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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Elements of E-Style

Nick Paumgarten of the New Yorker discusses Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, a style and etiquette guide for email writing.

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Snakes on a Sudoku, the best movie tie-in ever

Congratulations to Francis on his new book, Snakes on a Sudoku. Awesome. The movie has passed from joke, to in-joke, to out-joke, to hypefest, to ho-hum hypefest, and back to joke, in-joke, etc., ad infinitum, and so on.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Instant Love

A long-time acquaintance, Jami Attenberg, has published her first book, Instant Love. I know her to be a contemplative and funny person, and just the right kind of odd, so I have no doubt that this is a fine work. Confirming that, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave it a very pleasing capsule review. She’s now on a driving-and-reading tour, which you can keep up with on her blog, Whatever-Whenever.

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Lucky Wreck

I know Ada Limón through Williamsburg bar league softball, though neither she nor I play. Yesterday she mentioned she’s just finished her second book of poetry, This Big Fake World. Her first was Lucky Wreck. She also has a blog.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Guardian political slang review

The Guardian did a review of my Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang that has just been released in the U.K. It’s generally a great review—Simon Hoggart calls it a “great read”—but I agree with what Ben Zimmer had to say: Who told Hoggart that “clean one’s clock” and “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings” are any kind of politcal slang? There’s nothing particularly political about them, though of course they can be used in a political circumstance.

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Recent Catchwords

fertigation n. (9/4)
lobbocracy n. (9/4)
quiet title n. (9/3)
plankowner n. (9/2)
zapper n. (9/2)
twiller n. (8/31)
beach nourishment n. (8/31)
Mottness n. (8/31)
hubba n. (8/31)
hole doping n. (8/29)
foot drop n. (8/29)
springboard injunction n. (8/28)
turabosis n. (8/28)
Truman Show delusion n. (8/28)
relokill n. (8/27)
toothpick rule n. (8/27)
age-doping n. (8/27)
narcisurfing n. (8/27)
chemical rapping n. (8/27)
LPU n. (8/27)

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