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[deckardcanine]

I was sick all Monday with a bug that's been going around. Glaceau's vitamin water specializing in focus enhancement didn't work on me. I should have searched for a drug store near the office, but I was probably too feverish to think of that. Good think work was light that day.

When I took Tuesday off to recuperate -- and by that morning I was mostly well -- I felt guilty, as I often have without actual guilt. This is the third week in a row that I didn't spend 40 hours in the office. I'm afraid someone's going to suspect me of grabbing at excuses.

At the risk of relapse into sickness, I watched Plan 9 from Outer Space with my dad. It's certainly a stinker, but after all the hype, might I say that it was a...reverse letdown.

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[billis.livejournal.com]

I still want to see Moonraker.

Prepare to be annoyed.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had taken a Bond film selector quiz. It seemed to do a good job, judging from the order of films I had seen. Moonraker was at the top.

But I put more faith in another human than in a program.

[billis.livejournal.com]

If you can see the particular version "science fiction" employed as ironic, it's kind of a spectacle, but somehow "James Bond coolness" and "space laser fights" kind of negate eachother.

I like the James Bond movies for their sense of fun, conversely, I'm always saddened by all the henchmen who meet their presumably-deserved dooms; Moonraker seemed to have more doom and less fun.

Without making it short choppy sentences, what's the correct punctuation for the sentence above?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Well, you can tell from my previous response that I don't mind a series of short(ish) sentences, but I'll help you anyway. The only actual error in your sentence is the first comma, which should be either a semicolon or a period. I would suggest you make it a semicolon and change the other semicolon to a period.

I'm most likely to be bothered by a henchman's death when it's at the hands of someone with whom he has cooperated. Usually that's a villain who no longer has a use for him, but sometimes Bond threatens them with death and then kills them when they comply. Double-O Seven, that is not cricket.