(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 105

Collateral Trumping

The terrible truth about social media

Samuel Palmer - in context

Wise men make proverbs, but fools retweet them.

These things also happen

These things happen

Never! (Favourite footnotes: 4)

Myleene Klass 'wipes the floor' with Ed Miliband

In which I initially thought The Telegraph had used inverted commas to denote that Ms Klass did not, in fact, actually use the would-be leader of the country to mop out her kitchen.

Alas (twice over)...

Unfamous last words - GUEST ENTRY

Come in, Mr Pratchett - your time is up!

Books I've actually finished lately: 39

Unbelievable.

The writer's life

Bit harsh...

Standard

Top trivia

[via Matt Risley - as writ]

Fact

[via Chris Mac - obviously]

Bejaysus.

Actual Grammar Nazis...

[from The Daily Dot, via Andrey Belopopsky]

'Hashtag' oddness

Went, yesterday, to a screening of Frank which, unbeknownst to me, had the audio-impairment subtitles (which are, themselves, actually visually impairing; but no matter).

1) Frank, the character, an experimentalist musician/psychiatric patient, wears a big fibreglass head, and so has to narrate his real facial expressions so that folks have at least some sort of idea what he's feeling. This turns his utterances into kind of Twitter-speak: "I think that's a really great idea big enthusiastic grin", e.g.

2) Jon, the keyboardist/social media guru for the outfit, is forever updating his blog, posting messages to festival websites, or indeed Tweeting. But even though most of these ping up - in the correct format - on the big screen, whenever he is speaking-as-he-types the subtitles project the word 'hashtag', per se.

#itsthelittlethings

Query

#halfwitslag

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