Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Your Midweek Links: Leap Day Links

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It's Leap Day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week.

Self-Shilling:

- Brandon Stroud stops by the podcast for his third run, but we end up talking mostly about Avatar: The Last Airbender [Episode 42: Bleed American Dragon]

- My latest for Cageside Seats, where I basically write a bunch of words saying how awesome Rachel Summerlyn is. BECAUSE SHE IS DAMMIT [The Indie Corner: Rachel Summerlyn and the Next Level]

- My latest for Fair to Flair on why being able to see the results of Elimination Chamber *sigh* coming isn't a bad thing [Predictability Is Hardly the End of the World]

Wrestling Links:

- If you read one link out of this entire list, make it this read by Boss Lady Rae about John Cena and Eve [Wrestlegasm]

- Eric Gargiulo looks at what-if WrestleMania main events positing The Rock not being there [Camel Clutch Blog]

- An oldie but goodie, Jesse "The Body" Ventura shilling for a liquor store [Youtube]

- Another oldie but goodie, a 1996 article on Mark Henry, powerlifting phenom [SI]

- Santino Marella flies in the face of what people traditionally consider "credibile" [The Wrestling Journal]

- Allison Danger opens up about her Womanist Revolution [The Only Way Is Suplex]

- The Rock is wrestling's Newt Gingrich [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]

- A note for anyone who thinks Rocky's notes on his arm was a "shoot" [International Object]

- The Best and Worst, wherein B gives a match a star rating and we all die a little on the inside, even if that star rating was given reluctantly and facetiously [With Leather]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Shithead banker leaves 1% tip for server and a message to "get a real job". Yes, because your job is so strenuous and honest. [Huffington Post]

- Want to teach your kids about racism? Read them this. [Buzz Feed]

- Jon Bois blows the cover off the NFL's new Wonderlic test [SB Nation]

- As a meme connoisseur, I approve of Captain Kitteh [UPROXX]

- The lamest MegaMan bosses ever [Gamma Squad]

- Jessica Nigri took some kick-ass photos of Mortal Kombat reenactors [Unreality Mag]

- The seven best NHL trade deadline deals ever [Puck Daddy]

- And of course this year's trade deadline was kind of a dud, but no one would've known that if they watched ESPN [Awful Announcing]

- Ryan Braun beat the system despite the fact that someone inside Major League Baseball has it in for him [Baseball Nation]

- More on Braun, even though he beat steroid charges, he won't beat confirmation bias [Fangraphs]

- Boston's clubhouse ban on beer is a victory for idiots everywhere [Deadspin]

- Fifty of the best fantasy baseball team names for this year. My favorite is Inglorious Bastardos, only because fuck you, I'm a Phillies fan [Athlon Sports]

- I won't lie, I really wish that some of these 19 foreign-available Pepsi flavors happened here in America [Buzz Feed]

- Rappers who are secretly or not so secretly nerds. Not listed is RDJ2, only because that would be cheating. [Topless Robot]

- 6 sequels that would've ruined classic films had they been made [Cracked]

- Probable morning after texts from the Oscars [These Fries Are Good]

- The annoying people who show up at your Oscar party [The FW]

- Here's the list of Razzie nominations... does it really matter who "won" them? [Pajiba]