Welcome to the 7th annual Danny’s! For the uninitiated, these are my movie awards that I hand out the same day as the Academy Awards. I make up the categories and decide on the winners as I see fit. And to prove how ahead of the curve I am, the Academy tried to imitate me…
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I don’t go to Chick-Fil-A all that often. Don’t get me wrong, their original chicken sandwich is the pinnacle of a piece of fried chicken between bread, and I can usually devour an entire carton waffle fries between the drive-thru and my house, but I try to limit my fast food intake these days. When…
Vince Gilligan originally intended for Breaking Bad to be set in Riverside, California, a fact I learned while taking the Breaking Bad RV tour on a chilly day in Albuquerque. If Riverside had stayed the location, I likely would have been tooling around the 12th largest city in California instead of the largest one in…
“There’s the TV, “ proprietor Matthew King pointed out as he showed me my suite. “Please don’t spend time in here watching it.” People travel for different reasons. If the primary goal of your travels is to find someplace new to stream movies, surf the web or just lie around and do nothing, La Belle…
It’s a quintessential New Orleans’ evening. The fog is rolling in off the Mississippi River obscuring the ghosts of long-dead scoundrels and thieves in the mist. Andrew Jackson on his trusty steed rises above the murk in Jackson Square. The neon lights of Bourbon Street beckon. And I’m standing next to the streetcar tracks waiting for…
The Super Bowl should really be a national holiday. Like Thanksgiving or the Fourth of July, everyone seems to have their own traditions. Mine is to invite friends over, make my should be world-famous taco salad and ridicule everything possible while hoping it’s a good game. When the ball is kicked off, the whole country…
Answering customer service phone calls gets to be a monotonous bore after a while. Way back in 1990-something I had the opportunity to answer the calls for American Family Publishers, the magazine wholesaler that spokesman Ed McMahon gleefully exclaimed offered customers the unbelievable chance to win 10 MILLION DOLLARS!!!* (*If they had and returned the…