It’s a sign.
I go to Dutton’s (my favorite local bookstore) a few months back and order Come to Me, Amy Bloom’s first collection of short stories, on the strength of this LA Times blurb (by Karen Tapia-Andersen):
Back in college, we read a short story by Amy Bloom that sticks with us to this day. It [...]
Any serious treatise on rear-end references must, of course, consider President Reagan’s timeless remark: “I’ve had it up to my keister with these leaks.”
William Safire wrote about it in Katrina Words. Scroll down to “Bringing Up the Rear” to find the pertinent bits, including the derivation of keister:
a borrowing, through Yiddish, of the German Kiste, [...]
As a beginning blogger, I think a lot about what makes for a good blog. The latest edition of the Good Experience newsletter includes an interview with Chip Conley, author of “Peak,” and that interview got me thinking in a new way about what makes a blog work.
Conley talks about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of [...]
Bottom words which start with “A”
(Like “aft”) seem rather sparse.
Yet sit your ass beside the Thames
By Jove, it’s now an arse.
The denouement of my Pierre Cruzatte program arrives when Cruzatte finally reenacts the accident in which he shoots Captain Lewis in the butt. I struggled for a long time to find the best word for [...]
About 20 years ago I went to a garage sale and paid eight dollars for a rusty toolbox full of old pens, drafting equipment, and miscellaneous junk. In the bottom of that toolbox lay a Parker Vacumatic. The folks at the Fountain Pen Shop cleaned it up and repaired it for me, after which I [...]
