I believe the phrase “language is a virus” is both poetic and diagnostically accurate.

WEATHER UPDATE:
Torrential confusion with a 70% chance of misplaced optimism. Sunscreen recommended, emotionally.

WANTED:
Time machine with working A/C. Must reach 1977. No questions asked. Bonus if it skips Mondays.

The snarky comment gets the most grease.

With regard to the Trump administration claiming that the Ukraine invaded Russia:

Remember alternative facts? These are the building blocks of the Trump regime—past, present, and future.

Some people are binge-watching TikTok the same way some consume entire seasons of shows on Netflix. A major difference is with TV shows, we can focus, analyze, and react to plot twists and emotional beats. Short-form videos are more like amuse-bouches, offering little to no intellectual nourishment.

I once brought a blind date to a silent auction.

Three’s Company 2022

When Ciri and Yenneffer, two single magical maidens, need a surrogate father and sometimes-ally-with-benefits to share their apartment in Cintra, they decide to offer a room to a magically enhanced monster-hunter named Geralt. Hijinks ensue.

Classphemy

noun

The act of insulting or showing contempt for a particular social class or group, often by disparaging their status, lifestyle, or values.

Miranda, daughter of the magician, Prospero, with the old man’s spirit servant, Ariel, in a far flung future production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, performed on the planet Altair IV. Also: Anne Francis (as Altaira) & Robby the Robot in The Forbidden Planet (1956).

Doppelgöner

noun

A biologically unrelated double or look-alike of a living person that dies, leaving behind only one individual who looks the same.

If you wake up in the morning and announce that you “slept like a log last night,” you’ve greeted the day with a simile.