30 | November | 2004 | notforprophet

Day: November 30, 2004

Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004

Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was

Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
Click on each of the other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

Funny. There's still a month left in 2004. I think I'll click on 'insurgent' a few hundred thousand times and ruin their headlines.
I got to Dreamland cemetery after dark yesterday. I drove deep into the heart of it and then ran a short distance only since the gates to the cemetery would lock in less than half an hour. After the run, I drank a customary beer atop a hill overlooking the City of the Dead ( = Cleveland, what did you think, that I was talking about the cemetery?! ). What a solemn moment that was: I’ve never been more alone in my life. I got the gatekeeper to re-open the gates he was shutting just as I arrived to leave. My life lately has seemed to consist of a lot of such close calls. I must remember to buy the gatekeeper a little something for the holidays. Unless in the meantime he locks me in.

notforprophet