Music Editing Mugs

Music producers.

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Campaign for Plain English

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Personnel - "This letter of recommendation is full of misspellings!"

"Baxter...about this report...your punctuation, spelling and grammar are perfect. No one can understand it!"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

"I just edited your Wikipedia entry." "Big whoop." "What a coincidence, that's what scientists have classified you as: Bigwhoop." "...The much grumpier, much louder, and much, much older second cousin of Bigfoot." "You lousy son of a..." "Wait... thank you. That's very flattering."

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

Isabel Allende

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Your resume begins Once Upon A Time...I like that!

"You haven't enjoyed the Yule log till you've enjoyed it in high def."

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

"Confounded spell checker... never catches anything."

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

"Which part are you reading for?"

Ironing Punctuation

"We're making a video of us watching TV so we can watch ourselves watching TV...later."

"And the award for the best use of AI in a movie goes to..."

One of the failed candidates for the copyrighters job wants to know 'wat was rong with his applicashun'.

'The grammar's awful and the spelling's atrocious - otherwise it's an impressive CV.'