ludicrunk: (adj.) Etymology: portmanteau of ludicrous and crunk. nuts-ass; of or pertaining to a high-octane, consumption-intensive oblivion vortex; see HYPHY. Actually, I just made this word up, in reference to all our fave rave buddy Pete’s visit to the world’s capital, which officially began just a few hours ago. UNGH.
aleatoric (adj.): characterized by chance or indeterminate elementsI don’t have a lot to say about this word, other that I’m glad it exists and that I’m now aware of it. I think in a generation where people refer to things as being “random” all the time (and often inappropriately, when what the speaker means is [...]
ITEM: Commerce Bank has several locations in Brooklyn. Some are full banking center, and some are just ATMs, like the Brooklyn Museum ATM, the Lutheran Medical Center ATM, and the Sephardic Home for the Aging ATM. I see this last one as having lots of potential as a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy spin [...]
quincunx: (n.) an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle I used this word in casual conversation at a bar on Friday night. I ran into a friend of my buddy Martin’s, who was there with two friends of her own. Martin not [...]
desperate (adj.): 1 a : having lost hope b : giving no ground for hope 2 a : moved by despair b : involving or employing extreme measures in an attempt to escape defeat or frustration 3 : suffering extreme need or anxiety 4 : involving extreme danger or possible disaster 5 : of extreme [...]
eclogue (n.): a poem in which shepherds converse. Is this word really necessary? “I wish the rain would let up just a bit,”Said gloomy Francis, marching through the glen,“My flock — the rams at least — will have a fitif they keep sliding ’round as they descend.”His oldest friend, a man named Peter Rupp,said, “Well, [...]
Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentäter (n.): One who assails the aunt of a Hottentot potentate. It may have the greatest scansion of any German (or faux-German) word I’ve heard to date: I am the very model of a modern major generalI Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentäter all(Discovered at http://olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm)
Tonight begins the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the one day out of the year when I dip any more than my toes into the mikvah of observant Judaism. I’m pretty sure it’s a common practice, a Pascal’s Wager for the culturally Jewish among us. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year, the [...]
I just had the greatest idea. I’m going to start a journal where I can jot down whatever sort of thoughts, musings, and ramblings happen to cross my mind that day. It seems like a good, wholesome thing to do — and useful, too, considering that my gradual decline into alcoholism has been accompanied by [...]
