Inner Editor
The hyphenated whale Moby-Dick
February 01, 2019
Wandering & Wondering keeps surfing on Riptide
January 25, 2019
Thanks to my Pacifica Tribune readers for following my Wandering & Wondering column the past 20 years. I have folded the column and refocused my journalistic energies on this blog, covering the Coastside from Pacifica to Pescadero. All my newspaper columns are archived here on Riptide: Just click the Wandering & Wondering category on the sidebar.
John Maybury
No count
January 17, 2019
Best media corrections of 2018
January 05, 2019
REAL NEWS
December 10, 2018
BAY AREA TEEN WINS BULWER-LYTTON PRIZE FOR BAD WRITING
September 05, 2018
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
July 11, 2018
"Or take a stroll over to Ink Dwell, the new studio of painter Jane Kim, who specializes in ornate audoban-style murals of still wildlife...” (One Day One Place: Half Moon Bay, July 11, by Greg Thomas, S.F. Chronicle travel editor)
WHAT IS 44 + 66?
July 03, 2018
From The (San Mateo) Daily Journal, Letters to the editor, July 2, 2018:
San Mateo County Chief Elections Officer Mark Church opined recently that the June election had been "extremely successful" because 44 percent of residents voted […]. How sad that in a democracy where all citizens have an equal right to vote, fewer than half take advantage of the privilege. Do 66 percent of citizens subscribe to the bromide "I don’t really care, do u?”
(Reader Pierre Messerli caught this mathematically challenged letter.)
LOCALS BUY HALF MOON BAY REVIEW
June 05, 2018
PACIFICA JOURNALIST RENEE BATTI: NEW ALMANAC EDITOR
May 10, 2018
ARE YOU A GOOD COPY EDITOR?
January 27, 2018
New York Times standards editor challenges you to a copyediting duel.
GRAMMAR HELL
December 08, 2017
Read 'em and weep.
GOOD NEWS: SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN RISES FROM THE ASHES
November 08, 2017
"The Bay Guardian won’t be coming back as a weekly paper — for daily breaking news and independent voices, please visit 48 Hills, the website started in 2013 by Bay Guardian editors Tim Redmond and Marke B. The Bay Guardian will be making political endorsements, publishing political advocacy and opinion, relaunching Best of the Bay and the GOLDIES arts awards, and digitizing 48 years of archives and ephemera." BAY GUARDIAN
RIPTIDE REPORTERS ROCK
October 05, 2017
Riptide reporters Dan Stegink, Alan Wald, Big Banker, and Better Business Burro regularly share coastside news with you, our readers. If you care to join our glorious, unpaid profession, just ask.
JOHN MAYBURY, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Summer of Love: In Case You Missed It
July 24, 2017
Not to miss: interviews with Peter Coyote and Scoop Nisker.
Apostrophe Catastrophe
July 03, 2017
Peter Loeb proposes a $1,000 fine for every "apostrophe catastrophe" (as Herb Caen used to call them) such as this whopper from Pacifica Patch: "A state report shows how much city officials are paid, and while some cities don't pay their mayor's anything, others pay big time..."
Language Hate Groups
June 03, 2017
Nightstalker: Bristol's Punctuation Vigilante
April 04, 2017
He seeks out and corrects misplaced apostrophes and other crimes against the English language.
Wordplay
March 19, 2017