Things that make me unsociable: the car alarms that go off in Fishtown (they never stop), the endless series of hoops that is academia, and the people in the tech center that have decided that it is acceptable to blare the music they're making while muttering like crackheads.
Things that keep me sane and happy: sweaters, Kate Bush, and a strong belief in grammar karma.
Hence my joy in discovering
Reasoning with Vampires. Someone had the heart to read through the
Twilight Saga and pick out all of the juicy bits and highlight them for us non-Twi-twats. And by juicy bits, I mean run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, and generally poor writing.
Oh, it's heart-warming. The blog's author describes the process as cathartic ranting and compares the books to the section in Highlights where you have to find what's wrong with the picture.
It's really quite stunning, having never read the books myself. It's also a nice contrast from my daily life, where classmates freak out over terms like "first, second, and third person" because they've never heard of such bizarre and esoteric terminology. In fact, I kind of wish editing like this was a more acceptable practice. Sure it's pretty sarcastic and harsh, but it's also fun, and certainly no worse than unenthusiastic and generic comments scrawled in red ink.
Love,
Brian Reignbow
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