Mary Jane's Last Dance

I rewatched The Dark Knight last night, and I have to say, while I loved Iron Man, The Dark Knight blows it out of the water. I was heavily buzzing (borderline drunk) while watching it last night, and all this philosophical stuff started bubbling to the surface of my brain, and right there and then I had the genius idea to write an essay about that movie and thought processes of humanity.

Thesis: One of the exchanges between Batman and Two-Face:
Batman: "He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall."
Two-Face: "And he was right."

The psychology nerd in me has got a raging boner. Yes, I know that sounds dirty in more than one way, but seriously XD

I'm sick and tired of seeing this epidemic of apostrophe misuse. This is mainly directed toward the field of journalism, which is dumbing down quicker than children's television. Can someone say "Tinky-Winky" for me?


RIGHT: One of a parent's main fears is for her child to go missing.
WRONG: Parent's all around the world want their children to be safe and happy.

An apostrophe denotes possession. In the first sentence, fear belongs to the parent. The parent possesses fear, therefore an apostrophe is appropriate. In the second sentence, parents should be plural, because it is talking about multiple parents. There is no possession declared in this sentence.

Here's another example.

RIGHT: The Rays are going to the World Series.
WRONG:The Ray's are perhaps one of the most talented teams in baseball.

"Rays" is a team name. Most of the time, team names are plural (there are exceptions, such as the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Utah Jazz). The usage of the apostrophe is wrong in the second sentence because not only is there no possession denoted in the sentence, the correct way to use an apostrophe for most team names would be:

RIGHT: Things are going the Rays' way.
RIGHT: The Saints' defense and special teams are terrible. Gramatica should be booed off the field.
RIGHT: Who would have thought that the Patriots' offense would fall flat this year?

And here's another wrong example:
WRONG: Wow, the Ram's suck this year.

Here's one more.

RIGHT: It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood.
WRONG: It's fur is matted and dirty.

Alas, this is one of the most common grammatical problems. It's is a contraction that means "it is". Read your sentence out loud. If "it is" does not work in your sentence, it will be "its".

Here's the second sentence with "it is" substituted for "it's". Doesn't this sound funny?
It is fur is matted and dirty.

If you said that out loud, we'd laugh at you. If you wrote that, we'd also laugh at you.

Please think of your third-grade education before writing. I'm pretty sure all of you passed the third grade. Please write like you have.

I feel like belting out Queen. I dunno, Queen just sounds so... celebratory. XD

I know "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" are the obvious tunes, but... my celebratory tunes have become "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Don't Stop Me Now"

"We Are The Champions" shall be reserved for the future.





Like anyone cares about me talking about baseball anyway.





I've just about given up on writing because of the state the profession's in. It's become a joke. Writing has become a big fat joke.

Metromix has really turned me off to writing. Maybe it's a phase I'm going through. Maybe I just need to get away for a couple of months. Give me a few packs of good beer, a beach to catch some rays on, a body of water to search for sand dollars and cool-looking shells, the tide to watch go in and out -- and maybe I'll be good. I think Nathalie editing my article to read like a piece of shit really threw my creative streak and inspiration totally off its axis into outer space.

Ugh. Currently fighting writer's block and creativity fatigue. I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF WRITING THIS ARTICLE. I wish it would write itself so it would go the fuck away. Maybe I'm going through a period of disillusionment, I dunno, because I don't know what that broad wants anymore, other than shit (and I refuse to write shitty articles).

( and spell check isn't your forte either )

In other news, THE RAYS KICK ASS. Here's hoping we can beat down the Skankees in the upcoming series. This road series after the Wankees is going to be telling of their future; they play Toronto, Boston (we haven't won a game at Fenway yet this year, but it's reciprocal; they haven't won a game at the Trop either) and then the Yankees again. If we can win most or all of those series, or even win half of the games, here's looking up to the postseason.

What an amazing story. I've glad I've been a fan. :)