Media is a funny word, funny concept too. The type of media does influence the message. Not going to get into newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, etc.  This isn't about that kind of media.  I thought we might try something different.  We've done videos with smoking, animation, men's names, cover songs, and cheating songs. (I'm working up a new slant on the cheating songs thing, maybe I'll have...

A couple weeks ago I watched an old movie, The War Between Men and Women. The male lead, played by Jack Lemmon, was loosely based on the artist, James Thurber. It was a good movie, bit dated, but one thing really struck me about it.  All the smoking!!  People were smoking everywhere, trains, cars, in public, in buildings, while others were eating, as they were eating,  around children.  I was...

Crack Whore. Crack Whore. Crack Whore. My granddaughter is almost 3. She's learning to talk at a really amazing rate. She is learning new words, repeating phrases, even entire sentences that she hears us say, and saying things that we never taught her. I've been fussing at her grandmother and her mom, both of them potty mouths, about their language around the kid. They ARE getting better,...

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. I call it 'Someti-heimers', like Alzheimer's with a mulligan. It really pisses me off when it happens too. For me it's usually names, I've never been good with names. I can remember things about the person, places we'd been, things we'd talked about, but not the name! At least not when I'm trying to...