A Book Longer Than Any He Could Imagine Writing

Norman Mailer is dead. We will miss him muchly.

'To Tase' Is a Runner-Up for Word of the Year - Chronicle.com

Somebody's second favorite new word is 'to tase'. What SJ is curious about is how a lame locution like "locavore" could beat it out. 'Tase' has all the earmarks of an instance classic: evokes a strong, specific experience, sounds great, and will likely be put to new uses, while the immediate reaction to 'locavore' is that it is a coinage of a newspaper style writer. One is a word, the other is a joke, which really isn't funny.