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Weekend Song – K D Lang

February 9, 2008

I like the lazy melodic beauty of this song. Also her voice. I say “her” because I can’t bring myself to type her name with the small letters. That’s just arse.

I will pronounce it how you like, but don’t ask me to defy punctuation because of your individual whims. It’s like company names, where their offices insist that journalists write the organisation names in small letters. When that happens, as a hack I will go out of my way to put their names in headlines just to make the lowercase letters look stupid.

Or companies that insist on punctuation in their name, like Yahoo!. That looks stupid, so again, that will go in a headline. “Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!?”

I’m getting sidetracked now because if my own grammatical hangups and that’s not right, for the 12.5 per cent of people who visit this site for the Weekend Song.

It used to be about the music. I’ve changed, man.

Can you offer some assistance.
Let me in on how, for instance,
I should be convincing you to sway.

Listen: You’re OK


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5 comments

1 Wendy { 02.09.08 at 1:08 am }

She has the most beautiful voice, doesn’t she? Love that song.

2 chairwoman { 02.09.08 at 7:57 am }

Lucky you don’t do a weekend poem Cliff.

e e cummings would have caused even more distress :-)

3 Jonners { 02.09.08 at 9:10 am }

Lucky you don’t do a weekend feminist, Cliff.

bell hooks would have caused some distress too.

4 Mark { 02.09.08 at 10:05 am }

“I’m getting sidetracked now because if my own grammatical hangups”

If?

5 Ed R { 02.09.08 at 6:23 pm }

He’s not sure he has any, Mark.

Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.

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