It is without a doubt the most wonderful time of the year. Whether you’re relishing in ginger cookies and snowball fights or just waiting for Perry […]
Limericks, essays and poetry about cultural trends and institutions.
Hindsight is 2020, so they say. So now seems like a perfect time to revisit these forlorn verses from the pandemic’s darkest hour (originally published in […]
Opinions are like armpits. Everybody has some, and they all stink. Far be it from me to challenge this precious pinch of folk wisdom, but this […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like “Happy Holidays”, that hackneyed, watered down, yuletide greeting that accepts all religions and backgrounds without really advancing any of […]
“Music,” says the English poet and playwright William Congreve, “hath charms to soothe a savage beast.” This famous and all-too-often misquoted line comes from the 1697 play, “The […]
There’s a popular urban legend that says the Germans have a word for everything. It’s a cute idea. Indeed, the German language has a whole lot […]