Article: August Is the Cruelest Month; How do we fear it? Let us count the ways: traffic jams, skin cancer, hairy backs, nautical decor, sea creatures and disappearing therapists

August is a hateful month. A month of death and boredom and heat and reruns. The tunnel at the end of the light. If August were a disease, it would be incurable. If it were a television show, it would be hosted by Geraldo Rivera. And then canceled.

Why is August so frightening, you say, sitting in your Adirondack chair sipping a Perrier Lite and waiting for the mesquite in your Weber to smoke? I suppose you've been too mellow to dwell on all the horrible things that have occurred in this month. This cursed month. This month without pity.

Think about it. It's such an intense month, when it's supposed to be such a vapid one. Nothing happens in August, right? Wrong. Billed as a restful ...

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