Style Invitational Week 1490: It's parody time!
Write a song (or even do a video) about something in the news. Plus winning 'signs of incompetence.'
cartoon by by Bob Staake for The Washington Post for Diana Oertel’s “Incompetent Astronaut” entry
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Hey, Loserbards! It’s time for another of The Style Invitational’s contests for song lyrics about stuff in the news right now. You can even make a video. All the deets are in this week’s contest along with my Style Conversational column (if you’ve never done a song for the Invite, be sure to read the Convo). Deadline for Week 1490 — a week longer than usual — is Monday, June 13.
And we have the winners of our contest signs of incompetence in various professions. In addition to the runner-up in Bob Staake’s cartoon above, we have dozens of jobfails like Film producer: “I say we do a live-action ‘Bambi’” and Husband: “C’mon, honey, nobody cares how fat your butt looks.”
Also in this week’s Style Conversational, I look back on last weekend’s Flushies awards — and give convincing evidence why the Year 29 Loser of the Year deserves the title in more ways than one.
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LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1490, and results of Week 1486
The same column for non-subscribers (but do sign up — there are always great promotions going on!)
No-paywall entry form for Week 1490
This week’s Style Conversational column
Still running -- deadline Monday night, May 30: It’s our contest to rearrange the words in a movie title to create a new movie. See Week 1489 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 have two seasons’ worth 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.