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Feb. 13th, 2007
Today's Weird Event
Feb. 13th, 2007 04:36 pmOn the way back from my morning walk, the path in front of me is momentarily blocked by a car pulling out of a driveway in front of me. "Hey!" the woman in the passenger seat says, out of the open car window. "Are you interested in a psychic reading?"
Uhh... okay, here's my question. If I'd said "yes," what would Ms. Psychic Reader have done? (I'm assuming she was offering to do this herself, because any other alternative I can think of is just plain creepy.) Read my palm right there on the sidewalk? Survey my expression from her cozy shotgun seat and then make an ominous pronouncement about my destiny? Does she do a lot of readings by car? Or is this whole thing just a prank where the driver gets to peel out in a squeal of rubber after she delivers some comedy zinger to whoever accepts the offer? I swear, I'm going to be thinking on this one all day. Night. Whatever. Huh.
I've been researching online courses lately - damn, but there's a lot of subjects you can study online now! - and by way of brushing through a lot of material on copyediting (funny paradox: have you ever noticed the disagreement even among copyeditors whether this should be a one-word or two-word term, e.g. copyeditor/copy editor?), I managed to a) simultaneously bolster my spelling confidence and remind myself that there will always be problem words that should always be looked up (try your own luck here), and b) get one of my worst peeves agitated by a professional copyeditor, in the citation of common phrase that's grammatically effed-up. I could of been a contender.
*significant pause for desk-pounding action*
Could HAVE! HAVE!!! There's even a contraction for that, "could've"!! GAH! Why does no one ever correct this?
Amazing what kind of things irk, isn't it?
Uhh... okay, here's my question. If I'd said "yes," what would Ms. Psychic Reader have done? (I'm assuming she was offering to do this herself, because any other alternative I can think of is just plain creepy.) Read my palm right there on the sidewalk? Survey my expression from her cozy shotgun seat and then make an ominous pronouncement about my destiny? Does she do a lot of readings by car? Or is this whole thing just a prank where the driver gets to peel out in a squeal of rubber after she delivers some comedy zinger to whoever accepts the offer? I swear, I'm going to be thinking on this one all day. Night. Whatever. Huh.
I've been researching online courses lately - damn, but there's a lot of subjects you can study online now! - and by way of brushing through a lot of material on copyediting (funny paradox: have you ever noticed the disagreement even among copyeditors whether this should be a one-word or two-word term, e.g. copyeditor/copy editor?), I managed to a) simultaneously bolster my spelling confidence and remind myself that there will always be problem words that should always be looked up (try your own luck here), and b) get one of my worst peeves agitated by a professional copyeditor, in the citation of common phrase that's grammatically effed-up. I could of been a contender.
*significant pause for desk-pounding action*
Could HAVE! HAVE!!! There's even a contraction for that, "could've"!! GAH! Why does no one ever correct this?
Amazing what kind of things irk, isn't it?
...And His Head Was On Fire
Feb. 13th, 2007 06:40 pmSorry for the spammage tonight - I'm feeling garrulous, I guess. Probably procrastination. That always seems to do it. Writing cover letters really qualifies as one of my least favorite things.
I am so looking forward to Ghost Rider this Friday. (Check out the long-version trailer, apparently also old, since it predicts a 2006 release date, here.) The Ghost Rider comics were never that great (I'll allow for some good stories, but they certainly weren't the majority), kind of like the Elvis Presley movie Roustabout crossed with Tales of the Crypt, but that's the beauty of it - making a movie out of Ghost Rider is like remaking a bad film instead of a good one. You can hardly make it worse. Even if this film sucks rocks, it'll still have Ghost Rider in it, and dudes, it's a Harley-riding skeleton with a flaming skull, like some Iron Maiden album cover image that a 15-year-old boy would sketch in his chem notebook or get painted on his skateboard. That's cool. For a movie, that's cool. (Bear in mind that the teenage boy that apparently lives inside me thought the opening credits of Mortal Kombat were landmark moments in filmmaking.)
Anyone planning on writing BtVS Valentine's fic out there? I'm thinking about it, but man - it'll be a last minute item if so.
I am so looking forward to Ghost Rider this Friday. (Check out the long-version trailer, apparently also old, since it predicts a 2006 release date, here.) The Ghost Rider comics were never that great (I'll allow for some good stories, but they certainly weren't the majority), kind of like the Elvis Presley movie Roustabout crossed with Tales of the Crypt, but that's the beauty of it - making a movie out of Ghost Rider is like remaking a bad film instead of a good one. You can hardly make it worse. Even if this film sucks rocks, it'll still have Ghost Rider in it, and dudes, it's a Harley-riding skeleton with a flaming skull, like some Iron Maiden album cover image that a 15-year-old boy would sketch in his chem notebook or get painted on his skateboard. That's cool. For a movie, that's cool. (Bear in mind that the teenage boy that apparently lives inside me thought the opening credits of Mortal Kombat were landmark moments in filmmaking.)
Anyone planning on writing BtVS Valentine's fic out there? I'm thinking about it, but man - it'll be a last minute item if so.