"Teensploitation's" time has come � at least in the dictionary. "Pleather," "body wrap," "MP3," and "information technology" are among the other words and phrases that have gotten past the editors at Merriam-Webster in the annual update of their Collegiate Dictionary.

If you were a word, what new word would you be, so I could look you up?

Would there be a photo next to your word?

Or would it be a woodcutting?

Pen and ink?

If you were an mp3 and I downloaded you, would I get in trouble?

Would you, as an mp3, be Alt, Rap, Hip-Hop, Classical, or Spoken Word?

A "body wrap" sounds good.

I don't know what a "Pleather," is, I could look it up, but I would say...

"It's my "Pleather" to wrap your body all up in love."

My new friend is producing one of my favorite stories from when I was a kid... based on the first book in "Tarzan" creator Edgar Rice Burroughs' 11-volume "John Carter of Mars" series, the sci-fi adventure-action picture "A Princess of Mars" directed by Kerry Conran, whose "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," is set for release Sept. 17, is replacing Robert Rodriguez.

Conran is in after Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild of America, making him ineligible to direct this one. Rodriguez quit the DGA in order to give co-directing credit to property creator Frank Miller on his current Dimension Films project, "Sin City," a practice not sanctioned by the union. That's was a pretty cool thing to do!

I just hope my friend Sean gets me a walk on in the film. I've always wanted to live on Barsoom, ride Thoats, fight with Tars Tarkas and hang with Deja Thoris.