Sam Corbin

YouTube video by WJCT Public Media First Coast Connect: Word to your mother

was fun to yap on the radio about the never-ending slangassaince!

youtu.be/ckzLouiWNMY

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

president’s day much!!!

if I didn’t realize it was a friday before, I sure do now: just reread a line of my column about some symbols and saw that I’d called them “simbles”

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

get everyone vying for the tiffany’s browser bracelet. the browselet

a very, very long row of browser tabs

idk should I turn this into a charm bracelet

a jar that says Baps Shayona

I can’t stop hearing this to the tune of “my sharona”

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

for some reason I don’t have drafts and I’m choosing to believe it’s because all of my thoughts are simply too good not to be posted

the "you wouldn't steal a car meme" (white text on a black background, both stylized to look scary and distorted). it has been edited to say " You wouldn't draft a skeet"

Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents

Happily, I'm quoted in the NYT today about words cyclically coming back into use, like earworms from forgotten songs. English has a rich trove of vocab to pull from, and any song, book, or movie can bring those words back in rotation. Thanks @samcorbin.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

they’re dangling porcupine in front of me in that image for a “keeper’s choice” option….wonder if I can request

looking into this!! did you pet him

how is this real. oh my god the little wheezes

apropos of nothing, one of my goals for 2026 is to meet a porcupine. lmk if you can help arrange this

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

my hot take is that you should not have to read the preface in order to enjoy the book, and if you do, then it’s not a preface

don't worry I am problematizing this theory in chapter one

[emily dickinson voice] "word" is the thing with letters

foolish of him not to upgrade to busker premium I guess

enshittification exemplified is the times square subway busker having to let ads play between the songs he accompanies on violin

you can bet I will be reading this list in righteous indignation today!!

my allegiances are clear: despite living in the US for 15+ years, I tried OU first

it’s an upsetting day for the canadians who play Spelling Bee

i hate how cool sciatica sounds

a news alert describing the debut of “Dolly Plowton,” a Nashville snow plow.

this name is… not doing what they think it’s doing

I do not endorse doomerism or supply hoarding ahead of a storm, but I do think it’s funny that this might be what’s getting a wide swath of the country to finally do their chores

my storm prep: charge my devices, food prep, do dishes and laundry, purchase extra warm socks and thermals

my cat’s storm prep: