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More Words. CRUCIVERBALIST A compiler or solver of crossword puzzles. If you encounter the clue “crossword puzzle fan (14 letters)”, this is the answer. It seems to have appeared in English about 1980 (the first reference I can find is to the Compleat Cruciverbalist of 1981 by Stan Kurzban and Mel Rosen, subtitled “how to […]

Words, via Mike. World Wide Words. The Word Detective (has an interesting book for sale called Making Whoopee: Words of Love for Lovers of Words). Miskatonic University Press (a complete section on Hardboiled Slang, and the Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot ).

Whee! I took Ray to her first carnival last night. She rode the elephant ride all by herself, and she was twenty feet off the ground. Of course we rode the carosel. She ran full-tilt into one of the mirrors in the funhouse maze. We rode on the Ferris Wheel. I think this is the

Chimerae Neat! A contest at Worth1000.com to create fantastical creatures. Photoshoppy Goodness.

Heh. Bumper sticker commentary.

Via the mighty Lee. I give you…bubble wrap.

Received at work. (It might just be worth being a high school English teacher if you get this stuff from time to time.) Excerpts from some high school essays: Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. His thoughts tumbled in his head,

Creepy. I don’t have a good illustrative example handy; one of the usual a**holes said this today and it struck me enough to write it down. “Did you like that? Did you like that? Huh?” I hate it when people stand over you and feed off your reaction. It’s like they get a sexual thrill

Deep and meaningful. I haven’t written anything deep and meaningful lately. So: One of the nurses at the nursing home I used to work at in SD had anorexia. That is, she had had anorexia, and she still had it, but she had it under control. Except she’d get upset if you said she was

Fourth of July. I took Ray to a barbecue Saturday night in Falcon. Some people at work were throwing a party (very nice people, polite, congenial, the kind of people that actually make you feel at home after they stop telling you to make yourself at home) and invited us to come–I don’t normally go