Jim battles the matriarchy
My eighth grade was a bit … bumpy. And, before you ask, yes – that is exactly how cool I was in eighth grade!
jim.liebert
Who said it? And did they actually say it?
Sometimes the actor said the exact line but sometimes crowd-sourced memories remember it as a different (often better) line. Who said these lines and did they actually say that line? Try these ten quotes and let me know how it…
Rogue One Liners
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it
April is National Poetry Month. What if you read a poem a day for the month? What’s the worst that could happen? You can register with the Poetry Foundation’s Poem-of-the-Day and they’ll send you a link to a different poem…
I’ll see you in the funny papers
The Sunday comics were so sacrosanct in the twentieth century that when there was a newspaper strike in New York in 1945, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (yes, that La Guardia) took to reading the comics aloud on the radio. At…
47, from the driver’s side window
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Ordinarily it’s best to let current events fade into the rear-view mirror…
More Twitter Wittercisms
WJWLT (the last twenty years or so)
What Jim Was Listening To, that is. Every year I create a playlist of songs that piqued my interest for that year. It helps remind me of what I was listening to and also serves as a reminder not to…
I won the Merriam-Webster new word of 2026!
Well, probably. Just not sure which of my words won, since they’re all such bangers! adacity the double dipping greed of streaming services where customers can pay extra to avoid ads that the streaming service is also charging companies to…
Interesting clicks for ’26
Should you find yourself with some time on your hands this holiday season, here are some blogs/videos that I really enjoyed. A name by any other name This page shows the distribution of a given first name over time. Mine,…