Dear Sars,
After long pining for it, I received Garner’s Modern American Usage for my birthday. In the entry on pronunciation, he claims that “almond” should be pronounced without the L. What is he smoking?
Confusedly,
Language Nerd …

Assessing a movie like In The Realm Of The Senses is tricky, because the subject matter — and the unstinting presentation of same — makes it difficult to render an opinion that doesn’t seem like …

Dear Sarah,
Hoping you or the readers can help me before I become even more out of shape…
After my son was born in March 2005, I Tivoed some yoga programs that I would do for 20 …

the historically underrated Khandi Alexander as Fran Boyd
[NB: When I refer to “Simon” or “Simon’s” hereunder, co-author Ed Burns is also implied. I don’t know which man was responsible for which portions of the narrative, …

Dear Sars:
My younger sister (she is 25) and her fiancé are to be married this fall. It will be a brief, non-denominational ceremony followed by dinner and dancing, held in a fancy restaurant. My sister …

If you’re going to hide the body, try…actually hiding it.
I’ve read nearly everything Joe McGinniss has written. The Selling of the President is great, straight-ahead reporting; it has a new-journalism twist to it, I guess, …

Sorry for the sporadic updates of late; between Bean’s wedding, the cold I came down with the very minute she was safely married, AIDS Walk fun times (awesome job, Angela and Team Supersnack!), bleaching my …

My take on The Outsiders: The Complete Novel is up at The House Next Door (I’d have linked sooner but I just found out today that it had gone up).

Dear Sars,
I have read your blog for a long time, and I’ve searched the archives and I haven’t seen your estimation of the Best Baseball Movie Ever. Who better than you to make the call?

“I said GET OFF MY LAWN!”
So, apparently the fact that Joba Chamberlain did a little buggin’ after striking out David Dellucci is a big old hairy deal now, to the point where Goose Gossage feels …