Style Conversational Week 1441: Gimme Five
The Empress of The Style Invitational discusses this week’s song-to-limerick contest and winning neologisms.
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Style Invitational Week 1441: ’Rick rolling — songs written as limericks
And just as we did recently in a contest that originally was about movies, we’ll take John’s suggestion to ...
Style Conversational Week 1440: Start singin’ the news
Pat Myers the Empress of The Style Invitational, discusses this week's song parody contest and results of the contest ...
Style Invitational Week 1440: It’s parody time
It’s been six months since the last Style Invitational song parody contest; for that one, the Empress asked for ...
Style Conversational Week 1439: The Brood X-hibition
Some of the entries were the product of painstaking craftsmanship — with the emphasis on “pain,” if other entrants ...
The Style Invitational: A bug’s laugh — cicada ‘art’ winners
Back in 2015, the Empress ran a contest that Loser William Verkuilen remembers fondly, having gotten a couple of ...
Style Conversational Week 1438: The old college try
Style Conversational Week 1438: The old college try
Anna Halprin, teacher and choreographer who embraced improvisational style, dies
She brought an audaciously improvisational style to a dance tradition she thought had become stale.
Style Conversational Week 1437: We’re emerging!
As usual, the sentences that worked best for this contest tended to be ones whose real context was clear, ...
Style Invitational Week 1437: One-offs — a ‘typo’ neologism contest
We’re back with yet another variation on The Style Invitational’s stock in trade: the change-one-letter neologism contest. This week’s ...
