My cat is perfectly well-behaved and I am happily married (30 years later!) to my high-school sweetheart, so of course this must be a grammar issue. It seems that too many people have forgotten the …

I began the day in a mood of grim exhilaration: the route promised the most daunting driving yet. The locals have accustomed themselves to it, no doubt, and developed methods of timing their drives and …

Sarah 48, Death Race 8; 20 of 24 categories completed
The 2011 crop of animated shorts, like their live-action brethren, also came off less turgid than last year's; I liked almost all of them. But I …

chianteeth (kee-ahn-teeth). n. 1. Discoloration of the teeth, lips, and tongue due to consumption of red wine. 2. The relative state of inebriation accompanying said discoloration, and resulting difficulty in denying same. Syn.: "grin-ot noir," …

Sars: Michello!
Miss Alli: Oh my GOD, seriously. SHE IS INSANE.
Sars: I had a few moments last night where I thought, fleetingly, that her whole shtick is a giant put-on. Because who can actually act like …

The entire purpose of your flimsy-looking contraption is to strengthen the abdominals. AbdomiNals. Not one of the artistes responsible for either the '80s-vintage illustrative graphics or the pornishly loving footage of the positively ropey-looking "after" …

I hope you will care to enjoy my rich baritone contributions to the Extra Hot Great podcast's ninth episode, "C'est Magnifique," in which we discussed a plethora of topics, including but not limited to the …

I suspect that "pwaft" needs no definition, but I will let you supply your own in the comments section for a while and then formally update the entry.
Update: "Pwaft" is both a noun and a …

A very informative read, if somewhat discouraging (nearly every page contains a word or phrase I've misused for years), and if I had it to do again, I wouldn't read it straight through; the book's …

It's naïve to expect anything in the way of nuanced criticism from The Brooklyn Paper, but the unlubricated Andy Rooneying to which it subjected Work of Art on the front page of the rag's arts …