For the first time in several years, we did not attend the Sea Isle City Polar Plunge -- the house we normally rent for the weekend was flooded out and we didn't find another place; instead we went to Philly for a night with several other couples and had a very different, much more civilized experience: we stayed at the historic Thomas Bond House, visited the art museum, ate fine Italian food, shopped at the markets, and saw a cover band that was the polar opposite of LeCompt . . . LeCompt is gritty, Jersey, weathered, and exceptional -- and this weekend made me realize how excellent they are; the only good thing I can say about the band we saw this weekend -- their name is Lima Bean Riot and they are heralded as one of the best cover bands in Philadelphia --is that they sound like the radio . . . they play horrible music, might be lip-synching, and incorporate a large number of medleys into their infinite set list of crap-pop, but if you turn your head, you wouldn't even know there was a band in the bar -- the auto-tuned noise coming from the PA speakers could have been WPLJ.
Following up to Mel's and Dave's comment from the last post:
ReplyDeleteThe ending a sentence with a preposition, as Dave alluded to, is sometimes more trouble than it was intended to be, meaning you mangle your sentence to get it right. There is a good book for grammar nerds called Woe Is I that, among other chapters, reviews outdated rules of syntax (such as the title, which is grammatically correct) and gives you a layman's guide to which ones can legitimately be dumped in modern times. It's a funny, short book that Dave could tear through in record time.
i will check it out. i am also a big fan of "eats, shoots, and leaves."
ReplyDeleteWho gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? Seriously though, I work with people who have strong feelings about them, mostly against. This despite the fact that they hand out copies of "The Elements of Style" on day 1, and element number 2 encourages the use of serial commas.
ReplyDeleteI am a proponent of the Oxford comma. It's a delineating punctuation mark that improves clarity in the sentence. Period. (get it?)
ReplyDelete"eats, shoots, and leaves" uses the metaphor that punctuation marks are the traffic signals and road signs of prose -- very important for efficient navigation through a text, some hard and fast rules, and a lot common sense usage.
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