If any Russian officials are reading this, I would like to state for the record that I have no involvement with or knowledge of Russian sports training regimens and I am especially ignorant of PED’s.

There’s a really great story about him being awesome at Behind Closed Ovens. Basically he didn’t realize the restaurant he brought his family to was closing in 15 minutes, kept them all an hour or so after close, then sort of realized and asked what time they closed. He was distraught at having kept them all past…

Before you ever start drinking, make sure you know exactly how many you’re going to have

I love the “But a helmet makes me sweat so much” argument as well. Wanna know what’s even hotter on your head than a helmet? The friction generated between your head and asphalt when your crash.

amen

When this show premieres six other versions of it will happen in separate timelines.

Yes, but George, when you ruin your children, sometimes the state has to take them away from you for their own welfare.

I love his Sith Lord tantrums too. He just comes off as unhinged and petulant, which makes sense of your power comes from negative feelings. You would basically end up being a teenager with a light Saber.

He’s a fully fleshed CHARACTER and they hired a great ACTOR to portray him. I think a smart thing they did was allow him to take the helmet off at pivotal moments so you could really empathize with both actors in the scene.

During the pivotal scene where *******BIGGEST SPOILER OF THE MOVIE******** I just thought to myself, “holy shit Adam Driver is a good actor.” So impressed, dare I say I think he holds more villain potential than Darth Vader (ok please don’t internet punch me).

This may be me nerd-ing into the film a bit too much, but this feeling he was able to re-create is “Home”. JJ and the performances took us home. The prequels felt foreign, stoic, unwieldy, and were definitely not home. Also, that concept of establishing or finding “home” was articulated repeatedly in the movie: “Bring…

Saw it last night and adored it. Rey and Finn are a fantastic duo and Daisy Ridley deserves a lot of credit for how great it was. She has a very expressive face and she used it well.

Summer Hits of the 90s is my favorite pandora channel. Yeah. I still use Pandora.

One of my favorite pictures of the F-117

Long Live the 1992-95 music scene.

Yeah, I’m good with my Dadrock. Wilco and Foo Fighters put out an album and EP respectively that were both great.

Weis and Hickman books

Call if a phoenix all you want but that’s a goddamn dragon, and I’ve got the huge stack of Weis and Hickman books in my childhood bedroom to testify to my authority in this matter.

Man if only Jalopnik had an aviation-themed sub-blog, with a pilot-rated author who could go fly this and write a review.