Remember our semicolon debate late last year? No issue gets writers as riled, it seems, than whether the semicolon is a "transvestite hermaphrodite" (Kurt Vonnegut) or a much abused and underused tool. Michael Tomasky wrote: "If I were linguistic emperor, not only would semicolons be mandatory, but we’d all be writing like Carlyle: massive 130-word sentences that were mad concatenations of em dashes, colons, semicolons, parentheticals, asides; reading one of those Carlyle sentences can sweep me along in its mighty wake and make me feel as if I’m on some sort of drug. What writing today does that? Some, maybe even a lot, in the realm of literature; but not much in nonfiction, alas.”

I got both those quotes from Craig Conley's inspired A Semicolon's Dream Journal, which I found after he left a comment on our blog. I've just skimmed his site, but also enjoyed his Inflationary Lyrics. This is the sort of site I could waste all day on. But really ... a "transvestite hermaphrodite"?