Remember back in June when I used this space to rail against the misuse of the word curate and its various + more
Remember back in June when I used this space to rail against the misuse of the word curate and its various + more
“Alone of the four cardinal virtues,” writes Christopher Ricks in Dylan’s Visions of Sin (Penguin, 2003), “fortitude does not go in for an + more
While visiting my daughter in Bozeman a couple of weeks ago, I stopped in at Vargo’s and picked up a copy + more
oppugnancy (noun) opposition; hostility; resistance “Hope you don’t have plans this evening,” sighed CK. “The deadline just got moved up.” “No problem, + more
This is the coolest thing you’ll watch all day. Heck, I’ll wager it’s the coolest thing you’ll watch all month. + more
So I didn’t pay much attention to the Olympics—sorry, the Games of the XXXI Olympiad™—but I’ve gotta say, these are some + more
“[L]ike Madonna and newspapers, cursive has displayed a gritty staying power, refusing to have its loop de loops and curlicues + more
I got the terrible news this morning that Jim Boyd died Tuesday. I met Jim back in 2002 when I + more
Over the last couple of years I’ve striven mightily to reduce the level of snark directed at public grammar/syntax/spelling/usage errors. No, + more
Leave it to Linda to ask the pertinent, pressing questions of the day. Like, “Should I wear the Manolo Blahniks or + more
“There are no two ways about it,” wrote John C. Abell in a 2011 article over at Wired. “E-books are here to + more
I know what you’re thinking: that I’m about to take these poor folks to the woodshed for hyphenating a compound formed + more
E. B. White, from an interview conducted by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther for the Fall 1969 issue of the + more