An Adjunct Professor's Adventures in Higher Education
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Seriously, They Have an Editor?
I live in a small city surrounded by farms and trailer parks. This is the city that when you mention it by name in the "real" city nearby, people shudder and wonder how you could live so intolerably far away. This city has everything you'd expect in a big city: loud music thumping from pimped out cars, public urination, teenagers lurking on the sidewalks, "Mister Natural Ice" dumping his empties on lawns, gun violence. We also have stores specializing in camouflage and chicken feed, tractors slowing down traffic, the smell of manure and not a Starbucks in sight. This city even has a real newspaper: The Lockport Union-Sun & Journal.
I include for your inspection a picture and caption from the front page of the Monday, June 4, 2012 edition. I read it and my eye started twitching. What do you think? (Clicking on the picture will make it large enough to read easily.)
What irritated me the most:
Ending a sentence with a proposition. In casual communications, whatever, but in a newspaper?
The dryer actually made its way around the house? The dryer? *sigh*
"...surrounding stuff..." Stuff?!? Why not "things" or "junk" or "like, whatever"? Can't think of a word? Don't worry, "stuff" works for all kinds of things!
What part of this caption irritates you the most? If you have your own irritating newspaper article, please feel free to send it to me and I'll post it here.
I am an improvisational performer and one of the two founding, and only, members of Defiant Monkey Improv. I have been performing improv since 1997. When I received my BA in English, I wanted to be a writer. I received my MA in English Education to survive. I also busk (perform on the street) in the "2 Person, 1 Man Band", in "Hertie Gertie's Monkey Mayhem Show Starring Lola, the Lowland Gorilla" and in "Time Frame". We also have a YouTube comedy series... three, actually. Our goal: to get what we love to do (perform and write) to make us enough money to live. So far: still trying.
No comments:
Post a Comment