‘PEDOBEAR’ IS NOT IN THE OLYMPICS

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 1 comment

Our latest media snafu comes from the Polish-language newspaper of Olsztyn, which Wikipedia tells us is the 21st-largest city in Poland. I guess the Poles like their sports news a bit creepier than we do stateside, as they included Pedobear in their Olympic preview. The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine...

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‘MR BELDING’ SIGNED MY SHIRT

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 1 comment

I might have mentioned that I spent last weekend in Las Vegas for the Trash Talk Championship of the World, which to my surprise was neither full of trash-talk nor worldly. But it was a very good time, and I’m thankful for Victory Poker and Greasie Wheels for bringing us out there, and for the Hard Rock for having us. Since my travel...

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LINKS AND SWINE FLU AVAILABLE HERE

via Gamma Squad on Feb 9, 2010 | 4 comments

ABOVE: Walgreens put stickers on products around the store to advertise their swine flu vaccines. Your cunning plan, I don’t believe you thought it all the way through. [via Neatorama] A compilation of mirror cliches in horror movies. [Filmdrunk] Favorite comics turned into generic TV show pitches. I’d watch a TV show where...

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: IMMINENT FAILURE

via Warming Glow on Feb 9, 2010 | 10 comments

Past Life (Fox) — Series premiere. From Yahoo: “Dr. Kate McGinn, a paranormal psychologist who studies the soul, and Price Whatley, a skeptic NYPD detective who tolerates nothing but hard facts, join forces to solve ancient mysteries. By delving into clients’ past lives and out-of-body experiences, the pair cracks cases that have...

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VIKING LARP ACTION COMEDY LOOKS BAD ASS

via Film Drunk on Feb 9, 2010 | 86 comments

(Trailer contains some naughty language, so shield your ears or put in your tampon or whatever) While we all wait for Mel Gibson’s Viking epic starring Leonardo Caprio, a movie called The Wild Hunt from director Alexandre Franchi is currently playing the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Finally, a film about Viking LARP (Live Action Role...

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AND NOW, GRATUITOUS SHOTGUNS

via Warming Glow on Feb 9, 2010 | 14 comments

Okay, okay! I take it back! This chicken is delicious. Below is the second trailer for FX’s “Justified” (watch the first one here), starring Timothy Olyphant as a Kentucky lawman and debuting March 16th. This one’s not quite as cool as the first trailer, but it does offer a bloodier, shotgunnier glimpse of the show....

WHUH? CHRIS NOLAN TO “MENTOR” NEW SUPERMAN MOVIE

via Film Drunk on Feb 9, 2010 | 23 comments

Chris Nolan is rightfully considered a God among nerds for resurrecting the Batman franchise Joel Schumacher killed, burned, and pissed on. Naturally, he’d be the first choice to handle any comic-book franchise. And now… EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is trying to ready its DC Comics stalwart Superman to soar again on the Big Screen, and...

BEST PHOTO OF SUPER BOWL XLIV

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 3 comments

People are making a commotion of that photo with Drew Brees holding that photo of his son in the air, but the best photo of that game comes to us from @JoeBaguley, who found this photo of Pat McAfee, Matt Stover and Randall Gay after, presumably, Stover’s field goal in the first quarter. This is the kind of magic that only a Super Bowl with...

KSK choo-choo-chooses you…

via Kissing Suzy Kolber on Feb 9, 2010 | 33 comments

Thanks to the ever-expanding NFL schedule, the playoffs now stretch almost clear into Valentine’s Day. Because of the proximity between the two big dates, we saw a number of NFL figures using favorite holiday treats to convey less than pleasant news. Here are some of the confections we saw being exchanged during Super Bowl weekend: Players...

LINDSEY VONN IS AN ATHLETE

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 5 comments

With the Winter Olympics only three days away, it’s hard to argue that any member of Team USA can expect to have as good a month as skier Lindsey Vonn already has. Vonn made the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Olympic preview, and is one of the four Olympians featured in that magazine’s swimsuit issue. I don’t know exactly...

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FC: HERZOG DWARF THINKS CAMELS ARE HILARIOUS

via Film Drunk on Feb 9, 2010 | 21 comments

Today’s Forgotten Classic isn’t forgotten if you’re familiar with Werner Herzog’s earliest work, in which case, buy yourself another espresso and treat everyone with increased condescension. For the rest of us, this one’s called Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, or Even Dwarfs Started Small, a Herzog film...

GOYER DUMPS FLASHFORWARD FOR DARK KNIGHT FOLLOWUP?

via Gamma Squad on Feb 9, 2010 | 1 comment

The showrunner of ABC’s “FlashForward”, David Goyer, has left the show with 5 episodes remaining. ABC stated he will have “some involvement” with the remaining episodes, which means they’ll probably tape a picture of him to a chair at the meetings and offer him donuts. David Chairgoyer loves the ones with...

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‘HEY HEY HEY, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?’

via Warming Glow on Feb 9, 2010 | 15 comments

Any time we get too caught up in how retarded today’s kids are, it’s only fair that we also look at the idiotic youngsters of yesteryear. And there’s no better proof of how stupid young people in the early ’90s were than “Saved by the Bell.” The unfunny laugh track- and cliché-driven time capsule of terrible...

Oh No, We’re Not Done Basking in Colts Misery Just Yet

via Kissing Suzy Kolber on Feb 9, 2010 | 64 comments

I don’t particularly care whether or not the losing team in the Super Bowl races out to midfield to shake the hands and grab the dicks of the winners. Lack of sportsmanship nonsense provides nothing but fodder for the sanctimonious sports media news hole. We jumped on Belichick’s snub two years ago because it was yet another...

DO NOT SHOW US YOUR T*TS

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 4 comments

Mardi Gras is not starting early, at least the bare-chested portion of it isn’t. The New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl parade, happening today at 5 PM, will be featuring some of the floats that were scheduled for use during the annual Bourbon Street celebration, but there won’t be any boobs. TMZ spoke to cops in the French Quarter,...

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PRECIOUS’S MOM SINGS IN THE SUBWAY

via Film Drunk on Feb 9, 2010 | 40 comments

Aw, this is like those Slumdog kids all over again. It turns out that despite her daughter’s Oscar nomination, Gabourey Sidibe’s poor mom still has to sing in the subway for spare change like a common hobo. Alice Tan Ridley shows up three times a week at New York’s busiest subway stations to wow commuters with her electrifying...

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LINKS FROM A DOG WITH ARMS

via Warming Glow on Feb 9, 2010 | 10 comments

Creepy and yet also funny. I’m not sure what I find most unsettling and yet hilarious: that this yellow Labrador has human arms, that he’s wearing a Cosby sweater, or that he speaks French. [The Daily What] I live in Brooklyn; we should hang out. Brooklyn Decker is on the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue. [With Leather] I hated...

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A BIT MORE ‘ROCK’ THAN ‘CHALK’

via With Leather on Feb 9, 2010 | 4 comments

This will be the only time that “must-see missed free throw” is ever used on this site, but here it is: Brady Morningstar (of the Lawrence Morningstars, of course) steps up to shoot a free throw for a technical foul against Texas yesterday. The ball pops straight up after slipping out of his hands, and Morningstar is forced to jump,...

ACTUAL STORY: MUSSOLINI WANTS TO BAN ‘PARANORMAL ACTIVITY’ IN ITALY

via Film Drunk on Feb 9, 2010 | 22 comments

This is a crazy story, you guys. It turns out, a horror movie opened in Italy. And you know what happened? Kids got scared. But you know who’s not happy about that? That’s right, Mussolini. “For the past two weeks a trailer has been shown obsessively on TV and is terrifying thousands of children. The movie is called...