Monthly Archive: September 2026

07
Sep
2026

TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN

Every time I think I’ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I’m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven’t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don’t actually...

01
Sep
2026

A VERITABLE PLETHORA* OF ANALOGUES

This is the way my brain works, and the kind of thing I amuse myself with. In the car on the way home, I was suddenly thinking about the fact that there are so many words for “not straight” and I wasn’t even referring to the ones that have to do with sexual preference. Have you ever realized that? English is SO good at hoarding synonyms. This was brought on, by the way, because I was listening to Christine & The Queens song Tilted. slanted, aslant, tilted, leaning, diagonal, inclined, askew, sloping, offkilter, angled, canted, crooked, lopsided, unbalanced, warped, listing,...