Reason #24, 875 Why I'm Too Through

First, however, let me remind you that I had a show last night, and Brother Omi and I had a great discussion on Dominican author Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. And YES, I need to keep reminding you that:

1- This book won the Pulitzer Prize
2- Diaz is an awesome Dominican author
3- You (except for Smarty Jones & The F$%k It List) missed my show.

It's cool, though... when my media empire blows up, I know who will be guaranteed a corner office and who will only be offered freelance work here and there when the mood strikes.

Here's the podcast for you lazy limabeans and ne'er-do-wells: Monday Musings- A Jaded Literary Moment

So back to the point I wanted to make today...

I had to send this email to one of the girls in my office a few weeks ago:

When writing a sentence with a quote, the punctuation marks at the end of the quote belong INSIDE the closing quote marks.

Example:

WRONG: “We expect this to be a great development for NYC”, said the mayor.

RIGHT: “We expect this to be a great development for NYC,” said the mayor.

WRONG: The mayor said, “We expect this to be a great development for NYC”.

RIGHT: The mayor said, “We expect this to be a great development for NYC.”

Please be sure you make a note of this and review what you write thoroughly before handing it over to me; I keep finding these kinds of errors in your articles.

Thanks,

R

*smooches...wishing for good help if in fact I'm destined to stay at this job*
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it really shouldn't be my job to teach English 101 to a grown ass woman with a college degree who claims she wrote for her school paper. am I wrong??