Anyone need a first-rate copyeditor? Then meet Karen Wise. I can attest to her formidable chops, as she has cleaned up my prodigious messes for over a year now. Make sure to read her extraordinarily well-written blog, Verbatim, the “Musings of a stay-home mom of 3, freelance copyeditor, voracious reader, and enthusiastic cook.” If you [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Copyeditor Extraordinaire
Posted in Off Mic, tagged Karen Wise on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ian Remembered
Posted in Off Mic, tagged Graham Griffith, Ian Docherty, On Point on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Graham Griffith, a former On Point senior producer, reflects on the passing of Ian Docherty, a singular personality and prescient journalist who last graced these hallways eight or so years ago. Graham observes that in August 2001, the Scotsman sniffed something afoot in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, and was mystified why the American press so blithely ignored [...]
Mad Men in Public Radio
Posted in Off Mic on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My neighbor the, estimable Namita Raina, clued me into this “Mad Men Yourself” phenomenon that is apparently sweeping the continent. I feel so out of it
Bubbles Are Bad
Posted in Off Mic on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
trapped in bubbles, originally uploaded by leodirac. Bubbles are pernicious things to be trapped inside of. If solid in color, then obviously, the world outside becomes invisible. But bubbles of clear plastic or soap can be quite transparent. Viewed from inside, the inwardly curving or sloping soap-filmed surface area registers the same effect as a [...]
