It had to happen, it had to happen. One fine day, John will ask Alex: "What's idempotency?" And since this will be in one of t...

Freedom Fries, yes, how about the Freedom Fries . The term came into being in the spring of 2003, when President Jaques Chirac of France re...

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The IHT had a column by Alex Beam about the new website I Write Like , which uses a Bayesian classifier algorithm to compare anyone's...

So you are writing a novel, or a play, about Winston Churchill, say, and somebody just said to him: "Winston, if you were my husband, I...

"I'm ticklish."

Like everybody else, we're getting these letters from Nigeria. Here's the latest (from .pl, actually, that's Poland, I think, ...

Milka milk chocolate, with the milk from happy cows ---that was the slogan of a chocolate commercial during my youth in Germany. And there...

"Why, oh why, have beauty spots gone out of fashion?"

Always avoid alliteration. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.) ...

We also do art, right? So, that's the excuse: That's not the art, that's just the unfinished bathroom We're sitting ...

Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like posting some serious pictures, like. Like this one... Tyson Beck...

Yes, we know. Something went wrong with the link. So we have to write our own Book on Averages now. Won't be easy. But we know already....

Let's promise a joke, first. Second, let's watch the clip: What is it about Sherlock Holmes? His wit must play a major role, s...

And here's the clip: For a full transcript, see our earlier post here .

Readers, the first chapter of this story describes a casual encounter of three men in the dunes behind the gay section of the beach of my to...

Praise for Michael Winter's Opus 1: " Die konzertierten Harmonien dieses erstaunlichen Erstwerkes erinnern nicht so sehr an Wa...