Aloha Amazing Archduchesses and Adequate Archdukes. Welcome to Word Geek Wednesday: Where logic meets language, and curiosity sparks creativity. This week we’re are having nightmares. Wait… no. We’re talking about the word nightmare, extricating it from liminality. Modern Meaning nightmare noun night·mare ˈnīt-ˌmer 1: an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep 2: a frightening […]
Welcome wise witches and weird wizards. Welcome (wait, I already did that, oh well gotta stick to the formula) to Word Geek Wednesday: Where logic meets language, and curiosity sparks creativity. This week we are first freaking out about how many ‘W’ words I’m using in this introduction. Then, even though I said we were […]
Salutations Sassy Shes and Salacious Sirs. Welcome to Word Geek Wednesday: Where logic meets language, and curiosity sparks creativity. This week we are using forms of the word ‘observe’ so many times that you’ll swear it’s looking back at you. Modern Meaning Observe verb ob·serve əb-ˈzərv observed; observing transitive verb: 1: to conform one’s action […]
Greetings, Gruesome Gents and Ghoulish Girlies. It’s that time of week again where we take a thorough analysis of a single word until we’re certain that’s not really the way it’s spelled. The Word Geek word of the week this week is ‘possessed.’ Since I’m trying to foster a bit of a spooky audience. The […]
A treatise on the way mere mortals view the art of temporal shifting. Greetings, denizens of the third dimension. I altered the past to lure you here today so I could ridicule you about your silly fantasies about time travel. Your various returns from the past, and eternity pebbles do give me quite the chuckle. […]
One of the main themes of my novel is that life continues after death. However, even in the afterlife there is a debate as to whether there is an after-afterlife. Spirits in the story aren’t immortal, so the burning questions remain. What comes after? Does anything come after? Is this really all there is? Aside […]