pop-culture dictionary
Did you know about wordspy?
Favorites:
Fauxhawk
Squid squad
Crackberry <--Jess has one of these!
Cat typing (I'm on to you, Zuleika)
Quirkyalone
Hysterical realism (I agree with the bit about White Teeth)
Drunk dial
Weblish
and the whole list of verbed nouns.
Reminds me of junior year Rhetoric of Style with Dr. Fahnestock. Deeeeelicious.
Aaannnnd, don't miss the words about words section. Here's one I had forgotten about by Adrienne Rich:
"No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language."
—The Dream of a Common Language, 1978
Trick or Treat.
ReplyDeleteI have had more than half a bottle of Vampire Wine. And the last group of Trick or Treaters that came through happened to include ONE OF THE GUYS I WORK WITH. Small towns are weird.
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