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Pele. The one man in the world who could get Americans to care about soccer in the 1970s.
 
Rest in peace, sir. 

I dunno... It seems like the kind of sign that penguins would put up as a trick...

9-Year-Old Boy Keeps Getting In Trouble For Doodling In Class, Eventually Gets A Job Decorating The Walls Of A Restaurant
 

I thought LaGrange was in Texas. That's what ZZ Top says, anyway.

Sad to hear, but 12 years, 150 games, that's a long time to pound and be pounded.  He's always come across as one of the Good Guys.

There's also this:
 

It's just they're terribly comfortable - I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.

One of my favorite panels feels relevant. 
 

Been catching up on Stargirl. Another reason for hating the takeover from Nextar of the WB brand. Stargirl has remained really good, to me at least. It has retained that hopefulness we saw in the earlier Supergirl series and apparently two of the last season episodes (before they realized they were making their last season, so might not have wasted the episodes) were setting up an Infinity Inc. series with Jade, Obsidian and Sand as members and The Shade on his redemption run mentoring them. but alas, not to be.

...yet...

Tonight's game is Jets vs Jaguars
 
 

https://www.espn.com/soccer/brazil-bra/story/4836397/soccer-legend-pele-to-spend-christmas-in-hospital-after-cancer-worsens

After further review, I have concluded that the Lateral Fail at the end of the Patriots-Raiders game is probably the dumbest play in the history of organized football.

Titans let the Chargers drive 52 yards in 40 seconds, with no time outs, to kick the game winner.
 
Meanwhile, the Raiders win on a play that simply CANNOT be described.  I have NEVER, EVER seen it before.  YOU MUST FIND THE HIGHLIGHT.
 
It's the most Raideresque play EVER...it makes the Immaculate Reception look planned.  But the Raiders are on the plus side.
 
Wow.  Titans and Pats become major losers on the day.  And y'know who ELSE is only a game out?  Jacksonville!!!!

RDJ agreed to a lowball $500k up front in exchange for something like 5% of net on the back end.  Then he and Jeff Bridges went and ad-libbed the first IM which I don't think ever had a final script.
 
 
Cavill was great in Count of Monte Cristo, one of those guilty pleasure films that had no business being as good as it was.
 
 
If you look at the performances of Natalie Portman and SLJ in the prequels, there's no question it was bad direction.  (Actually as I understand it Lucas' problem was a lack of direction, like he basically just expected the actors to show up in front of the green screen and turn the lines he'd writtten into Shakespeare.)
 
 
DC's problem is, and has always been, that the suits are in charge and there's no one with a good grasp of the source material and a coherent vision.  So the DCEU has been plagued with studio interference and constant changes of direction.  WW only succeeded because studio management for once had a clue and realized they could not meaningfully contribute to a film with a strong female lead, so they left Patty Jenkins alone.  But people forget how fraught WW was to produce--it was the studio's third run at making any WW film, and Snyder's casting of Gal Gadot in JL was sharply criticized.  (Which would probably have been less intense if we'd known who the other potential casting choices were.)
 
Ironically WW benefited in a way from the grimdark DCEU, as it gave a contrasting background against which to show this lighthearted idealistic heroine.  Seriously Diana is the only thing about WW that isn't grimdark, it's literally WWI ffs.

A lot of guys that refer to themselves as 'alpha males' make me think of the term 'alpha' in a software context, where alpha code is unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

Probably most of it, I mean Natalie Portman has demonstrated that she can act quite well, in other stuff.  In the prequels she was a block of wood.