Hm. If it is Humanities, it really should be MLA, but that wouldn’t involve footnotes :-( Chicago is for history, primarily, but it does include footnotes. I would this for Chicago, not Purdue: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citation…

Can I ask specifically what style it’s supposed to be in, or what kind of class it’s for? Chicago style, APA, something like that? Purdue OWL is a great resource to start, but it’s not the easiest to navigate.

My brother and I went to Mizzou, but are from Chicagoland. I was heading out to the garage with some food that needed to be kept cold-ish when I heard my sorta racist uncle ask my brother, “So, what the heck is going on at Mizzou?” I stayed in the garage until my feet went numb.

I feel like it’s a shame that in second grade, you were actually getting graded in terms of F vs. B. I think I got mostly check plus or check minus that young :-(

I have to ask, have you told this story on Jez before? Or do I know more than one person with this particular nugget of hilarity in their past?

Jesus. “(pant, pant)” made me actually, literally gag.

This guy sounds like a winner.
Anna, what would you think of adding an “emphasis his” to the big block quote? Is it standard to assume that the emphasis is the original author if you don’t add “emphasis mine”? That’s just...so much bolding.

I haven’t actually listened to the album, but I wanted to give you props for (correctly) italicizing the name of the album and then putting the name of a song in quotation marks. Thumbs up from a cranky English professor.

Note: I do not believe Carson Daly or Pharrell Williams know about the cult, but I do believe Christina Aguilera knows and wants in.

If you’re really into the poetry of writing, you may not love it; some of the writing itself (like, the language and occasionally the pacing) is kind of pedestrian. The magic, the themes, the characters, and the ways she ties and unties plots across seven books astounds me still. Such as, something she mentions in…

Oh my god, LL Cool J’s face at 3:50.

BBC is reporting that it “appears to be a false alarm”

It’s too late for this to come out of the greys, which is probably fine because it’d dox me to some folks.

Also, the budget was crazy-small that first season. The judging room was like a back room of somebody’s office, with bedsheets on the walls. All the contestants and the judges were so squished together.

THIS BEARS REPEATING. Up to Cycle 13/14 is for free and without commercials on Amazon Prime streaming.

Yep. Boom mikes everywhere.

This is amazing. If anyone is interested in similar issues, this book was written by one of my grad professors.

I can’t find an image or a video, but Kate Winslet’s response reminds me of Ingrid DeForest from Eagleton telling Ben Wyatt that “we don’t like to talk about money. We find it a little gauche.”
Ben: This is a budget meeting.

It’s not I don’t believe her about the costs, but the idea that she only keeps the lights on because it’s “mandated” is suspicious.