Apostrophe Atrophy

Okay, so I'm late to the party, again, probably due to some sort of atrophy of brain parts. Fortunately, a post from Melanie Pinola at LifeHacker popped up in my RSS reader which alerted me to the fact that I'd missed International Apostrophe Day, which apparently took the world by storm on 18th August, but mysteriously passed me by.

Anyway, the post quoted a tweet from Sam Tanner (which was later revealed to have been sourced from one Will Rolls).

"An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a business that knows it's shit."

Oh yes! That appeals to the punctuation warrior in me.

If you ever have the urge to correct bad punctuation while you're out and about, you might enjoy Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. Even if you don't go about with a black felt-tip marker at the ready, but smiled at the tweet, it's still worth a read.

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The Search For Sharp Nipples

Every once in a while, mostly out of idle curiosity, I take a glance at the Google Webmaster Tools page that shows me various bits of info about my Irregularly Verbal posterous pages. It's usually mildly interesting but today I was surprised to see at the top of the Search Queries list, that is ones that returned pages from my blog, the words sharp nipples.

Sharp nipples!? What the hell are sharp nipples? Well, okay, maybe we can take a guess, but more to the point is, have I ever written about them? The answer to that last question is, 'not as far as I can recall'. But if the almighty Google says it's the top search query for my blog then perhaps I should submit to a senility check, just in case it's come upon me without me realising (which I suspect is usually how it happens) and, as a consequence, I have written blog posts galore about sharp nipples.

However, the odd thing about it is that a Google search for sharp nipples (warning: some might find some of the search results offensive) doesn't throw up any references to my blog - not on the first couple of results pages at any rate, and I didn't delve deeper than that. So it remains a bit of a mystery, which seems like an opportune moment to insert a track I like by 10,000 Maniacs, this one featuring David Byrne and Natalie Merchant on vocals, singing Iris DeMent's Let The Mystery Be. The track can be found on Campfire Songs: the Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings

Let The Mystery Be by 10,000 Maniacs Listen on Posterous

I can only conclude, on the basis that I have understood the lyrics correctly, that there must have been a bunch of Christians in the audience who entirely missed the point of this song (at around 50 seconds into it).

Think I'll just let the mystery be.

 

Addendum: For those of you who are itching to tell me I can restrict a Google search to my posterous pages, doing so returns the following result.

Your search - sharp nipples site:http://joswun.posterous.com - did not match any documents.

But, of course, that will quite likely change, now that I have written this post!

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That's Some Guitar Pickin'!

I came across this video, on Jerry Coyne's WEIT blog, of Lindsey Buckingham doing an acoustic version of Big Love. Is it better than the version on Tango In The Night? Seems like a dumb question to me. Enjoy it for what it is. Bloody good, in my opinion.

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