The Super Bowl Lead-Out

Featured image: The cast of Survivor All-Stars included previous winners Richard Hatch, Ethan Zohn, Tina Wesson, and Jenna Morasca, as well as fan favorites like Rupert Boneham, Colby Donaldson, and Tom Buchanan. Amber Brkich (front row, center), who placed sixth in Australia, ultimately won the season – and a family! On the live season finale/reunion, runner-up Rob Mariano proposed to Brkich; the two were married in 2005 and have four gorgeous daughters.

The Twelve Nights of Halloween

I am in the midst of my first annual “Twelve Nights of Halloween” celebration. Halloween is my favorite holiday – y’all can have your Christmas and your Thanksgiving and your Easter, but leave me the season of tricks, treats, thrills, chills, bonfires, corn mazes and horror movies. I typically spend a couple of nights watchingContinue reading “The Twelve Nights of Halloween”

Quick Hits: May 8

On this day in 1958, Hammer Horror films released Dracula (titled Horror of Dracula in the US to avoid confusion with the 1931 Bela Legosi film). Christopher Lee’s Dracula was brooding and sensual, and was the first to incorporate many of the characteristics of the character as we know him today, including fangs and redContinue reading “Quick Hits: May 8”