Finding myself afloat, I went back to my roots and pilfered my blog name from an R.E.M. song. This should suffice to warn any possible readers that I'm an unrepentant cheeseball.
"Face fomus" is an old Appalachian expression, now almost died out, related to the act of falling on one's face. My dad says it took him years to work out that it's derived from "face foremost."
