Tuesday, June 11, 2013

How to make a room full of English teachers laugh until they cry

Invite Taylor Mali to perform his poem "The The Impotence of Proofreading" (read it here--although it's better in performance).

I ought to insert a [sic] into that title, but I would need a [sic] for every line of the poem (and sometimes several per line) and I can't [sic] that many [sic]s on poor Taylor's poem.
 

9 comments:

Fretful Porpentine said...

Wasn't that awesome? And hi, fellow AP reader!

Bev said...

Yes it was!

I don't know about you, but I'm so exhausted at the end of the day that I can't put together more than two coherent sentences in a blog post.

We should have a blogger meetup...

Fretful Porpentine said...

We should! Are you at the Galt House?

Bev said...

I am indeed. We're going hiking Wednesday evening but could meet up any other day.

Contingent Cassandra said...

Hah!

It occurs to me that "Harvard, Jail, or Prison" are not necessarily mutually exclusive options, at least not if one inserts "Wall Street" into the sequence. Actually, "Harvard, Wall Street, Jail, Prison" should probably be a somewhat more common path than it is.

Fretful Porpentine said...

I think I'm fine with either Friday or Saturday, so let me know what works for you...

Bev said...

Okay: I'll be hanging out next to the birds in the Galt House skywalk around 9 p.m. Friday.

Fretful Porpentine said...

See you then! (Me: long blonde hair, grey t-shirt.)

Bev said...

Great! And I'll be wearing a floral shirt so loud you can hear it from Market Street.