Project Still Life Recap - "Disappearances" blurb

Welcome back, gang, and welcome to our next installment of Still Life. As mentioned previously, this one is somewhat Jensen-light, but what is there is worth the effort.

At this point, I'll briefly recap the dramatis personae for this ep:

Ben Morgan = Dad, cop
Charlotte = Mom, running for mayor
Jake = eldest brother, deceased, killed on first day of job as cop, acts as narrator for the show
Max = only remaining son of the family, photographer, looking for work, formerly dated Maggie Jones
Emily = eldest sister, great cook, just quit job as a (legitimate) hostess at a high-end strip club called Marlo's
Daisy = youngest Morgan child, still in high school
Maggie = Jake's fiancée, Max's ex-girlfriend, owns art gallery
Gideon = former college acquaintance of Emily, and Emily's current flame
Stack = chef at Marlo's, friend of Emily
Jonathan = Charlotte's campaign advisor (played by an actor who was on Firefly . . . the ep where someone has his body shipped to Mal and Zoe. The soldier who remembered the "If you can't run, then you crawl, and if you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you." Oh! "The Message"? Was that the ep title? Anyway . . . yeah, him.)

So let's get right to it, shall we?

( Disappearances )

Grammatical rant

Okay, I've got to get this out of my system. I've seen it one too many times today, and it's gonna drive me nuts.

The past tense of the verb lead is LED, people.

Lead--pronounced with a short "e" sound, is a metal.

So if today Sam leads the way into the house, but Dean took the lead yesterday, Dean led the way.

Their bullets are usually silver or iron, not lead. Though the bullets for the Colt might have been lead. Lead is what cop bullets are made out of.

As in, "Eat lead," the scoundrel sneered.

Or lead poisoning.

Or a lead pipe.

Got it?

So, Sam led the way into the basement. Dean followed, careful not to trip over the lead pipe at the bottom of the stairs.

The next time I see lead used as the past tense of the verb, I think I'm gonna cry.

Or spork my eyes out.

One of the two.

Note: I know this misspelling does not make these authors bad people. It is the fact that spellcheck recognizes lead as a real word that this gets overlooked. And of course first drafts and dashed off posts are riddled with errors, mine included.

But this is in finished stories, folks. Please, please, PLEASE, proofread your own work. And then have someone else proofread it. And then put it aside and proofread it again later. Computers cannot replace the nuance of the human brain.

I need a Donna Noble icon

Just watched "Turn Left" . . . I love Donna.

I can so relate to her.

And I totally want her dresser. Because she always looks smashing in clothes that would look smashing on me.

That is all.