Then again, I might just try to prove "Not Yellow". I'm crazy that way. (You're Famous-ish, So I Commented.)

Paul Parducci:

 is, according to his blog, an "American Actor,Filmmaker, Author and Speaker," who appeared in TV shows, created what he called "the smash hit Mobi/Webisode Comedy Series 'Nightmare Boss,' and also wrote a book called "Wet Linda," which actually sounds pretty good ("A self-hating Eighteen year-old moves into a sterile California suburb and her life becomes a lung-filling nightmare as she comes under the control of something very evil met at the community pool.")

His blog is called "Paul Parducci's Blog," and the latest post on it is a cryptic installment of a Youtube video featuring a guy named "Michael Chekhov" talking about acting on an old record, with no explanation or context.

Here is  what I said:

It's 6:41 a.m. right now. Sometimes I like to note the time that I leave a comment, especially because I'm not sure if the comment itself will note the time or day or date that I leave the comment. I think that's important to know, but maybe it isn't.

That opener was a real dead-end as far as a lead-in to this comment. As is this paragraph. So instead of worrying about what I'm saying, I'm going to just keep on saying it, and one of the things I'll say is that I am experimenting, in this comment, with whether I should leave one space or two after a period.

This is a subject of considerable distress, if you go by the nonjournalism that passes for journalism these days. About a year ago I read an article that included a little bit of reporting that said that the two-space standard, hitting that space-bar twice after a period, was come up with in the old typesetting days, something to do with making sure we could tell, with denser print, that the sentence had ended. But, that 'article' said, those days are gone and nowadays we should only use one space after a period.

I thought the non-controversy, or "nontroversy" (Copyright me 2013) was over there and never thought much about it again, but then I saw a headline last week on Slate that said something like "Why You Should Never, Ever Use Two Spaces After A Period," which sort of made me mad, and so mad that I could not go read the article, because: really? NEVER EVER?

Will it HARM PEOPLE TO USE TWO SPACES? I don't think so. Will the reader think you are uncultured swine, as Potato Head called Ham when he didn't get the Picasso Joke? Will THE WORLD COME TO A SCREECHING HALT AND BEGIN ROTATING BACKWARDS...

I'm sorry. I've been listening to your guy here, this acting coach, while I type this but I can't stand it anymore. He's creepy. Did you listen to the whole thing? I couldn't do it. I have put on the "Bob & Tom Radio Show" instead, on the Internet, so that I can listen to them talk about how often they wash their bedding. I'm not sure why I listen to that show, either.

How, I wonder, can you teach acting from a record? Maybe I should have listened to that guy a little longer, but maybe not, if it was annoying me.

Here's my point: it cannot possibly matter, at all, whether I use one or two spaces after a period. Period. Cannot matter. I doubt most people even notice. You probably forgot, as you read this post, that I was even doing that, and you are maybe now even going back to look. Can you tell? Can you tell that I sometimes used one, sometimes used two spaces after a period? Did you notice that I used two spaces after the comma in that last sentence?

So I probably would have liked the article, if it had been less oversold. If Slate had headlined it something less harsh, I might have read it. But this "You should never ever ever do this because..." lead-in actually made me LESS likely to read it.

That's probably just me, though. I tend to react that way. Tell me A, I'll want to prove B. Tell me B, I'll want to prove yellow. You know how it is.

That's no kitten... it's a space station! (You're Famous...ish, So I Commented.)

You're Famous...ish, so I Commented is a new feature here, wherein I comment on a famous...ish person's blog.

Today's FIRST-EVER post-- not the first time I did this but the first time I decided to re-post it here -- was left this morning on the December 10th posting from an author named Veronica Roth.  Roth's post was about her awarding 6 people copies of something or other, while every other entrant got this:

which Roth described as

this consolation prize, which is a picture of a kitten that recently melted my brain with cute

 Here is what I said, in comment:

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So like most of the people who have commented, I will add:

DARN! I DID NOT WIN! Which is not surprising as I only just found your blog here, at 6:46 a.m. on a Sunday morning when I shouldn't be up yet but here I am.

UP.  I mean: UP. "Here I am, UP."

Long story.

(It's not really a long story but you have to say that if you want to avoid telling the story. The story is short.)

Anyway, what I am wondering is what that kitten is doing.  Is he running from someone? Or to someone? Is he doing the robot, that dance that I don't think anyone actually did in the 1980s but which everyone thinks everyone in the 1980s was doing all the time? Perhaps the kitten is a hipster, a devotee of 80s pop culture and he is doing the robot because he thinks the dance was really big in the 1980s.  If so, he could be forgiven for his mistake.  He is a kitten, and probably has only been alive a few weeks, and doesn't know how to adjust his understanding of previous eras so that when things get MENTIONED a lot, people will not automatically equate that with those things having been actually DONE a lot.

Questions that will remain unanswered in this comment include but are not limited to:

1.  Why did I assume the kitten was a male?

2.  Would it have been too easy to make a martial arts reference and/or juxtapose the kitten with "The Matrix?"

3.  Probably, in answer to number 2.

4.  Why would I include #2 in a list of unanswered questions only to then answer it in number 3?

Mysteries wrapped in riddles!

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STUDY QUESTIONS FOR PEOPLE PARTICIPATING AT HOME:

1.  Is "Veronica Roth" a pseudonym? EXPLAIN.

2.  Assume the kitten is a metaphor.  Why would you assume that about a poor kitten? You are heartless.

3.  42? More like brie.