I was tempted to, as I like Jon Stewart and wanted to see how he did, but the fact is that I just don’t care about movies or Hollywood enough to waste time watching some self-indulgent, self-congratulatory “extravaganza.”
Still, the notion of providing recognition for excellence in a given field, coupled with something I saw earlier today, has got an idea kicking around in my head.
What is the idea? I’m not 100% sure yet, but it involves providing recognition – of a pretty much arbitrary nature – to someone for something.
Confused? Me too, but I’ll tell you this much; the idea was mostly inspired by this:
This is a set of panels from an issue of “Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane” (Number 71, January 1967) in which we see that, in her youth, Lois was named “Ideal Girl” and “Queen of Perfection.”
(The focus of the story involves Lois being blackmailed. Superman decides to snoop around in her life, going so far as to visit her hometown and dig around in her old room at her parents’ house, to try to determine what her deep, dark secret is.)
So as I said, my idea isn’t fully-formed, but I’m thinking that I should devise some way to determine who will win the title in The First Annual Lois Lane Ideal Queen of Perfection Competition.
Any questions? No? Oh, wait, yes? Okay, check the FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions for The First Annual Lois Lane Ideal Queen of Perfection Competition
Given that you just came up with this idea, and it’s the first time you mentioned it to anyone, how can any questions be frequently asked?
Uhhh…
Okay, moving on. Who is eligible to compete?
I don’t know. Chicks, presumably, and ideally perfect ones.
How are candidates chosen?
Search me.
How will the winner be selected?
I’ll think of something.
What will the competition entail?
I would guess that the chicks would have to do stuff to prove that they are Ideal Queens of Perfection. Duh.
What kind of prizes will the winner receive?
Well, the title, and probably something else. Maybe a gift certificate.
Are you high?
Nope.
Who will the judge(s) be?
Beats me. Got any ideas? I mean, I guess I’d be one of them, since it was my idea, but other than that, no clue.
What happens when DC Comics sues your ass for using the name of one of their copyrighted characters?
I change the name to The First Annual LL Ideal Queen of Perfection Competition and let people wonder what the hell the “LL” stands for.
So, uh, yeah. There’s the idea. If anyone has any suggestions for, you know, the rules, a way of selecting candidates, judging said candidates, selecting a winner and a runner-up (The Lana Lang Acceptable Princess of Second Best), pass them along to me. Also, if you want to provide some kind of sponsorship for prizes, that would be great.
Meanwhile I’ll mull over the idea some more and, most likely, inevitably scrap it…or else come up with something.
I’m sure I’ll have more to say on the subject in a later post.
As an aside, this particular issue of Lois Lane featured this cover:
Which is actually part of the supporting evidence over at Superman is a Dick.
And FYI, the deep, dark secret that Lois was being blackmailed over wasn’t her own; she was protecting one of Superman’s secrets! Talk about a Queen of Perfection! Maybe secret-protecting should be a category in the competition. Of course, we’d probably have to require that they reveal the secret they’re protecting, which would necessarily knock them out of the running.
Hmm, this could be trickier than I thought in the two minutes I spent thinking about it...
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