The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
C.W. Hills
The Naming Way, is 50% media/culture thoughts, 25% essays and personal whatnot that I try to keep relatable, and 25% nonsense and good goofs. End of percents! ZERO MORE PERCENTS.
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I am today filled with DEADLIEST ENVY, specifically of Mrs. Columbo, She Who Is My Tiny Wife, against whom I have no defense and who, by law, is entitled to a bite of whatever I’m having1. For today she enjoyed a privilege known to few,...
Okay gang listen I am a very casual birder: I’ve got a Sibley’s and a NatGeo, a pair of extremely decent store-shelf-grade binoculars, and I don’t generally go anywhere beyond a 3-mile walking-radius around my human home; y’ain’t findin’...
Antecedently: Holy water cannot help you now; #attemptacle; Isaac inflicts 6d12 guilt damage, keep the fucking change Just a reminder: An asshole would like to fight us! No wait he wants us to join him, also like an asshole would do....
2026 has announced its arrival with an UNPRECEDENTED birding-boom; in addition to the visit from a Guardian of Ga’Hoole on the first of the year, yesterday brought me this brand-new homie! This handsome little weirdo with the Poirot...
Look if I’m gonna do a post every day we’re gonna need to get a little more liberal about what constitutes ‘effort’ and ‘content’ and ‘language’. It’s been my custom since about 2010 to keep a running list of everything I read; in...
Listenin’ (Musics) Black Dog (Not the Zeppelin one) Book of Saturday Boom! Shake The Room Dawn of Revelation I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ Laredo Listening Wind Still The Same Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Broadway...
FIRST BIRB OF THE YEAR, Y’ALL BIG WIGGLY ZOODLES. Yes, ‘Meowgaritaville’ is the discussion-board username my wife came up with in college while in the effervescent grip of pain-relievers, and yes, I use it to designate our home and tell...
"This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi:...
PEOPLE OF EARTH, I GIVE YOU: THE CHILDREN’S BOOK MY WIFE WROTE FOR HER CREATIVE WRITING CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL1. (Nota bene: the alt-text is being finicky; therefore the text of Lazy George will be reproduced in its entirety at no...
As with last year’s Top Lists Top List List, these are pools, not ranked lists. NEVERTHELESS, read on with the knowledge that they are definitive, binding, and can be used to settle disputes at family holiday gatherings, prove precedent...
Brought to you by an episode of Dear Hank & John in which a listener asks if an objective, ‘scientific morality’ could ever be devised1 ; at one point capital punishment was briefly mentioned as an example of things that some societies...
2. Vampire: Would be better if in the line ‘Blood-sucker, fame-fucker, bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire’, “fame” was replaced with a word that could be either “vain” or...
Antecedently: The terrifying advent of Mr. Brineside; LO! A SPARKLEBUGGUM; an ode to the forgotten tube-powder candies of yesteryear Monstro turn! The part of the game in which the monstros...
Listenin’• Hello It’s Me • If You Want Me To Stay • In The Year 2525 • Let The River Run • Oh Lord • On The Day It Finally...
So last week—two weeks ago? Unclear, time is a flat circle—I had to have a mole removed from my back. It was a pre-melanoma, not actively cancerous but it had...