Letter to ATL overlord

Dear Louis Miller, Congratulations on opening the new international terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As general manager, you must be very proud. I’m sure it took the involvement and commitment of many people to make the new terminal a reality. May I recommend adding one more person to that team? Perhaps a proofreader? I [...]

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A letter to @APStylebook

Dear AP: I don’t know if I can continue in this relationship. I trusted you, but you betrayed me with that trollop, “hopefully.” You know how I feel about that word. How could you do this to me? Your change of heart was swift — much quicker than your decisions about “email” and “website.” How [...]

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Cut loose in the Crescent City

It’s good to have friends you’ve known for decades. You can be your unvarnished self and they still like you. My unvarnished self spent the weekend in New Orleans with my friend Julia, whom I’ve known since eighth grade. She was there for a conference* so I used frequent flier miles to join her. My [...]

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Gallery of gripes

Let’s take a break from the sideshow that is politics, and enjoy a slideshow of textual assaults.

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Freaks like me

About 400 people have linked, emailed, tweeted or otherwise made me aware of this cartoon: I love the cartoon, and I love that people thought (think) of me when they saw (see) it. (That’s indeed how I feel on a regular basis.) While most of my friends and family know me as the grammar guru, [...]

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Here’s a tip: Avoid the word “tips”

Cracker Barrel is to me is like catnip is to our cat Reggie (who seems to have left us for a neighbor). I cannot get enough of the Sunday homestyle chicken with a side of dumplings. Before entering the Starch Consumption Plaza, though, guests have to navigate the maze of rooster quilts, Oak Ridge Boys [...]

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Here a fail, there a fail, everywhere a fail, fail

It’s been a busy week for me as I prepare for my Provençal adventure, and it has been a busy week for this blog’s eagle-eyed contributors. Apparently, it has been a tough week for those who write for public view. For example, Max found a syntax mistake made by a WTOC Web writer. “[This] has [...]

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Signs of the week (weak?)

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I am posting?

I have been woefully slack at creating new content for this blog. I apologize. I’m overwhelmed with possible topics: My doctoral hooding ceremony, for which my chair wore jeans and paint-covered sandals The AEJMC conference I am attending that is making me feel like a James Franco-style slacker The fact that tapas places don’t seem [...]

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Signs of the times

Mike Judge is starting to look more and more like Nostradamus; his “Idiocracy” is akin to “The Prophecies.” You need evidence that we live in a society that is shunning intellectual curiosity and social responsibility? You must not have watched any of the debt debates. There are other signs all around of our declining intellectual [...]

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