We are totally behind tilting at windmills, so bring you the story of one man’s attempt to accomplish the impossible*. Since the fine folks at the OED are more diligent than those at the U.S. Patent Office, they do a pretty thorough search for prior examples of word usage. We suspect this internet thing helps. In one case, a man’s attempt to get his made-up word (Jill, you are not alone) into the dictionary of record was deemed “amusing”. We have been called amusing more than once in our life, and it’s rarely the compliment it seems. For example, when […]

Far be it for us to express disappointment when a television network embraces fans, or, in this case, fan-fic, but, you know us. Too little caffeine. The L Word is inviting fans to play along by writing scenes based on a “mission”. You know, the scene recons the territory, comes up with a strategy, executes a battle, does mop-up, and is home in time to vote itself better than all the other scenes. So why our disappointment? Well, FishBowlLA notes this: The episode won’t be produced (thank god, although it could be pretty hilarious), but various prizes will be offered.

We don’t understand why we stopped and read this story, but stop we did. Read, we did. Post, we did. The age of the Associated Press isn’t of even the remotest fascination, except, well, except that it’s older than one thought. Which is just one of those things that makes you wonder what or who else is older than you’d think. Historically, the AP has dated its origins to a meeting of New York City publishers at the Sun office in May 1848. According to the Beach documents, the inaugural meeting took place two years earlier, with the agreement to

We have recently been reminded that a major holiday is on the horizon (so many lumped together in such a short amount of time, how does anyone keep on top of it all?), and this is a Gift Giving event. Also, it seems that restaurant reservations are going fast, so now is the not the time to put things off until tomorrow. Now if you have a librarian on your list (and who doesn’t?), then we have you covered. Because nothing says “I love you” like an action figure that “shushes”. We may need to rethink that sentence. G.I. Joe,