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Grammar

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Can't Get Any Satisfaction: A Tour of the Most Grammatically Misguided Songs in Pop

    ​Today is National Grammar Day, which means until midnight you're legally obligated to put up with the prescriptivist fulminations of that one buy or girl in your office whose knickers get all bunched when you say "15 items or less" or "the reason is because." (Lucky for everyone in the world I wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    San Francisco-Libs: Write Your Own Newsom Lt. Gov Statement!

    Greetings, former subjects...​PRINT IT OUT AND PLAY ALONG! Gavin Newsom today announced he's running for lieutenant governor -- quelle surprise!My fellow San Franciscans: When I first arrived in this city (big number) __________ years ago, all I had was the (petroleum product) ____________ on my h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 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 ... More >>

  • Film

    May 27, 2009

    Lars von Trier's Antichrist can't save this year's Cannes

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    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 cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    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 p ... More >>

  • Music

    December 24, 2008

    The Worst Lyrics of 2008

    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 p ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2008

    Remember Hey Faggot?

    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 p ... More >>

  • Music

    August 22, 2007

    Fill in the blanks: Bouncer Mad Libs!

    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 p ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 23, 2007

    Adverbs

    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 p ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 8, 2006

    Novel Gazing

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

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