The “Who Killed Amanda Palmer Book Killed Me” Contest Winner

By now you guys know that the Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence with stories by Neil Gaiman and photography by Kyle Cassidy, Beth Hommel and many others is out now, right? Just in case if you didn’t, you know now! If you did not pre-order the book you can now purchase it online from JSR Direct and at select book stores world wide. It’s a beautiful collection of art assembled by so many talented people, check it out.

To celebrate the book’s release, last month we announced a contest asking you to take a picture (or create a piece of art) that demonstrated how the Big Book of Who Killed Amanda Palmer killed you.

Exactly a year ago today, on September 16, 2008 the Who Killed Amanda Palmer CD was released and what better way to celebrate the 1 year anniversary than to give away an Amanda Palmer prize pack with a brand spanking new signed Who Killed Amanda Palmer DVD?!

Who Killed Amanda Palmer DVD

(The WKAP DVD, pictured above, is now available in Amanda Palmer’s JSR Direct webstore)


So, on to the winner…




Congratulations to CourtneyFG, the winner of the signed WKAP DVD and AFP prize pack!

Below is Courtney’s winning photo and a short story she included with her submission:

The Asylum

The doctors called it delusional schizophrenia. She claimed to have killed Amanda palmer, not once, but numerous times at multiple locations by different methods. No one believed her, she didn’t believe her. She remembered it all like a dream, like something that never happened, all in her head. She had terrible trouble dealing with even the possibility of having killed someone. She had to be restrained in a padded cell, too keep her safe from herself and she was there for only two days before if happened.

The doctors called it a brain embolism, caused by stress. She never had a chance once that book passed the threshold. Someone thought it would help to show her that wasn’t real, what she remembered doing was just in a story book. She didn’t think so, she saw it as proof, she really had done it, then pop, she was gone.


Photo by CourtneyFG

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Thanks to everyone who entered! We received many beautiful entries - Amanda Palmer fans truly are talented and creative. In the upcoming weeks we’ll post some of the entries to the site in picture updates.

Don’t forget to keep checking back to WeKilledAmandaPalmer.com for more chances to win Amanda Palmer swag. Also, we’ll be running more contests on our twitter page @WeKilledAFP (like tonight’s ReTweet contest - info here - to celebrate WKAP’s 1 year anniversary)


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Domestication Kills: Twitter Contest Entries

This week WeKilledAmandaPalmer.com ran a contest on our twitter page (@WeKilledAFP) where we asked our followers to describe in one tweet (limited to 140 characters) how domesitication killed Amanda Palmer.

A winning tweet from all entries would be picked to win this spiffy “Domestication Kills” magnet by Paula Picard from Post War Trade (http://www.postwartrade.com/products/domestication-kills-magnet):

Domestication Kills magnet


To enter the contest each tweet had to contain the twitter hashtag #WKAFP and had to be submitted by 11:59pm on Wednesday 8/26. There were no entry limits - as long as you were being creative and having fun!


Drum roll…

Congratulations to @lovehound for the clever, yet gruesome domestication death tweet:

laying there on the floor, watching the blood flow across the linoleum, amanda felt a tinge of guilt about leaving a mess behind.



Thanks to everyone who entered the twitter contest, we’ll be sure to run some more so if you’re not following @WeKilledAFP on twitter, now would be a good time to start!

Also don’t forget, the WKAP Book Death contest is still going on - you have until September 5th to submit entries (click here for more information)



Here are all the entries for the Domestication Kills contest in the order they were received:


sholmes672 she ironed herself to death. All that is left is an iron print on her face. or an iron sticking out of her head (ouch)

ajekofalltrades With enough pills, they’re all pliable, dead flesh.Her,she only had to be choked the one time & she snapped like a burning bra strap.

ajekofalltrades that was supposed to be an insane husband talking, k? Not me! Just letting the creativity flow.

ShiversTheNinja Her husband asked her to tend to the fire while the guests were out of the room. She never expected him to push her into it.

ajekofalltrades
Dishes washed,children watching TV, he with HER at work, the Bell Jar on the nightstand & slipping down to greet her, an old friend.

sanarose
Dresden Dolls singer died today in her home. Husband, author N.G. is said to have found her in the garden, stung to death by bees.

RachelCraves
While simultaneously cooking & cleaning, AFP slipped on the freshly mopped floor and fell onto a meat cleaver. She’s no June Cleaver.

RachelCraves AFP was just weeding her garden when she fell into an open grave. Now the worms fertilize more than flowers.

Ardna55ac A delectable meal,indeed. Check the turkey…SLIP! Her brand new pumps and undetected cake batter on the floor didn’t mix.

Alkalune
The children’s muddy tracks on the carpet were too much for AFP and she drowned her sorrows in a bottle of bleach.

ajekofalltrades
Little did he know & little did it matter. Domestication kills, she wrote upon the letter, knowing that soon, she’d feel much better.

PGFShady
Who the hell would say that trying to stop a fire of burning oil with water could kill you. Such a terrible lost. R.I.P Amanda Palmer

ajekofalltrades THe voices said there was a magical realm through the portal at the back of the stove. She tried in vain to explore it.

ajekofalltrades In a dog collar, leather straps & little else, bloody & broken, her ragdoll body surprisingly beautiful. A scrawled sign, “Play Dead”

insignifikunt Domestication didn’t kill her, but it bored her to the point where death seemed the only way out - she hung herself with hubby’s tie

Lexeme
Her life in her husbands hands. He gave her all she desired, & it was desire that drove him, to wrap those hands around her throat.

desired_waste
Domestication killed AFP by putting her head in an oven. Didn’t you see the button?

lovehound
she weighed herself down/with heavy things from the house/and jumped in the pool.

essers
Domestication killed AFP, turned her into just AP

lovehound mr. palmer had had enough. he had her in his sights, and was gunning for her. “locked and loaded,” he said to himself. “here i come.”

johndpoole
suddenly, from out of the blue, the Winged Steed swooped down and knocked the gun out of mr. palmer’s hand with his hoof

johndpoole
while Granny Scythe went Old Testament on Mr. Palmer’s ass with her flailing scythe!

lovehound
kinsey thought mommy was being funny at first, because kinsey always thought it was funny when people fell, but mommy didn’t get up.

lauriepink
She would have lived, if she’d just given in. There would have been treats, massages, long walks. That damned, damned choke chain.

lovehound
miss palmer regrets she’s unable to lunch today.

cyndaelle
I’m sorry, Amanda can’t come to the phone right now, but if you leave a message, she’ll get back to you. Eventually.

charliespats
What could be more tragic than the loss of cookiedough for cookies?Nothing, she thought.Nothing. She dove in to taste what would never be the same again.

BuoySirUs She would have lived…had it not been for the timebomb hidden in the laundry hamper.

lovehound
skeeter johnson rang the front bell, then went around back when she didn’t answer, where she hung from a tree like a chinese lantern.

ajekofalltrades
Her note read,”I’m not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.”Red, elegantly exploring fingers, tears on her porcelain grave

lovehound
mix bleach with ammonia, wait for chlorine gas to form and hasten asphyxiation. wonder how long it will take husband to find you.

CourtneyFG
i did it! she told herself the bin goes to the curb. but has she stood by to admire, the garbage truck forgot to brake and, crush.

cyndaelle
Men are filthy creatures my dear, but you really shouldn’t have mixed that ammonia with the bleach while cleaning his bathroom today.

cyndaelle
The cold night called for a hot bath. Candles, music & wine. Unfortunately, she left the CD player on the ledge, & jump went the cat.

lovehound
paring strawberries, she let the knife slip along the inside length of her forearm. her flesh parted quietly. buddy barked to go out.

ajekofalltrades
She wouldn’t listen. I said sit. I said lay down. I said roll over. I said beg. A choke chain helped, but she just. wouldn’t. listen.

johndpoole
When suddenly, the Winged Steed kicked in the door and quickly applied a tourniquet, using his big horsey teeth…

lovehound
in the end, the vacuuming pushed her over the edge. she wrapped a cord around her neck and jumped from the second-floor railing.

lionl
She took the revolver and pulled the trigger on the kitchen, blood splattered over the granite countertops. The trophy wife act, over

lovehound
she sat in the dark, the garage closed, the car running, thinking about everything she had to do, until everything slipped sideways.

lionl
Amanda thought the closet would be a nice place to die. Surrounded by colorful fabrics, she took the final pill. So long, Mrs. Palmer

johndpoole
When suddenly the Winged Steed swooped down just beneath her and … aw, you get the story…

lionl
Fire, you say? She just didn’t want the neighbors to see the mess of dishes that last night’s dinner had left.

lovehound
she dropped the babysitter off, then drove back home, parking outside. “crazy” was on the radio. bobby’s .57 magnum was in her mouth.


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