According to critics, I’ve written:
A Sizzling Summer Beach Read: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25280915/
[F]irst-rate satire…not even the mean-spirited sniper can find anything evil to say about the endearing Amy, whose quirky Web site (called “Go Away”) is a gold mine of literary nuggets: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/review/Crime-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin
A Killer Murder Mystery: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1214037020320080.xml&coll=2
Not Your Usual Murder Mystery: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23889208-5003424,00.html
A Fall-off-your-chair-funny, Yet Gently Sad Murder Mystery: [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
This fabulous List suggested by Tom Hartley. All entries are his, unless otherwise attributed. As always, feel free to jump in.
9th Viewing of Return of the Jedi a Disappointment
Haydn Threatens to Glut the Symphony Market
Kierkegaard’s Latest Philosophical Musing Depresses No One
Mark Russell to Apologize to Nation for Not Writing a Song about Super Tuesday
Writer’s Strike [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
SWEETWATER, Tenn. - A woman has been charged with possession of burglary tools after police said a crowbar slipped out of her pants as she was lurking around a church. (AP, 1/28/08)
A RUSSIAN woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding sofa, it was reported yesterday. (AP, 7/10/08)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
(this being what copy editors, without whom writers would look pretty silly, have to worry about)
a while (2 wds as obj of prep)
a.k.a.
anymore (1 wd as adv)
awhile (as adv)
axe-wielding
backseat
backstory
basset hound
bioterrorist
bling
blond, fem., n. & adj.
blond, masc. or neut., n. & adj.
brand-new
buttload
buzz cut, n.
buzz-cut, adj.
cell phone
cheat sheet
computer-savvy
coulrophobic
crappitude
curricula vitarum
d.o.b., d.o.d.
diacritics
diphthongs
doofus
eftsoons
e-mail
encomium
exactamento
FedEx
Frisbee
gigue
glance-through, n.
Googling
half hour
half-filled
high school (adj.)
huzzahs
Hylocereus undatus
Internet
JPEG
kibbitzers
leukemia
likable
looky-loo
lying doggo
mal de mer
mixups
mnemonic
namby-pamby
night-blooming [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The spur of cheese.
The mustard-pot of penance.
The cobbled shoe of humility.
The furred cat of the Solicitors and Attorneys.
The Teeth-chatter or Gum-didder of Lubberly Lusks.
The Ape’s Paternoster.
The Fat Belly of the Presidents.
The Merciless Cormorant, by Hoxinidno the Jew.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Readers are invited to explain selected sentences from current news stories. You can be creative if you want, but I wouldn’t mind a straightforward explanation. Also feel free to suggest other puzzlers. (No politics, please: the focus is language.)
From WRCB-TV in Chattanooga:
…”We have the three climbers..all are mobile..no one is ambulatory.”
Four guesses from Justkristin:
“We have [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Gentle Ben Hur
Thrill to the heartwarming saga of a 600 lb. brown bear who befriends a lonely young boy, wins a chariot race, and witnesses the crucifixion of Christ.
Little Women Who Run With the Wolves
…try valiantly but can’t keep up, which is probably just as well.
Suddenly Last Summa Theologica
The prolonged agony and hideous death [...]
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
(a work in progress)
Adjectives:
Berserk
Blotto
Gassy
Eleemosynary
Flocculent
Verbs:
Disembosom
Buttress
Gainsay
Lambaste
Nouns:
Crabapple
Loblolly
Kumquat
Bomb
Blowtorch
Botfly
Flange
Lardoon
Galoot
Poltroon
Spittoon
Besom
Disembosomee
Frottage
Onus
Larb
Phlebotomist
Philatelist
Nozzle
Rumpus
Nosegay
Yurt
Haboob
Moby Dick
Great Expectations
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Anything by Robert Benchley
Anything by James Thurber, except his late stuff
Ditto by S.J. Perelman
“The Young Immigrunts,” by Ring Lardner
Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis
Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Portable Prairie, by M.J. Andersen
Skinner’s Drift, by Lisa Fugard
Anything by David Sedaris
Anything by Tobias [...]