There's a lot of alliterating in today's paper, most notably, Jim Foti's A section warning that Obama's visit will complete a "triad of traffic trouble". Try saying that ten times fast. I know, I'll make up a little Star Tribune tongue twister. Ready?
The troglodytic triplets traveled on Metro Transit to transcend the triad of traffic trouble.
Translation: take the bus, because with Obama's visit on top of the Gopher and Twins games, traffic is going to be a mess. That's all they had to say, really. Moving on...
Generally speaking, I'm a fan of alliteration, and I find James Lileks' alliteration to be quite artful. In today's edition of his column, he writes about the SweeTango, a hybrid of Honeycrisp and Zestra apples which Lileks describes as the "apex of apple art". He goes on to say that an appled called Horace "brought up images of equine effluvia". I find these examples of alliteration to be much nicer than "triad of traffic trouble" but I guess it's just a matter of taste.
James Lilieks' column is a definite bright spot in the Strib for me, and I think it's a shame that his column is routinely buried in the Metro section when it really deserves to be more cartoon-adjacent. In fact, I wish James Lileks could write the entire paper--I prefer his purposeful zaniness to the accidental variety that pervades the pages of the paper. (Hey, look at that...I can alliterate too, bitches!)
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