{"id":14800,"date":"2011-07-14T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14800"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:32:16","slug":"geno-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14800\/geno-shrugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Geno Shrugged"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently bought the book, How To Write A Sentence (and how to read one)<\/em> by Stanley Fish, but it still didn’t give me what I wanted.\u00a0 What I wanted<\/em> was assurance that all those tricky uses of semi-colons and parentheticals, gerunds and so on, that I mastered during my state college educational stay, were still in literary vogue. You know, in case I ever publish something besides here.<\/p>\n

I’ve been\u00a0receiving The New Yorker <\/em>in the mail every week or\u00a0so for the past twenty years so, \u00a0in theory, I could probably learn as much in those volumes (and saved paying $19.99 USA\u00a0for the Fish book) if I ever did more than simply browse the cartoons, movie reviews, and fluff essay pieces–Sedaris, Larry David, etc– and then immediately stack the latest issue neatly on top of the previous issue with tiny alleys\u00a0separating each pile, on the floor,\u00a0next to my bookshelf. My wife keeps threatening to\u00a0scoop up\u00a0the whole multi-tiered lot and haul them to the curb, all 1,000 or so cleverly covered\u00a0magazines,\u00a0 but I beg her otherwise. To reconsider. A modification, perhaps<\/em>…<\/p>\n

“Since I failed as a real estate developer,” I tell her, “At least allow me to construct a pulp fiction\/non-fiction skyline on my own office floor. \u00a0As of this morning the stacks most closely resemble Omaha, Nebraska, from a bird’s eye view. I suppose that’s a city.<\/p>\n

And to be truthful, I really didn’t ‘fail’<\/em> as a developer because I never actually jumped in with both feet (I know, two ‘ly’ adverbs and a cliche in a single sentence but in case you missed it the first time: state college. Hel-lloo!<\/em>) and I never lost any other people’s money. I guess I could\u00a0have been a bit more ruthless and turned a buck or two but we’re talking about residential real estate and in the end, somebody has to eventually live there. At least, that is,\u00a0until the banks stop merely threatening and actually figure out a way to first scoop it all up…and then <\/em>haul it all to the curb.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently bought the book, How To Write A Sentence (and how to read one) by Stanley Fish, but it still didn’t give me what I wanted.\u00a0 What I wanted was assurance that all those tricky uses of semi-colons and parentheticals, gerunds and so on, that I mastered during my state college educational stay, were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13918,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13918\/sharks-pilot-fish-dinosaurs-and-wishful-thinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":14800,"position":0},"title":"Sharks – Pilot Fish – Dinosaurs – And Wishful Thinking","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"January 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't ya love it when a new way to call something old catches on? 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