Phantom Limb. This is one of those songs you listen to and go, “I should find out who sings that.” Sometimes this feeling comes about when the song is really good or you can’t get it out of your head. Sometimes it’s because it has interesting lyrics but you can’t really catch all of them. […]

nosism (NO-siz-em) noun The use of ‘we’ in referring to oneself. [From Latin nos (we).] As it’s often used by editors, it’s also known as the “editorial we”.It’s also called “the royal we” owing to its frequent use by royalty.Mark Twain once said, “Only kings, presidents, editors, and peoplewith tapeworms have the right to use

Pure D. Wrong: I rear-ended a car this morning. So there we are alongside the road and slowly the driver gets out of the car…and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed and life-stuff seems to get funny? Yeah,well, I could NOT believe it…he was a DWARF! He storms over to my car, looks up at me

lexiphanes (lex-SIF-uh-neez) noun One who uses words pretentiously. [From Greek lexiphanes (phrase monger), from lexis (word or phrase) + -phaneia(to show).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

Dagoba Organic Chocolate, New Moon (74%) Decent. Nicely balanced between fruity (not a specific fruit, just fruity) and loamy/earthy tastes. After the lavender and xocolatl, though, I was expecting to be seriously impressed. Nope. It was good, but I’d rather have the lavender and eat Green & Black’s dark chocolate instead. Better than Godiva by

Ah, chicken chili. Usually my reaction to it is, “this would be better with pork.” I saw yet another lowfat recipe for chicken chili today…bleah, move on… Wait! What if I made a non-lowfat chicken chili recipe? And worked on making it not bland, without covering up on the lack of flavor by upping the

An atheist lists the reasons she’s angry at Christians, because a lot of Christians, as Christians are jerks or worse. Okay, Christians: even Christ got angry on occaision. Wouldn’t Christ get angry at some of this stuff? I’m angry — enraged — at the priests who molest children and tell them it’s God’s will. I’m

I was trying to figure out a name for this recipe…it’s kind of a fusion between Thai & Chinese versions of hot & sour soup, but what a terrible name for a recipe, right? “Fusion Hot & Sour Thai & Chinese Soup.” So I fused the words “hot” and “sour” together…also reflects approximate prep time,

So I signed up for the fall PPWC Writers Workshop today…it’s on November 3rd. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! Here’s my brain, totally fried and running in circles. “Big step! Big step! Are you ready for this? Are you able to handle this? Do you deserve this?” Well, you know, if writers were totally secure people, we wouldn’t need

by Emma Bull. Here are the reasons I can’t be objective about this book: 1. Freedom and Necessity (co-written by Stephen Brust) is one of my favorite books ever; the two writers are irrevocably tied in my brain now, so everything Emma Bull writes gets subconsciously compared to Stephen Brust. And I really like Stephen