Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Your Midweek Links: Beyond Houndstooth

Still in awe I got to inverview Ms. Scott
Photo Credit: Greg Davis/DDS
It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Self-Shilling:

- It finally happened! I interviewed a real live active pro wrestler, and that wrestler was none other than the woman bringing houndstooth to the forefront of wrestling gear, Veda Scott. [Episode 56: One Scott Minute]

- I interviewed Denver Colorado (the man not the place) about the huge Beyond/St. Louis Anarchy show coming up on the 16th [Double the Trouble]

- My latest for the Camel Clutch Blog on why anyone pays for wrestling news anymore [Why Do We Pay for Wrestling "News" Anymore?]

Wrestling Links:

- Rachel Davies and Andrew Southern are back writing about wrestling and all is right with the world [WRESTLEGASM]

- Justin Henry chronicled the top 50 matches in TNA history [Camel Clutch Blog]

- A review of the new GLOW documentary [Ring Belles]

- A recounting of going to watch Mitsuharu Misawa [Cageside Seats]

- Brock Lesnar's list of CRAZY demands from UFC [The Color Commentator]

- Best and Worst, featuring more responding to people who think Brandon Stroud should lay of poor lil CM Punk (spoiler alert, he shouldn't) [With Leather]

- The fear of RAW going to three hours permanently [Star of Savage]

- How the WWE Network IS structured and how it SHOULD BE structured [International Object]

- Stories about random encounters with wrestlers, including Goldust remaining in character at a store [Deadspin]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Patrick Vint uses Chick-Fil-A's iconic sandwich to make a point about SEC hegemony being partly fueled by artificial means [Black Heart Gold Pants]

- Tom Breihan on Faith No More's iconic Angel Dust album turning 20 [Stereogum]

- POINT: Darren Rovell might be somewhat self-aware about his whole Internet infamy. [Spike Eskin]

- COUNTERPOINT: That doesn't excuse the dumb shit he does, like not fact checking Twitter claims: [Deadspin]

- The pros and cons of living with your significant other [The Oatmeal]

- Video game "logic" [The Chive]

- For the low price of $30K, you too can sit on the Iron Throne. Or you could just make like a Greyjoy, pay the Iron Price and get that shit for free. [UPROXX]

- Game of Thrones-style sigils for other famous TV families [College Humor]

- A complete history of the Ninja Turtles [Mental Floss]

- Brandon Stroud ranks all of Michelle Tanner's shitty friends from Full House [Progressive Boink]

- Brian Banks gets his long overdue shot at being in a NFL training camp [Shutdown Corner]

- The least deserving member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame surprisingly isn't Joe Namath. [The Go Route]

- Castro and Plichter check out Rustica for some Olde City Philly pizza [Doughboys]

- Taylor Stevens used her, ahem, assets to help distract the Devils' bench in Games 4 and 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals [Puck Daddy]

- Alien vs. Predator, bathroom version [Imgur Gallery]