Whew, you guys, what a week! My brain’s a little mushy after reveling in all of this writerly brilliance these last seven days. Thanks for dropping by for the wild week that was the Summer Blog Blast Tour. I can’t wait to do it again.<\/p>\n
Here are a few crumbs and streamers littering the floor of my brain:<\/p>\n
ChickenSpaghetti<\/a>, linked to La Bloga<\/a>, where they’re talkin’ multicultural books, which brought to mind our recent discussion with the ever-awesome Julie Anne Peters<\/a>, about which groups should write which literature for whom. If the only books children see about Hispanic culture include pi\u00f1atas and parties, the only books for Chinese-American children include dragons and moon cakes, and the only stories for African American children include watermelon and double-dutch… well, you see the problem? So, the only pictures we have of gay and lesbian children and teens should portray… what? And be written by whom?<\/p>\n (Random point: I have<\/i> had people tell me that all stereotypes are based in some fact, so maybe we should all just give up and let stereotypes at least give people an entrance<\/i> into the various cultures. I’m sure you already know my opinion on THAT — two words. Cop<\/i> and out<\/i>.)<\/p>\n The “bad” news is, the internet is once again destroying our culture<\/a>, and we’re going to the dogs, er, the rabbits (via Original Content<\/i>) – at least that’s what yet another alarmist has said. The good news is, the Carnival is in town! Check out the offerings at A Year of Reading<\/a>. I love the little newspaper dealies they concocted. Very cool.<\/p>\n Salon<\/a>‘s talking graphic novels, and NPR This Morning interviewed Shannon Hale about Austenland<\/a>. Shriek! MUST read that book! I’m so jealous of EVERYONE WHO ALREADY HAS. (Ahem<\/i>, LW and whichever other of my bookstore\/librarian Cybils sisters who have been DISCUSSING IT WITHOUT ME. Ahem!<\/i>)<\/p>\n It’s time again for another M.E.M.<\/b> report – the Most Egregious Misuse of the English language I saw today was on 9th Street in my Very Own Town. Some civic-minded people have taken it upon themselves to plant signs in their front lawns, advising others to drive carefully. “Slow it Down!” one sign urges. “Drive Safe<\/i>.”<\/p>\n SIGH<\/i>.<\/p>\n My kingdom for an adverb. L-Y. Is it really that<\/i> hard!? At any rate, I had to save my most annoyed huffing for the next house. Its pastel-painted sign read, “15 mph~! Drive neighborly<\/i>!”<\/p>\n There are no WORDS. I mean, I guess it could have been worse if they’d tried to parse it “Drive neighborly-ly,” but… OY. Adverbs: the most misused part of speech yet.<\/p>\n All right, coming down off the soapbox until next time.<\/p>\n Thank y’all for contributing to a great week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew, you guys, what a week! My brain’s a little mushy after reveling in all of this writerly brilliance these last seven days. Thanks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,15,10],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-most-egregious-misuse","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Of course not, but we most often hear that phrase, and it no longer matters that for that misuse I got red check-marks on my papers in school. Okay. I can accept that. It’s wrong, but I can accept that.<\/p>\n