Let’s face it – every day we are routinely bombarded with questions. When you’re an emerging media company in Nashville, people just want to know what your opinions are on everything. It’s only natural. And, since our duty is to serve the people, well, we have no choice but to be present. That’s the SoBro Way. Also, aren’t mailbags just a barrel of laughs anyway? Welcome to the newest weekly recurring feature up in this bitch: The SoBros Mailbag. As always, hit us with those mailbag questions @SoBrosNetwork on Twitter, email ’em to me anonymously at thesobrosnetwork@gmail.com. And, holy shit, I need to update this terrible intro paragraph that I’ve been using literally ever since I started writing this column…
Question:
Has Bucky knocked over the tree yet?
— Rooster (@SoBroRooster) November 18, 2021
Answer:
He has not yet, but he is doing his damnedest. Part of me thinks he’s too fat to try and climb it, but I could definitely be proven wrong as this cat continues to surprise me. The other day, I heard an awful clanking of metal so I ran to the top of our stairs and looked over into our living room. Our tree is an artificial one – the type that has rods for limbs that you click into place in the “trunk” of the tree. Evidently, he had worked one of the limbs loose and knocked it into the floor. So….it’s coming. My only hope at this point is that he just gets bored with it and doesn’t even try anymore.
Question:
What are your fave book adaptations?
— Steven McCash (@MC_Cash75) November 18, 2021
Mine:
The Outsiders
Room
Jane Austen Book Club
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
Answer:
You are going to LOVE this answer, Steven, but I always thought that Peter Jackson did a FANTASTIC job of bringing the Lord of the Rings saga to the big screen. To this day, those are some of my favorite movies to date, book adaptation or otherwise. I would definitely add No Country for Old Men and Fight Club in consideration as well. If we’re counting comic book adaptations, I would add Logan to the conversation too. What a fucking “bro take” I realize as I type that out loud.
Question, from E on Instagram:
If you were a goth what kind would you be and what would your club name be?
Answer:
So, I tried to take some online quizzes to help me with this, E, and it was a bunch of bullshit. The first result I got was “You are not a goth. You are just normal.” Then, I decided to take AP’s “which type of goth are you?” quiz and got ‘Cybergoth.’ I’m not linking to it, though because their website is littered with ads, the quiz itself was bombed with a video ad every 30 seconds and that is just unreal. Who the fuck designed that shit? Fuck ’em. Sorry – I’m on a tangent. Anyway, I didn’t feel good about it, so I just did my own research (please don’t call me a vax denier) and I think I land somewhere on the romantic/Victorian goth spectrum – I love lace. I love old things. And, I very much feel a deep appreciation for a traditional sense of pain and sadness in the art I consume.
The concept of a club name came up with a couple of friends not too long ago, and what I’m about to say may shock some of you…I never had one. I have always just given people my real name and dealt with the fucking consequences. But, if I were to come up with one, I’m going with Lance Ravin. Lance is my middle name, and ‘Ravin’ is a play on Poe…’cause traditional goth and all that. Hope this helps!
Thanks,
Question, from Dom via text message:
One for the ballbag – what are your top 5 best winter soups?
Answer:
Okay, so if we’re excluding chili from this list, I’m leading off with my old man’s beef stew recipe, though I don’t think he ever had recipes, per se. He would just throw a bunch of really good shit in a pot and boil it up. A close runner-up would be my family’s vegetable soup recipe. Then, I’m going to cheat a little bit and go with the beef flank noodle soup from Steam Boys – I was sick for about six of the last eight weeks of 2019…could barely get off the couch. And, I was ordering delivery from Steam Boys every other day it felt like. I swear that stuff had healing properties. Wrapping up the top five, I’m going french onion soup and chicken noodle soup (THE quintessential winter soup) in the fourth and fifth spots.
Keep the questions coming – catch y’all next week!
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley
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