SO what's with this obsession thing? According to the dictionary, an obsession is the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc. (Incidentally, an occiput is the back part of the head or skull. Leafing through the dictionary can be so educational.)
As a rule, such things are usually unhealthy. They can drive people to do some pretty darn stupid things. After all, John Hinkley Jr. was obsessed with Jodi Foster and so naturally he decided to kill Reagan (say, I wonder if he voted for Bush in 1988, since he almost made him president in '82?). Mark David Chapman was obsessed with Lennon and killed him with out spending the one extra bullet that would have freed from the world from Yoko Ono. At least we'd have ended up about even! Hitler, I think, could be characterized as a bit obsessive as well.
Mignonne means small and delicately pretty. I bet you didn't know that.
Granted, those are extreme examples, but look at the everyday crap people allow to run their little lives. Fanatical religious beliefs are one, even when they don't compel the person to blow themselves up. Obsession with a particular celebrity is always good for a few laughs, especially when they pay ludicrous amounts of money to get any kind of memorabilia regarding that given celebrity and would get naked for them at the drop of the hat. You have crazy old ladies who own 40 cats, psycho yuppies who kill each other for Beanie Babies, and college kids inexplicably united with elementary school students in their utter devotion to things like Pokemon. It's a nutty world.
Do you know what a rill is? No? A rill is a small rivulet or brook.
On the other hand, an obsession makes Christmas shopping ludicrously easy. Take my old cowhead mother, PLEASE! (I crack myself up.) Although it may be a touch hyperbolic to say that she's obsessed with cats, but I can be sure that if I get her anything even vaguely feline-related, she's happier than a pig in shit. (And why ARE chicks usually the ones who are cat-obsessed anyway? Isn't it guys who are supposed to be in continual pursuit of a little pussy? HA HA!) My brother used to be preoccupied with things of a porcine nature, but he grew out of that to revel in an unnatural fascination with some sort of underground comic strip called Zippy the Pinhead. It's not really an obsession per se, but it really makes shopping easier.
Hypercatalectic is an adjective describing a line of a verse containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot.
I know what you're thinking. What are MY obsessions? Simple. I don't have any.
Testudinal means pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.
That's right, I don't have any obsessions. Sure, there are things I'm interested in, but I don't devote my life to them. I like Alice Cooper a lot, but I don't sit at night listening to his music while kneeling in front of a candle-lit shrine to him (candles are a fire hazard). I'm a fan of Babylon 5, but I've never gone to a convention (because they never come with in an hour drive). Sure, I've got a couple tarantulas (ok, 14), but that's mostly because they're so low maintenance. I'm not obsessed about chicks, either, because if I was, I'd be hurtin' pretty bad considering I am approaching my 4th year without sharing my mighty seed.
A farrago is a confused mixture, hodgepodge, or medley.
I wish I could be obsessive about something. Obsessive people are the ones who get things done in the world. Genghis Kahn was obsessed with conquering everything he could find. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are obsessed with building a technology empire. That Julia Butterfly chick was obsessed with that stupid tree. As it is, there's just no room in the history books for someone who'd rather feed his tarantulas or watch football all Sunday while there are those willing to sacrifice their entire lives for their cause of choice.
If you're wheyfaced, it means that your face is pallid, as from fear.
Of course, that will all change when I take over at the head of my arachnid army.
Apotheosis --(n.) the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god (SEE Jason)
That would be cool.
