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Angus Johnston Profile picture
@studentactivism
Sep 12, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
At about one minute in, this Mandy Patinkin reminiscence of shooting The Princess Bride goes to a lovely unexpected place.
I finally got off my butt this morning and signed up for tomorrow night's #PrincessBrideReunion to benefit @WisDems. If you haven't, and you wanna, might as well get it out of the way right now.
(BTW, the transcendent moment in the above clip comes a bit before the one-minute mark. The whole thing is two minutes and change, so you might as well watch the whole thing, but if you're gonna skip, skip to 0:35, not 1:00.)
My family and I are going to rewatch Princess Bride tomorrow afternoon before the #PrincessBrideReunion, and we'll be live tweeting—time TBD. If anyone wants to join, I'll be giving advance notice.
Also, I'm gonna figure out a way to throw some more cash at @WisDems during the rewatch—no state is more crucial than Wisconsin for the future of our democracy, both for its role in 2020 and in the need to roll back the WI GOP's kidnapping of state govt. #PrincessBrideReunion
If you haven't signed up for the #PrincessBrideReunion, the link is here. Any donation to @WisDems gets you in to a script read and Q&A tomorrow at 6PM Central (that's 7PM Eastern for you coastal elites). It's gonna be fab. secure.actblue.com/donate/princes…
Okay, we're doing this. PRINCESS BRIDE REWATCH AND LIVETWEET TOMORROW AT 4PM ET, 3PM CT, in advance of the #PrincessBrideReunion in support of @WisDems tomorrow night at 7/6.
Bumped it by an hour, due to angst and tsuris, but I'll be rewatching and live tweeting at 5PM—40 minutes from now.

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As the thread suggests, this is an example of a larger problem in politics. "One person should change his mind" is an actionable demand. "Ten million people should change their minds" is not.
Anytime you ask someone what should happen next and their answer is "everybody needs to..."? You can stop listening. That's not a strategy. It's not a plan. It's a wish.
When people here and on Bsky tell me to shut up and get behind Biden, I tell them they're talking to the wrong person.

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Okay, let's take a look at the free-expression issues raised by how this confrontation went down.
(I tweeted about it last night, but as I sometimes do, I frontloaded conclusions rather than explanation, so I'm rebooting.)
There are a lot of people around—including a lot of people in my comments—who start from the premise that tearing down these posters is hostile to free expression, and so what happened to this guy was a free-speech victory. Let's unpack that.
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I ran the first paragraph of Orwell's 1984 through ChatGPT, asking it to fix any "spelling, grammatical, or usage errors."

I think my copyediting gig is safe. Check it out:
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It's only—the quoted text—not dangerous because it's so ignorant. If your goal is to "evaluate grammar" in order to determine whether a manuscript is publishably competently written, all you need to do is have a copy editor spend three minutes reading a random page. (1/?)
It's not an onerous task. But it's not also a useful task. Because lots of books that get published are written by authors who have a shaky grasp of grammar. Lots of GOOD books are written by such authors. Such manuscripts are the baby, not the bathwater.
Me, to my partner, also a copy editor, or vice versa: "How's the book you're working on going?"

Them, to me, or v-v: "It's fine. The author doesn't know how commas work, but it's fine."

This happens ALL THE TIME.
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I can buy Streep being Maclaine's daughter in Postcards, and I can buy her living the life she's living in the movie, but to believe the former I have to disbelieve the latter, and vice versa.
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