My kid was in Reykjavik for one of the opening round matches, and watched it in a central square with a shitload of other people. Maybe they all left their home TVs on and tuned to the wrong channel just to fuck with the system.

It’s weird, because Terry Austin was the inker for that as well as pretty much all the other issues around then, and nobody looks like that elsewhere. I wonder if Byrne got carried away trying to do Trudeau and carried it over to the others he was doing at the same time.

Fun fact: In the following issue of X-Men (121), Byrne drew himself having dinner with a lady named Darice, when the window beside them shatters because the X-Men and Alpha Flight are having a fight. Darice was (is, I imagine, still) a real person, and a friend had once proposed to her, while he was under the…

It’s also often very spontaneous. Yes, you’ve felt like crap for a long time and often contemplated it, but the decision to do it is new. A relative recently tried to commit suicide, and the regret was (truly) instantaneous, such that said relative’s parents were immediately alerted and things worked out for the…

Except the guy who broke in likely did it himself, rather than having assistants do it.

It’s not that much effort to lick the cat’s face, is it?

Many (good lord, TOO many) years ago I did night time ride along with a buddy in the RCMP, and we answered a call for a break-in at an apartment. 12yo girl living with her big sis (only 18 or 19), opened the closet door and found a strange man standing there. Happy for all involved, he took off, but holy shit, I was…

PBS Nova did a show called “Operation Lighthouse Rescue” where they lifted and moved one single but old lighthouse, using modern tech. Fascinating and very slow, careful work. Can be watched online, I believe.

Or to put it another way, I read she was banned from 20% of the US. Which makes it sound a little harsher.

No, take the Icelandic. Insane, and I worry for his voice for the next game.

Apparently 8% of the population is in France. My son was just in Iceland last week and told me that 8% probably didn’t make a difference in how empty so much of the country felt.

“...Wales makes it to the finals of their very first major tournament.”

FIFA doesn’t much care for the Olympics, because it doesn’t control what happens there (read: filthy lucre) and because they don’t want it to rival the World Cup. The best they can do is manage how the teams are structured, which is why a team is restricted to U23 players, with 3 ringers who can be older than 23 added…

My misreading led to that, apparently. But it wouldn’t have been a “surprise” to us if we’d seen her get a response.

Sansa sat down and wrote a letter either one or two eps before (I have them on my PVR, saved for a wayward son, but am too lazy to go looking for that right now). There was nothing definitive, but I looked at my wife right then and told her that was a letter about to travel via raven to Littlefinger.

Now that Rickon is dead he can appear in the Prometheus sequel. He already has the “running in a straight line” vibe going for him.

Felt like they took their cue from certain soccer catastrophes, which I imagine might be hard from some people to watch. Stunning stuff, and it even left me shaking.

And twice good looking.

A current article from the Guardian:

I’m in Canada. I do know Americans along the border who can watch it, and I’ve heard of others who try to stream them. Having lived in the US during one Olympics, before the internet made these things easy, I recall how frustrating it was. Now I can turn to NBC, laugh, then flip back.