Peep Show V

by Sweetie:

In our post-modern, "spiritual but not religious" society, Easter has traded in the trappings of bodily resurrection for chocolate eggs menacingly beckoning from every candy dish, threatening to ruin our figures and complexions.

And the creepy chocolate cross. And the jelly beans. And Peeps -- perhaps the most disgusting sugar and marshmallow confection ever manufactured, somehow we all know was created in a lab and not in some kindly grandmother's kitchen. I have a relative who was chief executive of a company that briefly owned licensing rights to Peeps and Pass egg dye. He never showed me how either was made. I have another relative who enjoys nuking his Peeps in the microwave before popping them into his mouth. I haven't seen that process, either.

In a laughing-at-while-laughing-with spirit, the Washington Post has centered Peeps in a competition called "Peep Show," for the past five years. Readers submit dioramas of Peeps in action -- waiting at an airport Transportation and Security Administration checkpoint, being attacked by Peep birds in a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock movie, and stalking like zombies.

Check it out here.

What are your favorites? I enjoyed the "Black Peep" diorama that referenced the "Black Swan" movie, "Peepie Sheen Receives his Daily Transfusion of Fresh Tiger Blood," the intricately created theft of Peep art at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris, and "The Very Hungry Catpeepillar."

Do you agree with what the Washington Post selected for first place? I thought it was too serious of a topic to recreate using Peeps as the media.