It's been said previously in the comments, but I'll say it again: Chronicle was probably the best possible remake (intended or not) of Akira as far as a live action, North American audience remake could go. It captured the teenage ennui so prevalent in Akira but but brought it into the self-absorbed film / tweet /…

I can just see it now.

See, I always understood it as meaning one wanted two things, or to exist in two states, that are by their nature disparate. Like wanting to own a pristine sports car but also wanting to drive it like a sports car, therefore eliminating it's pristine state. Or in the instance that I most hear the idiom used, wanting…

I guess that make Chad the Lucky Pierre...

I think its mostly the shades and the Rick Astley hair.

I hope not. I feel like it would hurt to uncry tears.

As I neither ski nor snowboard (broke my arm snowboarding as a kid and as a result am now a coward when it comes to alpine sports) I don't know what the current fashions are, so maybe someone here can answer: Are all skiiers as excruciatingly 90's as the guy in the lede pic, or was it just a weird model choice?

"Literally opening their mouth up with both hands and spitting into that gaping hole as they watch"

You sir, have just right a wrong in my vocabulary. I tip my hat to you.

Yeah that's what I meant.

I wonder if the presence of the drone was enough to ruin their hunt; the noise and the movement probably would have roused the pidgeons.

Yes yes yes a thousand times yes. The automotive equivalent of Spanx; looks really good but when you look under the hood it's all cottage cheese ass and underwhelming performance.

Heard. And it makes the driver seem like a doofus.

Or a jump.

It's Gizmodo. If there aren't contrarian or critical or holier-than-thou comments then the writer is doing something wrong.

I feel like I've heard that before, either in a ancient philosophy book or a commercial for running shoes.

Why not? I don't want my baby to have frown lines.

"It predates wine by ten to thirty thousand years."

I think I'm in love. This was the best response ever.

He's beta testing a new hologram wig from Dyson.