Posts by Stephen Morris
The softness of metal
Keith Kahn-Harris
is a sociologist who combines freelance writing with an academic teaching and research career at institutions incl...
A “Beautifully Messy” Language
by John Turley MD
Grumpy opinions about everything. A semi-retired physician with passions for health care, history, and politics.
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Tuesday List: The Strangest Collective Nouns
What do you call a group of jugglers, a bunch of painters, or a pack of city buses? The peculiar answers to those questions may amuse y...
Funny, but not “Clixed-Up”
https://silverbackdigest.com/2021/04/28/word-play-clixed-up-miches/
10 Common Cliches (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong
If mistaken w...
Stephen Morris’s Pants
Four friends laugh together in a park while wearing shirts asking, “Have you seen Stephen Morris’s pants?”
Inevitably, variations on...
Our Man in Macau
WORDS BY TIM STRUBYPHOTOGRAPHY BY BERNARD BAKALIANVICTORYJOURNAL.COM
Macau, 1959. When author Ian Fleming landed in this 11-square-m...
It’s Her Birthday!
https://silverbackdigest.com/2021/04/03/silverbelles-can-grow-giant-vegetables-too/
Good Vibrations: Thursday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_rHSTjyWNk&list=RDQ_rHSTjyWNk&start_radio=1
Another Tip of the Hat to Ted Gioia:
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Silverback Mark and A Quiet Cadence
[Here's a little known fact about me ... I am an honorary member of the Mount Saint Joseph Class of 1964. That's why I happened to be i...