BLOG TOUR: Zero Moment by M G Harris: Om nom nom - the nommity meme

 
Chicklish welcomes M. G. Harris, author of The Joshua Files series, on her fabulous Zero Moment blog tour. M. G. is spelling out "ZERO MOMENT" with her post titles and we're the fourth stop, so here is the first "O"...

Om nom nom – the nommity meme – (Zero Moment Blog tour #4)

by M.G. Harris

A few weeks ago, a small ruckus broke out on Twitter about whose crew first started using ‘om nom nom’. Like all successful memes, everyone in the world simultaneously believed that their friendship-group invented it.

Urban Dictionary suggests this definition:

The sound of ravenous eating. Popularized by the character Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, it is now used commonly in speech, especially among younger people. Cookie Monster exclaims "OM NOM NOM NOM" when gobbling down cookies (and whatever else goes in his mouth).

You can "om nom" on things besides food... for example, play-eating babies' toes to make them laugh.

Here’s Cookie Monster and Kermit discussing the structure of books…even Cookie thinks books are good enough to eat.

Interesting that it’s The Young who use it commonly in speech, because Cookie Monster and Sesame Street are less prevalent than they were when I were a lass. Then again maybe I’m not the only parent who entertains their kids at bedtime with hand puppets of Cookie, Ernie and Bert. Who’s with me? COME ON!

Nom. It conjours images of crumbly cookies, chunks of fudge, cupcakes piled high with frosting. Or for those with book fetishes, a big stack of freshly-printed books, all ready to be reviewed. This is the context in which I tend to see the phrase, and Liz de Jager (@lizuk) was the first person on the Internetz that made me feel that wonderfully special I-Am-Not-Alone, moment when she used ‘nom nom’ to describe some particularly nommity books that she was about to review for her blog MyFavouriteBooks.blogspot.com

If you haven’t used it yet…betcha find yourself nomming away in a few days.

 My Top Five Om Noms for 2010

 1.    -   Hummingbird Bakery cupcakes (thank goodness I have the recipe book)

2.       - Crumbly candy bars from Mr Simms Olde Fashioned Sweet Shop

3.       - Slabs of overpriced fudge from Fudge Kitchen

4.       - A production line of an author’s latest title. Especially when you are the author… Here’s Zero Moment zooming along the presses at BookMarque printers.

5.       - Mockingjay, part 3 of The Hunger Games, out in August 2010. Slurp. Can’t wait. Combine with 1,2 or 3.

Next on the ZERO MOMENT blog tour - Mayan myths in popular culture (2012 and all that) at scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com (13 April)

Check out the whole tour - details below!

Z is for Zany Orange Puffles and social networking sites for children at mgharris.net (30 March)
E is for Elektra Assassin – the baddest comic book grrl ever at bookzone4boys.blogspot.com (31 March)
R is for Richmal Crompton and the genius of Just William at bartsbookshelf.co.uk (5 April)
O is for Om nom nom – the nommity meme at chicklish.co.uk (8 April)
M is for Mayan myths in popular culture (2012 and all that) at scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com 13 April)
O is for One Hundred Years Of Solitude – a bluffers guide at theviewfromheremagazine.com (19 April)
M is for Motivating your characters – the secret to success? at mgharris.net (23 April)
E is for Everything I Know About Plotting I Learned From Aristotle at myfavouritebooks.blogspot.com (28 April)
N is for Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino – a short story collection review at nextread.co.uk (1 May)
T is for Ten Things That Helped me Get Published at howpublishingreallyworks.blogspot.com (5 May)

Comments

[NROoperative]

i like this lots although i dont see how it is in any way related to joshua files. maybe josh is a greedy eater?

[Anna]

he's a teenage boy, he's always hungry. anyway, who doesn't love cake?

[Lauren]

This post has made me crave sweets. And delicious new books.

[MG Harris]

Heh heh. The cakes are MY thing! Always celebrate with cakes. As you'll see if you come to the Dark Parallel launch party, NRO.

[Cara Russell]

You're definitely not the only one who entertains their kids at bedtime with hand puppets. I put on hand puppet plays all the time with the puppets from SuperSmartyPants! Be proud of your puppeteering!

http://www.supersmartypants.com/hand-puppets.html