It seems that Gene wrote about the Virginia earthquake (experienced significantly around the D.C. area) in 2014 during his Washington Post weekly chats. BUT it also seems that the URLs for those chats no longer work. So nope, this isn't available ever again; there is no other copy.
It's this sort of thing that prompted me and the Loser Co…
It seems that Gene wrote about the Virginia earthquake (experienced significantly around the D.C. area) in 2014 during his Washington Post weekly chats. BUT it also seems that the URLs for those chats no longer work. So nope, this isn't available ever again; there is no other copy.
It's this sort of thing that prompted me and the Loser Community, starting in 2013, to make a PDF of each week's Web version of The Style Invitational, along with one for the often very different print version. Sure enough, many old Invitational columns can now be found only at NRARS.org (Master Contest List) -- and the ones that do remain online on The Post's pages are often missing art (even for caption contests). Thanks once again to Gary Crockett and his Crocketeers for continuing the work of the late Elden Carnahan for keeping the archive going.
It seems that Gene wrote about the Virginia earthquake (experienced significantly around the D.C. area) in 2014 during his Washington Post weekly chats. BUT it also seems that the URLs for those chats no longer work. So nope, this isn't available ever again; there is no other copy.
It's this sort of thing that prompted me and the Loser Community, starting in 2013, to make a PDF of each week's Web version of The Style Invitational, along with one for the often very different print version. Sure enough, many old Invitational columns can now be found only at NRARS.org (Master Contest List) -- and the ones that do remain online on The Post's pages are often missing art (even for caption contests). Thanks once again to Gary Crockett and his Crocketeers for continuing the work of the late Elden Carnahan for keeping the archive going.