I would recommend checking out the works of Mikhail Bakhtin,
particularly Speech Genres and Other Late Essays and The Dialogic Imagination.
He’s a Russian literary critic/theorist/linguist who may well have
pioneered a lot of the understanding of …

Hey Sars,
I have a problem — as does everyone. It’s not about boys or living conditions or anything like that.
I’m scared of the grocery store. Seriously.
I’m 25 years old and have never really learned how …

Musicplasma.com is the music website you’re thinking of. As far as recommendations, I think A might like Thievery Corporation. They are more sort of lounge/downbeat, but I think they’ll have the groove A is looking …

Dear Sars,
I have a very tragic addiction: nail polish. When summer rolls around and I start wearing sandals, I change the color of my toenails almost as often as I change shoes.
Unfortunately, my two favorite …

She’s gotta read Valley of the Dolls. It’s a classic of trashy mid-’60s literature. She’ll wanna run out and buy false eyelashes and a leopard-print jacket.
AG
Dear AG,
Agreed. And then she should rent the movie, starring …

Hi Sars,
I travel for business. I can’t get the luggage thing right. I need a garment bag so my clothes don’t get wrinkled because me? And an iron? Don’t get along. I have a wheelie …

Dear Sars,
Long-time reader, first-time writer. And it’s the former that’s the problem.
Oh, it’s not that I’m dissing your (high-quality and hilarious) site — it’s that I can’t tear myself away from my computer. I think …

In looking for a good translation of Blood Wedding, I would recommend the Ted Hughes version. I am always impressed by how Mr. Hughes manages to capture not only the text of the plays he …

I missed out on the smoky eyes response the first time around, so I’m glad to have a second chance. Bust magazine published an article on smoky eyes a few months, maybe a year or …

Hi Sars,
The show your reader is thinking of is, I think, Hull High.
http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/hullhigh.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098826/
http://epguides.com/HullHigh/
I’ve never seen or heard of it, but I get paid to find things on the
Internet (essentially) and, like any good researcher, can’t …