Correct! Five million points from Gryffindor!

[aruan]

Salutations to liz_w on her belated birthday. Well, to be precise, her birthday was on time - the lameness is all me. T'was lovely spending Challenge with you, and I hope the coming year is a good one that brings more of the same.

Ha! This is unequivocally the best thing ever. I mean, besides the part where hurricanes and death are bad, but I'm suddenly taking all the tongue-in-cheek talk about divine intervention to sway the Florida vote a little more seriously (thanks to trollprincess for the link).

Y'all have been keeping me (and I'm sure digital_diva) amused all day with your talk of JC and Eva at the Emmys last night. I'm all, really? Could've sworn I spent it working out, heating up leftovers for dinner, and watching the most eminently forgettable episode of Star Trek ever. Gotta have a talk with the alter ego about who gets the good times with boys in bowties around here.

Also, since Harry/Remus as it exists continues to make the baby Jesus cry, I seem to have taken it upon myself to rectify the situation. walkingshadow was very encouraging about my ideas over lunch at Fritanga, where I understood less than half of what I ordered but everything happily turned out just fine.

Weather today was simply gorgeous, around mid/high-seventies with the kind of breeze you shouldn't wear your hair down in. I powerwalked to class with Britters and Aerosmith blasting and didn't even break a sweat.

Reading and loving Pride and Prejudice. Also, wanting to kiss whomever cast Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the miniseries for me to look forward to at the end of it, 'cause in my head, Colin Firth was born to play that role as Joey Fatone was born to be Danny in Grease.

How charming is the quote describing JC as having a "unique way of moving" by a former MMC choreographer here? That's certainly one way to put it. Personally, I love his style, and the way he described his criteria for picking his dancers being their energy rather than grace. I'm all about that, not having more than an ounce of it to my entire constitution.

Earlier tonight, Meghan called me a grammar nazi while affectionately ruffling my hair when I thanked her for knowing how to use colons. It may be the best compliment I've received in a month. The Access Party campaign manager, however, gets no points for his random insertion of commas, repetition without rhetorical purpose, misspellings, unnecessary dashes, rampant verb disagreement (case and tense), article abuse, failure to know the affect/effect distinction, either lack of or doubling up on transitions, improper utilization of apostrophes to convey plurality and overambitious and miscontextualized word choice. *grits teeth* Also, I'm firmly behind a measure that would require people to possess a license to use the word 'upon.'

Otherwise, between stories about KY Jelly wrestling and prostitutes, tomorrow's issue is going to be the most entertaining ever!

Fact of the Day:

Burglary, though commonly used to refer to theft in conjunction with breaking and entering, is defined only as the act of entering private property with the intent to commit any crime. Larceny is the word for the unlawful deprivation of property and comes in degrees of petit (*not* petty) and grand depending on the value of the object(s) taken.

In conclusion, I have to say any night, no matter how riled up it makes me over the state of public education in the United States, that includes a three-way chorus of Gone between myself, the desk chief, and the managing editor gets capital marks.

Quotes of the Day:

You can add those critical two inches somewhere else.
-Jared on the decision to shorten his story

Newlyweds: Britney and Kevin Don’t tell me you wouldn’t watch it. Lynne can come visit wearing the pink velour tracksuit and the expression that says, "My daughter used to be a cash cow pop princess and all I got was this lousy piece of Juicy Couture from Target."
-imogennegomi

Comments

[powrhug.livejournal.com]

Y'all have been keeping me (and I'm sure digital_diva amused all day with your talk of JC and Eva at the Emmys last night.

I was thinking the same damn thing! *laugh* (not that Eva would complain I think)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Oh, this Jules/Eva-In-Real-Life isn't complaining, either. Mmm.

[annecatherine.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth was born to play that role

Word.

There's a P&P remake in the works starring some guy who is NOT Colin Firth as Darcy. I believe his name is Matthew Macfadyen.

I'll probably watch it but it will be strange to see someone else in that role. Colin Firth is and will always be my Mr. Darcy.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth just needs to make more movies, period. Preferably opposite Hugh Grant and/or Rupert Everett again. Mmm, snarky Englishmen.

I've seen the trailer for the remake, and the only thing I have to say about it is that it's not only a remake, but a reinterpretation, ala Baz's Romeo+Juliet. Plus, it's being done by the director of Bend It Like Beckham, which I loved with every little fiber of my being, so I'm all a-twitter with excitement.

[digital-diva.livejournal.com]

talk of JC and Eva

It *does* have a nice ring to it, doesn't it? ;)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Mmm, indeed. Especially if he's willing to get that gussied up for the occasion! The last time we saw him with an Eva was Eva Mendes, and I do believe he was wearing a suit then, too. *approves*

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Fact of the Day behind the cut, because you've had enough of my grammar fascism, I'm sure.

I really haven't. Also, if you have any hints and tips on how to make this comma thing make sense to me, I'd appreciate it a lot. They've gone from being mildly confusing but intuitable to making no sense whatsoever to me, and I've not found a readable online guide to use. So if you feel even mildly inclined to rant about those, rest assured you'll have a rapt audience in me. :)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Hm. The comma thing is rather tricky, in that there are so, so many rules. Unnecessary clauses, before conjunctions that join two sentences but not a sentence and a phrase, before and after names, at the end of a quote that doesn't end with an exclamation point or question mark, after a certain length of introductory clause, etc. The list goes on and on. Some of them are technical reasons, some of them are rhetorical effects, still others are to provide a natural pause for breath. They're versatile little things, but that doesn't make their application willy-nilly. I'm sure there'll come the day when I'll sit everyone down and give that lesson, too, as I did with quotation marks in my office, but if you have any specific questions, do feel free to run them by me.