I am in love with Slate’s list of words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. Circling words would be something I’d do if I still used an old fashioned dictionary. I have a lovely,…
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I dream of words
Last night I dreamt I was at a party, or it might have been in class. It was a gathering of people of some sort. I can’t remember what we were talking about but during…
Words I need to excise from my inner-monologues because their repetition is starting to annoy me
1. Herownself/myownself — One of Miranda July’s characters used this in a short story and I’ve been saying it to myownself for three days. 2. B.S. as opposed to bullshit. 3. Befuddled/puzzled. 4. FFFFFFuuuuuucccckkkk that/this/him/her/it/you/me…
virago
you may refer to me henceforth as virago.
nippy hug day
this year i went out on a limb and got Jeffrey Kacirk’s Forgotten English word-a-day calendar. today, it’s provided a lot of entertainment. see, it’s shawn’s birthday and he got a highly-amusing forgotten english phrase….