Quote of the Day Plus Word of the Day

Brilliant words from my BFF, who, like me, despises meetings, bureaucracy, and corporate culture:

"'Addressing concerns' is the most passive-aggressive way ever to say you don't like someone's idea."

Also testament to Molly's brilliance: yesterday I walked into a Starbucks and saw a guy drawing, and thought "Heh heh, that guy's sketchy." And then I remembered, "Oh, Molly made that joke, like, four years ago." (See worldwide phenomenon Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School).

Many people have tried to copy her burlesque-themed drawing group over the years, and sometimes when I spot a new one I get kind of mad on her behalf, but ... I can't actually remember any of her competitors' names. The lesson? Some say location, location, location, but never underestimate the power of a euonym.*

*A euonym ("eu" meaning "good," as in "euthanasia" and "euphonium" and "nym" meaning "name" as in "homonym" and "acronym") is a "name particularly well-suited to the person, place, or thing being named." It was also the winning word in the 1997 National Spelling Bee. Incidentally, when I searched for that video that I just posted a link to, I discovered that I am already the third-ranking Google hit for "euonym," because of this post, which I wrote after a grown-up Rebecca Sealfon, 1997 National Spelling Bee winner, attended my spelling bee and reviewed it in The Brooklynite. I was really nerdily pleased just now to have had an organic use for the word euonym in talking about Dr. Sketchy's, but now I fear I've ruined that by making the footnote longer than the original post. This is one nerdy effing** blog.

**Should "effing" have some kind of apostrophe, do you think? This is assuming I'm keeping the terminal g, as gravitas demands.