session house n.— «What happened in the “session house” in Waterford—an open house party known in Dublin as a “free gaff”—can happen anywhere around the country.» —“Sick reality of what has happened that cocaine on your dinner table” by Jim...
magical black man n.— «“Angel Levine” introduces us to another flying Jew, without feathers, this time simply black, a magical black man, Alexander Levine, by name, but by narrational locution, “the Negro.”…Where does such a magical black man come...
smeet v.— «The first time members of the leading online virtual world got together for the face-to-face reality of the Second Life Community Convention, it was a lexicographer’s dream. “People actually coined a new phrase: ‘Nice to “smeet” you.’ S...
flake n.— «The donkeys are inexpensive to keep. They eat a flake of hay a day and a Campbell’s soup tin of grain.» —“ These downtown professionals have made rural dreams a reality” by Donna Jean MacKinnon Toronto Star (Canada) Oct. 13, 1991...
happy-clappy adj.— «You don’t have to be a happy-clappy Silicon Valley hippie to see that computer-driven virtual reality is set to upstage Euro Disney before the millennium. » —“In This Sterile Diorama, Life Is but a Theme” by Stephen...
cuteocracy n.— «We are living in what a friend of mine calls “the cuteocracy,” where the cutest person, place, or thing wins. Realism is out—unless it’s the hyperconstructed reality of Survivor—and the supernaturally ugly aesthetic of the X-Files...