District 9 movie marketing- will the political/ cultural allegories resonate?*

I have many (mostly) male friends, nerdboys of the highest order.  Like me, they collect action figures, watch Star Wars on a regular basis, debating the merits of the chapters, characters, arc and colors of the light-sabres and generally revel in the outright fantasy without guilt or embarrassment.
And rightly so.  They are some of the [...]

who do we call at the OED to get “adult” updated?

For numerous reasons over numerous years, I have often stopped and thought:
“whoa.  i’m an adult.” 
Clearly anyone meeting me would wonder what it is causing me to wonder.  I’ve got a serious job and a serious title, have been taking care of myself since I was 15 (and had the honors of watching out for a [...]

brass tacks

With all that’s been happening lately with the DNC, the delegates, the debates, the endless op-eds and platitudes, I wanted to bring up something of which, apparently, many of my peers are unaware.
4 amendments and 50 years separate the right for women’s suffrage and that of all men, regardless of race, to vote.
The fourteenth amendment was ratified [...]

the culinary caste system;a hot lunch untouchable speaks up

i’ve always been one of those totally low maintenance people when it comes to food.  i am more than ok with elio’s pizza, canned ravioli, tater tots, sloppy joes, burgers from shea, the list goes on.  now, i don’t mean to imply that i would actually cook these things, or chose them over their tastier, [...]