The Missing Links 8.2.12

Didn't put up a post yesterday. Life got in the way of blogging. Sorry.

I expect to have a fun post on Monday with all the details of the secret thing that I have been waiting to happen for the last couple weeks. It's happening tomorrow! Huzzah! Very excited about this. Plus I will have thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises which I am seeing tonight.

To the links!

-Why August is the worst month in sports (and in my opinion, in general). [Sports Illustrated]

-The Slave Who Circumnavigated The World. Interesting story about Magellan and his slave. I enjoyed the way this was written. [The Awl]

-Everything you ever wanted to know about being a male porn actor. [GQ]

-Hockey Training begins. Tazer has his game face on in his sleep. [Backhand Shelf]

-Keeping the Cup. A nice piece on what it's like to travel with the Cup during the summer. [ESPN]

-David Kaplan wasn't feeling the return the Cubs got on Ryan Dempster. [CSN Chicago]

-Swimming vs. Gymnastics. Simmons breaks it down. [Grantland]

-Michael Ian Black on Romance. This was good. [Vice.com]

-McKayla Maroney's vault owned. I liked the judge's open mouth. [Buzzfeed]

-Jesse Eisenberg. His mom. His friend. Frozen yogurt. Ambiguous homosexual references. Not sure what this was about exactly, but I found it compelling. [McSweeny's]

-Greetings From Williston, North Dakota. It's an oil boomtown. Sounds awful.  [Men's Journal]

-The Bull Passes Through. Running with the bulls in Pamplona is for crazy and/or broken people.  [The Morning News]

-I didn't know that people who were really into trains were called foamers. Now I do. This is just bizarre.

The Missing Links 7.31.12

Straight to the links today.

-Richard Deitsch's daily Olympic briefing. [SI]

-People are pissed about NBC's handling of the Olympics. Vigilante nerds unite! [Reuters]

-This tweet made me laugh.

-Geovany Soto and Reed Johnson got traded. The fire sale has begun. [Daily Herald]

-The Best Time I Quit Drinking [The Hairpin]

-The correlation between garbage and the economy. [The Fix]

-The World's Most Hipster Wedding Announcement May Justify Outlawing Love. [Gawker]

-Rick Nash Thoughts on Thoughts [Backhand Shelf]

-Hawks mailbag from Jesse Rogers. I'll be interested to see how Kruger comes along this year. And Saad. If those two guys can step up it would be a huge deal. [ESPN Chicago]

-I always enjoyed watching Bob Ross paint. It made me feel like I just took a couple vicodin and was melting into the couch.

-Bonus video today. Cat attacks a greeting card. [YouTube]

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The Missing Links 7.30.12

I have a veritable cornucopia of links for you today. My cup of links runneth over. 

But first, a weekend recap: Friday: chores, Saturday: unsuccessful crabbing expedition as detailed in this tweet, Sunday: more chores. Then there's the super-cool, exciting thing I keep mentioning in the blog. Still hasn't happened yet. I am hopeful that it will be this week. Stay tuned.

-A description of the above photo. Lenticular clouds FTW! [Seattle Times]

-Is it possible the Sedin twins have a missing identical brother? A compelling case here. [Backhand Shelf]

-Update on the possible Sedin triplet. [@jtbourne]

-He & He & He. A profile of three gay men living together as a "throuple". Mind-bendingly interesting. [New York Magazine]

-Sports Illustrated's best pictures from Day 2 of the Olympics. [SI]

-Here is a Twitter recommendation for you: Joe Schwenk. A Hamptons handyman tweets about the ridiculous requests he get and the work he performs for the ultra rich at the end of Long Island. It's good stuff. [@HamptonsBorn]

-Richard Deitsch's daily Olympic Briefing. Required reading if you're following the Games. [SI]

-More from SI. Alexander Wolff recalls the 1972 Munich Games, the hostage crisis, and his father. [SI]

-I've always wondered about this. What is the actual monetary value of an Olympic Medal? [Yahoo! Sports]

-Something else I've always wondered about. What is it like to host a young hockey player in your home for a season? [Saline Patch]

-This American Life has a great episode this week. Really enjoyed the first story about the author Piers Anthony. Worth your time to listen to the whole episode. [TAL]

-I particularly enjoyed the Canoga Park videos. [YouTube]

-Can Seattle support six pro teams? For my part, I promise to buy season tickets to the hockey team when/if they ever show up. [Seattle Times]

-Hey, Waste Mangement, let's figure this shit out, mmkay? My kitchen counter is filling up with recyclables. [Seattle PI]

-The Dutch women's field hockey team is, um, hot. [Fourth Place Medal]

-Speaking of attractive athletes... Hope Solo is a dumb-dumb. [Washington Post]

-Excited about this. Bill Simmons is covering the Olympics from London. My expectations are high. [Grantland]

-And like clockwork Simmons knocks it out of the park with his first piece on Handball. These next two weeks are going to be fun. [Grantland]

-More Grantland. @katiebakes wraps up the swimming over the weekend. A good read. [Grantland]

-A marathon Blackhawks mailbag. After reading this, my uneasiness about this team reamins.... uneased. [MyFoxChicago]

-Cutler and Urlacher's contract situations. [Trib]

-Super Bears! Super Bowl! [ESPN's NFC North blog]

-Here's the trailer for Ben Affleck's new movie coming out in October, Argo. Looks great, I'm in.

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The Missing Links 7.26.12

I don't have anything interesting to show you today. I don't have anything interesting to write about today either. The links are shitty too.

-Gretzky was in Seattle yesterday making himself seen at the Mariners game. He was here allegedly to speak with the group interested in building an arena in Bellevue. We could have competing arenas now. Oh the dramaz! [MYNorthwest.com]

-Here is Bourne's take on what the Gretzky visit means. [Backhand Shelf]

Seriously, that's it. I didn't see anything else of interest on the internet today. I'm going crabbing on Saturday so hopefully there will be pictures and interesting stories from that adventure.

Did you know that I work four 10's, Monday through Thursday? My week ends in about three hours. Fuck this shit. It's Miller Time. I'm out.

Oh, I almost forgot something. The Olympics start tomorrow. I'm excited about that.

Mary Lou Retton needed a 10.0 to secure the all-around gold in 1984 and she NAILED it. 'Merica FTW!

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The Missing Links 7.25.12

A few days ago I mentioned that I would have some fun/cool news to report. Update on that: things are looking good but I won't reveal anything until next week. I am super excited about this. Stay tuned.

-That Colosseum is constructed from over 200,000 lego elements. I will now sob quietly in the corner. You'll definitely want to click this link to see close-up photos of all the small details. Truly amazing. [Gizmodo]

-I've always like the A's for some reason. Maybe it's the elephant in their logo. Anyway, in this season of badness for the Cubs, I'm semi-happy to see the Athletics doing well. [SI]

-A one-on-one interview with Marian Hossa. [CSN Chicago]

-The latest Bakeshop Q & A. My question (a comment actually) is the last one. [Grantland]

-The headline says it all: Double Bacon Corn Dog tops list of new Iowa State Fair foods. [Des Moines Register]

-I've been lsitening to this song a lot lately. Joe Walsh - underrated, IMO. (PS: I dig the effort of the homemade music video).

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