Style Conversational Week 1418: Just inkin’ about tomorrow Pat Myers Bob Staake was clearly inspired after he came up with “Alice in Wounderland” — she falls into a skateboard park — as an example for this week's Tour de Fours contest. The sketch he worked on Tuesday contained all the marvelous details of the final he finished Wednesday. Hello. I hope you’ve found something to smile about today. The shocking and shameful events of yesterday afternoon transpired while I was choosing the final winners of The Style Invitational’s Week 1414 Year in Preview. The TV ran in the next room here at home; my husband, who normally works on Capitol Hill, watched safely, though in shock, from the couch. A deadline is by far my most effective motivator, and I pared my wildly long “shortlist” — thank goodness I’d already read al the entries — with an eye toward producing a timeline of 2021 “events” that contained a variety of themes but also some similar entries that would serve as the equivalent of the running jokes that Dave Barry often threads through his beloved Year in Review pieces (here’s the 2020 version).