I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.
Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.
Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.