We’re Totally Feeling August
August 28th, 2007 by max linsky in Editor's Desk, NewsAs this eighth month of 2007 comes to a close, let us point out our favorite piece of media criticism in a while, which comes from a new friend of ours, the Washington City Paper. Editor Erik Wemple, fed up with two decades worth of overly poetic Washington Post tributes to August in D.C., decided to write an ode himself.
Only using sentences from the different Post stories.
Late August is the time of sweet surrender. [Montgomery, 2007] It is the left-behind lawyer eating his sandwich at the counter, alone, Russian dressing dribbling down his fingers onto his newspaper, because there is no one he has to see at the Palm. [Gerhart, 2001]
Washington gets as empty as a [D]umpster full of anxieties. Public discourse gets as thin as a soup made from the shadow of a chicken that starved to death. People make like infinitives and split. [Style Invitational, 1994] Yet even as the days hurry by—the slower the faster—and even with the wretched weather that we all complain about, it is a month to savor. [Frank, 2007]
Anyone got an ode to August in Sarasota?
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August 29th, 2007 at 9:14 am
i would love to write an ode to Sarasota in August, but my F’ing pen just melted.