On the Internet there are No Proofreader's...

There's a very nice out of work actor on FARCEBOOK.

Actually, there are thousands of them.

This D-lister, hardly known by name to the average person, has been regaling his very small circle of "friends" with anecdotes from his marginal career. People keep telling him, "oh, these are fascinating" (mostly, no) and "you should put them into a book" (which they wouldn't buy).

After a while, these bursts of egotism, every day or every other day, began to bore me...but I'd sort of skim through in case he was mentioning some D-lister I might care about. The main trouble? His fucking awful punctuation. He seems to have spell-check, but for some insane reason, there isn't an "s" that he doesn't think should be chaperoned by an apostrophe:

The two guys he's mentioned were minor support in sketches on Sonny and Cher's dubious variety show 30 years ago. I've actually heard of them, and even have a comedy album they made (no, I haven't played it recently...say, as long as Kim Kardashian has been alive). I was hoping I'd hear some hilarious story of these two guys falling over something, or accidentally grabbing Cher's tits...but it was just the boring blab anybody would tell after visiting an actual TV studio to see how they videotape a sketch. I just stopped reading when paragraph after paragraph proved dreary, and I had to keep enduring all those plural's...PLURAL's.

The sad thing is that if I left a comment about this, one of his (few) fans would scream, "What are you, the punctuation police?" And he wouldn't change because he's not too literate and way too old to learn anything (he's talking about a marginal duo on a long-gone variety show).

The good news is he doesn't care about shuffling this shit into a book. He's said so. The reason is probably because he wouldn't want to pay the $500 a vanity outfit like Amazon charges to make a reasonably professional looking eBook out of sludge. Add another $500 for the "print on demand" option, in case he wants to drag his ass to memorabilia conventions with his "book."

Christ, there are more than enough Farcebook PESTS who actually have spent money on some dumbass vanity autobiography, or idiotic fiction and insist on "networking" onto every FB group! Have you noticed that these assholes never EVER "like" anything or comment on anything? All they want is for you to BUY their crap. They don't support you. They don't read you. It's I-ME-MINE and if you point that out, they and their relatives get sore.

File this under "amateurs who are lousing up the literary world, and the Internet social media that encourages it."

For a while there, this idiot was taking up my time with "free entertainment" when I could've been reading an actual book that I bought, or magazine. Who subscribes to magazines? Who buys books? Who doesn't read stupid shit on Farcebook instead?