Writing and Reading

The T.W.W.S.I.D.S.W, for short.

 This is only the beginning of this grand undertaking. It’s a new movement, I think. My good friend and colleague Elana Johnson sort of spurred me on it with the post about her new curse word when she needs to revise and adjust her work retroactively (which is sort of like suddenly growing younger, hence *retroactive*, as you can feel your brain cells suddenly shrinking and your insanity suddenly growing in proportion).

I am offering everyone and anyone to make as many comments with as many fun, cool, hip, weird, off-the-wall, outrageous, absolutely nonsensical words possible to add to this really messed-up dictionary, the…Tswwwwwidswu Collection. T-W-W-S-I-D-S-W. I really got to work on short names for things. Oh, well.

So here are the first entries. As the list grows longer, I shall post more updates to the list. This may go on for years. This list may go longer than what Santa Claus has to deal with. But I don’t care. I love words. Even the totally farked-up ones.

1. Dominoes -

A term coined by the unfathomable E.J. herself (Elana Johnson) describing not those fun little pieces you can play with or snap your fingers on after setting them up like a train–but an exclamation of sheer disgust at the fact that she has to go through her whole manuscript and tweak the smallest details. As in… “Dominoes!” Can be interchangeable with any of the more…colorful exclamations (see my Robin Williams post).

2. Farge (pronounced ‘farj’) -

My own term coined describing the exact same thing for which Elana uses the term “Dominoes”. Can be ‘conjugated’ to other terms, such as fark, farging, farking, farked-up, farker, farked up, farged-up, farger, farged up. A younger relative of the burlier, belching, hairier word f*ck.

3. Glabberfasted

For those veteran Wretched Writer readers out there–those who have stuck with me on my insane journey of writing and reading–this one, you might already recognize. I coined this term on one of my earlier posts…. This one. Of course, though, I cannot claim ownership on this fun word. It’s been used before many times (I googled it). My understanding is that it’s very much like ‘flabbergasted’, instead the shock and bewilderment is very much influenced by caffeine, sugar and very mild anxiety attacks.

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So there you have it: three entries so far. All you readers out there, brainstorm. Come up with the craziest combinations of colossal letters and stun me. Knock me out. Give me your best shot. I’m looking to get pummeled here. That’s the only way the list will grow!

Have a nice day.

I always thought golf was a funny sport. And I always wondered how it was invented. Robin Williams pretty much hit the hole in one on the description (no pun intended). I ran into this on YouTube, and I remember watching his full stand-up on DVD a few years ago, and it cracked me up. Because it’s so true! Now remember, this is Robin Williams we’re talkin’ about here. And let’s just say he…. Well, he uses a lot of fun words. Great words. They’re BEAUTIFUL words, actually. I couldn’t say too many great things about the words he chooses to use, but, hey, we’re all writers and we love words now, don’t we? YES! All kinds of words.

 Anyway, yes, here is one of the best sequences in stand-up I had ever seen. Behold! The origination of the beloved sport of…

GOLF.