I have been informed by a Usually Reliable Source that that last post was excessively bitter and mean-spirited.

I have been informed by another Usually Reliable Source that it was nothing of the kind.

Whatever.

I don't mind sounding bitter, but if I sounded mean-spirited, I apologize to the world at large. In the future, I will refrain from lifting quotes of How Not To Write from anyone's writing except my own.

Which, considering that I can't bear to read my own stuff, means I won't be quoting in the future.

Not even to point out that something like, "He couldn't last this facade that had slowly became his demure when he had been kicked out of the country" is unforgiveably incomprehensible and an abuse of the highly developed brain power that allowed us to develop language in the first place.

Or to point out that a disclaimer that starts with the words, "I haven't actually seen these episodes" is the reader's clue to run screaming from the room.

No, I will be nice.

Even though Cap'n Nasty reminded me of that old saying, "if you're not angry, you're not paying attention", I will not be posting again until I think of something nice to say.

Have some coffee. Sit back. Relax. It's intermission.