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Is the phrase “the year 2000” or, more widely, “the year 20XX,” lost to history forever?  I believe it is–except preserved in […]

Secret stashes tend to fall along the lines of either those crappy fake hollow books you buy at Bed Bath & Beyond […]

Q:  Why do some people pronounce strength as strenth? Q:  Why do self-styled badass, bro-type guys like to shake hands sideways, palms […]

I love antiquated words. Some of the best stories about the origins of words come from a book called I Love It […]

So, a Portland, OR masseuse claims that in 2006, Vice-President Al Gore, groped and man-handled her in a hotel room. Yeah, whatever; […]

Holy cow. Previously, I have written about the Almighty Helvetica and how it was used to convey a sense of faux humility […]

Holy shit, Sally Quinn! I’m reading this profile in Vanity Fair of the ever-sweet -and-easygoing Georgetown (DC) powermeister, Sally Quinn, when this […]

In March 2010, while listening to PBS, I heard an obituary of radio writer and producer Norman Corwin.  For years, Corwin has […]

I have heard of spite fences.  I have heard of architectural holdouts.  But spite houses are a new thing to me. Spite […]

We see this everywhere at some point towards the latter half of the 1960s.  Helvetica font runs rampant.  It’s everywhere:  in the […]