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Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live aired a digital short that parodies The Fault in Our Stars movie. The video embedded above features comedienne Sarah Silverman and cast member Taran Killam starring in The Fault in Our Stars 2: The Ebola in Our Everything. A Facebook post has drawn more than 13,000 “likes.” What do you think? (via Deadline)

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You might think that eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill is a little bit low brow. But they want to change that. The fast food chain is now featuring original essays written by influential writers on its restaurant packaging. The author series is called “Cultivating Thought.” Jonathan Safran Foer curated the list of contributors. Participating writers will include:  Judd Apatow, Sheri Fink, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill Hader, Michael Lewis, Toni Morrison, Steve Pinker, George Saunders and Sarah Silverman. The pieces are all meant to be read in two minutes. The idea is to entertain people while they are scarfing down a burrito. Here is an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell's Two-Minute Barn-Raising: I grew up in Canada, in an area of Ontario where there is a large community of Old-Order Mennonites. “Old Orders,” as they are known, are a religious group who live as if the 20th century never happened. They avoid electricity, drive horses and buggies, leave school at 16, and bail hay by hand. They dress in plain black and white, with straw hats over clean-shaven faces, and when a neighbor’s barn burns down, they gather as a community to put it back up. When I was little, not long after we moved to Ontario, my father heard about a barn-raising down the road. He decided to join in.

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Nickelodeon launches Monkey Quest (an MMOG that took two years in development. In the game, tween and teen players can complete quests…or just groom their friends and eat bugs from their fur. Over on Facebook, social gamers can play America... Read the rest of this post

Several weeks ago Jesse Shiedlower, Editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary and its first-ever North American editor, Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor and the ”Word Court” and ”Word Fugitives” columnist for the Atlantic, and Ammon Shea author of Reading the OED spoke at The Free Library of Philadelphia. Listen to the podcast here.

To learn more about how much fun it can be to coin words check The Sarah Silverman Show’s take here.

So are you down with the OED? I certainly am and if you are feeling generous feel free to buy me the tee-shirt.