm
East of Bodo’s
December 21, 2008 at 4:36 am
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Seafood
December 21, 2008 at 4:40 am
Midnight in the East Garden of Good & Evil
December 21, 2008 at 4:43 am
The Life and Times of Pancho Italian Villa
December 21, 2008 at 4:52 am
Lord Hardwicke’s of the Rings
and of course the sequel
Return of the China King
December 21, 2008 at 5:05 am
A Flaming Wok in the Woods
The Thin Red Lobster
Tale of Two CiCis
December 21, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Anne of Greenberry’s
Far From The Maddening Spudnut
The Turn of the Sublime
Angel Cakes: A Girl of the Streets
The Red Lantern of Courage
Journey to the Center of Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie
December 22, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Gravity’s Rainbow Lounge
December 23, 2008 at 6:40 pm
The Count Basil Story
December 24, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I was going to try to come up with something, but after reading all these amazing entries, I think I’ll pass! Good luck judge, this is a hard one!
January 17, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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March 11, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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March 20, 2009 at 2:38 pm
A VERY VALENTINE proposal at Enoteca.