Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a tough couple weeks and I thank you for your patience and continued readership. I’ve said it before, but it’s so damn true: you rock.

Sometimes all it takes is a painful reminder of how things could be to make you appreciate the routine. Last week and weekend I accompanied J to his childhood friend’s wake and funeral. Seeing a family devastated by the loss of a man in his early 30s was enough to make that routine, that day to day plan that I sometimes bitch about, seem like heaven.

I particularly love my Friday routine. A little work, a long run, a visit to Chipotle. A bit of blogging, some weekly business accounting and taking stock, and a few celebratory cocktails for another week well done. Nothing amazing, nothing revolutionary. But cripes, I value it.

Part of the great fun of my Friday routine is my double dose of QRW posts: Word Porn and Rants. I enjoy Friday’s posting so much because I get to indulge in my geeky love of words, show you lovely readers my wacky side, and let you into the odd stew that is my head.

So let’s get to it, shall we? Let us commence this good Friday with some decadent, delightful, delirious, and downright devilish word porn.

Splenetic

Well then! Words that start with a confluence of consonants are just delicious. I mean, really – a word like this just begs to be thrown out in the world from an angry/excited/amused/um…angry pair of lips and hit upon someone or something. With a naughty dalliance of letters and syllables like this, the meaning may not even matter. But ho! This word does have it all, ‘cus the meaning is pretty kickass. Splenetic means marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite. Hmm. May we have the word in a sentence please?

Promised anonymity by the personable journalist, Jane Smith let forth a splenetic description of the morale within the campaign headquarters. On a roll, she even included the less than savory nicknames of her colleagues, the story of her male boss’ tryst with a male hustler, and the candidate’s disdain for her beer-swilling voters. Jane was confused and even more splenetic when the newspaper published a tell-all the next day, keeping the source private but noting her name rhymed with Jayne Smyth.

Anodyne

What I love about so many of our word porn specimens are their double meanings. Sure, anodyne means serving to alleviate pain. Boooring. Let’s get spicy! Anodyne also means innocuous, or not likely to offend or arouse tensions. Interesting. Sentence!

The new band was all the rage with the hard-core kids, so the label wanted to create a radio-friendly version of the first single. But to make the song about copulating with horses more anodyne, the song had to become an instrumental tune and quickly tanked.

Glabrous

Oh my. Some words just sound a bit naughty, a bit risqué, and this one fits the bill. Is it somehow sexual? This is word porn after all. But no. The actual meaning is something a bit more pedestrian, yet highly entertaining. Glabrous means smooth, especially having a surface without hairs or projections. Very well. Let’s do this.

As Tom’s head of hair gradually receded and disintegrated, he felt the need to compensate. At the age of 50, then, Tom sported the very unique look of a glabrous skull, curlicue mustachio, and a full and luxurious ZZ Top beard.

And…scene. Hope you enjoyed.

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RANDOM LINK of the day: I do enjoy my Mo Ryan. The Chicago Tribune’s TV reporter/blogger posted an insanely comprehensive and thought-provoking post on the season finale of Lost last week. Check it out.