theoreticalboy wrote:
Embrace the darkside, openings, cherry salsa, and hyperventilating cactii.
See, the comma is ineffective. More correct would be 'Embrace the darkside: openings,' or, if you want to get all hoi-polloi about it, 'embrace the darkside - openings.'
While the colon and em dash are arguably superior to the comma here, I much prefer it to your hyphen-minus.
Still smacks of listing to me, whereas a semi-colon removes all uncertainty. As an Oxford comma proponent, I probably would use one in a list of two