Welcomes and icons

First, I'd like to offer the Happiest of Belated Birthday greetings to my friend Lisa! I remembered that it was her birthday on Monday (really, I swear!) but I did not have an opportunity to post this after I remembered. Sorry, and I hope it was a happy one!

Secondly, welcome to dpaul007, whom I met on grammar_whores after he made one of the funniest comments I'd read in ages on LJ. With his permission, I'll reprint the great synopsis he wrote (along with the quote itself) here as soon as he comments.

"In grammar_whores, pfy posted a link to a story from the New York Daily News, the first sentence of which I have quoted. Click to see it in its entirety. This is it:

Highly paid educrats at the Education Department shocked the city's 80,000 teachers this week by handing out barely literate curriculum guides riddled with grammatical gaffes, spelling errors and misused words.

The penultimate sentence left me aghast: "The authors...portrayed George Orwell's Animal Farm - a cautionary tale about communism - as a story about the importance of rules."

My comment was, "Saying that Animal Farm is about the importance of following rules is like saying that Mein Kampf is about the importance of believing in your dreams. "


I have also realized that I'm in need of some new, cool, clever icons. I really would love one of an angry/upset Gollum that says "It BURNS us!" I'm also looking for a WTF icon of some kind. It does not necessarily have to say WTF.
Anyone have any reccomendations?

Not sure of what else yet. I'm especially covetous of some of angelislington's icons - the Tori one particularly. I think I need to install psp this weekend and play around with a few things.

This amuses me. I'm going to have to make sure to listen to it next time on that train, which happends every so often. Must tell Jeff to listen for it, though, as he's on the 2 train daily.

Waiting to hear from squiddeh about our plans this evening. I also need to email blergeatkitty about Saturday afternoon. Busy busy me!

Also: must call zyll this weekend and wish her a Happy Birthday!!!

Welcomes and icons

First, I'd like to offer the Happiest of Belated Birthday greetings to my friend Lisa! I remembered that it was her birthday on Monday (really, I swear!) but I did not have an opportunity to post this after I remembered. Sorry, and I hope it was a happy one!

Secondly, welcome to dpaul007, whom I met on grammar_whores after he made one of the funniest comments I'd read in ages on LJ. With his permission, I'll reprint the great synopsis he wrote (along with the quote itself) here as soon as he comments.

"In grammar_whores, pfy posted a link to a story from the New York Daily News, the first sentence of which I have quoted. Click to see it in its entirety. This is it:

Highly paid educrats at the Education Department shocked the city's 80,000 teachers this week by handing out barely literate curriculum guides riddled with grammatical gaffes, spelling errors and misused words.

The penultimate sentence left me aghast: "The authors...portrayed George Orwell's Animal Farm - a cautionary tale about communism - as a story about the importance of rules."

My comment was, "Saying that Animal Farm is about the importance of following rules is like saying that Mein Kampf is about the importance of believing in your dreams. "


I have also realized that I'm in need of some new, cool, clever icons. I really would love one of an angry/upset Gollum that says "It BURNS us!" I'm also looking for a WTF icon of some kind. It does not necessarily have to say WTF.
Anyone have any reccomendations?

Not sure of what else yet. I'm especially covetous of some of angelislington's icons - the Tori one particularly. I think I need to install psp this weekend and play around with a few things.

This amuses me. I'm going to have to make sure to listen to it next time on that train, which happends every so often. Must tell Jeff to listen for it, though, as he's on the 2 train daily.

Waiting to hear from squiddeh about our plans this evening. I also need to email blergeatkitty about Saturday afternoon. Busy busy me!

Also: must call zyll this weekend and wish her a Happy Birthday!!!

AUUUUUUGHHHHH!!!

After lunch and a Duane Reade run I decided to pop downstairs to check out what books were available on the free shelves. I did pretty well - I scored a copy of the selected poems of Allen Ginsberg (a nice hardcover that has all of his greatest hits) and a book of Sylvia Plath's collected poetry, which I have never ever read. So I was pleased. I even found a book for Carly and one for Tim.

But while browsing, I saw the most unsettling, disturbing thing ever. (or one of, at any rate).

A teen novel (YA to those of us in the industry) entitled Dating Hamlet. At first I thought it was some sort of cheesy self-help book, and was intrigued. What I found was this description:

It isn't easy dating a prince, especially when that prince is Hamlet. It could easily drive a young girl to madness, or so it would seem.

Since the death of his father, Ophelia's beloved Hamlet has descended into a deep depression. To make matters worse, the Danish court is filled with lies and deceit. Was Hamlet's father murdered by King Claudius? Is Polonius truly the father of Laertes? Who can be trusted as a friend? And who is to be feared as an enemy? It is up to clever Ophelia, with the help of her friends, to find a way to save her prince and herself. Only then can she finally reveal the truth about what really happened in the famed castle at Elsinore.

With Shakespeare's classic play as a frame, Lisa Fiedler gives voice to Ophelia in a gripping novel full of romance, ghosts, and a touch of alchemy.

*head explodes*

If that wasn't bad enough, I took a peek inside. Now, I'm sure all of you are familiar with Shakespeare's most overexposed masterpiece other than Romeo & Juliet. Despite this being based on a famous tragedy, NOBODY DIES IN THIS VERSION!!!!! ADKLJFHALSDKJFHSDALKFHLKAEYUIASD;DFJ;DL.

I'm all for introducing young minds to the classics, but this is not what I had in mind.

It's bad enough that craptastic revisionist garbage like this has to exist at all, but for the love of all that's holy this is some kind of new low. I am just relieved that my company did not publish this waste of paper.

AUUUUUUGHHHHH!!!

After lunch and a Duane Reade run I decided to pop downstairs to check out what books were available on the free shelves. I did pretty well - I scored a copy of the selected poems of Allen Ginsberg (a nice hardcover that has all of his greatest hits) and a book of Sylvia Plath's collected poetry, which I have never ever read. So I was pleased. I even found a book for Carly and one for Tim.

But while browsing, I saw the most unsettling, disturbing thing ever. (or one of, at any rate).

A teen novel (YA to those of us in the industry) entitled Dating Hamlet. At first I thought it was some sort of cheesy self-help book, and was intrigued. What I found was this description:

It isn't easy dating a prince, especially when that prince is Hamlet. It could easily drive a young girl to madness, or so it would seem.

Since the death of his father, Ophelia's beloved Hamlet has descended into a deep depression. To make matters worse, the Danish court is filled with lies and deceit. Was Hamlet's father murdered by King Claudius? Is Polonius truly the father of Laertes? Who can be trusted as a friend? And who is to be feared as an enemy? It is up to clever Ophelia, with the help of her friends, to find a way to save her prince and herself. Only then can she finally reveal the truth about what really happened in the famed castle at Elsinore.

With Shakespeare's classic play as a frame, Lisa Fiedler gives voice to Ophelia in a gripping novel full of romance, ghosts, and a touch of alchemy.

*head explodes*

If that wasn't bad enough, I took a peek inside. Now, I'm sure all of you are familiar with Shakespeare's most overexposed masterpiece other than Romeo & Juliet. Despite this being based on a famous tragedy, NOBODY DIES IN THIS VERSION!!!!! ADKLJFHALSDKJFHSDALKFHLKAEYUIASD;DFJ;DL.

I'm all for introducing young minds to the classics, but this is not what I had in mind.

It's bad enough that craptastic revisionist garbage like this has to exist at all, but for the love of all that's holy this is some kind of new low. I am just relieved that my company did not publish this waste of paper.