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[theholyinnocent]

1. A photo of the actual Arundel tomb, from World's Worst Camera Phone (and courtesy of the missus):



(It was a couple weeks ago that I heard Roseanne Cash read Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" on NPR, which had prompted me posting the poem then. It's prompted me to reassess him as a writer; previously I was not too appreciative of his work.)

2. Ladies, your dream man is here.. Damn, when these mail-order bride things go bad, they GO BAD.

3. I hereby declare it my personal mission in life to preserve the semicolon. Why? The semicolon is sexy. Friends, join with me: Use a semicolon today!

Comments

[noir-moll.livejournal.com]

Ladies, your dream man is here.

Holy.Fuck. I vote we revive the practice of tarring and feathering for this cocksucker.

Huh. I didn't realize the semi-colon was in such dire straits; I use it all the time. (There's my contribution to the cause.) And if the work product of my bosses is anything to go by, the hot little punctuation mark is a mainstay of legal writing.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Very tempting, that. At the very least, this guy will be a goldmine to a therapist one day. Fucked. Up.

the hot little punctuation mark is a mainstay of legal writing

At last, something positive about the legal profession! :)

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

If that is true (about the semicolon), then I suspect I now know how I was lucky enough to land someone as wonderful as bluepoet; I (correctly) use semicolons in textmessages, for goodness sake. I believe I am one of the few people in the world that particular about punctuation in textmessages. That may explain why I hardly send any. :)

As for the anti-feminist, holy-moly is that guy bitter. Who pissed in his Cheerios? Lord. I actually think a "mens studies" class could be done well, and be interesting, if approached correctly and within the frame of the reality and not the twisted anti-feminist world that guy wants to live in. I used to work for the guy who wrote this book, and I really liked it.

[lostingeekdom.livejournal.com]

I (correctly) use semicolons in textmessages, for goodness sake.

Isn't that supposed to be "goodness' sake"? ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. My mom tried to beat in ye olde Queen's grammar into our heads. Microsoft spell check has since fucked me up. And I'm right there with you on being anal about spelling and punctuation on test messages.

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

Oh nos! I have been busted on failed grammar. ;) Yes, that should be "goodness' sake".

My family once had a rather heated hour long debate over the question of if "anal retentive" had a hyphen or not. We are a strange family.

[lostingeekdom.livejournal.com]

Ah, I would love to try a discussion of that sort with my family, except they are anal retentive about the kind of language we use with each other. I'd be surprised if my mom even knew that phrase. It depends on whose grammar rules you're following: the brits are hyphenated, while the americans aren't, unless they're pretending to pretentions.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it depends on how it's being used. (Although I can't speak for British usage.) As an adjective, it should be hyphenated ("He was an anal-retentive asshat"), otherwise not ("Man, she was being all anal retentive"). Or at least that's my take on it.

[cleo]

I use the semicolon all the time; it's my favorite. The article is an interesting one, but I'll have to read it again when my eyes are DILATED. Ugh.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that will help! :)

[stargazer1960.livejournal.com]

I suppose Mr Den H will now set his sights on black studies programs at universities. They are, after all, excluding his white/ male privilege and probably say dastardly things about people like him; none of them true.

I liked the Larkin poem and I like the photo. I venture to guess that the gentleman entombed there with his wife may have been more progressive in his attitudes toward women than Mr Den H.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

I venture to guess that the gentleman entombed there with his wife may have been more progressive in his attitudes toward women than Mr Den H.

I daresay you are correct in that presumption, Mrs. CB.

[badtyler.livejournal.com]

Well, that explains why my fiction keeps getting rejected: semicolons.

C'mon, that has to be the ONLY reason's.

*g*

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

They probably think you're making it up: "Who the hell does she think she is, creating this half-assed period-comma!" (Well, I wouldn't put it past some 20-something magazine editor to think that.)

Walking home from work last night I encountered 2 typos on various signage in the neighborhood. Whenever this happens, I always wish I had a camera along to take a picture.

[badtyler.livejournal.com]

Heh... only two?

Like my mother used to say:
"The things you see when you don't have a gun!"

Not that she ever owned a firearm, but sarcasm seems to be a family trait.
*g*

[adastranot.livejournal.com]

Done...

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

O Ellipsis! Bondmate of the infinite! Speckled road of possibility!

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

awww.. do you think he's angry because he has lost so much of his hair?

That's a whole lot of energy to spend on trying to stop women from... well, I am not exactly sure what women are doing that men haven't been doing for 5000 years.. but still! the guy must need a nap!

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

He needs a good jabbing (or 100) with an electric cattle prod, that's what he needs. (Predictably, I am less charitable than you.)

[sandyosullivan.livejournal.com]

Haha I love that antifeminist nutcase. If it wasn't for him, we'd be losing any awareness of feminist theory. Sadly.

Ah the semicolon. They are great! You know what? I very occasionally mix up colons, semi-colons and commas. Not all the time, but occasionally. So, I now tell editors when I am sending them written stuff that I don't want to do them out of a job, so I've got some mistakes in there. I kind of thought they'd think it was jokey and apologetic, but I actually had one who said to me that it wasn't their job to fix up my mistakes and instead they would be looking at (then listing off all of the things that editors have to do, as though I wasn't aware)... oh dear. Apparently a sense of humour wasn't one of the requirements.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good point about the feminist guy. Thanks for that, nutjob!

Oh, dear. When you've been an editor too long, I think, you lose your sense of humor. Because you've had too many angry, screaming voice mail messages from crazy authors who decide to hold their manuscripts hostage because they didn't like the copyediting...yes, really!