Blogpourri: Etymology, Resolutions, Been Awhile, ADD…

Okay, so it’s been a while… awhile… Actually more than one while… What the heck is a while anyway? Apparently it’s probably related to an Old Norse word for ‘bed’ or ‘rest’ and became it’s own word around the 13th-14th centuries, when is when it became a compound(ish) word.
Now that we’ve got that out of [...]

The Soft Bigotry of Grammatical Sloth

I have a disease so thoroughly insinuated in my being that it could reasonably be described as biological. It’s my parents’ faults, really. At the same time I blame and thank them. They’ve policed my grammar so vigilantly for so long that I both blame them for my does-not-compute aversion to faulty language structure and [...]

Acceptance Speeches and Wasted Opportunity

There can hardly be an industry as smarmy, unctuous and self congratulatory as the film business.
Which is why I both love and hate to watch award shows.
These larger-than-life actors and moguls, who are walking corporations, are given about 30 seconds to say whatever they want. Most appropriately thank the cast, crew, producers, and directors. Some [...]

Jump On The Tracks

In his blog, Arron Chambers, a preaching minister at a ginormous church in Florida, wrote a nice piece on Wesley Autrey, the guy from New York who jumped on the subway tracks to save an 20-year-old who was having a seizure and fell in front of an oncoming train.
Chambers starts by saying, “An amazing thing [...]