Mrs. Smart has volunteered to act as Secretary.

See below for the candidates who received enough votes to automatically qualify for the ballot this year.

Electors may nominate up to five candidates this year. The top 10 vote-getters will be inducted this year.

Further updates as warranted.

We're back!

Hello family! After a yearlong hiatus, we're back to the most wonderful time of the year: nomination time! Someone who doesn't have finals will be taking submissions, and I believe the class size is capped at ten, so think over your submissions carefully! May the odds be ever in your favor.

Maurice Sendak seems like a worth candidate.

Congratulations to the inaugural class of the Big Pink Hall of Fame:

Walter R. Brooks
Julia Child
Bing Crosby
Bob Dylan
Jonathan Safren Foyer
Ira Glass
Darline Gullia
Madelene Jancowski
Norton Juster
Russell and Lillian Hoban
Scott Oakley
They Might Be Giants

The following candidates received the votes necessary to automatically appear on the 2012 ballot:

The Beatles
Chuck Berry
Carol Christ
Ella Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C.S. Lewis
Keith Richards
Betty Smith
Joss Wheadon

New Business: We need to consider, inter alia, how long candidates who do not receive the minimum number of votes must remain off-ballot. Forever? Five years? One year?

We should also discuss who is eligible to vote, and to nominate candidates going forward.

This year's class was limited to the top 12 vote-getters. Do we want to continue restricting class size? If we do, how many candidates should be inducted each year?

Finally, for each of this year's inductees I think it would be nice to draft a citation, which can be posted here, and sent to those who are still living. We don't have to do it all at once. Who would like to do the first one?

The recent death of Russell Hoban, combined with our belated discovery of Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas is turning the Hobans from a dark horse into serious first ballot contenders.

We are very sorry to report that Big Pink HOF nominee Russell Hoban has died

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If I'd won the Nobel Prize this year I'd bring a suitcase full of butter.