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Subject: Grammar

  • The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

    And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups result

    December 29, 2008
  • The Worst Lyrics of 2008

    December 24, 2008
  • Remember Hey Faggot?

    April 2, 2008
  • Gibbons on the Runway

    March 26, 2008
  • Fill in the blanks: Bouncer Mad Libs!

    August 22, 2007
  • Adverbs

    May 23, 2007
  • Novel Gazing

    Self-consciousness steals the show in an adaptation of Daniel Handler's writing

    March 8, 2006
  • Why Must Bike Activists Continue to Roll Over the English Language?

    Dennis Herrera -- and his fun but ungrammatical T-shirtLook, we're tickled by Dennis Herrera's photo of himself showing up to work on a bicycle today -- he looks like he's getting ready to wave a kid around third base while coaching his son's Little League team, and we like that casual look in a city attorney. We're also amazed at how fast the camera-ready potential mayoral candidate's cycling photo was up and ready on his city Web page -- that's speed and efficiency you don't need to blow throu

    May 14, 2009
  • Lars von Trier's Antichrist can't save this year's Cannes

    May 27, 2009
  • Grammar Check: When It Comes to This S.F. Store, It's Your 'Goodest' Bet That We Know What We're Talking About

    Google street viewGood, gooder, goodest? A little while back, the grammar columnist from the Boston Globe of all places wrote an interesting piece regarding your humble narrator's lament that the ubiquitous refrain of local bicyclists, "One less car," is the grammatical equivalent of blowing through a stop sign or red light. She disagreed, and made the argument that "One less car" is one more example of proper grammar. Yet I don't think any grammarians will be pedaling to the assistance of Goode

    June 26, 2009
  • City Lights Hosts Akashic Books

    October 3, 2007
  • San Francisco-Libs

    ​PRINT IT OUT AND PLAY ALONG! Chapter One: A Quick Spin Around Our City! Welcome to San Francisco, the most (adjective) __________ city in the world. If you've got money and you're willing to (action verb) ________ it, and (same verb) _______ with abandon, come here. We need you to. Please. We don't know how to do anything else but take your money. Most newcomers to our city (verb)  _______ at San Francisco Airport. Others may (verb)  _______ at the Greyhound terminal or take a bre

    November 19, 2009