Stuff I Tweeted Recently

1. Please don't tell me if you can watch this Jon Stewart clip without cracking up—that would mean you're an alien, and I pride myself on having a blog read only by earthlings.

2. I like this alot.

3. Roger Ebert (who is so much more than a movie critic) posted this photo on Twitter the other day. It's what he wrote to a friend on the back of his class photo senior year in high school (1960). Don't you wish you had a friend like that in high school?

4. Here's a previously unreleased track from "Exile on Main Street."

5. This is funny: How to print from an iPad. Also funny was Rainn Wilson's tweet re the iPad: "I wish my iPad were smaller and made calls."

6. I can't help but be grateful I wasn't the proofreader for the cookbook that was printed with a recipe calling for "salt and freshly ground black people." Ouch!

Comments

[ricky]

The last one makes me laugh. A long time ago, I was a waiter in a pretty expensive French restaurant. And for laughs, we used to go around the tables with a pepper grinder and see who could sneak in a "Care for a little black pecker in your salad?"

You had to say it fast and with a straight face.

[Yeebok]

I appear to be an alien .. :) I still enjoy your blog though.

[James]

Who is this Goldberg buffoon?

[ruthe]

I'm not sure books are proof read any more. I find amazing errors even when I'm trying not to proofread.

[Karen]

Oh, they sure are, Ruthe -- I do proofreading as well as copyediting. It's especially important for cookbooks, where even a tiny error can make a huge difference (like leaving out an ingredient, or getting the quantity wrong).

[Rachel]

I love Jon Stewart - thanks for posting this one!