If you’ve been faithfully reading this blog you know I broke my ankle over two years ago and it’s taken several surgeries to fix. (See MY DAD, Dec 8, 2013) Thankfully my surgeon assured me in time I’d be fine, so my greatest concern was not my slowly mending bones, rather if I’d have to miss several months of live theatre. But thankfully my will proved stronger than my wobbly ankle, and I did manage to get to the theatre despite all! And in fact I...
Archive - May 2014
Lynne Truss, who wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, is a woman after my own heart. She dreams of a grammar police force that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs in their shops and others who also abuse the King’s English. I have similiar peeves, in fact I dream of a tasteless and tacky police force. I’d send them right to East 86th Street to rescue the pear! In the 1980s the gifted graphic artist Milton...