Oh, Dear Lord

First, Smallville spoilers from a Tom Welling interview with SciFi Wire.

( Smallville Spoiler )

In other news, according to an article at Superherohype, there are three actors up for the role of Superman. (How many times have we gotten reports of contenders and they've been a) false, b) too stupdendously silly for words or c)too big of names for the role, in direct contrast with what the director and producers have said they're looking for in the star (an unknown).

Well, these three "contenders" are:

Barry Watson (yeah, I hit the floor laughing on that one too)

Kip Pardue (wha? looked him up and then started laughing. looks all wrong for the role)

And...

*drum roll*

Ashton Kutcher

That started the insane giggling. Kutcher? Um, okay. Can we say "NOT!" I like the boy. He's funny in a goofy, very physical comedy kind of way. I think he's better at physical comedy than most actors have a hope of being. But Superman? *giggle* Now that is comedy folks.

Maybe they're actually making us be happy with the thought of Josh Hartnett. Cause he's looking like a better option.

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The My Life As a Movie Meme addition.

Okay, I'm creating an actor to play me by merging characteristics from many actors. So far it's mostly Steve Buscemi, with some Lauren Graham hyper and Jeanine Garafolo looks. Now I'm adding some David Schwimmer (for his ability to get the dorkitude right) and some Reba McIntire (the voice - I'm southern and have a low voice).

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I decided I needed a bit of a fun shake-up in my life, so I'm trying out something new. It's a long shot, but if it pans out, well, believe me, ya'll will know. I'll be shouting from the rooftops.

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Finally started the clean up from the smoke incident of a couple of weeks ago. Luckily the smell is gone, but I still need to do a major clean up because of it.

So I did the laundry. All of it. If it's washable, I washed it.

13 loads.

I live on the second floor. The laundrymat is across the parking lot. My laundry basket is large enough for only one load at a time. There are six washers and six dryers.

Can you see the fun? I started at 5:45 and finally took the last load out at 9:55. At one point I had six loads in washers and four drying.

Of course I was wired after that, so I didn't get to bed until around midnight (which is late for me) and consequently I slept through my alarm. 30 minutes late for work. And my textbook for Criminalistics hasn't arrived yet, even though it's supposed to be delivered by UPS sometime today.

Grrrr.

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My New Year's resolution about the caffeine is shot to hell. I give up. No mas! I have to have the caffeine. I will live with my addiction.

Now if my exercise book will arrive from the American Heart Association, then I can function properly on that front.

The merits of proper grammar in advertising.

Okay, so I work at an advertising agency. Creative people who base much in the written word. One of the things I do is proof other people's work. I check for typos, errors in grammar, hell, I'm the queen of the comma. (The VP of Creative and I have an ongoing war about commas, which is quite concilatory. But I am one of the few people outside of his creative department that actually has gotten her way with him on copy.)

Well, they handed me an ad to proof. I had proofed it once before, but we always do a last check before anything heads out the door. Well, on the last run through, I noticed a grammatical problem that I hadn't noticed before. It was one of those that is very iffy, in that most people wouldn't think it was wrong.

(Now, I'd like to point out that while I am the grammar queen in the office, this is a title that is only loosely held. Ask me to identify the parts of a sentence and I'm lost. Commas and other forms of punctuation can be tricky to me. My deal with writing is that I've always written and read. When reading something, most of the time I automatically know what is right and what is wrong. Most of the time. Definitely not always. But in this office, I know more than anyone else, so I'm deemed the expert.)

The sentence read something like as follows.

"While we're proud of the fact that blah blah blah, we're more proud of the fact that blah blah blah."

Okay, "more proud." I had to call my mom, a former teacher. She thought about it and we both agreed, it's supposed to be "prouder." I'm no dummy. If I don't have a clue, I ask someone who does. She cited the rule that if the word is one syllable, it's +er on the end. I looked it up on the internet, and yes, that is the rule.

So I point it out, and then ensues the discussion about correct grammar and whether or not we need to use it for the purposes of an ad.

See, the argument by a coworker of mine was that where would "Got Milk?" be if they insisted on proper grammar. Now, the "more proud" was in the midst of a paragraph, in the middle of the only sentenced text in the ad. The ad is for our advertising agency (and it's very rare for advertising agencies to advertise themselves). Nowhere else in the ad is there improper grammar or slang. They want to argue the conversational angle, saying that's how people would say it. To which I wanted to counter, but they would be wrong.

Conversational English, bad grammar or not, is fine when used in advertising. But only if it's meant to appeal to a certain audience or to convey a specific message. In the instance of "Got Milk?", the whole identity of the milk campaign was tied into those two words. Anything more would be cumbersome and pretentious sounding. That slogan is personable and quirky. Fun and memorable. But for the purposes of pitching our agency to businesses, we need to have proper grammar, especially considering that we're comparing ourselves to agencies around the world. A high-brow ad with improper English results in complete failure of the ad's objective.