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So long and thanks for all the classic trash

So long and thanks for all the classic trash

Since twitter is in chaos, I’ve been thinking about how much I’ll miss it. I’ve made a lot of good friends there, received a lot of great book recommendations, sold a few books, learned a lot, and for good or for ill, witnessed many world events. And

Eating and reading

KECAP, n. This week I made a recipe that called for kecap manis, which is an Indonesian sweet soy sauce. Kecap manis is not readily available in the groceries of small-town Kentucky, where I am this week and where I grew up. So I had to look it up to

making a language where nothing stays

CALM UP, v. Last weekend some friends told me that their three-and-a-half-year-old says “calm up” in addition to “calm down.” Usually in the context of raising a video’s volume. Everything about this is wonderful: * the kid’s close-but-not-quite intuition that “calm down” means “be quieter” (which is interesting because

Metaphor school

Metaphor school

METAPHOR, n. Well, it’s week three and I’m already breaking the rules. This word isn’t from Romance roots, since it’s Greek, and much like last week’s choice “ambiguous,” “metaphor” is highfalutin enough that it didn’t undergo much sound change. It was imported directly from