Saturday, June 17, 2006


Thanks to an organization calling themselves the Academy of Linguistic Awareness, these posters are being plastered around major U.S. cities. Perhaps in everyday life the word "like" has become commonplace enough to go unnoticed, but as a college English instructor I notice the abundant repetition of this word from Freshman students. Many use the word "like" after every single word they utter. Seriously, like, every, like, other, like, word.

So, I'm now being featured at 25peeps.com. That's cool, but the picture on there isn't the best possible one. Oh well.

Click here to find out two things:
1) Is Peter Greenaway one of the craziest, most imaginative filmmakers alive?
and
2) Who is Tulse Luper?