This is a #noshots zone. I have a lot of respect for what eskay and company have accomplished at Nah Right and I have benefited from their support from the beginning. That said, Nah Right hasn’t had much value for me as a news filter in years and I haven’t been a regular reader in [...]

This week in Twitterature, my old friend Chompy Duchamp has been telling an epic tale in separate chapters. On three separate nights he has played bard for us, singing (140 characters at a time) the lesser known details behind the origin of the fabled Minotaur and Theseus, the demigod hero whose destiny also lay in [...]

Last month I launched a video site Oh Word TV, not really a separate site but not just part of this site either. We can think of it as “the other sister” of OhWord.com.
So perhaps I was wrong to merge the new site’s feed of hand-picked videos into the main Oh Word RSS feed when [...]

As @jdickerson glimpsed something remarkable on his commute, I happened to glimpse his ponderous tweet amongst the barren timelines this morning and it brought me back over ten years to a college Literature course boldly titled Nature. Specifically, to a passage I read back then on the persistence and resilience of life, my introduction to [...]