Poster for “Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025)

FX, Hulu.

Today’s portmanteau:

Here at the Nolan household, we take our neologisms very seriously — especially the portmanteaus.

There is an individual important to us with a penchant for improvising some rather baroque cusswords — and often a string of them. (Holy shit.)

Let it be known that baroque cussin’ will hereafter be known as “baroqussin’.” And thata string of baroqusses shall be know as a “baroqcusstring.”



Illustration of a Cat Bird from “A History of North American Birds,” by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway, 1905

Boston: Little, Brown.

Throwback Thursday: the opening credits to “Archie Bunker’s Place” (1979-1983)

Cover image for Modern English’s recording of 1983 live performance at Agora Theater, Cleveland

WMMS broadcast.

“I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?”

Photo of Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly on the set of “High Society” (1956)

Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers