UTILIZE VERB MATCHING

This morning, plumbing my soul for mood; seems like I'm pretty good, actually. Though the thought of marketing my stuff, doing drawings at all, making motions into the world, all have me very frightened, so maybe I shouldn't be so swift at making an assessment. I certainly don't have confidence, but for once I have no trace of wanting to off myself. So that's something!

I'm thinking of making a series of bumper stickers and t-shirts with grammatical advice on them. With this idea I shall save the world from itself! The first one:

THE APOSTROPHE'S NOT USED TO MAKE PLURAL NOUNS.

Now wouldn't you put that on your car? Or this one.

USE A SEMICOLON TO JOIN TWO COMPLETE SENTENCES; THIS PREVENTS RUN-ON.

I'm sure you have ideas as well.

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Another idea: in this state of mind, when I feel kind of okay and sort of worky and good, make a master list of Good Things, that scratch at a corner of the Infinite Variety of the world. When I am depressed, the world seems very limited indeed. So a list of odd wonders would come in handy. This might merit its own blog. An ongoing project to Catalog Obscurity.

Comments

[savtadotty]

I definitely want that first bumper sticker. The misuse of apostrophes is one of my life's constant irritants. I could make a list of the others, but it would be too long and make me too sad/angry.

[savtadotty]

Ooops. I just remembered I don't own a car any more. Is it allowed to put bumper stickers on non-bumperish places? Please give examples.

[Keith]

Imposter fee.

[formerCalpal]

How about a fun book with punctuation-isms for school age kids.

BTW--Marketing can happen another time. Avoid anxiety provoking thoughts. Savor your accomplishments. They are HUGE right now. Peaceful mind space and no suicidal thoughts are wonderful. Give yourself a big hug.

[Jo]

Thank you Calpal. As usual a font of comfort.

[Keith]

Life's An Interrobang, Then You Die

[pam]

ITS = POSSESSIVE
IT'S = SHORT FOR 'IT IS'
GET IT RIGHT, STUPID.

This one might get the sticker-user rear-ended. Hmm. Must work on that.

And Calpal is absolutely right. The marketing can come later. Picture yourself hiring a Zulu bush guide for that part, a few years hence.

Jo: B'wana say, sell manuscript. Here's a cell phone.

Zulu bush guide: Hai! It is good! Will tell Doubleday that the hyperbole pounces like lion in the Serengeti.

[Keith]

Shed unwanted octothorpes - FAST!

[k]

one word: tshirts
ok two words: cafepress
i for one need all the advice i can get :)

[Stephanie]

In the you learn something new everyday category, Keith sent me to the dictionary twice! If I wore t-shirts, I'd love to have one with just the Interrobang on it. Oh, maybe a polo shirt with a small interrobang on it.

[Keith]

Now, Stephanie, if I could only duplicate the trick at home with my own son.

['mouse]

Keith sent you and I followed. Whodda thunk?!

['mouse]

Speaking of t-shirts for nerds, the funniest one I've seen in ages was a woman wearing one which began, a little below the neckline (replace square brackets with "<" and ">"):
[tits]
and ended a bit above the navel:
[/tits]

[e]

um, Doubleday won't care, since it doesn't exist anymore. (useta work there, when it did.)

[goliard]

i've been thinking of putting a cool apostrophe in front of my handle, like 'liard, just to make it to the top of everyone's alphabetical blog lists.

[e]

that would make me '

[e]

here's one for the bumper:

["]Number sign [sic] is the Unicode preferred name for the glyph or symbol #. The name was chosen from several used in the United States and Canada. This sign's Unicode value is 0023 in hexadecimal and its ASCII value is 23 in hexadecimal.["]

wikipedia's "definition" for "octothorpe", which in itself makes absolutely no sense because they neglected to put "Number sign" in quotes...

['mouse]

'darn, they're onto my 'trick.

I wonder if !mouse will trump 'liard?

[e]

come back, jo! we're running amok here.

['counter]

A la 'mouse, I too am adopting an apostrophe.