Patience pays

Sometimes the uses made of an object transcend its original purpose--

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night in Dominoes.

Manuscript tech support

Tech support for writers in the Middle Ages.

Alicia

New Year's Resolutions

It's sort of disspiriting to make NY resolutions after realizing that last year's are unachieved. (I have got to stop resolving to organize my office, because apparently it's never going to happen!)

But who has got a writing-related NY resolution?  What do you want to do, achieve, conquer this year?

Alicia

When grammar elements go out drinking.

Jenny sent this along from a FaceBook post by Jeff Blackmer--

A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
A question mark walks into a bar?
Two quotation marks "walk into" a bar.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave. 

The real sexiest man

The world's sexiest man: Gregg Breinberg, the choir leader at PS 22 in Staten Island, N.Y. (Check them out in Youtube.)
As a teacher, I am honored for him. Wish we were all as great as he is, but he is definitely #1.

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/salons_sexiest_man_of_2011_the_interview/singleton/

Alicia