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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…
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Here’s a list of shows that I really enjoy or have enjoyed relatively recently (even if some of the shows are actually fairly old). Some are no-brainers that “everyone” watches. Some are quirky things I enjoy just because they’re different. And while it might not look like it, this list is in no way exhaustive…
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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…
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Full cup, proud and tall.Water, waiting to be drunk,stands atop my desk. Clean? A grand idea!Dust has accumulatedeverywhere I look. Moving this and that,to reach the nooks and crannies,cup is forgotten. Although not for longas, in wiping down the desk,arm and cup do meet. The cup pivots, shakes.It wasn’t expecting this;unsure what to do. Momentarily,anything…
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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. That opposition is usually couched in either religious terms or in “won’t somebody please think of the children” terms but it’s…