The Daily News
1 I'm watching Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen killing it on this CD called Mr Wolf & Ridley Scott Associates Presents Springsteen & I.
2 Toe it up.
3 Followed instantly with Twist and Shout all done amid a light rain.
4 Remember those days?
5 Rocked a Monday night.
6 If that can actually happen.
7 Twist and Shout.
8 Preach.
9 Moving On, Part One: Amazingly, my lesson this fine day is the sentence, as well as the correctness of a sentence.
10
11 <ahem> Let us have a look at today's piece, for exahmple.
12 Let us consider the first five items.
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14
15 Need I say more?
16 The pompous fellow in me is quick to point to the lack of a period after the abbreviated "Mr."
17 And shouldn't the word presents end with a colon, which means "note what follows"?
18 AND...
19 Technically the lack of a colon changes the meaning so that the writer seems to be saying Springsteen and Me.
20 You are nothing but a hound dog.
21 My second item disasters, if I may use the active voice in turning a plural noun into a verb, and a verb for the ages.
22 It disasters instantly. Active voice. Toe it up translates roughly to "They tore it up." It was not only a sentence fragment, it had a they understood in it. Who does that?
23 Whoops.
24 That one is an interjection, and not in my first five items.
25 Shall we continue?
26 On item three: Followed instantly with Twist and Shout all done amid a light rain is clearly a sentence fragment.
27 Item four: Remember those days? There is a missing Do you? I imagine it is understood as well.
28 And item five: Rocked a Monday night is also a sentence frag.
29 I ain't nothin' but a hound dawg.
30 Ironically I collect and correct the largest essays of the year this morning.
31 It's a living.
32
33 Moving On, Part Two: I didn't have time to edit the video I embedded, because I am terrible at embedding.
34 I have no idea if it will morph into the Concert for George, which is filling my head with some wonderful sitar music courtesy of Ravi Shankar and his daughter and which went through my headphones by happenstance.
35 Sort of a great way to begin a shortened week.
36 Concert for George is a gem. It was made around a year after George Harrison passed away and is by all rights a Beatles album, as it features so many people who worked with the band.
37 Nice thing to have happen. I really just popped on the You Tube of the Springsteen and I video and it automatically went into the Concert for George.
38 Serendipity.
39 Unfortunately, the clock is ticking and I need to finish this DN early.
40 I've a lot going on these days what with selling houses and all.
41 Nice to have all of these lovely things enter my life right when things have gotten pretty stressful.
42 Life goes on within and without you.
43 I'd better go before I decide to cut work and stay right here.
44
45 I could, you know. I'm finishing up the school year for my students. Technically I could walk out any time I want.
46 I want to finish strong though. I'm that idiotic.
47 The farther one travels the less one knows. Maybe I enjoy knowing less.
48 This is beginning to make no sense. I have Ravi Shankar taking me places.
49 It's peaceful.
50 Gottago.
51 See you again.
52 Peace.
17 And shouldn't the word presents end with a colon, which means "note what follows"?
18 AND...
19 Technically the lack of a colon changes the meaning so that the writer seems to be saying Springsteen and Me.
20 You are nothing but a hound dog.
21 My second item disasters, if I may use the active voice in turning a plural noun into a verb, and a verb for the ages.
22 It disasters instantly. Active voice. Toe it up translates roughly to "They tore it up." It was not only a sentence fragment, it had a they understood in it. Who does that?
23 Whoops.
24 That one is an interjection, and not in my first five items.
25 Shall we continue?
26 On item three: Followed instantly with Twist and Shout all done amid a light rain is clearly a sentence fragment.
27 Item four: Remember those days? There is a missing Do you? I imagine it is understood as well.
28 And item five: Rocked a Monday night is also a sentence frag.
29 I ain't nothin' but a hound dawg.
30 Ironically I collect and correct the largest essays of the year this morning.
31 It's a living.
32
33 Moving On, Part Two: I didn't have time to edit the video I embedded, because I am terrible at embedding.
34 I have no idea if it will morph into the Concert for George, which is filling my head with some wonderful sitar music courtesy of Ravi Shankar and his daughter and which went through my headphones by happenstance.
35 Sort of a great way to begin a shortened week.
36 Concert for George is a gem. It was made around a year after George Harrison passed away and is by all rights a Beatles album, as it features so many people who worked with the band.
37 Nice thing to have happen. I really just popped on the You Tube of the Springsteen and I video and it automatically went into the Concert for George.
38 Serendipity.
39 Unfortunately, the clock is ticking and I need to finish this DN early.
40 I've a lot going on these days what with selling houses and all.
41 Nice to have all of these lovely things enter my life right when things have gotten pretty stressful.
42 Life goes on within and without you.
43 I'd better go before I decide to cut work and stay right here.
44
45 I could, you know. I'm finishing up the school year for my students. Technically I could walk out any time I want.
46 I want to finish strong though. I'm that idiotic.
47 The farther one travels the less one knows. Maybe I enjoy knowing less.
48 This is beginning to make no sense. I have Ravi Shankar taking me places.
49 It's peaceful.
50 Gottago.
51 See you again.
52 Peace.
~H~
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