In honor of her new best-seller, “Going Rogue,” those wags over at Slate.com are having a “Write Like Sarah Palin” contest.
To enter, write a single sentence that matches what Slate calls “the high Palin style.” They helpfully offer a couple of samples from “Going Rogue,” so you don’t actually have to read the book yourself.
“As the soles of my shoes hit the soft ground,” Palin writes on page 102, “I pushed past the tall cottonwood trees in a euphoric cadence, and meandered through willow branches that the moose munched on.”
And from the first paragraph: “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.”
Holy dead moose, that’s some bad writing. The next thing Palin should shoot is her paid co-author, Lynn Vincent. (No wonder Palin doesn’t mention Vincent until the second page of the “Acknowledgments.”)
Details of the contest are here.
- People of Progress food bank is having a holiday drawing, with five great travel/dining adventures as prizes. Tickets are only $3. Go here for more info.
- The Shasta County Arts Council just announced that the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will perform at Redding’s Cascade Theatre on Jan. 30. The performance will be a fundraiser for the Arts Council. For more info, click here.
- Local community leaders Rudy Balma and Harry Grashoff have been named emeritus trustees of Mercy Foundation North, the philanthropic arm of the Mercy medical centers in Northern California. Congrats!
- DVD I Watched on the Dreadmill: “Red Road,” a thriller from Scotland about a woman who works for City Eye, monitoring security cameras in public places. She starts using her job to sort out her tragic past, and things spiral out of control. Intriguing film, but you’ll need the subtitles to understand what anyone’s saying.
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