adj: of or relating to scientific theories about the end of life as we know it Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
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n: the Academy Award for best acting by a losing Oscar nominee, feigning indifference Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Bookstore Benefactor
“Our bookstores in America are at risk. Publishing and publishers as we’ve known them are at stake. To some extent the future of American literature is at stake.” –bestselling author James Patterson explaining to Julie Bosman of The New York…
Identity Heft: Why I Got an ‘F’
A friend asked me why I started using my middle initial in bylines. I answered, “Because some guy in prison named Eric Frazier ranks higher in Google searches than I do.” If you have never searched your own name online,…
Slushi 2014
“The logo for this Olympics ought to be a stretcher.” –sportswriter Sally Jenkins, writing in the Washington Post about injuries caused by the poor snow conditions at Sochi, a questionable choice of location for the winter games. Find…
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n: Vladimir Putin, of course Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
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n: usually a male, often a football player, who wears short sleeves in freezing weather (Note: Neither of the wild card teams who played January 5, 2014, with wind chill readings of minus 4 degrees, advanced to participate in…
A Writer’s Resolution: Start New Word Diet
Starting a new diet is among the most common of New Year’s resolutions; it’s also a good time for writers to consider a diet of new words. This occurred to me while reading a recent newspaper piece by a nationally…
Phone Sex
The movie Her raises interesting questions about the future of relationships between humans and artificial intelligence, as well as the direction of movies in the same genre. For example, many people must carry a separate employer-provided business phone in addition…
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n. self-improvement goals you know you won’t reach Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!