- Clark Gable.

It's pretty cool waking up next to somebody. Patriarchal as the quote is with the presumably housebound lady [although Gable may have had more than one door to approach, knaamean?], I dig it. And as I'm the night owl and Buttercup's always hibernating, it's close to true for us.

I would post a picture of Gable, but this is so much cooler.

Yoinked from Will Sherman.

- Guitar Ted, as quoted by Zach Dundas in The Renegade Sportsman

Reading this now, it's helladope. Makes me want to start with the alternafitness, beginning with Warrior Dash.

Guitar Ted is a guy whose nickname stems from loving Nugent in high school, and he organizes the excruciating and unsanctioned Trans Iowa, which would probably bork my car [love you, Owlet] permanently, but is designed to be a dangerous and exhausting 300 mile haul for bikes. In the book, someone does it on a fixie for the first time ever, which is just disgustingly flagellant. Looking forward to telling all my cycle folks about it.

I started this post on the Connector. I'm not giving up car luxury, but I love me some transit.

- Jim Cornette

Jim Cornette is a crazy person, but the more I see stuff like the below video in the U.S., the more that quote haunts me.

- Clubber Lang, Rocky III

Rocky III is on Netflix Instant Streaming. I approve. It would be better with no Act III, though. Clubber just wrecking Rocky and killing Mickey, end scene, would be fine with me. Bonus: Rocky getting shot on by actually-yoked and not-bald Hulk Hogan. I totally forgot about that.

And Mr. T just kills the role. Kills it. He's terrifying - Liston with Mayweather's grinning heel act. The only problem is Rocky looks like such a sucker you end up feeling pretty sympathetic towards Lang.

I think this is my favorite Clubber line in the movie because of the contempt with which Mr. T says 'politics, man'. I feel like that on Newsvine a lot. It's transcendent. Politics, man.

This is one of the many Clubber lines that got appropriated into Ghostface's 'The Champ', which might be the last great Just Blaze track.

- Matt Breckon on Josh Harris.

My friend J Money's the featured player on ManaSHIFT, which has a rad logo. Time to rejigger the blog roll yet again. Cool stuff.

Josh is also interning at Venuing, which just launched an iPhone app that lets fans interact at live events. It's free. I'm looking forward to testing it out.

Stay winning, Bald Head Slick.

One of the first hiphop albums that I straight-up stole from my pops' collection was Jazzmatazz, Volume 3, when I was a freshman at GHS. The nod of 'Certified' just had me on lock, I remember walking home on 30th listening to that on my Discman and rapping along with Jay Dee [he wasn't Dilla yet] on the staccato verse. 'Talkin' bout - boom - I be the nigga in flight you got to seeee...'

Guru's Jazzmatazz ft. Jay Dee and Bilal - Certified

I think I bought Moment of Truth out of a bin sometime in high school, too. Guru has always been dope - you're never confused if it's him or not.

You made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Sascha. You remember her from Blue Movies, which turned out to be hilarious.

I'm never sure how much I actually appreciate productions from people I know, but I'm pretty positive this is legit hilarious. Serious rubberface. Also, that warm-and-fuzzy is anerable.

Q: How do you keep Cougars out of your yard?
A: Put up goalposts.

No lie, I used to tell this joke as a kid.

I'm pretty sure my dad told it to me. It's nestled in some funnier ones and some duds over at UW Dawg Pound's repository of Cougar cracks.

This year, the joke was pretty much true; Wazzu rarely had a chance to 'Coug it' - blow a chance or lead in the final minutes, for those of you not from the NW - and got methodically thumped in Husky Stadium. Good times.

-Mercer Island Little Leaguer Brandon Lawler

You know, these things don't need to be televised. At all. Word to Sally Jenkins. It's alright, Brandon, there shouldn't have been a zillion cameras there anyway. And kudos to the coach for makin' like Spike and doing the right thing.

Hat tip: SSB, although they call him a d-bag. Yeah, the same way Jordan and Woods are d-bags. Hate the sickness, not the symptom.

- Sascha Alexander's character

I went to high school with Sascha and I think I was one of three people who didn't have a crush on her at some point. Which is not to say I don't get it - she's very sweet and bubbly and looks to have built up her acting chops. Check out the trailer for Blue Movies, a web series she's starring in:

The rules for TV shows: The premise must be good, the writing must be passable, and if it's shot and acted well, really, that's a bonus at this point. Have you seen anything on CBS recently? I hope not.

Premise? Brilliant. [If you told me this was going to be on FX, I'd believe you.]

Writing? All the lines in the trailer work.

And it looks pretty professional in the shooting and acting department. I'll be watching.

[Blue Movies @ Facebook]

[Trailer @ Koldcast - the same, just no 'Under Pressure']