I didn’t follow the NFL at all for several years—decades, really. There were years in my young adulthood that I could’ve been offered $10,000 to name five of the starting quarterbacks in the league, and I would have lost the money. Still, I usually watched the Super Bowl even then. It’s a good excuse for … Read more
Sears Holdings will soon ask a bankruptcy judge for permission to liquidate its remaining assets. (That means “sell all its stuff.”) We have been without a Sears in northern Alabama for some time, and it now very much appears that everyone will be. The death of the quintessential American department store is imminent. Remember looking … Read more
I’ve loved hard rock and heavy metal since I got Destroyer for my fifth birthday, and it’s the music I most fondly remember from my childhood. (New wave is a strong second, but headbanging is a little nearer to my heart.) There are about 15,000 songs on my phone, and I’d solidly guess that half … Read more