Robert Sean Leonard vs. Keanu Reeves: A Story of two actors

I was watching the movie Much Ado About Nothing from '93 and thought it was kinda cool to see Robert Sean Leonard and Keanu Reeves in it.  Then I realized, they had very different career trajectories after this point and are an interesting study in what makes hollywood tick.

Something is Better than Nothing

I am high on something...No, I am not on drugs, I am high on the feeling you get after doing something.

Deep music: the Beatles and Shakespeare

I like music because it is deep and can have multiple meanings.  The lyrics of music can often be similar to poetry or poetry itself.

I had to read a Shakepearean Sonnet in a Poetry class and the first thing I thought of was the Beatles...specifically, "Something".

Blogger has serious Font Deficiencies.

Blogger is easy...Too easy.  

I tried to start a blog on wordpress, but I had to create some sort of thing on my computer from a zip file, do something in commands.  I could probably do it, I was just lazy (and I think I had to pay for something and I am cheap as hell).  

I have been fiddling around with blogger for a while and decided to finally look at fonts.

 I hate to be unoriginal, but I love helvetica like everyone else. However, Blogger sees to be too cheap to purchase Helvetica like microsoft used to be. 

Semicolons: Keeping the English Language From Being Idiot-Proof since 1591

I like semicolons.  

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I can actually use them correctly; many people can't. Unfortunately, those who cannot use it correctly ruin it for everyone.  If you scour the blogs, you can probably find that many have at least one incorrect or unnecessary semicolon.  Nothing against bloggers, they’re a good example of the average American and their literary knowledge.  

Semicolons are also overused; they are used a lot & are rarely needed.  A lot of the times people use semicolons, it is purely in instances to show "hey, I can use a semicolon".  Because it is so often misused and overused, it is almost never used in a necessary fashion.  

Unfortunately, its one usage where it is absolutely necessary is a very uncommon format.  This is when they are between items in a series, acting like serial commas (the commas you write when you are listing things, places, & ideas).  It would be something like:

"There were three travelers alongside of me: Thor, the god of Thunder; Elrond, Lord of Rivendell; and Cthulhu, high priest to the Great Old Ones."

I know what you must be thinking: Where the hell is this party of travelers going?  I know; it was a crazy day.  But the point is this is the only usage of semicolons where it is necessary.  According to Wikipedia (and this is sourced), it’s the most common usage of the.  This may be true for academia, but this is certainly not the case for the general population.  Heck, when most of us write, we rarely come across this situation. 

Going by reading blogs, and even news articles, the most common usage is the least useful one; it’s where the semicolon connects two independent clauses that are related (i.e. my usage at the beginning).   While technically correct, it’s usually pointless; it’s the most common because people use to show they can use it.  In layman's terms, an independent clause is a complete sentence that is "independent" from any other, and those generally end in a period.  Semicolon usage here can help the flow with poetry or literary essays.  Outside of that usage, it’s just a way of making it look fancy & at that point, why don't you just resort to Papyrus font.   

The last usage is similar; it connects 2 independent clauses by using a transitional word/phrase.  Example:

"I wrote this blog post about semicolon usage; however most people will still overuse them even after reading this"

This usage is almost strictly used by academic papers & personally, I think it’s just as useless as the middle one.  It’s also seems like trying and show you can use the semicolon.

The semicolon is wonderful; unfortunately it has become a mainstay in pseudo-intellectualism.  People use it to seem like they are being smart.   I am not saying you shouldn't use it if you want to be fancy, but why corrupt the semicolon with overuse?  If you want to seem fancy, why not use a "fancy" font like Brush Script of Papyrus, both of which are already fonts who have sold themselves out & are overused by people wanting to seem smart.  Better yet, use Comic Sans!

(Disclaimer: some may want to comment that there seem to be a few unnecessary semicolons.  It’s called Ironic humor people!)

Professing my love for some gold ol' honest Debate.

Well, I randomly flipped through the channels today to find the Cleveland Indians game.  Stupid Time Warner Cable keeps changing the channels without notice.  Does your internet change the IP address of your WiFi network without telling you?  I think this is stupid, but not really my point.

I found the channel HLN.  Joy Behar was hosting Andrew Breitbart and Stephanie miller.  I have read Andrew Breitbart's stuff on occasion & listened to him and he is okay.  Not really opinionated about him one way or another.  Then, I saw him in a "Crossfire" kind of show or situation & he was pretty impressive