Before they became a ‘70s pop sensation, the Doobies were a bunch of hippies living together in a house in Northern California. When they were in search of a name for their band, a non-musical housemate suggested the Doobie Brothers on account of the members’ penchant for smoking weed. ...
“Harmatnik” is definitely a coinage of the author’s; artillery plant (though it’s in the same genus as clearweed, I’ve never heard it called “artillery clearweed”) is a tropical plant from the New World; why Yiddish would have a word for this plant is beyond me. I have a ...