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Ranking the 2018 World Cup teams
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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That time I met Billy Dee Williams
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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“All this whiskey aroma just flowing like a mighty stream”
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…
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Walk the what?
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. The mid and late 90s gave us the bubblegum pop revolution – think boy “bands” and pop stars who danced a lot but who didn’t…
