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Tag Archives: Wordplay

Poetry or Bloetry?

So I’m going to try writing something every day for the next week, see if I can jump start my creativity. Maybe it’s a story, a blurb, a funny quote I just made up, whatever. Here is some sort of fucked up poem, I guess. I don’t really know what it is, I just liked [...]

Save the Word

Dictionary compilers at Collins are going to drop words from the next dictionary unless they come back into wide enough use. Show them that these words are apodeictically alive and well and they shouldn’t villipend the English language. My two personal favorites are: Fubsy: Short and stout; squat Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman [...]

So we lost?

Our president, congratulating the second in command in Iraq today: “I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who were trying to defeat us in Iraq.” So the defeaters had defeat until we came in and defeated them and took their defeat away from them. That means their [...]