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Revenge Politics

by January 21st, 2009 - Politics » Creative » Reference »

Revenge Politics n: a practice by which one political faction’s capricious or otherwise questionable policies and actions are fueled by or rationalized by an opposing faction’s previous transgressions of the same order, alternatingly favoring one class or segment of the population above the other, creating a vicious, compounding cycle of unprincipled government to the detriment […]

Lazy dc

by January 6th, 2009 - Creative » Reference »

Lazy dc n: a state where time does not stop, it dies…slowly; and few others rarely live in a cold blue soft dawn world of powdery concrete and seamless slight grey, labyrinthine horizons. “Well past midnight while walking around Wall Street, I took such a fantastically wrong turn in perception that I found myself dreamily […]

Eboobullient

by January 2nd, 2009 - Creative » Reference »

Eboobullient adj: overflowing with high-spirited, enthusiastic breasts, bubbling up like a boiling liquid. “The young man I interviewed that day surely would have secured the position if it wasn’t for his eboobullient shoulder blades making the feat simply impossible.”

Chardonnaise

by December 29th, 2008 - Creative » Reference »

Chardonnaise n: a yellow, easily spreadable paste made from the combination of cheap white wine, vegetable oil, and egg yolks. “At the picnic, we slathered our naked bodies so much with the stuff that, afterward, it left us all in a permanent chardonnaise malaise. “

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