thought I'd share....

I mentioned the article in my previous post to my father, and he told me about a similar story. When he was stationed at the (long since closed) U.S. Naval base in Londonderry, NI, there was a dog who lived there named Scamp. Scamp was kind of a base “mascot” for them. Scamp would leave the base, walk the few blocks to the bus stop, get on the bus, change busses at another stop, and go to the Diamond bar where the navy men hung out. He was even known to catch a cab outside the bar back to the base (people, cabbies, in the area got to know him). I love stories like this. Animals can be so smart!

Here's a story about a cat who takes the bus for kicks.

Grip Magazine and bad grammar

I have to share this bit of an article I read last night. As a lover of reading, and an aspiring writer, it really blows my mind. I saw the title of the mag "GRIP" and thought it was for and about the Theatre (because stage-hands are called ‘grips’), but it’s an Atlanta ‘Urban’ Arts magazine, rappers, stylists, up and coming writers etc. I kept reading it, although I was disappointed it wasn't about the theatre.

There’s an interview with a young woman named Olivia, who performs with "G-Unit."
The interviewer asked her about what it was like going to two different Colleges at the same time. I was thinking “You go girl!” until I reached the end of her reply and wondered what good all that education was when she can’t speak proper English.

Excerpt:

“My mother wanted me to go to Hofstra, but I wanted to go to music school, so I was like ‘let me do this both', and then Clive Davis come and saved me.”


Then on a later question about her image she says:

“I still think they focus on my beauty until they come to a live show. Then they be like, ‘wow you can really sing.’ It pisses me off sometime, but I just chalk it up. I be like, ‘I’m glad you finally caught up.”

Good grief girl! I just wonder why she wouldn’t want to present herself as an educated woman, as so many women in the spotlight do these days. It really irks me to hear people talk like that! I wonder what her mother thinks of her language after sending her to school!!

forgot to add:
Most of the articles in this magazine used bad grammar. There is a blurred line here between journalistic integrity and ethno-centricity. The latter is important to a lot of people, but it seems to me in a publication, the former should come first. Maybe they're trying to break the mold (journalistically) by sticking to the mold (socially).