Daily News Review

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/196694p-169882c.html

I promise to start actually _writing_ in the journal again soon, but I'm swamped and crazed and this is all pretty neat. We close this weekend, and I don't have anything else lined up for I think the first time this year. And while that horrifies me, it means I might actually manage a week with a cogent thought in my head.

Meanwhile there's a $604 (yes, you read that right) RT flight to Sydney right now. But I'd have to leave on the 3rd and could only stay for ten days. I'd totally do it for shits and giggles, go the whole emergency passport route and all that, except I can't justify nuking my savings in the face of the ongoing pay situation at work. Dammit dammit dammit. Fuck Be Here Now. I'd like to Be There Now.

Rar.

Counsellor-at-Law -- shows added!

We've been able to add two shows to our run, which means if you don't have tickets, some are available on SmartTix right now.

The new shows are tomorrow at 8pm and Saturday at 2pm.

more Counsellor news

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86376.html

Look at the key sentence and pray.

The show, which began May 6, received a glowing review in the New York Times, prompting the addition of shows at 8 PM May 26 and 2 PM May 29. A life beyond the scheduled closing date of May 30 is a possibility.

grammar wank which has nothing to do with theatre

It has always been my understanding that when one makes a plural or other word or name ending in s possessive, one merely adds an apostrophe, not a second s because in the weird rules of English to do so is simply redundant in the face of the understood s.

This was something true in my education both at private and public school and in my tenure at the Associated Press.

It has recently come to my attention from several sources, however, that this is not universally true, and in fact is considered archaic in some quarters, mainly thanks to the Chicago Manual of Style, which it seems is a source of much contention amongst pretentious wankers everywhere. The writer C.J. Cherryh even has a tirade about it on her website which I am inclined to agree with (http://www.cherryh.com/www/panel_room.htm halfway down the page).

Certainly, I've been thrown for a massive loop by suddenly discovering that something I was always taught indicated an exceptionally embarassing lack of education is not only acceptable, but preferable in certain circles.

I mean if I saw the students's books in print, I'd immediately view it as an egregious typo, and a complete speedbump in my reading.

I don't care if it's archaic to say the students' books -- it looks and feels better.

Granted, I'm still feeling pissy about the imprecision of current uses of decimate both in terms of it meaning things not people, and percentages larger than ten, but that's apparently extra archaic. Also, growing up, anxious meant to be axcited and anticipatory, not nervous.

New words coming into the language I find to be awesome, but the deterioration of words and habits already there really disturbs me, as much as I'll grant those are personal rather than scholarly issues.