Source: Rob Gonsalves
From ProofreadNOW, some tips on how to properly handle quotation marks and other punctuation:
Everybody knows that quotation marks surround quotations. And that the opening quotation mark always goes right before the first word of the quotation. But many people have trouble figuring where the closing quotation mark goes.
The following are basic rules for where closing quotation marks are placed with respect to accompanying punctuation. [click to continue…]
In our usual weekday morning routine, the dogs and I pile into the truck and head down the hill a couple blocks to the bluff so they can do their business while I drink my cafe con leche and soak in some oceanic energy. We get to the corner of our block, 27th Street and Patton Avenue in San Pedro, to find a film crew gearing up to shoot something.
The first thing I noticed were the dozens of Big Wheels the crew was unloading from one of the rigs. Rapped out with the guys a bit. They’re doing a commercial for Toyota, and about fifty kids and adults are gonna all do the bomb simultaneously down the hill on Patton all the way through to the bottom of 36th Street.
Righteous!
With the theme music by Groove Collective. I remember when there was nothing cooler. Five of us would play S.W.A.T. all day long in the summertime. I must’ve been about eight or nine. I was T.J., the sharpshooter (James Coleman in these credits). I thought he was the coolest, because sharpshooters got to climb up on roofs.
Via my Web-savvy grandmother, a collection of excerpts allegedly written by children and unedited. Genuine or not, there are a few masterpieces in here. This one’s for anybody who loves language and did any amount of time in Sunday school.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH’S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT.
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA ! WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
8, THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
They’re talking about it. Before I even read the article, my first thought was Charlize Theron. Turns out she’s already a contender. Scarlett Johansson seems perfect, but a little young.
Note to Hollywood: Whoever you go with, puh-leeease don’t go with Renée Zellweger. I’ve recently decided to live a long life, and don’t need a self-inflicted bullet wound in my head right now.
So in an involved game of Kris Kringle with a couple dozen people, I ended up with this ultracool handmade Christmas tree ornament. I especially like the percussive torso. Very vibey.
We rallied last night and went to catch Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver up in Universal City. It’s the third time in about a year that we’ve seen Alice, and it’s always killer. Unlike some live shows, Alice will always toss in a curve ball or two to keep things interesting. Last night’s surprise was when they dropped Dam That River from the set and gave us Sickman. Hadn’t heard that one live since 1993. Awesome.
Cold weather and a Tuesday night equated to great results in our quest for scalped tickets. We got sixth row center in Orchestra.
The set:
Again
Grind
We Die Young
Them Bones
Rain When I Die
Sickman(!!!)
Nutshell
It Ain’t Like That
Angry Chair
Man in the Box
Would?
Rooster
