Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Your Midweek Links: Rest in Power, Robin Williams

Gone too soon
Photo via the Associated Press
It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Wrestling Links:

- Money in the Bank [Jacobin Mag]

- The greater narrative [Suviprantsatus]

- The Best and Worst of RAW: The Lonely Grave of Megan Miller [With Spandex]

- So goes the Network [Voices of Wrestling]

- The Puro Reportu: G1 Climax Edition [Wrestling on Earth]

- Five laughable and two awesome ways wrestling resembles a comic book [Topless Robot]

- Celebrate the 11 best moments of Hulk Hogan's acting career [With Spandex]

- The Ten Count! Comedians who are legit wrestling fans [Old School Jabronis]

- Listening to John Cena's rap album in 2014 [SB Nation]

- The Best and Worst of Impact Wrestling: Table for BOOOO [With Spandex]

- TNA Impact (August 7) Review [Voices of Wrestling]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- On Robin Williams [Progressive Boink]

- Extraordinarily common [Celebrity Hot Tub]

- The suicide of Robin Williams from the perspective of a sober standup comedian [Film Drunk]

- Norm MacDonald told the most wonderful Robin Williams story on Twitter [UPROXX]

- Robin Williams and why funny people kill themselves [Cracked]

- Five times Robin Williams was pretty much the best guy ever [Dorkly]

- This Week in F**k You: Depression [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- America is not for black people [The Concourse]

- This is why we're mad about the shooting of Mike Brown [Jezebel]

- Star Trek writer's defense of diversity in sci-fi is damn near perfect [io9]

- Coach [Gheorghe the Blog]

- Modern Office, with Christina Hendricks [Funny or Die]

- Julie d'Aubigny: Princess of the Opera [Rejected Princesses]

- Zoo With Roy Met Roy Halladay! [I Went to the Zoo with Roy Halladay|The Official Recap]

- How I became thousands of nerds' worst enemy by tweeting a picture [Gawker]

- Why Facebook is pissed at Neil deGrasse Tyson over GMOs [Gamma Squad]

- How to make a breakfast sandwich [Holzerman Hungers]

- How to make hushpuppies, man's second best friend [Foodspin]

- Don't buy all the pies at Burger King to spite a child [The Concourse]

- The great food truck arms race [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- The ten biggest questions in television history [Warming Glow]

- An open letter to Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios [Powder Room]

- 12 insane facts about He-Man and The Masters of the Universe [io9]

- The 25 best TMNT mash-ups [Dorkly]

- 20 Seinfeldisms you hear in everyday conversation [Warming Glow]

- Autonomy for major college sports arrives [Black Heart, Gold Pants]

- How to ruin a fantasy mock draft [SB Nation]

- More 'anonymous SEC coaches' outtakes [And the Valley Shook]

- Making a point about the PAT [Grantland]

- How to dress like Peter King [SB Nation]

- Seven reasons why remaking Final Fantasy VII is a bad idea [Topless Robot]

- The one thing that would make Magikarp even better [Pocket Monsters]

- What's the difference between a cyclone, a hurricane, and a typhoon? [The Vane]

- Dude jerks it on Chatroulette, audience shocked to find what he's really doing [Jezebel]

- The weirdest micronations that have ever existed [io9]

- Freelancing sucks [The Concourse]

- Philadelphia's other NHL team almost was a Stanley Cup winner from Montreal [Broad Street Hockey]