Rhyming Dictionaries

Into the Black (Metro Santa Cruz)

19 Jun 2008

I'm a big supporter of rhyming dictionaries," Black Francis tells me. "Me too," I say, before suggesting my favorite rhyme repository of the moment. "If you haven't seen rhymezone.com ..."

Return of the Cicada ... Limerick (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

15 Jun 2008

In the spring and early summer of 2004, as Greater Cincinnati struggled through an invasion of 5 billion to 7 billion "Brood X" cicadas, then-Enquirer Deputy Editorial Page Editor Byron McCauley came up with a brilliant way to let readers vent: Invite them to compose limericks about the wretched winged creatures.