If this single by the Rock Bottom Remainders (you know them, the band that includes Dave Barry, Stephen King, and a bunch of other writers on break from their day jobs) doesn’t burn up the chart… more →
Mighty Red Penmighty red pen wrote 23 hours ago: If this single by the Rock Bottom Remainders (you know them, the band that includes Dave Barry, Step … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 week ago: Wow, well, doesn’t this get interesting? You may remember Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson of the … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 week ago: Hat tip to Candorville and also Joy. … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 weeks ago: MRP here just catching up on some post-vacation reading, including a guest column by the aforementio … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ll never be redundant again! This little tidbit in need of some divine intervention was ove … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: If you’re anything like MRP, you like to liberally sprinkle your speech with the word awesome. … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Hat tip to our friends at Ducks and Drakes for this cool little blog: Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: You’ve heard about Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, right? This is the 9-year-old girl who wa … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Okay, so you’re a smart word nerd and you probably know a lot of big SAT words. But do you kn … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Well, thank goodness. We can finally use the words infinity pool, edamame, and dirty bomb, and rest … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Oh, here’s an article I read the other day I keep meaning to share: “Is Language Dead or … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Just saw “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a Hollywood-detective-thriller-comedy romp starring Robe … more →
mighty red pen wrote 1 month ago: Yes, “Helvetica” is a movie about a typeface, but for word nerds, the dorkumentary, er, … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Here’s a little something MRP came across the other day in Jan Freeman’s excellent colum … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip to David for this little tidbit, “50 Office-Speak Phrases You Love to Hate.” Thi … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip to SteamedPenguin wrote to say, “RIP: George Carlin.” Carlin, who was just about … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Hat tip: Toothpaste for Dinner. … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: In honor of the first day of summer, here’s a pair of sites that any word nerd could have some … more →
mighty red pen wrote 2 months ago: Possibly the coolest thing I have seen all week: Visuwords. Calls itself an “online graphical … more →