What is it? First bookofjoe Contest of 2013®™© is on! (Jessa rules!)

Answer here this time tomorrow.

The winner — to be determined by Gray Cat using a complex deep black super-secret algorithm so fiendishly abstruse even the NSA gave up trying to crack it — gets Party G1rl Lollipops, kindly furnished by Jason Darling, owner-founder of Lollyphile, who will immediately dispatch a fresh batch to your door once I give him the word.

heh

Full disclosure: I have a bunch of these lollipops, which Jason sent to me after I featured them here last month: they are very good.

Trust me on this.

If for any reason you are not pleased with your prize, please let me or Jason know and we will walk away from you and your email as fast as humanly possible... no, that's not right — how did that get in here?

From the top: If for any reason you are not pleased with your prize, please let me or Jason know and we will cheerfully refund every penny you paid.

There, that's better.

But I digress.

A hint on the mystery object pictured up top: bigger than a bread box.

Another: contains no metal.

A third: not designed in this century.

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot: reader Jessa, whose comment:

HOW DOES IT WORK? That is what I want to know. I'm not interested in the icing, I'm interested in party mode. Ecstasy? Is it ecstasy?

on the Party G1rl Lollipops post inspired me to bring back contests after a couple-year-long hiatus, gets a shipment of these sweet — but not too sweet, just right — treats for providing the spark.

Well done, g1rlfriend!