Come on, the pigeons helped there.

I don’t even know if I was thinking about this when I made my earlier comment but yeah, I lost my older sister when she was 21 and I was 19. That was 26 years ago but of course I still get the question sometimes: “So were you an only child or do you have siblings?” I often won’t tell the truth if I’m just meeting…

“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

Weta has cited the film Smaug as being 130 meters.

Wow, he handled that like a champ.

The “batter’s eye” is the term for the unadorned space, be it a wall or empty portion of seats, in dead center field. It’s a part of the stadium that’s an intentionally “neutral” element with regards to the batter’s vision when he’s looking at the pitcher so as to eliminate potential distractions. The idea is that…

Piles of burned horse carcasses outside some towns, like Valentine.

A drop kick really is a terrible way to actually try to hurt someone.

Skooma should be legalized. Just saying.

I’m a bit amazed that we’re on the verge of having self-driving cars and yet we can’t let a computer handle a few hundred trains operating on rails.

This song has a lot of problems: the video is a cliche to the point it would be too exhausting to even call it pretentious, she’s so overproduced that it’s a stretch to actually say she’s singing, and of course it has that “white person reggae” thing going on.

Or letting your food get cold as you spend five minutes taking pictures and posting them to various social media with appropriately enthusiastic yet aloof captions.

“Inland Empire” is forever the funniest name to me.

Seriously, that kid can rake.

What are the odds we get two Deadspin articles about centaurs in one day?

While I agree, I have to disagree with Barry’s terminology. The Penguins have currently been hyperswept. In order, a team can be:

Why don’t the Avengers have any detectives on their team? The Justice League has at least three: Batman, Elongated Man, and, well, Detective Chimp, and also a police forensics chemist in the Flash. Aren’t detective skills useful for fighting crime? Don’t the Avengers want to fight crime?

UH OH

Diamondbacks versus the Ozzie Albies in cricket? Crikey, what a chazzwozzer!

Dropped passes are recorded in football. Turnovers are tracked in both the NBA and NHL. Are you suggesting that fielding errors are primarily the pitcher’s fault?