If you can, use them in daily speech and watch the facial expression of the person you are talking to. 1. Wanweird (“an unusually or unhappily weird fate”) 2. Wingnut (“a loud or outspoken person”) 3. Whirligig (I suppose this can be used as an adjective, as in “whirligigging” – invent a word) 4. Smack-dab (“precisely […]
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In Search for a Lost Paradise: Kerouac, the Road, and Authenticity
April 24, 2013 
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“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road “Every act of rebellion expresses a […]
Read more Dealing with Writer’s Block
April 18, 2013 1 Comment
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” -Margaret Atwood As a friend and fellow student of mine observed, writer’s block is like having the flu. Let’s do a symptom checker: Loss of appetite (or, in some cases, an enormous appetite) Drowsiness and disorientation Fatigue Lack of concentration General feeling of malaise […]
Read more Pinterest: Visual Rhetoric and Capitalizing on Social Categories
April 9, 2013 1 Comment
When Pinterest was launched in 2010, it took the site over a year before it began to create a buzz. Since 2011, the site has developed a pretty solid network of users, who create profiles and decorate – or perhaps curate – their profile page with ‘pins,’ or highly-decorative memes and images that are selected throughout […]
Read moreWith Words and Love.
March 27, 2013 2 Comments
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness” – Elie Wiesel Those big moments in history. The French Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. WW1. The Depression. WW2. (and specifically) The Holocaust. The Rape of Nanking. The Russian Invasion of Germany. The bombing of Britain. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. The Vietnam War. The Civil Right’s Movements. The fall of the Berlin […]
Read more Why Cats?
March 22, 2013 2 Comments
I am sure they wonder the same thing. Over the past few years the internet has become a haven for cat photos, video, memes, etc, and, the simple question still remains: why? What is it about felines that is so . . . uncanny? They’re cute – that’s a given. Funny? Cats are always funny, especially […]
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