Here's a complete list of devious definitions of notions and abbrevations frequently used on the log before it became the dedicated music site it is today. This is the extended version of the shortlist in "the orchard", and I'll make occasional additions if anything appropriately absurd and informative comes to mind.
The smart-ass who came up with the astute insight that love -- the Big L -- may well be the HBP, not to be confused with HP sauce, of human relationships, was BJ -- Barry James. With wise friends like that and five decades' experience of a mad world myself, this glossary is more than purely tongue-in-cheek.
My favourite source of useless information and extremely handy knowledge is the Wikipedia, frequently referred to in entries since not only do people there clearly tell you what sub-atomic particles are as well as lots of other weird stuff, the principles by which that site operates are admirable.
Long may it live, a model for the future!
Other terms I find invaluable, like "ungodily" and such splendid neologisms are the work of my friend Eleanor and other wits like the Kid, who are no adherents of the stalwart stupidity of the French Academy and other institutes so resistant to changes in language that nobody takes any notice of them.
It's no longer necessary to abbreviate need VoWs* when this place is here mainly to support and encourage independent-minded women singers and share my joy in their skills. Now the iTMS* is used by Windows people as well as those of who prefer Macs, it's become common currency.
NB, November 2005.

Good luck! From now on in, only the WG* can help you:

Big L (the): people in love can be smitten by very blinding lightning, as much of the blog testifies.
A witty friend's words, "love is the Higgs Boson particle (HBp)* of human relationships," may be true; they address the needs, ways and wishes of those we love, full enjoyment of their "otherness".
bosses: people held to be superior to you in the System*, worthy of respect and compliance in inverse proportion to their ability to give senseless orders*.
diktats: (not to be confused with Diktats) constructive tips and suggestions.
Factory (the): a multimedia international news agency.
F*f: Fuckinfilosofy. A practice of no use unless applied in normal* life.
Hbp: (sometimes "God particle", "holy grail of modern physics"). Peter Higgs' hypothetical boson particle gives mass -- in layman's terms, "substance" -- to matter; a binding force of concern to many scientists*.
iTMS: Apple's iTunes Music Store is here because wise people help me restrain what I like doing with money* when I'm there.
LP (the): Lotus Project. 'Sting in the Lotus' was a screenplay that began as a sex-charged thriller of the absurd. Much encouragement broadened the plot into an ambitious tragi-comic account of the QR*.
A whiff of war in the air told me to forget the film. Maybe it's a lifestyle project...
MGs: Mental Gymnastics.
mistake: learning experience.
MLTK: May Like To Know. In contrast to NTN*, some people's MLTK can be, for others, a compendium of pointless knowledge.
money: facilitates exchanges of products and ideas, too watery in my fingers, dangerous if taken very seriously and as catastrophic as power if an end rather than a means.
muse: sometimes the Mistaken* Use of Someone Else as an inspiring object of desire until you think with the heart and see people for who they are, not muses.
normal: if you think you know what this means, tell me.
NTN: Need to kNow. "I don't like heavy / difficult / serious stuff." Info to be shared where possible with a light touch and laughter.
orchard (the): seeding ground of ideas and projects, open to artists and scientists* alike, with anyone else who fancies a share.
orders: "I was just following..."
paranormal phenomena: "weird stuff" we might lack the sensory apparatus to apprehend. Some theory* holds that people with paranormal gifts "tap into" some sort of shared database. Carl Jung's included a "collective unconscious".
QR (the): Quiet Revolution.
In the '60s, William Blake, revisited, helped shape an "underground" in art and attitudes.
By 2005, it was apparent in subways, parks, cyberspace, even sexual relationships: it's experimental, wiser from mistakes* ... changing minds.
QRs: QR* practioners who value partnership and share, dislike "ownership", sometimes subtle, often subversive*.
scientists: make sense of life and perceived world(s) in empirical ways.
Their findings, indispensable to the LP*, may be treated as optional extras since I prefer to give you stories; rather than batter brains with MGs*.
shaman: "a priest or priestess who uses magic for the purpose of curing the sick, divining the hidden, and controlling events." This Merriam-Webster definition is misleading.
Siberian shamans have counterparts in many so-called primitive cultures, from African "griots", who learn and transmit natural folklore from one generation to the next, oft. via music, to American Indian medicine men.
The "magic" is based on mind skills, herbal remedies, paranormal phenomena* and practices lost to cultures which take a "knowledge base" from the empirical sciences. In what we tend to dub "supernatural" they find natural laws, often intuitively grasped by artists in "modern". Part of our scientific community is going "back to the future". Or "forward to the past".
subversion (adj. subversive): the art of taking two or more bits of a System*, pitting them against each other, then letting inherent contradictions in the rules* cause System* failure (a successful mistake*) with striking results.
When confusion clears, people have a hard time blaming you.
synchronicity: coincidences that aren't. To be "in synch" is to know them as such. People seem to get into "synch" when in harmony with themselves, sometimes as a consequence of an "inner journey" enforced by a desire to stay sane...
System (the): the received ideas and established institutions of normal* existence. If component parts fail to make sense or get shredded by scientific theory*, they're redundant at best, destructive at worst.
QRs* acquire experience to see holes and absurdities in the consensus. Since most "revolutions" tend to worsen the mess humans make of the world and one another, they consciously adopt more subtle tactics.
theory: "big ideas" essential to understanding, but a waste of time* if divorced from practice or serving no creative purpose (see also f*f*).
time: the 'Big T' is beyond our grasp. Physicists tell us it doesn't exist in the absolute; if this is true, some non-fraudulent paranormal phenomena* need no "supernatural" explanations.
Time as we live it is elastic.
trouble (in): habitual state of being, poss. human condition, with multiple causes, incl. freq. a mistake*.
ungodily (freq. mistaken* for a typo; oft. US usage):
the neologism of the millennium. In gen. usage:
 1. without body or substance; shapeless, pointless, meaningless, formless
 2. intolerable, unsupportable, right, wrong: that's ungodily behaviour.
 4. (fam.) accidental, unintended, unpredictable
adj. un·god·i·li·er, un·god·i·li·est For irreg. defs. see log entry 23/10/04".
VoW (plural VoWs): Voices of Women.
Women singer-songwriters are my top topic. Sometimes calling each a VoW for short. I hope to help open ears and efforts to reshape an entrenched and resistant music "industry".
WG (the): White Goddess. The first painted and sculpted deity. Now known to shamans*, quantum physicists and minds attuned to synchronicity*, I like to imagine she's "in charge" of applied probability theory and may be sub-atomic herself.
X-Files (mine): what happens where energy, mind and matter interact?
The theory* (for hypotheses are abundant) interests me less than the absurd, funny and often "weird stuff" of our lives, where we tend to find out in practice.