I dislike the usage.
I would contest the assertion that it's being used correctly, though it think it usually reads terribly when used in the QOTW and am therefore biased against it.

The sense in which it's being used is (it seems to me) in a similar manner to which an actor is cued; a prompt to action. In almost every instance, it's not. It's a statement of something that's already happened or a cut to a situation already in existence.

I can see the argument that this example is correct, but there are far better ways to express it. My main gripe is that it's lazy writing, rather than any technical quibble.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:51, Reply)