Style Invitational Week 1469: Post Mortems, our annual obit-poem contest
Plus: We tell you all about the news of 2022
↑ The colorfully profane L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda (1927-2021) by Bob Staake for The Washington Post
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As we do at the top of every year (well, it’ll be the top once the print version comes out), in Style Invitational Week 1469 we ask you to bring out your dead-poems and commemorate in a short, funny poem someone who died in 2021. (See Gene Weingarten’s ode to Tommy Lasorda, the example for this week’s contest.) Deadline is Monday, Jan. 10.
And we have our Swear-Offski Crystal Ballers’ timeline of the news events of 2022, in our annual Year in Preview (a.k.a Fauxcasts). One runner-up: April 11: President Biden appoints Donald Trump as U.S. ambassador to Elba.
In my supplementary column, The Style Conversational, I share some classic obit poems of past years, as well as a few “news events” of 2022 that didn’t meet even the Invite’s taste test.
LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1469, and results of Week 1465
No-paywall entry form for Week 1469
This week’s Style Conversational column
Still running -- deadline Monday night, Jan. 3: It’s your chance to enter (or reenter) any of 25 previous columns from the second half of this year. (The contest will guide you to links to all the contests.) See Week 1468 here; see the no-paywall entry form here.
More ways to enjoy The Style Invitational and be part of the Loser Community:
Join the Style Invitational Devotees group on Facebook and the Devs will anagram your name every which way.
Also on Facebook, the Style Invitational Ink of the Day page presents one classic entry as a colorful graphic that's easy to share. "Like" the page to get it regularly on your news feed, or to scroll through the archives. bit.ly/inkofday.
And we're now on Season 2 of the You're Invited podcast, half-hour episodes with host Mike Gips and various Invite luminaries. Catch all 18 episodes at bit.ly/invite-podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
— Pat Myers, Empress of The Style Invitational, pat.myers@washpost.com (or just reply to this email)
*That's Loser with a capital L; named for the runner-up prizes emblazoned "LOSER," the community of regular Style Invitational entrants now proudly calls itself the Losers. If you enter the Invite, you're a Genuine Loser. But not (necessarily) a loser.