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Monday, November 17, 2003

Tarzan Recap Up

Find out why I had to stay up until three last night. This show sucks. But it's fun to hate. I watched it and then immediately recapped it. Sometimes it's best to get the pain over with like ripping off a Band-Aid.

I'm blogging on a break from my night job. Ah, it's like old times, isn't it? If only stee would post an entry and then Omar gave me a deadline of tomorrow afternoon for a Statesman article, it'd be like I was in a freezing office in Austin, Texas, right now.

Except for the "I get off at 3 a.m." business.

# posted by pamie : 11:22 PM

scalzi's book is out and I need your punctuation advice.

You can buy it here. Do you think they meant to misspell "stupidity"?

Also, my friend Laura and I spent a good ten minutes on Saturday debating the "? or ",

If you're quoting a word but you're using it in a exclamation, and the word doesn't have an exclamation as in -- That sign says "STOP"!

Or is it -- That sign says "STOP!"

Is it -- Did she tell you "No?" or Did she tell you "No"?

Is it -- I told her "Tuesday", but I was wrong. or I told her "Tuesday," but I was wrong.

Since I'm still in the A's with Modern American Usage, I'd appreciate your advice. I don't want to skip ahead in the book and possibly ruin the ending.

# posted by pamie : 2:57 PM

Are You a Book Snob?

Stephen King will get his Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters this week. Time Magazine thinks it's time we stop with the book snobbery. Do you divide books as either worthy or trashy?

Reading literature and having a damn good time had become quietly but decidedly uncoupled. And yet we think of this state of affairs as normal, and it has left us with a set of perverse biases that persist to this day. We have a high tolerance for boredom and difficulty. We praise rich, complex, lyrical prose, but we don't really appreciate the pleasures of a well-paced, gracefully structured plot. Or, worse, we appreciate them, but we are embarrassed about it. Somewhere along the line, we learned to associate the deliciousness of a cracking good yarn — that ineffable sense of things falling into place and connecting with one another in an accelerating, exhilarating cascade — with shame, as if literature shouldn't be this much fun, and if it is, it isn't literature.

# posted by pamie : 10:15 AM

The Future of Libraries

I now have a large proportion of librarians out there in pamie.com land. Jessa sent me this link from the Philadelphia Weekly that might get you riled up enough to write letters to the editor.

Shh! People Are Trying To Compute!

# posted by pamie : 10:02 AM

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Monday, November 17, 2003

Tarzan Recap Up

scalzi's book is out and I need your punctuation advice.

Are You a Book Snob?

The Future of Libraries