Charles and I have been enjoyably checking each other’s word choice for 20 years now. Lea and I have been doing it for 13. I can’t tell you exactly how the minus five (-5) game started. Charles, Russ, and I started playing in high school, and I think it kept traction with us because it … Read more
What is that, exactly? A female Houston baseball fan? The word is “asterisk.” Sound it out, you sloppy asshole. Stop butchering my language.
Several years ago I worked with a fellow I’ll call Mike. Mike was six or eight years older than I and an upper middle manager type; the sort of fellow who was going to appear on promotion-to-VP candidate lists for a year or two and eventually get there. I didn’t report to him, nor was … Read more