12th May 2003
William Safire Reads Gawker?
Incredible as this sounds, New York Times right-wing columnist and language expert William Safire apparently reads my favorite frivolously snarky blog Gawker. In his latest “On Language” column in this past Sunday’s Times Magazine, he does a whole bit on the verb “to jones” (slang for to crave, as in a drug), in which he mentions the recent use of “zeta-jonesing” in Gawker (meaning, “to eat ravenously”). I’m unclear, however, whether he actually reads the site or not, as he referred to it as “Gawker Stalker,” which is, in fact, the name of a frequent section of the site, not the site’s name itself. (I wonder if they’ll push for a correction?)
I’m only bitter that he has so far overlooked my recent post coining “the 3-1-1.”
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