As a Philadelphia native, I'm just glad to see someone's fans acting like even bigger assholes.

And then I buy tickets to go see Rancid and NOFX this summer.

You do realize they did contribute to the first Hunger Games soundtrack, right?

It is why I put a pool in my backyard even though I live less than a mile from the beach. (Also, it's a NJ beach and therefore disgusting.)

Dude, I know she's terrible but she *is* my mother.

OH SNAP!

I wouldn't worry so much about that as I would the invisible, brain-eating amoebas that tend to live in fresh water lakes. But it's rather early in the season so you're most likely okay.

Listen, kiddy, I saw The Casualties more times than I wish to count when they toured with Rancid back in the 90's. They were fucking unbearable then. I doubt they have improved with age.

I didn't particularly care for Isaac in the role. He wasn't bad, just terribly miscast. They needed a much larger presence than his. Also, I'm still pissed as hell that Sansa fucking Stark got to go full Phoenix but Famka Jansen never did. Yes, yes, X3 blah blah blah.

Can't be worse than the Pizza Pizza I had the last time I was in the GTA.

So, back in the day, I used to run ticket lines for a band fun club that still had an actual, real, non-record company-ran fan club and one of the big deals was that they gave their fans a shot at tickets in the first 15 rows of all US shows that were seated or a special GA pit if they were GA. The deal was, you had…

No Hale and Hearty?

So we have those people to blame for cheese-stuffed sliders?

You're also dealing with several eras of the Lost Cause Mythos. It's swung between "We fought the good fight we had no chance of winning" to "We would have won if only …" to "We had to fight the fight we fought due to our ancestry" (this was a big one in the 1990s, when the likes of Grady McWhiney - yes, a real name…

I couldn't stand them when they were plastered all over XMU when they released Neon Bible. I've since grown to like them.

It was hilarious at the time and got funnier when he cheated on his wife, now it's just kinda there.

His refusal to cite his work in his books discounts his years of study. I've spent twenty years studying Victorian architecture. That makes me neither an architect nor a historian.

Yeah, that's all part of the Lost Cause Mythos - that the South never stood a chance but fought the noble fight for their God-given rights. Also, the Northerners he'd referencing were the Irish, not "actual" Northerners.

Foote's a Neo-confederate Lost Causer. And a novelist. He's not a historian.

More of an Alex Jones-style collapse of the power grid descending the country in anarchy.