The Slice: Carve your place among the best

This is your invitation to enter The Slice’s 2008 Jack-o’-Lantern Photo Contest.

Winning could change your life. Or not.

But it’s bound to be fun.

To enter, just send me a picture or pictures of Halloween pumpkins carved this month. Either regular snapshots or e-mailed photos will do. (See addresses at the end of the column.)

Be sure to tell a little about the jack-o’-lanterns in question. You know, who carved them, the source of the artistic inspiration, et cetera. And please identify any people or pets in the pictures.

If you submit traditional photos and would like them back, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Make sure to tell me how I can contact you.

The in-my-hands entry deadline is noon on Oct. 27.

There will be modest prizes.

Judging criteria will be made up as I go along. But I’ll try to be fair.

As always, I’d like to suggest a few possible categories. These, however, are not your only options. Feel free to use your imagination.

OK, here are a few you could try.

I look this way because I came down with a case of the Spokanthrax: And there is no cure.

I went to a Chiefs game and haven’t been able to remove this puck from my head: Orange and black have always been a striking combo.

Halloween classic: Traditional jack-o’-lantern. This might be the way to go for little kids.

This is the head of the politician I most admire: Or perhaps you might want to go negative.

A gourd-like rendering of some notable local personality: The individual in question may or may not actually resemble a pumpkin.

This is what happens when you demonize fluoride: A commentary on dental hygiene.

Bing Crosby: Pipe optional.

This is what can happen when jack-o’-lanterns drive while talking on cell phones: A cautionary carving.

I am an Avista executive: And I’m coming to get you.

My Idaho cousin: Lots of possibilities here.

This is what hostile players look like to Hoopfest court monitors: Yikes.

Slice reader whose submission didn’t get printed: The face of anger.

King/Queen of Spokane: Orange royalty.

Monster of the all-you-can-eat buffet: He’s aliiiive!

Palouse pumpkin: An agribiz jack-o’-lantern, perhaps? A WSU football fan?

I am the ghost of Halloween past: That could mean a lot of things.

Spokane pedestrian trying to use a crosswalk: You’d look scared, too.

•Today’s Slice question: How did you make sure your personality didn’t totally disappear after you had kids?