Today’s Words: boiled egg unripe sated tush T-square dope decisive Angie was so anal she used a T-square to fry an egg. Got to get the angles right she said. Only way to do it. Boiled eggs she wouldn’t attempt. Too many variables she said. Higher longterm success rate if you stick to known equations. [...]
words du jour : scoop/chewy/beater/smear/grooms/unguent A few weeks ago I tripped and fell and skinned my knee. In the ensuing days, I would notice my skinned, scabby knee-parts, and think of being a kid. It seemed back then that having scabby knees, elbows, or both, was just a routine part of life. I don’t remember [...]
proxy, scavenger, chancery, giblet, goblet, nugget Here’s a nugget for you: I met today with a fellow named Alan Storm. Bright as could be. I knew he wouldn’t want to work for me. I did not disguise my pleasure with him. I told him, the question isn’t whether or not I want you, it’s whether [...]
Today’s Words: pugnacious anthem lullaby oral cancer olfactory impetuous spunky The anthem of Spunkytown was about cookies. Cookies, of course, were the national mascot, but Spunkytown, being eager to the point of pugnaciousness in their patriotism, had taken it one step further. The anthem went thusly: Cookies our our shepherds. They still our hearts and [...]
Today’s Words: catty Valium rancid gravel unsinkable approximate jellyfish One day Emily and I were at the beach and there was a jellyfish washed up. It was dead, of course, but the degree to which I was eager to dig into it disturbed me. It was like silicone or some other inert substance. It was [...]
dinky/balalaika/poony/barnacle/malingerer/succulent Well, this may be a dinky furrow but I want you to know what it means to me. I’m back and I’m in the black baby. If I had a balalaika, I’d grab it and play a fetching waltz. My landlord has disappeared. It’s been pretty nice for me, on account of he weighs [...]
Word from Lily: dinky balalaika poony barnacle malingerer succulent I stand guilty of malingering. (I really thought that word meant something else. I thought it meant “skulking”, as in mal (bad) + linger (hang around). But, insterestingly enough (what an odd phrase), the second definition of skulk is also “to avoid responsibilities and duties”. How [...]
Words from Emily: monokini, oculist, montage, nepenthes, shark, savant, staple gun, gossip/gossipy Sharks must swim indefinitetely or they die. Their gills work in such a way that a constant stream of water is needed to oxygenate their blood. Unlike fish, who have gill-flapper things to keep water flowing through, sharks must flap their whole bodies. [...]
blockquote>diddly/spume/filarial/mudbug/transverse/ phalanges/sparrow Kate and Ilene walked along the beach, oblivious to the spume gathering at their feet in the early morning. The tide was way out, nearly a half a mile, and gusts of wind were picking up bits of foam, like hockey pucks, carrying them a few feet at a time. Kate noticed what [...]
Words from Emily: du jour honied horndog wild blue yonder wigless dorkbutt cradlesong bellyache Quit yer bellyaching. Not exactly a cradlesong. No one ever says “Can you turn up that bellyaching? I’m really getting into it!” Except with sarcasm. Which is a pestilence upon the Earth. IMHO. I am feeling dimwitted and lame tonight in [...]