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By Betty
Theresa says I should keep writing, that I have a distinctive style like no other and she enjoys the read.
Thank you, and well, that’s what I need to hear, a little encouragement goes a long, long way on most days. Just a little goes. I’m reminded of that Dixie Chicks song where they say more than once, “I like it.” “I like it.” “I like it.” Yes, you do.
“Where have you been?” You know that Kathy Matea song that says that? “It’s been forever and a day . . .”
Well, honey, I have been busy doing a lot of very good work. Margaret Cho, The Magnificient, came to town and we filmed her. Check out the clips on GVTV. [Conversations with Margaret]
Our website’s all spiffed up with its new sexy look ala that colleague-down-the-hall. He has it wearing now a sexy red and another blue. Pages just zing now with a contagious energy that’s engaging and provocative, inviting. All of that.
GV Spot is back and out there moving on the Internet from us to readers who have wondered. Where have you been?
Well, I’m back.
We’re writing news releases nsync, in sink, in tandem, like there’s no tomorrow. Burn down the barn. And it’s all good. Stories are picked up and enhanced . . . get it out, get it out, get it out into the world, those words in a genre that calls for certain elements and style. It’s all good.
Mine is a world of words just now. Words are my companions. Words commit a speech act and in so doing, change is made. What’s a speech act? That’s what you call it when the speaker performs an act by uttering the words.
Lots of cool examples, challenge, for instance. In speaking a challenge, a call to engagement occurs. In saying no, the speech act of rejecting happens.
Speech acts are how we get things done, and yes, there are lots of them going on in sexy: propositions, requests, proposals, commands, offers, asks, requests, denials, objections, promises, resignations, compliments, invitations, refusals. The list goes on and all these are words that commit an act. Thus, we say it’s speech act.
Asking is a verbal act of requesting. Citations, be they delivered in spoken worlds, written passages or legal precedents . . . well, you know. Citations usually mean bring your checkbook because it’s going to cost you something.
GV has had me busy lately!
