Lebensraum - the joy with which one Texan passes
another. (There's no such thing as impermissible L. Even if
you have to run up on the shoulder, you're still entitled
to your L. Dubya can't be said to have gained Victory, but no
one can take from him his L.)

Availibilism as the contrary of consumer semiotics. I didn't buy
these shoes because they were black & white checked. I
bought them because they were the only fit in my price
range at the DAV.

Eternnesse - "Global Warming" & its consequences. This
should be as indispensible to all near-future scifi as rocket ships
& ray guns. That incredible sunken Manhattan that begins "A.I."
(forget the crappy ending--): it will happen. Fasten your
seatbelts. There's nothing we can do about it now.

Blog is to polder (webpage) as wurley (temporary
shelter) is to wilban (permanent dwelling). People change
their webpages like moving the furniture around in their living
room. Weblogs change like pitching the tent in a different spot
every night.

T S Eliot is the perfect poet emotionally for 18 yr olds, but you have
to be at least 40 to appreciate the weariness of Baudelaire. (Ditto
Dostoevsky & Tolstoy, perhaps, respectively.)