The 2018 World Cup kicks off on Thursday! Usually, I go into a World Cup with a reasonable idea of the team(s) I want to win. But since neither the U.S. nor the Netherlands (my usual “second-favorite team”) qualified for this year’s competition, I thought I’d rank the 32 participating teams in descending order based on...
I’ve been fortunate enough to meet a handful of celebrities in my life. Way back in 1986, I won backstage passes to meet Billy Idol when he played the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, which was a pretty cool experience for a music-obsessed 12-year old. About 10 years later, when I was in college, I got...
I live in a small (well, maybe moderately-sized) Southern town. And like a lot of small and moderately-sized Southern towns, there is a healthy dose of the populace that is, for whatever reason, anti-alcohol.
I have a general belief that music stopped being good after about 1994. There are, of course, exceptions but most everything that has come out since then has been terrible.
He's one of the most loyal and likable characters in a show that has an almost purposeful dearth of loyal, likable characters. Seeing him again, with the bright blue, lifeless eyes of a wight, would be a pretty big punch in the gut.