I still felt bad for him when he lost that staring contest with Rey.

Greg - if you can find it, check out this book by Jeffrey Vallance http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31481870?…. He’s got an essay in there that connects obsessions like searching for Bigfoot and seeing symbols in the eyes of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It’s pretty great.

Dubya was definitely wearing a listening device during that one debate and being fed responses by Karl Rove.

Thought you didn’t have the rights to show Ben Affleck’s back tattoo?

Heaven’s Gate, Michael Cimino’s film, almost brought down a whole studio it went so far over budget.

Or the extended sequence in the middle of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Turner: “Watch me yule.”

What about apology note templates? Yom Kippur’s just around the corner...

What were the first III?

It was fascinating to watch his BYU/SDSU matchups with Kawhi Leonard the year before they both turned pro. Jimmer was a national figure at that point, on SporsCenter all the time, and Kawhi was loved in San Diego, but barely known to anyone else, it seemed. They played two incredible games at the end of the season,…

It’s always a good fight when the pens clear out.

Duckface Dynasty

Agreed. Here are the other two:

Here’s a fun poster I saw in a Chicago coffeeshop - not sure if it’s the actual Italian poster, but it definitely plays up the ties between Star Wars & Spaghetti Westerns:

Here’s the chain of influence, as I understand it: Kurosawa was influenced by John Ford films (particularly the ones with John Wayne); Sergio Leone was influenced by Kurosaw (his Clint Eastwood/No Name character is basically a westernized version of Toshiro Mifune’s in Yojimbo & Sanjuro); Lucas was influenced by Leone…

Michael B. Jordan is wearing a Jumpman hoodie.

“Pics and it didn’t happen.”

The poor intern who had to put that order in at Kinkos...

“What’s the big deal?”

It looks like a contemporary Norman Rockwell painting/social commentary.