The Useless Critic 2.0

Language naturally reflects popular culture; every time there's a new idea, we need a way to communicate it. With that out of the way, The Oxford Dictionary of English (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary) put out its new words today: chill pill chillax turducken bargainous staycation fussbudget vuvuzela national treasure buzzkill social media microblogging netbook dictionary attack paywall freemium automagically carbon capture and storage geoengineering toxic debt deleveraging overleveraged quantitative easing exit strategy overthink catastrophizing soft skills matchy-matchy LBD frenemy cheeseball cool hunter hikikomori steampunk tweetup bromance wardrobe malfunction defriend Interweb hater How many do you know? What word needs to be an official word but isn't?

so Eat Pray Love invades movie theaters this weekend like an STD on a dirty penis. mmm. I couldn't think of a more apt metaphor. I have tried (and subsequently failed) to read this book. I lump it together in that section of literature I consider "stuff my mom would read if she was a little cooler" (how can you be cooler than my mom, though? that's really throwing the gauntlet down). It's like how I consider Twilight literature I'd read if I were 13 and desperate to fit in with the girls that give it up in the closet during "Seven Minutes In Heaven." you know what I mean! The first few lines put me so off. If this woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, was within striking distance of me, I would have thrown the damn book at her head. I had the same feeling when I started reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - that I had to sit in front of some insufferable, pompous narrator that was in love with their self. not my bag, really. I deal with this enou...