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Front-Ranger:
What a coincidence! F. Scott Fitzgerald's ghost made an appearance on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend in commemoration of his birthday!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 26, 2010, 11:33:47 pm ---What a coincidence! F. Scott Fitzgerald's ghost made an appearance on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend in commemoration of his birthday!
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Wow! It's today!
Jeff Wrangler:
How the mighty have fallen. ... :(
I am getting very disappointed by The New Yorker. Time was when the magazine was meticulously edited and was known for its meticulous fact-checking. Yet these days I am finding punctuation and typographical errors with depressing regularity, and today I came across a real shocker.
Over lunch I was reading Ryan Lizza's article in the October 11 issue about how the Senate and the Administration missed the chance to deal with climate change. In a discussion on attempts to get Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the Senators from Maine, on board with legisation that John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman were drafting, mention is made of a prominent fishing area off the New England coast. This area is known as the Georges Bank, and I'm sure I remember it being mentioned quite prominently in The Perfect Storm (the book, not necessarily the movie).
Well, in Ryan Lizza's article, this important fishing area is referred to as "Georgia's Bank, a Maine fishery."
How the mighty have fallen. :( I think I need to start photocopying these bloopers, and when I get a good pile of them, send them to the editor.
Front-Ranger:
I hear you, friend. The first time I found a typo in The New Yorker, I was shocked!!
serious crayons:
Here are some videos from this year's New Yorker Festival, in which prominent New Yorker writers give speeches and sit on panels. I don't have the time, let alone the money, to watch the full videos, but I watched a few of the free sample clips, and some are interesting. I highly recommend the Malcolm Gladwell one -- what he has to say is shocking as well as entertaining. Paul Krugman and James Surowiecki are also pretty good.
http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010
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