Daily Kos: “But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put ’em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know – fiction!”
Month / May 2006
The Brand Names Are Interchangeable, However
Forget that Harvard kid. This week’s plagiarist scandal involves Bret Easton Ellis. But in Bret’s case, he’s actually plagiarized himself! (via Bookninja)
Personally, I Blame That Uncle Grambo Guy
Guardian: “Ancient English cliches and expressions are being mangled by the culture of cut and paste and the spread of unchecked writing on the internet. According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of a billion words, dozens of traditional phrases are now more commonly misspelled than rendered correctly in written English.” (via Booksquare)
I Don’t Know Whether to Be Repelled by the Fashion or a Bit Turned On
The Buck Rodgers [sic] Guide to 70’s Babes. All I can say is: Hello, Dorothy Stratten.
Pop That Cherry, Alan
Alan Moore talks Lost Girls: “I think it struck me that it was kind of unusual that there are all these relatively rarified areas of human experience that very few of us are actually involved in, such as being private detectives, space explorers, or vampire hunters. There are whole shelves full of books that are devoted to all of those exploits in every major city. However, we all have a sexuality, even if we’re celibate – that’s sexuality. And yet, the only medium – the only genre – that deals with sexuality is this grubby, under-the-counter genre in which there are absolutely no standards. It struck me that even though there have been many artists who’ve dabbled in the erotic and the pornographic in the past, most of them have done so anonymously, even if the work they’ve produced has been absolutely wonderful.” (via MadInkBeard)