Another reason I should not read fandomsecrets: I was unaware that someone had back-formed 'maja' as the feminine equivalent of 'mojo'. Now that I know this, I would really like to smack someone for it ( Read more... )

I stumbled across a new word! (This is a relatively rare phenomenon for me, so I try to journal about it when it happens.)

Propertarians - broadly, those who advocate the legal private ownership of property; more specifically, those who believe that all zero-sum goods can be and should be owned, and that the right of ownership is the most ( Read more... )

And so at TV Night there was a moment when Captain Jack became confused by late 20th century/early 21st century slang - "Wait, bad means good, right?" This is, of course, a terribly old joke, as sources as diverse as Laugh-In and the first cohort of Sesame Street will attest ( Read more... )

I don't remember the contex in which this came up, but during the course of spending the afternoon hanging out at memeslayer's house with most of his social group, someone (cheshirebast, I think?) came up with the concept of "Kawaiinoqatsi" - "Life of cuteness."

Gods help us, we're mashing together Japanese and Hopi now . . .

(As I mentioned before, this doesn't happen very often for me.)

palingenesis: rebirth from the ashes, as a phoenix is reborn