Pay attention to what your mind is doing right now, listen to the thoughts that it is generating, the chatter it is chattering.
Suddenly people who wouldn't know a Louisiana cedar if their Prius ran into it were chattering about the Robertsons, an extended clan of duck-call magnates who have been entertaining an increasing percentage of the population with their family-centric, redneck 'n' proud high jinks.
According to New Yorker Stephanie Friede, who sings the enormous part of Petra, "It's chatter, and has to be put together with lots of action.
Usually it's chatter on Web logs, or blogs, but politicians must now confront Web sites, too, set up for no purpose other than to mock or taunt them, as C. Virginia Fields and Gifford Miller, two Democratic candidates for mayor, have learned.
But listen closely, and you'll hear something else as well: It's chatter.
"It all makes sense now, but at the time I just thought it was chatter," he said.
It was Chatters who suggested I talk to Rex Buck, a religious leader of the Wanapum band, up the Columbia River from where Kennewick Man was found.
Had Hemingway's celebrated 'built-in bullshit detector' been put in front of this movie it would have been chattering away like a Geiger counter at Chernobyl.
Mike Galpert of Aviary Twittered about it's brilliance, friends were chattering on about it, people were trying to trade sexual favors to try it, etc.
In those, I vow to ensure that the child has just as high a rate of vocabulary acquisition as it would if two parents were chattering to it all day.
