Posts tagged as August
Leopard Cubs Adorable
OHMYGOD these leopard cubs! Look at the first picture here. He thinks he's people!
The Ten Worst Augusts of the Last Ten Years
Anyone who lands his or her first desk job very quickly learns the three most important lessons about desk jobs: 1) the best thing about desk jobs is the Internet; 2) the harder one works at his desk job the faster he'll climb the corporate ladder (therefore the sooner he'll land a desk where nobody can see his screen); and 3) alt-tab is your friend! READ MORE
Good Riddance, August
Here's how August 2010 ends in New York. At the corner of Grand Street and Clinton, on the Lower East Side, with the temperature approaching 100 degrees, an old man in a light-blue polo shirt is being pushed in a wheelchair by his caretaker. "Not this way!" he shouts, as she noses him into the crosswalk on Grand. He points west, across Clinton. "I want to go there!" She continues, and calmly explains to him that they need to go in the direction they're going. Maybe they're going to the Rite-Aid on the corner, maybe the kosher butcher down the block. "No," he says, "the other way! Bring me the other way!" He twists his head around, straining to see her face. It looks like he'd bite her if he could. "The other way!" READ MORE
Menacing Squirrel Does Not Like To Be Photographed
"The teeth are bared, the claws outstretched. Even his whiskers seem to bristle with animosity. If anyone still thinks grey squirrels are cuddly little critters, here's an image to prove them wrong."
Slow News Day
How does one handle the perennial task of writing an article about the superficiality of news in the month of August? One option is to rerun the same article ad infinitum. Or you could just get meta! READ MORE
Thanks To David Plotz, It Is Nearly Always 'August' At 'Slate'
It does indeed, it has been brought to our attention, happen every year. In late July of 2001, just before irony died, David Plotz published a screed against August. (Let's do away with it, he suggested in Slate!) Plotz, a Slater since day one, is currently the editor. His piece against August is nearly as long-lived as he is! The next year it was recycled, and the next, and the next (with an NPR link added!), and then IT DISAPPEARED in 2005 for reasons unknown. It then was recycled in 2006, with a wee excerpt, and THEN, in 2007, it was reprinted in full, and again last year. So far, in the fine year of 2009, we are still kept waiting for a new chance to read it again. Although! On Friday, came the "Abolish August Gabfest" political podcast, which we have not listened to, even though it includes the lovable John Dickerson. That put me on pins and needles. Will August appear again? Is Slate still committed to the abolition of August? Will they turn their back on this annual tradition, which is so much like an annual reading of A Christmas Carol and yet so much shorter in length?
