Jennifer Moody

In a previous blog post, I had mentioned a contest for baked goods for National Punctuation Day. This is totally awesome. You go, Jen!

Press release I received today:

“Baking Contest Highlights 6th Annual National Punctuation Day, September 24

“National Punctuation Day stresses literacy for children and adults. Bake a cookie, cake, pastry, doughnut, or bread in the shape of a punctuation mark and become famous!

Good morning, boys and girls, men and women, and all of you who write words for others to read. Today’s lesson is on apostrophes and their proper placement in years.

Yesterday, in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, NPR listed a few phrases of his that have made their way into the common vocabulary. Here, for your edification, are a couple of them, plus a few I came up with:
– “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” from Romeo and Juliet.
– “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any [...]

I want to thank everyone who weighed in on my questions for bloggers. We had a really great conversation.
I encourage everyone who just answered once to go take a look at the earlier post again and read comments that may have followed yours. Taken as a whole, the answers to questions such as, “Do you [...]

Non-blogging readers are welcome to weigh in on this, but I really want to hear from those of you who regularly cruise the Information Superhighway armed with opinions for the masses.
Here’s the question: Do you ever blog about people you know?
If you do, do you:
– Use their real names?
– First and last?
– Ages?
– Pictures?
– Hometowns, [...]

I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine
I got no time for livin’
Yes, I’m workin’ all the time
[Chorus:]
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than I think I am
I guess that’s why they call me
They call me the working man

Thanks for telling it like it is, Geddy Lee. [...]

Dave Barry has published some new columns!! Huz-ZAH! Read here, http://www.miamiherald.com/dave_barry/, for his take on Beijing, the Democratic and Republican conventions and more.
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I happened to find myself having lunch in a food court outside a sunglasses shop the other day. With nothing better to do, I stared a long time at the two giant posters on the wall of the shop. They were, simultaneously, sharing a horrible social message with really good writing.
Both posters had the words [...]

Whoa, pony. Remember my father, the would-be vigilante? I’m warning him to go underground. The Evil Empire is striking back.
You remember TEAL, the Typo Eradication Advancement League? Two of its members, who toured the United States this spring correcting punctuation and spelling on public signs, are now banned from national parks for a year. Seems they [...]