I teased my younger son that maybe we’d skip opening weekend. He took it in stride, but when I found the cat nailed to my bedroom door, I got a little nervous. J/k. I wasn’t nervous at all.

Yeah, the post-credits from GotG2 was exciting, and then nothing in Infinity War. It left me perplexed. Like, how is Adam Warlock going to get involved and bring that satyr-looking dude around if he isn’t in the movies? Why bring up a reference to a character who is intimately intertwined with the Thanos story and…

Not to be too serious, or too comic-book nerdy, but I think Gamora’s going to come back in a manner reminiscent of Adam Warlock’s return in the comics—the ones before even “Infinity Gauntlet” was written. Warlock was living in the soul gem and came out of it and ended up turning Thanos to stone.

Apropos:

This is terrible! Surrender Nada, man. Alpha O. Nickelberry III is a poseur.

That is some real high-grade horse malarkey there. Surrender Nada is a way of life. Surrender Nada is the truth, the light, and the life. We Surrender Nada!

Exactly. Surrender Nada better not lose this early. 

Because Storm Duck. Deadspin believes!

Don’t you know how many days are in a week, bro?

I was only being slightly snarky, and I appreciate your response, because I have the same gut feeling that capitalism is just another tool. It’s one of those “it’s the worst economic system except for all the others” kinds of things (cf Churchill on democracy, right?). The problems of capitalism aren’t necessarily…

What do you think “late stage capitalism” is other than “how much can we make off of the lowest possible investment?”

But it’s still in the same vein as what Albert’s talking about--over a century of construction.

Missed ya over the weekend, Barry. This is a gem for the rot of most sports talk:

Never forget:

I dare you to tell Pat Riley he wasn’t the GM in Miami. I know everyone likes to say this, but LeBron is not the de facto coach/GM where ever he goes. The problem has been that only Riley and Spoelstra (mostly because of Riley’s backing) have really been “powerful enough” (within the context of the organization) to…

So by dint of not being pure nonsense, it’s now among the top 0.01%  of intellectually rigorous tweets, I guess. Weird world, man.

This is so much better an article than the tired, tired takes of “Virginia basketball is boring, except when it’s not.”

Oh my, you cruel bastard, you. I...I think I want that, too, now. That rage could fuel Albert’s writing for the next 6-8 years!

I don’t want to get divorced, and my wife isn’t moving to “places where you don’t melt into a puddle by mid July”, unfortunately. Not a fan of the climate, metaphorically or literally, but I’m stuck and it’s home and blah-blah-blah. You don’t get to judge me!

Peyote-Capote, I guess. The last two syllables rhyme, not the first one. Listen, all I care about is how cool Storm Duck is.