These two will forever be my favorites

Akira Kurosawa became famous after he won the Golden Lion for Rashomon, and he had no idea until his wife told him after a phone call. An Italian weeb named Giuliana Stramigioli had privately lobbied for it to be entered in the 1951 Venice Film Festival. Without her, Kurosawa isn't a household name.

*Cut to the Apollo 13 crew nodding*

Jalen Hurts has had a different offensive coordinator every year since he was at Alabama. Maybe, juuuuuust maybe, it's far more impressive that he's had to learn and adjust to a new offensive scheme every single year than any holes in his game tactically.

Bolivia gave it absolutely everything to try and equalize, but Iraq's back line was sensational in the 2nd half. Huge congrats to them as the final qualifier. Bolivia will be back. And they're no longer the altitude merchants. They've got something with their young generation.

Search your camera roll for "fool"

Apropos of nothing, Tyler Terens' play-by-play Warren Barton's color commentary during this Bolivia-Iraq match has been phenomenal. Engrossed by the game, and the tactical discussions have been on point. Hope this crew is getting World Cup matches.

In recent years, Wingspan. A friend put it in our Extra Life rotation a few years back, and you would not believe how hype it gets you over birds.

Doing this at 41 is legitimately insane

What an incredible piece of play from Iraq following the injury. Aymen Hussein struck that pure.

I want to be diplomatic: If we concede it is hard to shake off internet hatred, it is likewise unfair to expect a group of people who will be arrested for existing in 4% of the country and who just watched the highest court in the land rule that their abuse is a free speech issue to shake that off.

LOL YUP

Oh My God.... Italy are really going to blow it again

That is a horrid miss by Matthias Jensen

What a tackle by the referee to win that possession for Italy

I would urge y'all to consider 2 things: 1. Think about the month LGBTQ folks has *just had* - Trans people being made illegal in KS & ID, and now this ruling. They are scared. Scared people act out. 2. It is, among other things, of weak will to take your ball and go home during an autocracy.

Crab Soup in Santa Fe (And only barely survived the food poisoning).

30K out of work, and that's *still* not going to help the Ellisons with the fact that their debt got downgraded twice in the last month and is being treated by investment banks like it's nuclear waste.

An old friend from college did the fight choreography for Hundreds of Beavers. It's an amazing movie for myriad reasons, but the fight scenes are easily some of the best work in the film.

Well if the last 20 years are any indication, and least Italy is already getting used to watching terrible football.

A few personal Favorites: "The Rock has become a tourist attraction?" "...It's an Executive Decision now..." "Either they don't know, or don't show, or just don't care... about bein' a menace to South Central while they drink their juice in the hood."

The peak of Grunge, Hip-Hop, Nu Metal, Trance, Jungle, D&B, Trip Hop, and Old School House

Lajon Witherspoon Chris Cornell Richie Havens Robert Plant Scott Weiland

Aretha Franklin Billie Holiday Janis Joplin Carole King Skin

Duke has played Uconn in the NCAA tournament three times in the last thirty years They have lost all 3 games by a COMBINED 5 points 1999: 77-74 2004: 79-78 2026: 73-72

Now ask it about Derry

Yeah, but think of the tax rates!

There is no Community Chest, just a growing stack of debt obligations

1. This isn't preservation; it's destruction. 2. Archivists know what they're doing

The Golden State Warriors fell into the greatest shooter of all time, one of the two best catch-and-shoot players of all time, and one of the greatest defensive forwards of all time, so everyone else in basketball decided, "Hey, we can do that too!"

To clarify: "Should" isn't serving as an ethical imperative here; it's an appraisal of where the market and the tech is headed.

The Future of AI Should Be the Grave

Oh wow, Tudor somehow tied Brian Clough's Leeds United stint to the day. Spurs are a complete mess.

Never knew Luciano Pavarotti was a Kryptonian

Universal Basic Income; Require fossil fuel companies pay back every dollar they've been subsidized with interest; significant criminal penalties for white collar crimes; repossess every golf course for conversion into arable land or for rewilding; ban country clubs.

"Wow. Turns out when we start one of these things, we're pretty good!" I love Oscar so much

Bearman hit 50G on the impact; somehow no fractures, but I have a feeling he's headed for an MRI. He's a tall guy; would not be surprised if it was knee/ligament related, but no further news yet.

Sincerely hope that's not a long-term injury for Ollie Bearman, but that's also one of the most violent crashes I've seen in the 2020s. Not Grosjean at Bahrain or Zhou at Silverstone levels, but he's clearly injured.

*Looks around the situation room somberly; removes glasses* "Gentlemen... This war don't sex."

Would be hilarious if it wasn't going to be so damaging to the kids who are enrolled. As an aside: I always understood the whole scheme of private schools to be, "We've cloistered the actual ability to educate so that we can bleed the public system and justify making working class education worse."

Proposing we call this the Harry Potter Effect: When the long-term impacts of something seemingly innocuous wind up being unfathomably terrible or harmful.

Unfair question for anyone who was a kid in the 1990s, because it's Ken Griffey Jr. and Cal Ripken Jr.

Gutting

To penalties we go. What a match this has been.

Smodics knocked out, clear concussion. Absolutely terrifying to witness. He was absolutely out before he hit the ground, too...

Extra Time in Prague

That goal was 40 minutes in the making from Czechia. Stellar header from Krejci. 2-2

Molumby off the post! He's been sensational today, deserved that one

2-1 at the break. Fantastically entertaining half between Ireland and Czechia. Extremely physical throughout

Ireland 2-1 Czechia Schick cool as ice from the spot. Game on.