Some People Stand In The Links

David Hasselhoff Once Gave Pam Anderson a Swimsuit Photo of Himself for Christmas. This is the most Hoff thing ever. I hope he still does it. Like I hope that's all he gets anyone for Christmas or Birthdays or Chanukah. A CD from 1997 and that picture of him in naked in front of the fireplace with the wrinkly dogs (not pictured for various google image search reasons).

Those Louis C.K. Sexual Abuse Rumors Might Actually Be True. Man, this sounds awful and I'm sure I'm being very reckless in linking to something like this that names names with out any real evidence. HOWEVER, removed from the wild speculation there's a very real story there. Some big name in comedy is totes sexually harassing/assaulting women and getting away with it because everyone is afraid for their career. It's amazing that post Cosby there's still this gross protective old boys club bullshit.

CleanBayArea on NBC to give $100,000 back to the owner of Apple 1 computer. Someone dropped off an Apple 1 at a Bay Area PC recycler. Now I understand that 4k of Ram might not be top of the line anymore but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Especially when the baby sells for six figures.

Women’s National Teams Are Now IN THE GAME In EA Sports’ ‘FIFA 16′. Cool news. I would imagine there are going to be a ladies introduced to the FIFA franchise because of this. Finally both Boys and Girls can know the frustration of the computer TOTALLY CHEATING! WHY IS THEIR KEEP SO GOOD AND MINE SUCKS SO BAD? WHY WON'T ANYONE MAKE A RUN?

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: FIFA II

It's not often that John Oliver goes back to the well, but considering the recent corruption charges against FIFA it seemed appropriate that he re-address the issue on Last Week Tonight. As usual it's pretty brilliant, I especially liked his Ke$ha analogy.

Also nice to see someone bringing up the Women's World Cup and the moronic idea of playing it on turf. The short shorts idea's not so bad though...

Campy Links

The 35 Campiest TV Movies Ever Made. I'm not sure these are the campiest EVER. I have a VHS copy of a little something called Dance 'til Dawn that stared Alyssa Milano, Christina Applegate, Brian Bloom, Tracy Gold, Kelsey Grammer, and Matthew Perry that NBC aired in 1988 that says otherwise. Ah crap... now I have to watch Dance 'til Dawn tonight. Oh well at least it's on the same tape as the Goonies.

Mark Waid & Terry Dodson Talk Star Wars: Princess Leia. I am down. Color me down. Marvel wasn't fooling around when they wrestled back the Star Wars license from Dark Horse. I might be a bit biased here because Terry and Rachel Dodson are probably my favorite penicl/ink team in comics right now but Waid and Dodson are pretty big names, bigger than a Star Wars book probably needed to succeed. As they say on the internets. Take my money please!

Strides and backslides: How to tackle diversity in comics. Hey now this is a good read. "The A.V. Club has invited three comic-book professionals to discuss the strides and backslides of diversity in the industry: Janelle Asselin (comics journalist and former DC editor), Karl Bollers (writer of Watson & Holmes and former Marvel editor), and G. Willow Wilson (award-winning novelist and writer of Ms. Marvel)."

If you have any interest in comics be sure to check it out. The insights from the creators are really fantastic. I feel like all the neckbeards wringing their hands over Lady Thor and Captain Falcon should be forced to read it. Then read it again. Then shave their neckbeards.

Kazakh teen volleyball player is turned on by her own teammates because she is so attractive. This is a fake story right? I mean I heard them talking about it on the radio but it's not real. It can't be. I'm not saying the girl is ugly or anything but have you watched women's volleyball before. It full of attractive ladies. Seriously, Logan Tom is reading this and laughing her ass off right now.

Asshole Cannot Find Pen; Writes Entire NYT Trend Piece About It. This is my favorite kind of editorial (not the takedown but the one that inspired the takedown). I don't use this/like this so therefore I predict it's demise. Hipsters always get caught up in this when they talk about the demise of broadcast TV. "I only watch Mad Men on Hulu on my macbook air, so therefore network TV is dead!" Meanwhile most of middle america still gathers around their 42" flatscreen to watch Monday Night Football like it was church.

The Pen is dead... ninja please. I can see like 5 pens just from my desk. Clearly it's just the opposite, pens are taking over the world. WHY WONT SOMEONE STOP ALL THESE PENS!

Evil Links

Horror Classic 'The Evil Dead' Coming to TV With Star Bruce Campbell. I'm not like an obsessive superfan of the Evil Dead series but I'm what you might call a pretty big fan so I'm really excited about this announcement. I have so many questions. Will it be a serialized format? Are we talking multiple seasons or is this a mini series? Is Ash the star or just a minor role? Is Bruce Campbell even playing Ash?

I fall into the camp of actually liking the remake/reboot from 2013. I thought the mythos of the Necronomicon and the time old horror trope of a cabin out in the woods is strong enough to carry a well written movie on it's own. Sure, I'd like to see a Evil Dead 4 just as much as the next nerd but I'm guessing that due to the combo of Campbell's age and Rami's success it's just not in the cards anymore. Assuming it's well done, a TV series is just fine by me.

Megan Rapinoe says playing a World Cup on turf is 'bullshit'. I think I commented on it briefly on twitter but there was a sort of underground social media movement to get the announcers for the World Cup to quit saying that Landon Donovan was the top goal scorer for the US in the World Cup and start adding a bit of a verbal astrisk by saying he was the top men's goal scorer for the US in the world cup. The point being that the women's game matters and should be recognized. The default position of Sports should be both female and male, not Sports and Women's Sports.

With that in mind FIFA is going to hold the Women's World Cup in a bunch of stadiums that use field turf. If it wasn't clear before, it is now just how much they value the women's game.

Man Who Helped Kill Women's Pro Soccer Dies While Playing Soccer. Speaking of Women's soccer, there's something in the above article on Megan Rapinoe that really bothered me. She said that FIFA just maked billions on the World Cup in Brasil, implying that surely they could spend some of that money on the Women's World Cup and find a few stadiums that have real grass. That's pretty much where I draw the line in the field turf. If women's sports are going to succeed they need to do it on their own. Click through all the links deadspin has on this article about the former owner of the Florida magicJack. Women's soccer has always had the athletes, they have the fans they just can't figure out a way to put together a sustainable league.

Ignored Comic-Con This Weekend? Here Are The 10 Most Important Things You Missed. I'll be honest, I wasn't that jazzed for Comic-Con before the weekend started and nothing I saw on the web really changed my default jazz status. Still a couple cool trailers premiered and Wonder Woman got a new outfit that sort of looks like Xena's. I guess that's something, right?

The Biggest Winners And Losers Of Comic-Con 2014! Speaking of Comic-Con. Sounds like actual comic books took an even further back seat to Hollywood this year. Like if Comic-Con was a station wagon they moved from that weird rear facing seat every wagon in the late '70s had to a trailer towed behind the wagon.

Stay Classy Lingerie Legends Football League

I was going to write a review of Iron Man 3 this morning but real life interrupted and instead you're getting a Legends Football player celebrating a tackle by twerking on her opponents head. I can't be the only one hoping that Richard Sherman does this to Michael Crabtree this year, can I?

Dunk City II

Ok so you weren't impressed with FCGU's white boys on dunk parade? I guess it's time to turn this up to 11 (on a scale of 100) with this High School girls dunk contest.

Yeesh... I'm all for kids having fun on a lowered rim. I spent an entire week of my senior year dunking on 6 graders on an 8 foot hoop (it was for a school project I swear) but I didn't do it at a pep rally full of classmates and family. And thank goodness I didn't, one of those 6th graders blocked one of my shots... To be fair she was really good, though.

The LFL is dead, long live the LFL!

After a year hiatus The Lingerie Football league is no more. However the LEGENDS Football League is totally a thing now. Gone are the skimpy uniforms, replaced by less frilly skimpy uniforms. Gone are the old team names and logos, in are the same team names and slightly different logos? I don't know, what am I the lingerie football ombudsman?

What I do know, is that only serious athletes give interviews to Fox News in their uniforms.

Serious athletes.

Impressed Links

How You’ll Watch the Olympics in 2016. Ugh, I swear if I hear more about this mythical Apple TV I'm going to puke. However, The rest of this article is right on track (pun!). By 2016 NBC will have cleaned up it's on-line streaming, monetized the shit out of it (in a way that works this time) and might even open it up for non-cable subscribers. If NBC learned one this this time around it's that they can put events live on-line and still murdalize every other Network in the ratings.

Dick Ebersol Continues NBC’s Stream of Out of Touch Retorts. Of course that doesn't mean the internet as a whole has to stop hating on NBC right now. It's 2012, the fact that they couldn't get a HD stream on-line that worked is pathetic. You would think their online presence would have been enhanced when Kabletown Comcast bought them.

McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, And Kyla Ross Are Not Impressed IRL. Oh McKayla Maroney, I'll miss you most of all.

The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade. Oh man, I want to go to an arcade so bad. Sitting on my couch slogging away at Skyrim side quests just isn't the same as putting your quarter up on Street Fighter II. Maybe Donkey Kong can be an Olympic Event by 2016. Could it really be worse than Dressage?

Better Links

6 Reasons the Olympics Needs More Bears. I would definitely replace Bob Costas with a brown bear. It's funny, a lot of people are complaining about Ryan Seacrest being added to the Olympic broadcast but I think Bob Costas is WAY worse. At least Seacrest knows he's just there for shitty personal interest stories, Bob Costas carries himself like he's the grand gatekeeper for all things Olympics. F that guy.

Why Yes, Those Claw Machines Are Rigged, Says Arcade Operator. Ok, now this is fascinating. I always knew those claw machines were rigged but I had no idea how. Read this before you drop another 50 cents at Randy's.

‘Renegade', Might Be The Greatest Show Ever. No, no it isn't. Acapulco HEAT has it beat hands down.

This week in youtube commenter outrage: The sexy athletes of the summer Olympics. Youtube commenters are both the worst and the best all at the same time. Long story short, some english magazine put together a video of attractive athletes being attractive. Some of the comments it received are epic.

Silver Medal Links

The Hater’s Guide To The 2012 London Summer Olympics. I love The Olympics but I also love people making fun of things that shouldn't be taken so seriously. "There's only one good track & field and that's Konami Track & Field. Real track & field is a drugged-up freakshow." No one denies this!

NBC Claims Opening Ceremony Was Too “Complex” to Stream Live. To be fair there was some weird symbolic nonsense going on in the opening ceremony that I probably wouldn't have gotten without the commentators help. Of course I didn't need to be talked to like I was a nine year old either. Middle ground NBC?

#NBCFail: Network’s Olympic disaster earns global social media mockery. NBC's broadcast of the London games is pretty much getting killed on twitter, facebook and tumblr. I'm pretty sure even the two guys left of friendster are upset with the live feeds. As much as us internet hipsters can't believe it, Nielsen ratings are still king. It's not really in NBC's best interest to broadcast events live, yet. Maybe in 2016 I'll finally be able to watch 8 hours of uninterrupted pole vaulting just like I could in 1992 with the wildly underated NBC ppv triple-cast.

The 11 Best US Olympian Twitter Accounts. Hope Solo is kind of a jerk, right?

Sunday Linkaroo

Shooting Survivor returns to theater to see the rest of the movie. Holy crap, this kid has some stones. I once had a roman candle blow up in my hand, and I'm still nervous around fireworks. I felt weird about seeing the movie this weekend, I can't imagine what it took to go back into a theater after actually being a part of the shooting.

5 Things Modern Kids don't understand about being a nerd. This times a billion. There's just no comparison to being a nerd in the 80s to being a "nerd" today. I can't tell you the number of times I had my pocket protector broken just because I could program in basic and liked to read comics. Ok, maybe that never happened but still. It's the principle of the matter, the principle!

Michelle Jenneke: Gorgeous Hurdler, sudden internet sensation. This story combines a ton of things I love. Track and Field, ladies, the internet... ok so that's only three. Still, depending on how deep you surf the web you might have seen something about dancing hurdler Michelle Jenneke, why not check out the post at With Leather that started it all (more or less).

Saved by the Bell's 20 Greatest Sports moments. I loved the episodes of Saved by the Bell when they tried to make Bayside look like a real school. The basketball gym with 8 foot hoops. The auto shop that had maybe 3 tools in it. The prom for 10 kids.

This list of 20 greatest sports moments really highlights some of those awful sets, plus it's a good examination of how Zack Morris is a horrible horrible person.

Treat these ladies like men damnit!

break out the photoshop, perverts.
I'll be the first to admit, I listen to WAY too much talk radio: Sports talk, political talk, Ira Glass, Johny Slapstick and his wacky morning zoo crew. If it's dudes (or ladies) talking about stupid stuff on the radio, I'm listening but lately I'm not sure I like what I've been hearing.

Apparently the US Womens National Team is getting off easy in the media because they're women. They've been cast as warriors and heroes who fell short of the goal but in reality they're underachieving losers who choked the finals away like they were playing for the Miami Heat. Because they're girls we're treating them with kid gloves and that's a sort of reverse sexism that keeps women from being mathematicians and scientists.

Bullshit.

The real reason this team hasn't been torn apart in the press/media/blogosphere is because people don't really care about women's soccer. Oh sure most sports fans care about it for 2 weeks every 4 years but for the other 1,440 days no one pays it any mind. The World Cup is sort of like the Olympics. When they're on we're all rah rah rah, but once they go away no one really cares if Bryan Clay won the decathlon (like he did in 2008) or came in 2nd (like he did in 04). As long as Bob Costas gives us a story about someone overcoming something in some amazing way, we're happy.

That's why the USWNT are being lauded as heroes because no one really cares if they win the world cup or not. We're just as happy with them coming up short to Japan (the feel good team of the tournament) in dramatic fashion. When you're not that interested in the story it doesn't have to have the perfect ending, it just has to have a compelling one. That's what the USWNT failed to achieve at the last world cup when they were bounced out in the semi-finals by Brasil.

also this World Cup.. Alex Morgan and the truffle shuffle. How can you say anything bad about that?

Everything's coming up boobs.

A baseball post? Hey, when it involves boobs I'm willing to branch out.

Last night at the old ball game a Red Sox fan decided to feel up his girl on TV. Allow me to digress here, there is no worse fan in baseball than the Red Sox fan. First off most sports fans from Boston are racist idiots who feel that winning is somehow a right of theirs since they had to live through so much losing. Oh booo hooo. Try being a sports fan from Seattle, the only team we've had win a major championship skipped town. Secondly, most Red Sox fans aren't even from Boston, have never been to Boston and wouldn't know the words to Tessie if you scrawled them across their forehead. They like cowboys fans from the 1990s. However, this guy grabbing his girlfriends boobs is a national hero.

Speaking of national heroes. There's a long standing tradition in soccer that at the end of big games players exchange jerseys. It's a pretty cool tradition, especially when you contrast it to how hateful a lot of soccer fans can be. It's also something I've never seen a women's team do, until now.



Sweedish National team star(?) Josefine Öqvist exchanged Jerseys with a very happy Germany Supporter after a game against North Korea. For whatever reason the TV station that broadcast this display of sportsmanship decided to put a giant black censor bar over her sports bra, which makes it look way pornier than it actually was.

Smashing Links

Mexican Soccer Fans are Boorish Animals. Remember the time in 2005 when Mexican fans chanted Osama during the US National Anthem? Yeah, the Gold Cup in Pasadena last weekend kinda went like that.

The loveliest ladies of the 2011 World Cup. Whatever man, I'm still pissed Lori Chalupny didn't make the squad. Seriously Shannon Boxx is like 87 years old. Why didn't they just cap Kristine Lilly again?

Social Media has overtaken Porn. The official word from whoever keeps track of these things is that people now spend more time on Facebook and Twitter than they do looking at internet porn. Porn clearly needs to try harder.

16 screencaps from Geordie Shore. Douchebags from Newcastle act like Douchebags from NJ. It's amazing... amazing how bad their English is.

Overtly sexual Serena Williams will scare you into playing video game tennis

In a country the size of the United States I'm sure you'll find at least 5 or 6 people that think Serena Williams is attractive but even they wouldn't say she's the sexiest woman in tennis. Also who is this sexiest tennis gamer chick? Should we know her? Was she chosen by some reality show on the WB that I missed?

This might be the worst execution of the idea that sex sells ever.