neolog

is underkill a word? it should be, tho in this age it won't get much use.

i've coined words before. eet's moy jawb: i'm a poet. [i know, i know.]

none have caught on.

i'll take credit for popularizing intense and intensity, tho i didn't make them up, of course. i wrote a poem called intencity [deliberately misspelled] in '92 and read it a lot round nyc. soon folk started saying "that's intense!"

infoverload is another title from 12 or 13 years back. it's just a contraction, of course, but a useful one for a widespread and influential phenomenon that's a major source of anxiety, so i think it deserves use.

i just came up with my headline. all i did was cut off the suffix, but i've never seen it without -ism, -ize, -y, or something longer.* i think this is the first time i made a multiple-sense word: 1. a record or journal of new words [tho not likely to be regularly kept as log usually implies]; 2. a person who makes new words [like me]; or 3. the opposite of neocon.

*now i have