so much for a Bo-dacious beginning

[fflo]

This afternoon I ended up hanging at the library for much longer than I'd realized I was there; barely got home for the beginning of the ballgame. And before my pizza could even arrive, the Sox were down 6-0. I confess: that was just too depressing, so I watched some of what looked like a Frontline piece on PBS about Bush & Kerry, and then popped in the second DVD in the first season of Six Feet Under (here Lisa caves to disclaimerwill's style of italicizing TV show titles---partly cuz it's just easier than quotation marks, and partly cuz a whole TV series is a body of work bigger'n many movies, so I can get behind it being given large typographical weight/distinction)----SO I didn't realize, as I do looking at the box score now, that the Beantown Hairies came rallying back to within one, 8-7, before losing 10-7. (Maybe it's just as well I wasn't watching.)

Comments

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Wow- you put a lot more thought into the practice of italicizing than I have! My rationale was basically, "Entertainment Weekly does it, so might as well. Me like slantiness." :)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like that poem titles get quotation marks. (Unless they're a whole book, I guess---like you have "Howl" and Howl.) Short stories, too, unless they're borderline novellas. I mean, I like that there's some designation of bigness or something we're trying to indicate with the choice.