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Writer, editor, Doer of Things. Avatar by Joe Eisma.
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A few more spotted around the store…
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You can always tell when the editors have pretty much been told, "DOESN'T MATTER. GET IT TO PRINT. GET. IT. TO. PRINT." (I remember finding British spelling/wording sneaking into the US editions of a series that shall go unnamed, but erratically, like the copyedit had been a serious rush job.)
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What say we get the entire West Coast together on this?
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(On that note, my favorite piece of "someone actually paid some fucking attention" set dressing was in Fargo. There's one scene where you can see a set of Red Wing Pottery mugs exactly like the ones my Minnesotan mom bought there years back. :)
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As for 50 Shades, I watched Jenny Nicholson's video on it and that's as close as I'm gonna get.
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I read the Twilight books because I wanted to get a handle on why they got so popular. I left the experience having, shall we say, complicated thoughts. Only ever watched the first movie, but if only for promptly putting a logging truck onscreen and then having Charlie drink a Rainier: ten points.
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oh no. Just...nope. For that matter, one of the Twilight books mentions "Union Lake" instead of "Lake Union." And for some reason, Bella gets to Forks by first flying from SeaTac to Port Angeles. For God's sake, just get in a car and drive.
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I don't know if I'd say we used it ALL the time, but "kerfuffle" is a fun word that deserves more play. Also, my mom accidentally said "fot hudge" in place of "hot fudge" once and I've struggled ever since to say it the right way around. The spoonerism's too good.
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My dad worked for Boeing in defense & space when they had the contract to build the ISS's first module. He spent the better part of a couple years in Huntsville working on that. I'm more and more glad he's not around to watch this clusterfuck right now. *sigh*
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Then consider his post grim prophecy.
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The latter doesn't work for dashes, though. You just get --------.
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Macs have pretty intuitive keyboard shortcuts for a lot of diacritics. If you want to type an umlaut, for example, it's option+u and then the vowel you want (ü, ï, ö, whatever). They've also picked up the trick from iOS where you can long-press a letter and pick from various options.
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lol. Valid. On a Mac, if you need to do it manually, it basically goes like this: - : hyphen – : option + hyphen — : option + shift + hyphen I just rarely remember to do it because mostly it swaps it out for me!
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(TextEdit does it, Scrivener does it, Pages presumably does but I haven't had it open in a while...)
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In most of the programs I use, typing them that way auto-converts to proper em dashes, but Chrome isn't cooperating with me. :) Here—this one should look better.
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These are the same people who shriek at writers who do actually know what we're doing because--gasp--occasionally we use em dashes.
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reign: rule, as a royal rein: the straps you guide a horse with You want to up your pun game, pick the horsiest word. :) ("Rein it in": pull your horse up and under control, used figuratively. "Free rein": you're off the reins and running free. etc.)
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A: I can get behind this. B: This immediately got stuck in my head and I'm not mad about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6YD...
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Lovely crimes.
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But I do remember reading the plot descriptions of some of the SVH books and feeling very "?!?" about it all. :)
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I never got to Sweet Valley High, mostly because I started with Sweet Valley Twins, realized the plot of almost every book was "Jessica gets in trouble, Elizabeth gets her out" (and extremely rarely the other way around), and decided I was just kinda done before graduating to the YA section.
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Lumon is hosting a very special themed melon party.
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Did you watch Unleashed? The behind the scenes clips of her are so freaking cute.
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Been there, done that. :(
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I got laid off from higher ed, so, yeah, I can in fact imagine.
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Imagine explaining that to your insurance company. I mean, at least there’s plenty of evidence. But still.
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The headline says "we laid off our editors and can't even be bothered to run a spell check."
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And anyway, even if it's a travesty that anyone else ever held the rights to that catalog, it's a damn good thing it wasn't still with the asshat who originally bought it and started playing games, because he'd still be at it, I'm sure.
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I'm 110% NOT behind the fact that the rights got bought and sold away in the first place.
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Oh, I get it, just thinking about it from the angle of sheer PR on their part. Did you read Taylor's letter? She's joking about getting a shamrock tattoo in the middle of her forehead. They came out of this looking good, even if the whole situation was exploitative BS from the start.
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But hey: before today, I knew nothing about Shamrock Capital. As of today their (cough) reputation is that they're a responsible, respectable, and respectful business. They'll profit from it that way as much as anything.
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In other words, like this. Oh, boy, is this a flashback. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJJm...
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Oh, I knew it was Carmen immediately! It's fun seeing it in color, though. (I played it on my old Mac Plus back in the day, so my memories of the game are very grayscale.)
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I'm 1,100 miles from the thing! But it sounds like a good thing!