Twenty years ago, my family vacationed in the South. We meandered in a borrowed truck and cab-over camper through Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. If I’m remembering right, and I might have melted trips together, we started by getting to Dallas, then San Antonio: this was before Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, so I couldn’t ask about the [...]
Please be informed. The correct substitution for “Diet Coke” when a customer requests said beverage and your establishment serves only Pepsi products is NOT Pepsi — it is Diet Pepsi. Don’t just make that fake apologetic fake and say “Pepsi” and saunter off. Pepsi is not the correct substitution for someone asking for a [...]
“I had learned by now that I could say almost anything, do almost anything on stage if I smiled and was properly ironic in my dialogue.” – Mae West
I accidentally started reading James Joyce on his birthday. I didn’t mean to — it just happened.
“Come on now, baby—come over here and give us a kiss,” Shad roared, as he flopped into the corner of the leather settee.
“Now I don’t know whether I WILL or not!” It nauseated her a good deal, but she made herself as pertly provocative as she could. She minced to the settee, and sat just [...]