When I did my first jump I forgot to arch my back: greenbluegreenbluegreenblue and on and on while I spun in the air. Then my chute opened and it was mildly tangled, but enough to make me worry that I should consider cutting loose and falling with my emergency spare. But then I realized that if I pulled myself up and…

You mean he made the argument that last year’s champs couldn’t beat a team of 11 that has only scored more than 1 goal one other time this season, and that was against Aston Villa. Which scored 2 against LFC. He’s doing a good job selling Chelsea’s quality.

Didn’t pass us by. I was 15, and of the group of 7 close friends, I think 5 had the album. Months went by when hanging out at one of those houses would see this slip onto the turntable at some point.

Is that the stadium where Kurt Russell played when his dad owned the team?

Some of the worst ever? I think we could ask some astronauts about their hot take on some England PKs over the years.

I was going to say in Portland it’ll be American beer and therefore quite light, but something something craft beer ran through my head, and it occurred to me I might be wrong.

I think I pulled something laughing at that one.

That said, he did look like he belonged when he played for Italy. Sometimes you can’t get that cup of coffee because the decision makers have decided to shut you out, whether or not it makes sense.

No shit. I wear volleyball kneepads when keeping.

My son plays for a private academy team, and also the mediocre game they call high school soccer up here. These are from two slide tackles on turf in a high school game last week. The one below the knee seeped for about three days.

The Pickup Artist. Why I didn’t walk out on Prometheus and Star Trek Into Darkness I will never know. Also, somehow I sat through Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video, which is the only movie I’ve ever seen to result in a “Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back” marquee the next week. For a different movie, natch.

This song will always be my Pavlovian response any time I read or hear about Skylab:

The box is made of wood. It was a beaver. Obviously, they gave it a key before sending it up.

This will be a difficult year to pick a winner for visual effects, but right now I’m leaning towards The Walk, just because of how real it felt, how much it pulled me in and made me fear for my own life.

I’d love to see Slow West get some sort of nod. Also, Ian McKellen for Mr. Holmes.

I used to think reference librarians could feasibly be the coolest people at a party (“Guess what I had to find out today!”). And then I married a librarian, and discovered that at parties they mostly talk the sort of shop that makes my eyes glaze over. Like every other job.

Which is why it’s clear the comment earlier was from Herzog, using a pseudonym.

Yeah, for sure, because Wrightson emulated as well.

Yup, first thing that crossed my mind as well. You could do worse than emulate a master like Wrightson.

This happened to me when I was 13 and my family flew to the Bahamas to visit family for Christmas. I was feeling sick and could feel the puke pressure building, so I grabbed my bag and someone had already used the damn thing. Happily, I was sitting beside my mother the nurse, who had nerves and a stomach of steel. She…