Eat that word!

From Instapundit:

"BLOG" IS THE NUMBER ONE WORD OF THE YEAR according to Merriam-Webster. (The link is to CNN.com.)

I tell my friends and family that the real reason I have a blog is because it gives me an excuse to say "BLOG!!!" a lot -- like I can't tell if I love Shiraz because the wine tastes good or because the word does. (I can imagine having a daughter named Shiraz, the way Hemingway had a granddaughter named Margaux.) BLOG just sounds so wonderfully swampy and in-your-face and aggressively shapeless -- like an unapologetic bog of bloviation, or a wet five-pound newspaper smacked down like a gauntlet on your doorstep by a wild-eyed paperboy. BLOG is a mind that won't watch its diet or keep its belt buckled, an untidy, blowsy, ranting Dylan Thomas or Brendan Behan of a brain, as wobbly and full-to-bursting and made-to-be-thrown as a water balloon. C'mon, bloggers, admit it: saying it is half the fun.

- amba

UPDATE: Ancestor of Blog: first time ever the word was used, in a 1959 Superman comic!

Comments

[Harvey]

Heh.

Nicely put :-)