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I love slang dictionaries, but I have yet to find a slang thesaurus. Maybe they’d just be too complicated. I imagine synonyms for “vomit†alone could form a small book. There’s puke, purge, spew, throw up, hurl, toss your lunch, toss your cookies, ralph, call Ralph on the porcelain phone, drive the porcelain bus, blow [...]
A lot of mail comes in to the place where I work, and a fair amount of it is international. When I started here it was in the mailroom, and one of my co-workers asked me if I’d save any unusual or foreign stamps for her husband who was a collector. I ended up saving [...]
The passage of Proposition 8 in California was, for many of us, a terrible event in the most recent election. It was a continuation of prejudice at a time when we thought we were, in fact, seeing great steps forward in eliminating prejudice. There have been many people who have spoken out against it, many [...]
We assume the internet connects people in ways they’ve never been connected before, and there are some pretty strong indications that’s true. In Hello Stranger, Vicky Baker writes about her experience using a social networking site to find travel companions. It’s hard to imagine people using the electronic equivalent of personal ads to meet someone [...]
Normally the prefix un- is a negative, meaning “to reverse†in words like undo, untie, undelete, or even undismember (yeah, it’s a word), or “not†in words like undelayed, unsurprised, or unreliable. And yet it’s positive in words where it’s not a prefix, such as unite and unanimous, which are derived from the Latin unus, [...]
Sky & Telescope, in its December issue, reports on the ongoing debate about the status of Pluto. Yes, there’s still debate. The International Astronomical Union may have demoted Pluto to a vague non-planet status in 2006, but that hasn’t settled anything, even in the minds of scientists. At least part of the problem seems to [...]
Remember a great to-do a few years ago about the paperless society? I remember reading an article about ten years ago (I can’t remember where, especially since I have a hard time remembering even what happened yesterday) about offices where supervisors were making their staff throw out all paper. Even though there’s been a lot [...]
Imagine you’re an animal on Noah’s ark. Imagine you’re not just any animal, but a stowaway, an animal Noah decided was “not wanted on voyage†and apparently slated for extinction in the great deluge. What would you tell us humans about what it was really like? That’s a basic description of the first chapter of [...]
There’s a Global Language Monitor based in Austin, Texas, that’s been tracking words in the English language for the past five years. According to an article in Smithsonian, the Global Language Monitor’s, um, monitors have come to the conclusion that a new word is added to the English language every ninety-eight minutes. There are more [...]
I can finally provide some of the promised video of the special storytelling event at the Vanderbilt University Library on October 30th. Storyteller Boone Westfall told some very funny and some very chilling stories. I acted as photographer and videographer for the event. And here I am reading Tim Burton’s poem Vincent, which was done [...] |
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