So Messi is supposed to be exquisitely aware of the entirely opaque aversion to shoes in their culture (which he is not a part of), but they aren’t expected to understand that he is unfamiliar with that quirk of their culture and refrain from losing their collective shit? Who gives a fuck if someone was offended over…

Well, thank God I’ll be able to take better-lit selfies. What kid of caveman world have we been living in.

I tore the labrum in my throwing shoulder a few years ago and have put off getting it fixed (even though it’s much less invasive than a rotator cuff, less rehab, too). The doctor told me no overhand throwing but I’ve played baseball, softball, thrown a football with the neighborhood kids, etc. Doesn’t hurt too bad at…

I’ve learned to never run a speed test on my comcast signal. It just gives me a rage stroke and I get really motivated to find an alternative, which does not exist currently. Then I get all philosophical about how slow internet is a first world problem and all is well (I really SHOULD read more books), til ten minutes…

So the corniest pussy in the world, who has no discernible athletic ability himself, is shit-talking a guy who makes lots of money playing basketball professionally. Makes sense.

“Crush” is pretty hard to define but I encounter 2-3 women a day that, were I single, I would most likely think about hitting on. I was single till I was 39 so that mindset is hard to turn off. There are a couple places I go to for lunch for no other reason than there are women I have a crushes who work there. Some of…

This Anker has been really solid for us:

This Anker has been really solid for us:

Fucking BYU has been doing this kind of shady shit for decades. Several years ago their receivers got caught on microphone calling Wyoming’s DBs niggers. If you grew up in a Mormon community it’s no surprise whatsoever. I went to high school with dozens of these macho shitheads. They casually drop every racial slur…

Nailed it.

Holy shit do I agree with the multiple text for a simple thing. My goddamn phone beeps five times in succession (which constitutes blowing my phone up) and I assume that there are planes flying into buildings.

I’ll be the first to admit I proudly know nothing about science fiction. I’m talking about art, you’re talking about influence and you don’t seem to know the difference. That Star Wars is some artistic masterpiece is just fucking laughable. Just enjoy it, man. Don’t worry about me taking it personally, I’ve spent…

Let’s just drop it then. I could care less about all this technical shit you’re evidently hung on anyway. I’ve spent more time thinking about Star Wars in a day than I wanted to in my entire life.

Apocalypse Now is a modern adaptation of the Josef Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness”, which involves questions about Europeans’ enslavement of Africans in the Congo and the descent into madness of a man caught up in the enslavement of other human beings. Coppola also made it a comment on the war in Viet Nam. Heart of…

Ok, I’ll grant you that point because I know next to nothing about science fiction movies. But, again, I reject the premise altogether. Influence is not a measure of artistic merit. It can be. Picasso is incredibly influential, the Beatles are incredibly influential, Beethoven is incredibly influential. But so are…

And just as a side note, if you really think that Lucas is on a level that Coppola can dream of that’s just a sign that you’re heavily biased toward science fiction. The Godfather pictures alone are among the most influential films ever made.

Fair enough, but saying something is influential and saying something has artistic merit are two different things. The Kardashians are wildly influential. Damien Hirst is influential. Star Wars was wildly popular and influential, but it’s also pulpy, science fiction story telling which doesn’t make it bad but the idea…

We’ll agree to disagree on Lucas being a good director at some point. But I’ll admit that I’m largely immune to the Star Wars phenomenon. Even the revered movies from the 70’s don’t really do much for me. And I think it’s undeniable that Coppola (especially at that time) was, and remains, on a completely different…

The movie was awesome, and even the movie about the mess surrounding the movie was a good movie. But Coppola is on a completely different artistic level (especially back then) than Lucas could ever dream of.

The take home here is that we were spared a Lucas-directed Apocalypse Now. Thank God Coppola didn’t miss out on that one.

I like boxing as much as anyone and I really have no interest in this rematch. The original fight was boring garbage. Neither actually deserved to win and Fury is an insufferable clown.