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"'Tis the season"? Bah, humbug!
An inescapable cliché and the story of its origin
Dec 1
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November linkstack
New names for birds, odd nicknames for sneakers, early WotYs, and more
Nov 29
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Host, hostage, hostility
They're related, but why?
Nov 27
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Gratitude
It goes beyond Thanksgiving
Nov 22
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Nancy Friedman
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Word of the week: Pastness
A sense of what may have happened
Nov 20
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So many ways to be -pilled
Beyond the red and blue of "The Matrix" there's a pharmacy's worth of pill-shaped modifiers
Nov 16
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Nancy Friedman
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Word of the week: Jezebel
The demise of a website, the history of an epithet
Nov 13
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Phoebe Philo, Phoebe Philo
Fashionistas are swooning over the designer's new collection. I'm more enthralled by her name.
Nov 9
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Nancy Friedman
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"It's the autonomy, stupid"
The political slogan of the season
Nov 8
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Nancy Friedman
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Word of the week: Grok
Content warning: E**n M**k
Nov 6
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Nancy Friedman
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When is a bra not (just) a bra?
Content warning: Nipples
Nov 2
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Word of the week: Ghost
A spirited inquiry into some spectral compounds.
Oct 30
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