Bret Easton Ellis is on MySpace. (Thanks, JMO!)
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Hopefully I Hope Elder Statesmen Will Learn How to Speak English Again
Tim O’Brien: “Watch your modifiers. Do not write this sentence: `Hopefully, the teacher will give me an A.’ The teacher isn’t hoping, you are. Do write: `I hope the teacher gives me an A.’ If you don’t know the proper usage of the word, `hopefully,’ I hopefully recommend you don’t use the word at all. Moreover, if you don’t watch your grammar, I must sternly warn you, you could end up president.” (via Bookninja)
Well, We Can Only Hope Axl Ain’t Lyin’
Associated Press: “But it was a bizarre addendum to the statement, totally unrelated to the suit, that drew the wrath of Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland. Rose recalled a day last October where Slash, whom he hadn’t spoken to in almost a decade, showed up unannounced at his door at 5:30 one morning. Rose claimed that during their conversation Slash tore into his VR bandmates, calling Duff ‘spineless’ and Weiland ‘a fraud,’ among other things. Despite Slash’s hard-partying reputation, Rose insisted his former bandmate did not appear under the influence when he allegedly made these comments during this pre-dawn meeting.”
You’ve Had Your Download Time
Roundup
- Karen Joy Fowler on Octavia Butler. (via Gwenda)
- M.S. Smith on William Gass’s A Temple of Texts. (via Oakland’s Sexiest Man Alive)
- RIP John R. Gardiner.
- The New Yorker rejecting an advertisement for a book called White Trash Cooking? Who would have thought? After all, they have no problems capitulating their pages to a superstore for the masses.
- Rosemary Neill investigates the current state of Australian fiction.
- I’ve defended chick lit in the past, but this is a bit silly.
- V for Vendetta: 71% Rotten Tomatoes.
- Well, here’s a new angle for a podcasting article: The medium gives voice to the Faceless Other. But what you might now know is that podcasting is also the pipeline for the Two-Faced Stranger, the Long-Haired Entity, the Undetectable Shadow and the Twelve-Step Program.
- Peyton Place turns 50.
- David Kipen gets the Baltimore Sun treatment.
- They remade Just One of the Guys? Jesus, I need to pay attention.
- The Dan Brown plagiarism suit: All signs point to the missus.