o’ the Week

This “week’s” challenge is: (for a general explanation of “challenge o’ the week”, scroll down…)

DRAW A -ZOR!

Please, send us your drawings/illustrations/paintings/collages of zors! We will post them all on this very website, in a glorious -Zor! gallery.

Seriously. Open your Microsoft Paint, or your fancy Adobe Illustrator program, or your iPad drawing application, and do one now. It will only take five minutes. 

–If you don’t know how to draw on a computer, then pick up the closest pen and paper. And scan it. Or even MAIL it to us, we’ll scan it for you. We really want some -Zors!

What IS a –Zor!?  A –Zor! is a living thing, which comes into being when you add the suffix “-Zor!” onto an ordinary English word.  Thus there are chairs . . . and then there is . . . CHAIRZOR! (see sidebar for example of a Challengezor!.)

Yes, the living thing which comes into being when you add this suffix is both one-of-a-kind, and monstrous.  And yes—and maybe most importantly—it embodies purely and amazingly (and whimsically) the extreme inner essence of said word (in the above case, “chair”).

And yes, the diversity of –Zors! is one of the most apt things to describe as “infinite”.  There are just so many –Zors!, and they are simply (often) completely different.

But enough with our pitiful human attempts to understand!  What is there to understand?  The –Zors! can often be felt to create themselves . . . .

Draw your -Zors!! Click here to send in your –Zors!  (Yield to the impossibility of NOT sending in your –Zors!)  

…Now…any English word can be used. But if you really, truly cannot think of a word, here are some words that we think would make awesome -Zors!.

1. cat
2. lotus flower
3. enormous crane
4. shenanigans
5. Dirk (future NBA champion?)
6. pickles
7. cuteness
8. focus
9. bluegrass
10. Nascar
11. fine line
12. killer-instinct
13. ambiguity
14. underdog
15. hiccup
16. productivity
17. nostalgia
18. pipsqueak
19. Canada
20. spider web
21. NYC subway
22. camel’s-back-breaking straw
23. facebook
24. prophesy
25. justice
26. the color purple (or The Color Purple)
27. sperm whale
28. ghost
29. fetishized historical person-type   (as in: ninja, pirate, samurai, cowboy, etc.)
30. whiskey
31. circus
32. poodle
33. pulley
34. Chevrolet
35. tragic-comedy

—

WHAT IS A CHALLENGE O’ THE WEEK?

Basically, it’s challenge that you can do right now, immediately, without any planning, really, and with a fairly small time commitment. Of course, you could spend a lot of time both planning and doing it, but you don’t have to. The point is–you can do something pretty cool, pretty difficult, pretty fun, pretty immediately.

Also–while it says “o’the week”, what that really means is, “o’ the however long until we feel like changing it”…the former is just slightly catchier.