Basic stuff

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-have-asked-about-getting-data-on.html

Here are some more Vinegartits classics:

>Steve Heggarty is the head person (He replaced Marc Hart when the administration-board booted the latter out for alleged alcoholism but really to cover up the affair with La Falliero) to keep her reputation spotless and to keep the public from knowing the board and administration tolerate and even cultivate hanky panky on the job.<

Remove the parenthesis:

Steve Heggarty is the head person to keep her reputation spotless and to keep the public from knowing the board and administration tolerate and even cultivate hanky panky on the job.

Twit.

>Heggarty got the head job not because he was qualified (he lacked the experience factor) but because he had covered the schools for the SPT and had played kissy poo with the administration and wrote puff pieces.<

Wordy. Edit: He lacked experience.

>Steve is not on the ball. His assistant, Linda Cobbe (who had also applied of the job) is.<

There is no excuse for this missing comma.

>He is good for nothing but rubberstamping Elia's ukases and waddling around asking board typists to send a letter from him on board stationary asking Mayor Iorio to abate his condo water bill.<

Try "e for envelope, a for at a standstill". It might help you remember. It works for my eight-year-old.

>The board has a month from the day of filing to respond, so this production is due soon to be found on this site if I can lay hold of it.<

Here, so means therefore. Vinegartits refuses to punctuate this one correctly despite Strunk & White's advice.

>What am I reading? The Leatherstocking tales, of course: I missed Fenimore Cooper when I was young; so I am reading him when I am old and in love with Natty Bumpo aka Hawkeye, Deerslayer, or Leatherstockings.<

Hang on! She's got it! Elsewhere she reckons I am making up grammar rules on this one. Maybe it's a typo, but if she has seen the error of her ways, then she is welcome for my help.

>He's even more attractive because he rejects all liasons with women--his bride, he avows, being the forest.<

Possessive before gerund, Vinegartits. Or has she finally worked out that they are participles?