I don’t use delivery services a lot, but I tried It’s Just Wings a few weeks back. I liked the wings, and the curly fries. Chili’s has a few wing options, but not as many as It’s Just Wings, even though it’s all being prepared in the same kitchen. I actually wish It’s Just Wings had a carryout option — so that I could…

Even better, but sadly unavailable this summer: eating ice cream from a little plastic souvenir batting helmet.

No matter what time of day it is, I always tend to get breakfast when I am at Cracker Barrel. I took a weekend road trip last month, and that was one of my highlights, was stopping at a Cracker Barrel for a socially-distanced breakfast, one of the few times I’ve allowed myself a dine-in meal lately, even though it’s…

He is just completely miscast in this, although he seems to be having an oddly good time. When he comes prancing in for the first time as the genie, one of the riffers says something like, “Charles Nelson Reilly called and said you need to turn it down a bit.”

When the country singer Joe Diffie passed away a few months ago, I shared his video of “Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die),” which is a direct ripoff of “Weekend at Bernie’s.” I wondered at the time if it was in poor taste, but I figured that Diffie would probably find it funny. (Diffie himself does not play the…

RiffTrax just recently released their takedown of a live-action Disney “Aladdin” — but not the one you’re thinking of. It was made for the Disney Channel *prior* to the release of the animated movie, it stars Barry Bostwick as the genie, and it’s set, for some reason, in China, even though none of the main cast is…

Still, nothing can top this:

I was in a production of “Daddy’s Dyin’ ... Who’s Got The Will?” a comedy set in Texas about a squabbling family whose patriarch is on his deathbed. The script called for a bowl of those jellied “orange slice” candies on the coffee table and for my character, an abusive husband named Orville, to pop one at any…

Mr. Kafka ... paging Mr. Franz Kafka ....

That could be because the producers tricked them into thinking they were making one five-hour movie instead of a pair of two-and-a-half-hour movies, but Hollywood almost certainly has rules against tricking actors like that.

In the late 1980s, I had only been working at my hometown newspaper a few years. Our local Wendy’s was about to reopen after having been closed for a while, and on a whim I called Wendy’s corporate headquarters to see if I could get an interview with founder Dave Thomas (who was appearing on their TV commercials at…

A comedian whose name I won’t mention because he turned out to be a horrific person used to have a routine about his young daughter asking for cake for breakfast, and he did the math -- eggs? wheat? milk? *nutrition!* and served her a piece of cake (until his wife found out). Just concentrate on the benefits of dairy…

Meanwhile, Ramsey’s apparently not taking COVID-19 as seriously as he takes debt: https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/21139509/dave-ramsey-to-host-business-conference-in-franklin-as-covid19-cases-rise

You beat me to it.

Farmer’s market is up and running here, too, although I haven’t been yet.

The novel was actually “The Glass Inferno,” not just “The Inferno.”

I always thought the story behind “The Towering Inferno” was sort of wild. There were two separate and unrelated novels about skyscraper fires: “The Tower” and “The Inferno.” Each had been bought by a different studio, and rather than have the movies compete with each other (like the two volcano movies that came out…

Will there be enough TP for Cornholio?

Here in Middle Tennessee, there’s a local, family-owned restaurant chain (and by “chain” I mean three or four restaurants) called Demos. One thing I’ve always loved about them, and that sets them apart from other restaurants in the South, is that when you order iced tea, it arrives unsweetened — but with a little…

It’s a reference to novelist-turned-historian Shelby Foote, who was one of the prime talking heads in Burns’ “The Civil War.”