THE PAIN... THE PAIN...
No, not the root canal (Part II has been put off until next week, by the way). Today's pain comes courtesy of Queerty:

Dominique has admitted to killing 23 gay men over the course of 8 years and dumping their bodies in isolated locations and parishes (um, weird).

The poor kids at Queerty have apparently never been to Louisiana. I would have thought the use of the word 'parish' in association with Louisiana was common knowledge, but everyone I associate with graduated from high school, so maybe I just expect too much.

POLITICAL JUNKIE
As you know (because you have been hanging on my every word for the past three years) I used to be in politics. That was a long time ago, but, every year, when the weather gets crisper and fallen leaves blanket the sidewalks, I feel nostalgiac nostalgic* about the good old days of electioneering.

Which is my long way of saying that I am addicted to this site. And this site. And this and this and this. To the point of refreshing a few dozen times per day.

Confession: I even rescheduled a meeting from Wednesday morning to Thursday, because I know next Tuesday night will be a late one for me as I watch non-stop election coverage. Not a single New York State Assembly race will escape my interest.

Ah well. As hobbies go, it's more constructive than drinkling drinking**, right?



* - Corrected. Happy, Jess?

** - Corrected. And now I'm waiting to be hired as editor of Queerty!

OOF!

• Banksy, everyone's favorite guerilla artist, breaks a personal record by raking in £50,400. The image? A Kate Moss-as-Marilyn Monrow portrait. Um, okay... [BBC News]

I think everyone knows that should be 'Mary Lynn Munrow.'

Queerty regrets the error. And reminds you to vote for qwality bloggening!!

YOU CAN BE A POST COPY-EDITOR!
All you have to do is tell me what is wrong with this headline!

SLAY BUST ENDS
30-YEAR WEIGHT

And before you start thinking that's a play on words, it isn't.


PS: If they correct the on-line version, I'll scan the dead-tree version.


PPS: I know I've been acting like a school marm lately, but -- at the risk of being branded a hypocrite -- WTF? Has the heat made everybody so sloppy that I don't have to look twice for these things to jump out?


PPPS: One more point of clarification -- I don't get bent out of shape when the average blog or personal page makes a mistake. But if you are a news source or make statements that your site was "born out of a gaping void in online publishing" or the like, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. In the words of Miranda Priestly, that's all.


PPPPS: Uh... nothing. I just wanted to type PPPPS.

TYPE FIRST, THINK LATER
From Queerty:

• The NFL opened its rookie training symposium with an openly gay speaker (a NFL vice president, no less) at its diversity training seminar. In the program's 10-year history, this is a first. [Out Sports]

Uh... no. If you actually read the article, you won't find anything that even hints that the NFL vice president is gay. As a matter of fact, he's married and has six children. I'm sure Queerty regrets the error.

And from, uh, Queerty:

...while the LGR's site Schwarzenegger's record on GLBT issues as "extraordinary,"...

A few corrections are in order:

1. The acronym for Log Cabin Republicans would be LCR, not LGR. I'm sure Queerty regrets the error.

2. The word is 'cite,' not 'site.' I'm sure Queerty regrets the error.

3. If they must pluralize LCR -- I'm not sure why, since it is an acronym for a plural to begin with -- they should lose the apostrophe. LCRs, not LCR's. I know that some style guides disagree with me, but they are wrong. Still, that's enough give them a free pass on the apostrophe... not, however, on compound pluralization.

Ah, hell, the kids at Queerty can always find work at 365gay.com, so they'll be all right.