Ages ago I had the idea of a recurring weekly feature in which I would share one of the seemingly hundreds of nicknames my friends and I have doled out over the years and the stories behind their creation. This "weekly" feature, cleverly titled "Nickname Friday," survived for exactly one Friday, dying in its infancy when I realized I had committed myself to weekly updates on a day that, quite frankly, I looked forward to for reasons other than sitting in front of my computer and forcing myself … [Read more...]