Blogging from Production
Making the Phollegian: “I just don’t care anymore”
HOUR 19
The most recent medical literature has determined that Hour 19 of Phollegian production and LSD have identical effects: dilated pupils, hallucinations, and an irrational hatred of terminal commas. Yes, Hour 19 involves much copy editing–the Sisyphean task of finding every last piece of shit typo and improperly formatted quotation.
The image above is the closest our art department could get to portraying exactly what it feels like to copy edit. The entire department shot themselves shortly after creating this picture.
Some things to note:
1. Hour 18 is so trying, that it causes a gluten intolerance, as evidenced by the specialty pretzels in the bottom left hand corner. No link has been established, but it is believed that the body is trying to destroy itself to avoid further editing.
2. Copy editing also causes you to regress to an early part of your childhood. As the pink gel pen in his right hand exemplifies, this poor bastard has regressed to his days as a 14 year old girl.
3. On a positive note, copy editing sometimes causes the editor to believe that he/she is Scottish royalty (pictured above). After the editor comes down from their editing trip, they are ecstatically relieved.
NEXT: THE END IS NEAR, OH THANK GOD THE END IS NEAR!!
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by Matt Powers, Head Writer
· Tags: copy editing, live from production weekend, Matt Powers loves the terminal comma, phollegian