Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

The diminutive suffix “-ish” to denote approximation is just plain lovely. Its attachment to time, as in “How about if we meet 4:00ish?”,...

I don’t think I’ve ever posted an entire Wikipedia article before, but this one was too full of delight for me to stop myself. One of my...

That’s the translation of one of my favorite Latin phrases: Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane...

Over coffee this morning (Raven’s Brew‘s delicious Resurrection Blend, which I highly recommend), Adam, newly graduated from massage...

A propos of yesterday’s post, a little poem. Poem-ish. Poemishness: I recently read of a woman who Lives in a loft In Lower Manhattan....

by Nicholson Baker, The New York Times Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly...