Typo Vigilantes

Typo vigilantes banned from national parks

...Deck and Herson, both 28, toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by NPR and the Chicago Tribune, which called them "a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation."

I just put together my English nerd shelf. Who needs 10 different grammar handbooks?

Me. That's who.

By the way, the kid is practicing punctuation.

Barrelhouse Roller Derby Contest Winner

I'm here. I forgot myself, but now I remember.

I am the winner of the Roller Derby invitational in Barrelhouse magazine. It's a really cool journal, and I am honored to be in it. Not to mention...I won the contest!

It's not a poem. It's a prose-thingy. If you are interested, here's the TOC for issue #6.

There. I've done it. I've blown my own horn.

I don't know if I'll bother with catching up with the last month or not. There's so much inertia. I'm in a really good place at this moment.

My Jill is coming back! And then she's whisking me off for two nights with Nick Cave in September. This is important.

I love my man so much. This is important.

I know this blissful moment is rare. I will look back on this wistfully. You know how these moments buzz by.