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JeffScape

I think I made a wrong turn on I-40... in Barstow.

About Me

Pronunciation: 'mE
Function: pronoun, objective case of (sc)i
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mE; akin to Old High German mIh me, Latin me, Greek me, Sanskrit mA
usage Me is used in many constructions where strict grammarians prescribe I. This usage is not so much ungrammatical as indicative of the shrinking range of the nominative form: me began to replace I sometime around the 16th century largely because of the pressure of word order. I is now chiefly used as the subject of an immediately following verb. Me occurs in every other position: absolutely (who, me?), emphatically (me too), and after prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs, including be (come with me) (you're as big as me) (it's me). Almost all usage books recognize the legitimacy of me in these positions, especially in speech; some recommend I in formal and especially written contexts after be and after as and than when the first term of the comparison is the subject of a verb.

My Interests

Film, history, travel

I'd like to meet:

the answers to my questions.

Music:

U2, Barcelona, Greg Laswell

Movies:

Road to Perdition, Heat,
Good Will Hunting

Television:

House, Life, Lost

Books:

Lonesome Dove, Hyperion,
Planetary

Heroes:

Warriors, poets, cheerleaders

My Blog

Every Man a Rifleman

There's the Army.  There's the Marine Corps.  On paper, almost 100% identical in tactics, strategy, logistics, and mission.  Sure, the Marine Corps is dicated by one more sentence regar...
Posted by JeffScape on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:32:00 PST

The Contractor Problem

Blackwater.  Halliburton.  Blah dee blah.  We all know who (or at least what) they are; most of us know what they do.  But what we don't know is why they are even here.The short an...
Posted by JeffScape on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:46:00 PST

The Gasoline Hypocrisy

Gas is expensive.  No shit.  We all see it driving down the highway; we all feel it paying at the pump; we all complain incessantly about it whenever we damn well please.  It sucks, and...
Posted by JeffScape on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:20:00 PST

Home

Strange thing happened to me this week.  Well, I guess it would be more accurate to state that a strange thing happened to me again this week.  The world reiterated to me that I have no home...
Posted by JeffScape on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:08:00 PST

People Are Idiots

People are idiots.  I state this because, well, it's true.  For evidence, I point to the following:1. Apparently many people believe that showing up for a single election and casting a singl...
Posted by JeffScape on Wed, 07 May 2008 08:20:00 PST

Ask the Question

I'm bored and I've received a couple of complaints pertaining to the fact that I haven't written anything here in a while, so I am.Basically, this is for the people who know me.  It's a test to s...
Posted by JeffScape on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:44:00 PST

March Movie Reviews

After a bit of a hiatus, I’ve finally started going to the theater again.  Feels good, actually... surprisingly good.Anyway, got a couple of films to rant about, including some older ones I...
Posted by JeffScape on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:57:00 PST

The Spring 2008 Television Season: a Quick Review

Okay, so this is more of a "first three months of 2008" review, rather than a Spring 2008 one, but who the Hell cares? At any rate, the WGA strike is over and television will soon return to some semb...
Posted by JeffScape on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:05:00 PST

Nothing Much to Say About the World

Here I am, with absolutely nothing important to say about anything at all.  I do, however, have a few observations, such as the one about how racists, sexists, and ageists are probably really ups...
Posted by JeffScape on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:06:00 PST

An Age of Friends

His coffee didn’t taste good to him tonight.  Nor, for that matter, did his cigarette.  It’s as if decades of his old reliables had eroded any pleasures his pleasures had afforde...
Posted by JeffScape on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:18:00 PST