Apropos of nothing, the player who might become Barcelona’s first bona fide homegrown star since Messi is only there because a communist mayor welcomed an immigrant family from Guinea.

To be fair, he might have a point there. I guess it just depends on your interpretation of ‘system’. Or ‘works’. Or ‘better’.

Espanyol has historically been pro-government/Spanish establishment, which is why they’ve always been viewed as traitors by many Catalans/Barca people.

Oh Xavi knows exactly who’s signing his checks.

I don’t want to dive too deeply into this, but Espanyol fans have, historically, been pro-Spain and anti-independence, while Barcelona fans have been the opposite.

LeBron James has proactively not taken a stand. 

Can’t La Liga stick to sports?

we had to call an ambulance, which was shitty since we were all not of legal drinking age

knee caps kinda float. it’s just a bone that’s kept in place by cartilage.

Kneecap. 

Fuck Thursday Night Football and goddamn everything right now!!!

But for real our 7mo has just recently decided to go on a bottle strike and apparently he's an adult now who only eats solid foods and I am... not a fan of solid poop. I dream/dread of the day we potty train him, and so I'll be bookmarking this for sure.

This comment needs more love. Kudos!

Yeah, so can I.

A sea shanty is where you sleep when you’re not out singing sea chanteys.

My maternal grandfather was a lumberjack in Maine, if that counts for anything. I can see the combination of taciturn and half-crazy.

I’ll be curious to see how much research they did trying to capture the culture versus just doing the stereotypes of it (which admittedly sound amusing.) I’m not sure what’s available historically, but there’s certainly some: Brits had their lighthouse service going long past the last automation in the United States…

I agree. I’ve been hankering for this picture ever since I saw the first photo of Dafoe and Pattinson.

Man, the build-up to actually seeing this thing feels like an eternity. And not in a ‘I have seen the trailer for ‘Knives Out’ before every single goddamn movie I’ve seen for the last six months’ kind of way. This thing hits all of my film nerd buttons, hard. I want it in my brain!