The Stranger wants you to HUMP! Seattle City Light wants you to Slay Your Energy Vampires:










Forks isn’t the only place in Washington that knows how to handle vampires! In fact, just in time for Halloween, Seattle City Light is holding a “Slay Your Energy Vampires” video contest. The utility invites residential customers to upload videos of up to 90 seconds in length to show the energy vampires in their homes and what they’re doing to get rid of them.

“We hope this contest will be a fun way for people to learn how they can save money by eliminating wasted energy,” Superintendent Jorge Carrasco said. “I’m looking forward to watching their videos and perhaps picking up a few tips, too.”

Videos will be accepted throughout September. All entrants will receive an energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulb. Public voting will determine 10 finalists. The grand prize winner, as well as second and third finishers will be picked by judges from the finalists and announced on or about Oct. 25. Creativity will be rewarded.

Seattle City Light's call-for-entries is here. HUMP's call for entries is here. And now here's the Seattle City Light/HUMP! challenge: Produce a 90 second video that can be entered in HUMP! and Seattle City Light's "Energy Vampire" contest. You can do it: HUMP! videos don't have to be hardcore and there's nothing in Seattle City Light's rules barring submissions about the electricity-sucking sex toys in your nightstand or the electricity-inflicting sex toys in your dungeon! And if you manage to get your video into both contests—you can do it!—Slog's flying monkeys will vote your video up at Seattle City Light's contest website and you could win... well, you could win some pretty lame prizes. But your video could wind up winning some pretty amazing prizes at HUMP!:

Best Humor: $1,000 First Prize, $250 First Runner-Up Prize
Best Sex: $1,000 First Prize, $250 First Runner-Up Prize
Best Kink: $1,000 First Prize, $250 First Runner-Up Prize
Best in Show: $2,500 Grand Prize

Like Superintendent Jorge Carrasco, I'm looking forward to watching your videos and picking up a few tips!