Edible Book Festival 2012

Another year, another Edible Books Festival.  As always, we had so many ideas it was hard to narrow them down.  Lots of groaning, frustration, laughter and food play finally yielded the following entries:

 "Freud's 'On Narcissism'"

This was made with Jello and and fruit roll-up stencil.

"Mix'd Weenies"

This ode to our favorite publishers McSweeneys was made out of cut up hot dogs and pepperoni. 

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"The Chronicles of Naania"

Thanks to puncontrollable fan Thaddeus for the inspiration!  We used naan bread for the letters and stenciled with various spices for the lion.  

"Puddin' on the Ritz"

This ode to Fred Astaire was created with chocolate pudding and ritz crackers on some swanky dishes.

While we didn't place in the "Most Punderful" category, we are proud to say that our "Mix'd Weenies" entry did win a bronze for "Most Appetizing" (gasp!).  Once all of the judging, oohing and ahhing was completed, everyone dug in and ate the entries.  You'd be surprised how tasty chocolate pudding is on a ritz!

 Can't wait 'til next year!

Edible Book Festival 2012

Edible Book Festival 2011

Puncontrollable participated in the Edible Books Festival for the third time this year.  We have been so busy lately, we almost weren't able to do it, but we sure are glad we did!  You may remember some of our past entries from 2009 and 2010.

Here are our entries for this year:

"Still Life with Woodpecker"

by Tom Raw beans

"The Seitanic Verses"

by Salmon Rushdie

And finally:




"Just Kids"

by Meat Patti Smith

We can't wait until next year!

Edible Book Festival 2011

Seattle Edible Book Festival

We sure are looking forward to this year's Seattle Edible Books Festival! We had a ton of fun last year and they were nice enough to feature our Wilde design on the promo postcards.  We have at least a dozen ideas for possible submissions, the hard part will be narrowing it down to a few.  Here's the post of our experience last year.  If you're in the area, you should join us on April 10th!  If you want to enter, you need to sign up by the 8th.  Hope to see you there!

Seattle Edible Book Festival

Miss Prints!

We wish we would have thought of this one first! Great job Betsy!

This lovely visual pun was found in Seattle at the Punk Rock Flea Market. We were on our way out the door when we spotted it, and we just had to turn around and give out a pun award. The award winner is Betsy Schairer of Baddins Design. Betsy also makes some lovely embroidery drawings that are showing now at Dolce Vita in Ballard, curated by ghostgallery.

Betsy was a very gracious award-winner, she even gave an acceptance speech! She explained to us her process in conceptualizing the "Miss Prints" image--she just came up with the idea the night before. Thanks for the laugh and smarts, Betsy!

Miss Prints!

Mallternative!

While out and about on a weekend in Astoria, OR, we spotted this gem.  We promptly ran across the street and presented the owner with a pun award.  We also appreciate his business model--or should we say Mallternative?

Mallternative!

Congratulations, Un Phở Gettable!

Our second Pun Award goes to Un Phở Gettable.  Seattle sure loves itself some phở, and why shouldn't we?  It's fast.  It's cheap.  It's served in giant bowls.  And, well, it's phở-cking everywhere.  So, when Margaret and I were struck with sudden hunger while on our way to hit the great north Aurora thrift shop circuit this weekend, we couldn't resist stopping in to grab some Vietnamese cuisine and hand a Punny to the proprietors of Un Phở Gettable, clearly our favorite Seattle phở restaurant name.  It was a slow Saturday afternoon when we arrived at the Greenwood Ave and Holman Rd strip mall establishment.  So, we took a moment to hand the proprietor their award, describe what it is Puncontrollable does and praise them on the excellent choice of business name before ordering our food.  Thanks, Un Phở Gettable, for making us smile every time we pass by.  Here's Margaret enjoying her teriyaki.  Yum!

Congratulations, Un Phở Gettable!

First Pun Award!

Congratulations Elephants Gerald!

This is a shop whose name has made me giggle ever since I first laid eyes upon it.  Elephants Gerald makes screen printed tshirts, too--even better!  The thing that I like about this store, almost as much as their name--their posted "hours: flexible."  We like how they think!

 I met with John Ramm, the founder (pictured above), when I stopped by to give them their award.  He happily hung the award in the window and gave me these neat stickers.  Tired of the hearts on people's bumperstickers?  Replace them with a screw!

Thanks John, for making this a more pun-derful world.

First Pun Award!

Pun Awards Coming Soon!

We just got together all the goodies for our pun awards. Pun awards will be given to people or businesses that have puns that makes us giggle. If we are out and about and we see a pun we like, we'll leave a pun award, take a picture of the pun, and feature it here at puncontrollable.com. Award winners will receive a "pun award" magnet and sticker, a "the less I like" sticker, and a coupon for the purchase of puncontrollable merchandise.

Check back soon to see who will win!

Pun Awards Coming Soon!

Seattle Edible Book Fest

Puncontrollable took its first stab at the culinary arts yesterday at the Seattle Edible Book Festival.  

Our entries were:  "Curd Vonnegut" (featuring Beecher's cheese curds and a cocoa stenciled Kurt)

and "Wilde About Reading" (featuring a chocolate sauce screen printed pancake).

We had a bunch of fun and we are already thinking up entry ideas for next year!

Seattle Edible Book Fest