Matt Molina

Father to an amazing cheerleader & to a hell of a soccer player/goalie. Long time P1 @dfwticket. Supporter of Cowboys, Mavs, Rangers, Stars, Arsenal, FC Dallas

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Roberto Carlos 1997 freekick illustrating the Magnus effect.

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@japan_nobunaga B, Texas

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

It was two in the morning, the hour when even the bravest samurai retires to his bedroll, yet here, a fortress of light beckoned me from the darkness.

Every castle I have ever known has fallen. Fire, siege, taxes. Eight hundred years of my family learning one lesson: nothing stays open forever.

This house has never closed.

Not for storms. Not for holidays. Not for the hour when even the moon looks tired. I asked the waitress when they lock the doors.

"We don't have locks, hon."

No locks. I own walls, moats, and a sword older than this country, and I have never once said anything that powerful.

Inside, a cook was scraping the grill at 2 a.m. with the calm of a man guarding something. I asked if he was the night watch.

"I'm Darnell."

A trucker two stools down raised his coffee. "Place stayed open during the hurricane," he said. "FEMA's got a whole index about it."

An index. The government of this nation measures disasters by whether THIS HOUSE is still standing. In Japan, we measured a clan's strength by its castle. Same thing. Theirs serves waffles.

I ordered. I ate. I confess what happened next.

I did not want to leave. The night outside was large. The booth was warm. I am a grown warrior, and I sat in a yellow fortress at 3 a.m. feeling protected by hash browns.

A castle does not promise to stand forever. It simply leaves the lights on.

I drive past at night now. Just to check. The lights are always on.

Sentries of the griddle — I see you. Hold the line.

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

This is the bonus World Cup coverage that will be remembered

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

🇺🇸 @StuHolden saw this @USMNT beauty developing way down the field

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@lukewarmtallboy @Travel_Cowboy @mexican_junior @JustinMonty @dfwticket Suite-pee
Sugar
Spiders
Suggestions
DDevil
Peephole
Know

And that’s just the first album. Aerials is their best effort in my opinion

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@Travel_Cowboy @lukewarmtallboy @mexican_junior @JustinMonty @dfwticket Aerials a deep cut?!?!? And they have ONE….JFC, tell me you don’t know anything about System of a Down without telling me you don’t know anything about System of a Down…

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

USA vs Paraguay in 4 hours

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The streets will never forget

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

⚡️ STATIC-X released their debut single, "Push It," on this day in 1999.⁠

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@lukewarmtallboy @mexican_junior @Travel_Cowboy @SportsWookiee41 @blindnello

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

Pretty dang cool

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

ANTONEE ROBINSON WITH AN ABSOLUTE BANGER AGAINST GERMANY.

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

This was the day where I wished nothing but failure for LeBron and Wade.

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

This is awesome

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@savAnacondaDont “They bussed her in from Dallas!!” Ahahahahaha

[Matt Molina @MattMMolina]

@savAnacondaDont Any time he brings up churro’s it triggers laughter immediately

[Dallas Stars History @dalstarshistory]

On this day in 1998 (6/3/1998), Jamie Langenbrunner scored from a slapshot at center ice in overtime to defeat the Detroit Red Wings, 3-2. The win helps the Dallas Stars hold off elimination in the Western Conference Finals.

#TexasHockey

[The Football Era @Footballera0]

Damn this is insane. Literally painted the whole city red 🔴