“My fellow Liberals — I wish politics was like booze. Hey — 27 per cent is a big number if you’re talking alcohol content! [Pause for laughter.] Speaking of alcohol, I need a drink. Thank you and goodnight. Screw you, Ignatieff!”
—pg. 138
The Rick Mercer Report: The Book is basically all those awesome once-a-week rants from RMR from over the last few years, collected. Because I am fantastically biased towards Rick Mercer, I found the idea of this utterly awesome.
Until I found a copy error in the front inner book flap (line 5, no spacing between “Rae.” and “And”). And while, as an InDesign user, I can completely empathize with spacing errors, there’s a big step between random-person-with-a-computer and Doubleday Canada. Of course, one error is no big deal. There are probably loads in this post alone. But the spacing problem continues — occasionally double spacing, occasionally no spacing, prevalent enough that even those who don’t call proofing their happy place have probably noticed. Which is unfortunate, since the weird spaces break up the awesome-ness.
So does the rampant disregard for commas. Now, I’m all for forgetting commas (dashes, colons, paragraph breaks) where appropriate, but they shouldn’t be missed where they would otherwise create comic effect/make the text sound more like it does when Mercer says it, and less like someone forgetting to breathe for a couple pages.
Highlights:
- hating on the Conservatives
- hating on the Liberals
- hating on Harper and Dion
- hating on Dion hating on Harper
- “From the Teleprompter of Michael Ignatieff”
- things having to do with Question Period
Canadian? Like Rick Mercer? Blind to spacing issues? Read.