Video Editing Prints

"… and the last item on the pre-nuptial aggreement is, … he wants final cut on all home videos."

"They don't prevent crime, but the videos make great blooper reels."

I want to be a TV journalist...I think creative writig and video editing are what you need.

'Have you figured out our New Year's resolution?'

Youtube ghost videos...

"The video of our wedding now includes commentary."

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

Campaign for Plain English

"If this goes badly I'm going to post it on my youtube job interview bloopers channel."

Punctuation Police

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

"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."

"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.

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

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

"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."

"Where have you been? This content's not going to create itself."

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."

'Dad, would you ming standing up, then accidentally tripping on the dog and falling flat on your face? I'll try to get it in one shot.'

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

"Which part are you reading for?"

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

Ironing Punctuation

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

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

"What do you want to be when you blow up?"