January 31, 1998. The Demented Breakfast Cereal Treat
(DBCT) Contest.
Andy's birthday party. Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle. Gray drizzle
outside. Discombobulated venue for the contest. Bizarre concoctions stacked everywhere.
Paparazzi crowding about snapping flashes and hurling questions. Gleeful yet bedraggled
guests underfoot. Eager yet flustered DBCT combatants taking sidelong glances at their
opponents. A drumbeat of anticipation. Tuxedoes, kilts, evening gowns, brass bands, Ella
Fitzgerald and Jeff Buckley and Tony Bennett on the stereo, fizzy stuff cooling in the
fridge, doorbell ringing time after time.
It was darn hard to pick a winner. A number of entries vied for the honor of supreme
despicability, inordinate crassness, repulsive ingredients, combinatory malice
aforethought, and downright inedibility. The most heroic adventurer, however, was
doubtless Jay, who spent a good 16 hours separating out the colored nuggets of most of a
box of indescribable rainbow-colored cereal, and who then sculpted a chameleon with the
results.
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