The time has come
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Our Doug, The Dawg
The Prattler, and
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Word geek.

This weeks Famer” is Waking Ambrose, or more accurately Doug Pascover, who since February of 2005, posts daily Bierce words to his blog Waking Ambrose. At Waking Ambrose he one ups Bierce with a contemporary and timely definition of his own, while encouraging his readers to do the same via comments.

There were segments of time where his readers would take the Wednesday position of guest poster. Assigned a word, not in the Devil’s Dictionary, it would be up to the guest poster to try to pull a Bierce, or a Doug, causing more than a little fingernail bitting in anticipation of Doug’s judgment of their effort. My only attempt was the assigned word “insouciant” in November of 2005, and before judgment day I suffered a few sleepless nights, believe me.

In a very organized fashion his words from Waking Ambrose are all listed nicely in alphabetical order at The Prattler Notebook.You can find all guest definitions listed there as well.

The Bierce words, and new definitions, are made to fit nicely into the news/political/societal events of the times. Though some readers come and go, most become “groupies”, (of which yours truly is one), who refuse to leave the dog alone for long.

Not to dismiss his work at The Prattler, a separate entity consisting of Political and Social commentary followed by words and definitions which always work. It’s on hiatus and is greatly missed.

Doug himself defines the whole gamut at The Prattler Welcome, where you can then follow links to The Prattler Wordbook , which when choosing any word will bring you to the post on the Waking Ambrose site where the word was defined, and where the gang hangs out. You can also explore the links to his Serialized Short Stories, The Meditations of Diogenes The Cynic, and Shahrazade’s Wedding. Doug posts the stories on the weekend at Waking Ambrose as well, in both written and audio format.

One of the few blogs I check daily, one of the first blogs I ever read, and I’m still reading.

If you’re looking for something smart and well written, or just want to learn a few new words, or meet the groupies, head on over to Waking Ambrose to begin your journey.

This is a timely post as Waking Ambrose goes on blogcation in mid February making it a good time to become familiar with Doug’s large body of work, and consider if you are up to the task yourself.