They are indeed! I watched them a couple of weeks ago- first time watching the original trilogy in fifteen or twenty years, because I wasn’t going to buy those shitty rereleases. Those guys are doing a serious public service.

My understanding is that Disney can’t do anything with the prequels until 2020, at which point they could theoretically do an HD release of the original theatrical versions (i.e. fix what he fucked up). In the meantime, you can download the “Despecialized Editions,” which are a fan-made set of the original three…

Okay, George. Just start taking your meds again, all right?

I taught in a school in a town of about 100,000, which people there said was inaka (i.e. BFE)- by Japanese standards, definitely not a big city, and it was definitely true there. Friends in even more rural areas said there was definitely incredibly intense pressure on kids to study their asses off for high school and…

I lived and taught there as an adult. Japan has some of the highest teen suicide rates in the world, TOEFL scores among the lowest in Asia (thank God for North Korea, amirite?) and kids who were routinely flummoxed when asked to create their own skit in English class, even if fed pre-written dialogue, because they’re…

Yes! I saw it when I was 9 or 10, and while the scene in the bathroom scarred me for life (I was secretly terrified of using bathroom stalls for months after), I didn’t even care, because Harrison Ford. Gyah. That guy can raise my barn any time he wants.

John Book is hot as fuck, too, even though he hardly ever gets any call-outs like Indy or Han. His awkwardness dealing with Amish culture, the carpentry, the barn raising... good God. That Amish woman missed the boat, big time. Shunning would be a small price to pay, if you ask me.

He was even hot in Witness, and he spends most of that dressed like an Amish person. But that barn raising scene... phwoar.

That was my first reaction to the new Star Wars movie- Harrison Ford can still get it. Holy hell.

Welp, later, everyone. I’ll be in my bunk.

Harrison Ford’s is pretty prominent, as well.

Yeah, not so much.

If you have access to a military base, you can also make use of their Auto Skills Center, if they have one- you can rent bays for a pittance, borrow tools and do your own repairs, just bring your own parts. I didn’t know anything about anything, but wanted to learn to change my own oil, so I went over to the Auto…

I have one and love it- if I’m walking any significant distance, I use the built-in loop to convert the bag into a backpack, which helps a lot with the weight. Otherwise I just use it as a briefcase.

I mean, if you can fall onto a woman and penetrate her, this can totally happen too, right?

Pretty sure both have extradition treaties with the US, which won’t do you any good if you’re running from the law. And based on what others who live in the same area as this douche kid and his family have said, I’m not sure they’ve got the kind of cash Austria or Hong Kong are asking (a million-plus) to buy their way…

Sorry, sentencing. But even then, he wouldn’t be able to renew his passport. You can’t get your passport renewed if you have outstanding child support payments, either.

Yeah, and they’re in Texas, right? Peacing out over the border to Mexico wouldn’t be all that difficult, though something tells me that living there is likely to get old fast.

Well, I hope this kid loves St. Kitt’s, then, because most of the places either selling passports or giving them away to people illegally aren’t generally the kind of places that the average teenager would care to spend the rest of his life.