the power of synonyms

[juniperjune]

I just received a piece of spam with the subject line "make your hose's radius great." Am I getting email ads for sprinkler heads now?, I wondered, thinking of garden hoses and a sprinkler's radius, which would be a sensible use of that term. Then suddenly I realized it was about penises. As a teacher of writing and a scholar of literature, I find it strangely heartening that there is still a need for the thesaurus in these godforsaken digital times.

I'm still working my butt off to get this article finished, and will return to posting more frequently & more substantially in a couple of days. I have, in fact, been taking pictures.