Being a generally conservative sort, I’m not a big fan of the endless rush of neologisms our hyperconnectivity has wrought upon our beautiful language. My seething hatred of melty is well-documented, for example, and I’m on record on ginormous as well. I think most of the time, it’s lack of necessity and/or insufficient novelty that … Read more
You know, I didn’t finally quit smoking until I stopped thinking about not smoking for the rest of my life. That’s too hard. But, I can not smoke for one day, right? So I said “I’m not going to smoke today.” Then I didn’t. Then the next day, I said “I’m not going to smoke … Read more
My lovely wife was a recent unwitting accomplice in an olfactory crime of surprising magnitude. We’ve made pretty good friends with Aldi. We’re not besties. Probably won’t ever be. Really, they’re rare, but when we find an occasional Aldi-branded misstep, they’ve usually whiffed pretty badly. In our experience, there aren’t many Aldi-branded products hanging out … Read more