Day 594: “Til’ Her Night Cheese Was Ready To Poop” And Other Mondegreens

originally published August 16, 2013 “Ye highlands and ye Lowlands, Oh, where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray And Lady Mondegreen.” According to writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s Magazine essay, this was how she’d heard the first stanza of “The Bonny Earl O’ Moray”, a 17th-centuy ballad. The actual […]

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Day 485: 1000 Words About Words

originally published April 29, 2013 I’ll admit it. There are some days when I feel like posting a photograph and saying, “Look, there’s my thousand words. I’m done.” 485 days in a row of poking into some topic or spewing out some schtick can make a guy want a break. But sometimes it’s the words […]

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Day 455: Ethnic Bitch-Slapping 101

originally published March 30, 2013 A warning to my more sensitive readers: today’s piece will be filled with some of the most vile, hateful, antagonistic writing my tap-dancing fingers have ever spewed. And none of it will be my fault. As a sensitive and kind-hearted soul (or so I tell the ladies), I try not […]

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