Old-timey Slang of the Day

sizz-water: carbonated water

My old dictionary has a great sentence to illustrate this, from a 1905 book by one Hugh McHugh called You Can Search Me: "The waiter had crowded the sizz-water into the wood alcohol."

Whuh? You can search me.

Weird Tales

Here's a nifty list of 85 Weird Tale-tellers. I like this list. Most of these are people whose work (music, movies, books, whatever) I sincerely dig. A few are so-so. But, hey, it's a list. That's what lists are for.

Fact or Fiction?

Another writer has admitted making up her "memoirs."

This news follows another case of writerly shenanigans.

Here's the story from today's New York Times about these recent incidents. Of course, there's a reference to the most famous case of this in recent years.

This reminds me of my favorite episode of Leave It To Beaver, the one where he writes the fake diary because his real life is too boring and depressing.

Why don't people just start writing, I dunno, fiction?

Seussian Experiments

Here's a crazy story that only uses words from The Cat in the Hat.