the bounty of random

[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

[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!