9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 25, 2014

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Edda: "Awesome." "Awesome" "awesome" if you lend someone a pencil, they say "Awesome" if you replace a battery, they say "awesome. cups of coffee, are "awesome". Scribbled directions to a gas station are "awesome". "awesome" is an assessment of virtually everything, no matter how nugatory or picayune. Edda: Is it as awesome as, say, victoria falls, the grand canyon, fujiyama, the matterhorn,...the empire state building, the taj mahal, the petronas towers or kuala lumpur? the aurora borealis, the horsehead nebula, any supernova, the immeasurable vastness of the... edda: ...good lord, I sound just like my grandmother. Amos: someone has to be the torch bearer.