No, Actually, It’s Usually Not (& You’re Misusing the Word) In the interests of stamping out an annoying new phrase before it takes hold any more widely, here’s my 2 cents on the proliferating use of the phrase “It’s Genius!” to confer a compliment. First of all, you’re contorting into an adjective what is meant...Read More
Cure Worse Than the Disease?, or, Attached at the Right (Left) Hip I first wrote about “phantom cellphone vibration” — the sensation that your cellphone is ringing when you’re standing in the shower, naked — almost 2 1/2 years ago. See, “Where’s the Rest of Me? The Phantom Cellphone Vibration.” As my, uhhh . . . condition...Read More
