#2 Crayon is in the House.

This probably isn't going to make sense to anyone not already familiar with what's going on, but I was seriously psyched yesterday when an envelope arrived in the mail from a man named Preacher who lives in Ontario. Inside that envelope was a single Crayola crayon, labeled "crayon #2". I had been waiting for it for over a week and now it is here.

The orginal post I sent to DVDTalk.com (where all this started) is in the continuation below.

The photos that help to explain this are in an album labeled "Binky the Crayon", and links to all photo albums are on the left sidebar.

If you are interested, or at least intrigued enough to take a look, links to the full story are on the Introduction Page of the photo album.

Check it out.

Originally posted at DVDTalk.com

Crayon #2(color) has ARRIVED!!!

The postman brought colored paraffin goodness to Adrian MI today. Crayon #2 has arrived.

For those of you who don't know, Crayola has introduced four new colors, but has not yet named them. They are running a contest on their website to give the 4 new crayons names.

Thus said, my adoption card is left blank. Crayola is not releasing my baby's name until some time in October, so I had to christen her myself.

She's a wily beauty, from first glance a rich burgundy. I felt I needed to learn more before I could give her an appropriate name. But, I decided that I would not give her a noogie just to see what she looked like on paper.

Gently rubbing her bottom with a scrap of vellum showed that she is actually very pink when she's laid out on paper.

So, until the Crayola gang make a decision, my baby #2 shall be named "Binkgundy" in honor of her bichromatic nature. Binky, for short.

Binky is now resting comfortably after her long journey, but wants me to tell everyone that she is anxious to have her picture taken and shown to her siblings and their companions.

I'll retrieve my camera from the office tomorrow and get pics up very soon.

-doc