'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aw, man. Between the marvelous Tom Scola news and the NOLA updates, I am whipsawing between crazy emotional extremes, teary and breathless at each extreme.
I was going to buy myself a couple of new shirts with the leftovers from my next paycheck, but screw that. It isn't much, but Louisiana's Red Cross can have it.
Elsewhere, Mobile is flooded out. Storm surge remains at 10 feet or so.
Jackson's water treatment plants have lost power; the mayor has advised people to limit water use to essential purposes only.
500K people in MS without power, 150K in Alabama, 750K+ in Louisiana.
And, in today's oddest lede:
Familiar landmarks destroyed
At DeBuys Road at U.S. 90., the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants were obliterated.
I guess that's the best you can do for "landmarks" in Biloxi-Gulfport.
lede
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS! Takes me back to the good old days of j-school. I still spell "head" as in "subhead," etc., H-E-D. It freaks my co-workers out.
I have, however, dropped "graf" (for "paragraph") in favor of the paragraph symbol itself. It's sleek.
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS!
It's what I get for hanging out with newspaper folks.
¶¶¶¶¶¶!!!1!
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Yes!!!!
When editing a manuscript (abbreviated "mss.") the Luddite way, which we do in my office (and I dearly love editing the way we do, pen to paper), making that little ¶ makes me unaccountably happy.
I'm easy to please, when it comes right down to it.
t edit Heh. I just thought "OMGWTF¶¶¶¶!!!"
you should teach middle school writing, steph. I spend an INORDINATE amount of time making that precise symbol on kid's papers.
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Oh. Just ¶
I spend an INORDINATE amount of time making that precise symbol on kid's papers.
Try editing a pharmaceutical article written by people whose first (and possibly second) language is NOT English. Some days, as long as they remembered to put a verb in most of the sentences, I don't mind chopping their papers up into paragraphs. But some days, it's like Faulkner -- if his primary languages were Russian and Japanese -- wrote a pharmaceutical article in english.
¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶!
the word has lost all meaning!