March 16, 2012

• Lukewarm Links 3/15

  I haven't checked the late scores yet but from what I've seen so far today I am pleased to say that my bracket is perfect.  I think in the 20 years of filling out brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament this is the first time I've ever had an opening day where I got all the games correct.  I guess there is tomorrow and I expect the axe to drop and I'll lose big.  I don't know what else to say here.  What do you want me to talk about?

  1.  This is a fun Tumblr site.  It's called The Composites.  It's a collection of sketches created by law enforcement sketch artists and the subjects are fictional characters from popular books.  The sketch of Ignatius J. Reilly is spot on how I pictured him.

  2.  I found this site on Tumblr a while back after I posted the photo of Rick Santorum with an ice cream cone.  It's called I Hope Rick Santorum. 

  3.  And here is the companion site, I Hope Barack Obama.

  4.  When I watch the teen comedies like Can't Hardly Wait or American Pie, I usually like the nerd characters.  I think that's because I am a nerd and relate so well with them in that respect.  Here's a collection of some of the best nerds on TV and in movies.  Bill Haverchuck representing!

  5.  Over the course of the day most of us eat many different foods.  Some of those foods we eat have strange side effects on us and here are some of those bizarre side effects.  I'd eat more carrots but some of the medicine I take says I can't have prolonged exposure to sun.  When I'm out for more than a minute in direct sunlight I burn.  Also I find it interesting that when I was a vegetarian was when I dated more.  Hmmm.

  6.  Years ago,  I was at home alone during Christmas break and I couldn't sleep one night and I turned on the radio to listen to this off the wall show called Coast to Coast.  It has some really interesting topics as well as some that are plain ridiculous.  Anyway this show was about rock and roll legends.  They discussed the 27 Forever Club, conspiracy theories behind the deaths of some rock stars, the Led Zeppelin curse, the Lynyrd Skynyrd curse, and the tale of Paul McCartney's death rumors.  The last bit was the most fascinating.  I had heard about the rumors surrounding the hoax but never really got into it.  During that show I ended up buying the guy's book called The Walrus was Paul and really dove into reading about this hoax.  I don't know what to think and lean more to that it was all an elaborate ruse and McCartney never died.  Now I was just tipped off to a movie about Paul McCartney really dying and it's called Paul McCartney Really is Dead and is supposedly about a lost recording of George Harrison documenting the cover-up.

  7.  In honor of the NCAA basketball tournament, here's a list of colleges with geographically challenged names.  I was surprised East Carolina didn't make the list.  I also should say the Big Ten should make the list because there are 12 schools in the conference but that would be mathematically challenged.

  8.  I enjoy the professional wrestling and ever since I can remember there has always been something there to counteract all the homo-eroticism of men rolling around wearing spandex.  That something is the diva.  There are women in wrestling and they usually are seen as pieces of property fought over much like the title belts.  Anyway not wanting to start any Xanga drama, here's a collection of the 19 greatest divas in wrestling history.

  9.  Do you enjoy The Hunger Games?  Are you getting married soon and haven't done much for planning?  Well this site can help you.  It's Hunger Games related wedding ideas.  Stuff like that is why I'm single.

  10.  Also in honor of the NCAA basketball tournament...wait, no, this is just something I want to complete my men cave/den.  I'd rather call it a den because I really hate that term "man cave".  It just sounds skeevy.  It's called a Dream Arcade.  Basically it's an old school video game from an arcade and you can have them custom built.  I have heard of some of them being able to be built with a refrigerator unit so you could have a keg inside and have a beer tap on the side.  How awesome would that be?  And that is another reason I'm single.

  11.  Game of the week: Kanye Zone.  Your mission is to keep Kanye West from entering the zone.

  12.  Have you ever wanted to insult someone but you could think of something on your own and you wanted to use an insult that Martin Luther once used?  Well you will enjoy the Lutheran Insulter.  It contains some of the reformers best insults and you can randomly generate the insults for multiple uses.  I can't find the insult Luther wrote to the Pope that told him to shit in his papal hat and roll it around to fashion a necktie.  Such an eloquent speaker.  All I can find is this quote about how Luther handles the devil coming to him making him think of his sins: "Sweet devil, I know the whole list. But I have done even more sin which is not on your list. Write there also that I have shit in my breeches. Hang it around your neck and wipe your mouth on it.”

  
  My hometown newspapers are exactly like this.  Daily papers once a week.
  
  I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
  
  HAHAHAHA...Forrest you got served!  Served...the kids are still saying that, right?
  
  So then why would you want to get the taste out of your mouth if that's how you have to do it?
  
  True...at least better than Montana.
  
  Sigh...I'm getting so old.
  
  Even those fucking otters have someone.
  
  And because I laugh at this tells me why I am single
  
  Ummm...white Russians?
  
  I used to love History Channel when it had history and Hitler...now...ugh...and I had History International and that was awesome, it was ALL history and then they screwed that up by calling it H2 and it's now nothing but aliens and alligator shit.
  
  I'm looking forward to Saturday.
  
  Xanga, you are truly a delight.  I've been going through some weird stuff again and you are there for me.  Thank you.

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