What is it about the 31st of August? Almost exactly two years ago I wrote this - a little article on my ambivalence towards the dead time of the year (i.e., fall and winter). The article was inspired by the sudden change from summer to autumn that took p…
Sorry about the lack of updates, folks. This past week has been devoted more to music than to words, I’m afraid. The band I play in, the "sublime and swampy" Salter Cane (not my description, but an apt one, I guess), had a fairly important…
I have no idea who is behind this site (someone with lots of connections to Tibetan monks, apparently…) or how they came up with the monkey thing, but just 5 minutes at hi! monkey! had me grinning from ear to ear. The only word I can find to describ…
As someone with more than just a passing interest in languages and linguistics, I found this article on "Verlan" - a form of French slang - absolutely fascinating: Backward Runs French. Reels the Mind. (username/password: wrreaders).…
I came across a site today that I found really interesting, particularly considering recent musings here on Wordridden as to the exact nature of the spectrum of political ideology.…
England has some of the wackiest place names I’ve ever heard. America is no slouch when it comes to odd place names either, of course, (I mean, my parents live near Tombstone, for pity’s sake). But: Giggleswick? Barton in the Beans? Nether Wal…
The first thing that popped into my mind when I started to read this article in the New York Times (username/password: wrreaders) was the new marketing campaign by Sony Ericsson.…
Some religions are more unconstitutional than others.…
This article in the New York times caught my attention this morning: The Ancient Art of Haranguing Has Moved to the Internet (username/password: wrreaders). The gist of the article is that there has been a resurgence of the political pamphlet phenomenon,…
Ah, nothing like checking the news first thing in the morning and coming across this:…
I am not a number!…