Congratulations! Enjoy living a little, for sure.

It really is better than most. This a company I actually think sort of cares. Their recipes for bread products are also spot on, at least the ones I’ve tried.

Yes, but rarely can I figure out how to use it. Whether it’s a text, email, or web site I want to look at, the keys don’t work the way they are supposed to or the keys themselves do not make sense.

This is why we need to make this happen! I can sub mit a few scripts myself to start really establishing the world, but I want to hear what other people have imagined this might be.

It’s really not necessary to shame someone who is willing to learn.

That’s very interesting! Could you tell us more about this? Was this a specific college program or something? What do you mean by, “if the cues were distinct enough?”

Yeah, I do have trouble sometimes when it comes to those accused of sexual crimes… Cosby is especially difficult because he portrayed himself as a role model to such a degree. Can’t really do Allen, either, but he was never my type of filmmaker. They both just come off as hideous hypocrites and gross in their products now. I can’t even bring myself to call their doings art anymore, really. But they made themselves the center of the work in many cases, so it is more difficult to ignore than what some rock bands have gotten up to. I know Page and Plant did some fucked up things, and thus I dislike them, but I can’t not listen to the music they created. It’s too fundamental to me.

Appreciate that perspective: it really does boil down to art vs. artist. I tend to err toward keeping the bathwater and throwing the baby out.

The artist can be speratated from the work and the work can be appreciated without understanding the author’s intent.

But is there a line where the artist overshadows the art? Is that based on our personal morals?

Edit: I know my adjectives vs. adverbs, really!

Yes, line from song but if any one actually has a take on Cassavetes, I am very interested to hear it.

Definitely alcoholic and misogynist.

Messiah or genius of independent film? Not sure myself.

I read your last sentence wrong at first, and I was very confused about how vomit, the word, was relentless.

Sigh, I think my brain just wants his word-vomit to go away. But I know it won’t, so I might gouge out my ears as I think that might work better than gauging anything.

Oh, I use “is,” “was,” and other “to be” verbs often in speech and even in writing, though I do try to find ways around it simply because I prefer to use more precise language. A “to be” verb is basically an equals sign, i.e. “The job is terrible” could be roughly expressed as “The job = terrible.” While that construction is fine and tells the reader something, it would be better to be more specific because what is usually meant is something more nuanced: “The job has me walking around too much, which hurts my legs.”

My apologies; my comment was unnecessarily aggressive and assumed way too much.

Seriously? Are you really trying to find an acceptable reason for such a statement? Do you really think she looks cheap?

My frighteningly virginal grandmother was married in 1948 in a pink skirt suit. If it was normal to wear white at that point for any one but the elite, she would have done so. This “white wedding” bullshit is a relatively new way of shaming women.

I love these stories so much! I had an English teacher who would take 10 points off for every “to be” verb you used in any assignment. Most people thought it was ridiculous, but I saw it as a challenge. I learned so much that year, I still refer to her as my Yoda. She actually convinced me to get back into the teaching game after a terrible first job that made me slip into the legal field for awhile.

My first exposure to Rodney Dangerfield was Natural Born Killers. I can never find his shit funny because of this introduction.

Maybe it’s because I can’t get them where I live, but I remember Pringles Curry chips being amazing.

It is awesome when they get there. My favorite thing is to see light bulbs go off in their heads. I thank you for the feedback: wish I could use these comments to prove to students why to listen to me.

Thank you for validating my method! I am so grateful for my own English teachers that I’ve over a decade spreading their knowledge.

Ahhh… You have no idea how awesome it feels to hear it’s helpful. Only some teenagers are ready to hear it.

Clear, precise written communication helps everyone, and I love that I get to spend my time helping the next generation share their ideas in effective ways.