I Was Once An Adventurer Like You, Then I Met This Lady (And Morning Links)

Written by Brandon Stroud / 01.24.12

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49ers Fans Voted No. 1 In Refusing To Leave A Playoff Game After Being Pepper Sprayed - I don’t care how much football is happening, if I get sprayed with pepper spray I’m either slitting throats or being driven the hell home sobbing. No inbetween. [Bay Bridge Banter]

Shank So Hard University - A celebration of karma coming back to haunt Joe Flacco for that “you guys should heap more praise on Joe Flacco” interview. At least Tebow seems like a cool guy when he’s done sucking dick at quarterback. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

Your NFL Recap: 10 Things Learned From Championship Sunday - Thing 11: Don’t be Joe Flacco. Thing 12: If Joe Flacco says you should be talking more about Joe Flacco, ignore him and write some more about Tom Brady. Tom Brady is the baddest man on the planet. [Smoking Section]

Caring Is Easy. Apathy Is Work. - Putting this Joe Paterno business into context the only way I understand. Probably the only thing written about this online that made me go “sh*t, he’s totally right”. [@KillPrint]

Puppy Bowl VIII Is Coming: Resistance Is Futile. Prepare For Your Doom - …and only With Leather will have exclusive interviews with the stars. Just kidding, I’m going to put up puppy pictures and have the responses just say arf arf arf. [Pajiba]

TV Gifs Of The Week - I think Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie is my ultimate fantasy threesome. Wait, no, I take that back, it’s still Gina Carano and Rachel Maddow. Shut up, I have awesome taste. And gender issues. But awesome taste. [Warming Glow]

NBA Dance Party - Just one picture, but one you’ll never forget. I could probably write a novel about it. [Buzzfeed]

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo: Finally, Skyrim Meets Pokémon - If modern Finals Fantasy was 10% as fun as either of those games I wouldn’t have abandoned it when Yuna became a pop singing tomb raiding ninja. TELL GOOD STORIES, SQUARE. [Gamma Squad]

Justin Bieber Is Obsessed With The 1996 Mark Wahlberg Film Fear - As we all SHOULD be. I hope if he remakes it he carries over Marky Mark’s accent. His pronunciation of “Mister Walker” as “missaWAHkah” is the best part. OH NO MISSAWAHKAH I WOULD NEVAH DO DAT TO YA DAUGHTAH. [Film Drunk]

The Best Of ‘Parks And Recreation’s’ #Jerry Gergich - Damn, Jerry! You jumped in a creek for a burrito? What’d you do for a Klondike bar? Kill your wife? [UPROXX]

Bon Jovi + Bon Iver = Bon Joviver - Try this: do an impression of what you think a 6-year old falsetto in a church choir sounds like. There you go, you just sang Bon Iver’s last 15 songs. [UPROXX]

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Morning Links Are Making A Comeback

Written by Brandon Stroud / 01.05.12

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Wait, no they aren’t.

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It’s Time To Debunk The Myth Of The Tim Tebow Comeback - No it isn’t, Tim Tebow is God’s special little angel and he can come back from anything. [Smoking Section]

College Basketball’s Best Names 2011-12 Edition - Bak Bak is still making me laugh 20 minutes later. I want to adopt a basketball star and name him Dscheing’sga Lordloveshymm. [It's Always Sunny In Detroit]

Radio-Free FilmDrunk: Celebrating Hollywood’s Love Affair With The Cold War - A great feature from Burnsy about the glory days of film, when you could have a guy with evil Soviet eyebrows and everyone could go “oh man f**k that guy” without expectations of tolerance. I sorta miss evil Russia. [Film Drunk]

Goths Up Trees Is Necessary Because There Are So Many Goths Up So Many Trees - Also known as “guys Brandon hates and girls he’d probably try to sleep with”. Goth guys always look like someone from The Princess Bride. [UPROXX]

The Black Keys Trash Nickelback In Rolling Stone, Because Why Not, Right? - It’s weird that musicians can’t say “Nickelback is a terrible band” without sounding like the most pretentious d-bags ever. Nickelback IS terrible, just say so without dragging your cigarette and blowing smoke into your Village loft. [UPROXX]

Old Grandma Hardcore Returns to Play Skyrim - It’s like watching the most offensive, inhuman Gates Of Heaven ever. I love how she’s playing two games at once: Skyrim and “keep my own gross mouth moist”. [Gamma Squad]

ROFLMNBAO: The Best Of This Week’s NBA In Pictures - Don’t sleep on Hipster A-Rod, folks. That’s also good advice for Torrie Wilson. [With Leather]

Five TV Shows As Offensive as ‘Work It’ - ‘The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer’ always reminds me fondly of the Clerks cartoon. Also, the hilarity of slavery. [Warming Glow]

52 Examples Why Florida Is Still The Craziest State - Example 53: I worked at an Applebee’s there for like an entire year. [Buzzfeed]

12 Cute Animals To Watch In 2012 - Even more Owling than the goths in trees bit. [The FW]

TV’S 25 GREATEST MULLETS - IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. WHO IS THE GREATEST TELEVISION MULLET, BESIDES SEASON ONE UNCLE JESSE I MEAN. AND/OR BEAUTIFUL BOBBY EATON. BESIDES THEM. [Huffpost TV]

Sh*t White Girls Say To Black Girls - Also funny: this lady’s Nicki Minaj Christmas cards. Beware the comments on the video, though, I don’t think you can be a black person and safely use YouTube. [The High Definite]

If Star Wars Was Noir Wars - I’m guessing at least 5% of our national budget goes to funding dudes who sit around and keep trying to come up with ways to parody Star Wars. Seriously, how many more ways can you POSSIBLY parody Star Wars? It’s porn! It’s noir! What would it look like if Robert Altman directed Star Wars? Blerg! [Unreality]

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Thursday Morning Links Are Being Snubbed At The Pro Bowl

Written by Brandon Stroud / 12.29.11

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One Way Ticket To Snubtown! Breaking Down The Pro Bowl Rosters - When did Ray Lewis get the “you can be in the Pro Bowl forever no matter what” Derek Jeter card, and how do we get it away from him? [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

…And Then Rajon Rondo Airballed A Lay-up - Mhoops! This has got to be the most Brandon Stroud Playing Horse shot in the history of the NBA. [Smoking Section]

The Greatest Sportscasting Moments Of 2011 - Jon Bois, WITH NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE! [SB Nation]

Video: In Nate Diaz’s Defense, Donald Cerrone Shouldn’t Have ‘Put His Stupid-Ass Cowboy Hat All Up On’ Him - Stuff like this is way worse than wrestling, I don’t care how real it is. I do not want to see someone get into a shoving match because another guy’s cowboy hat was “all up on him”. [Cage Potato]

Humpday Mashup Dump: Skyrim Edition - I wanted to make an arrow in the knee joke, but I bought the game like two weeks too late and people have microscopic attention spans and a comedic expiration date of “the second time I’ve seen something”. Same thing happened to me with Portal. F**k you, the cake is still funny. [Gamma Squad]

The Weeping At Kim Jong Il’s Funeral Was Predictably Ridiculous - North Korea is more or less the “tough biker guy crying in fear when he sees a puppy” of people in real life. Like, I want to make fun of them, but Jesus, how f**ked up are they? Someone introduce Miley Cyrus to that country, stat. [UPROXX]

‘Modern Family’ Recut As A Horror Movie - Great, now it’s going to win all the SCREAM awards meant for the horror recut of Parks and Rec. [UPROXX]

Ben Affleck Plays Serious Harry Ellis - The best idea for a Die Hard prequel ever. Seriously, I would pay to watch two hours of Harry Ellis being a non-satirical American Psycho. [Film Drunk]

2011′s Most Popular Torrent Searches Prove Something We’ve Known All Along - I love that you have to have a qualifier to include WWE as TV. Hey, I’m a pussy vegan and I’m the one searching ‘WWE’. How else am I supposed to get the right pictures for the Best And Worst Of Raw? [Warming Glow]

Michele Bachmann Saying Literally Anything She Can On Fox News To Feign Iowa Momentum - As bad as things get, at least we can count on never having a lady who acts like this as our President. Terrifying. [Buzzfeed]

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A Very Calvin & Hobbes Morning Links

Written by Brandon Stroud / 12.19.11

We really do.

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The Ten Most Ridiculous Skyrim Bugs and Glitches So Far - I’m still bummed about losing Lydia in that battle with Malkoran. Thanks for teleporting me through the door she can’t unlock, you stupid lightbulb God. I tried waiting forever and fast traveling but she was nowhere to be found, and eventually it told me she got tired of waiting and left. Frown. [Unreality]

This Is Why You Don’t Propose Marriage on National TV, Doofus - Poor guy. You’re supposed to propose beforehand, then stage it to look like a real proposal so you can be on TV. [Warming Glow]

8 Pop Culture Droste Effect GIFS That Will Blow Your Mind - I haven’t been this happy to learn a term since The Venture Bros. taught me “the Valsalva maneuver” [UPROXX]

10 Terrible Pieces of Merchandise Angry Birds is Pushing Its Luck With This Christmas - Remember when South Park was like this, and every store had like TIMMY UMBRELLA CARTMAN INFLATABLE PLUSH CANOE MR. GARRISON BEAN BAG CHAIR FILLED WITH GAK and we thought it’d last forever? [Gamma Squad]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Poster Is Cool, I Guess - I’m really, really tired of crap like this. I’m more excited for the actual Abraham Lincoln movie. [Film Drunk]

The Most Terrifying Celebrity Faces Of 2011 - Ali Lohan is terrifying. [Buzzfeed]

No One Is Buying Lindsay Lohan Edition Of Playboy - And speaking of Lohans, “she didn’t show enough pussy” is the funniest and worst complaint about Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy spread. Have you ever SEEN a Playboy? Did you expect a lot of DP shots? [FARK]

Beetles Dressed As ‘Jurassic Park’ Characters Could Be the Weirdest Thing on the Internet - It makes me laugh, it makes me confused AND it makes me want to watch Jurassic Park again. Win win win. [The FW]

We’re Never Going Back. 8 Sh*tty “Lost” Knock-Offs - Nothing better than clues to a mystery that nobody intends to solve, am I right? There’s got to be a happy medium between Lost and Modern Family. [Pajiba]

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I Was Going To Put Up The Morning Links, Then I Took An Arrow In The Knee

Written by Brandon Stroud / 12.15.11

Yeah, I get shot with arrows like 70 times a day, I don’t know what happened with you.

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Power Up: The Top 14 Video Games Of 2011 - It goes “Skyrim”, then everything else. And this is coming from a guy who spent a day and a half diving off a crane with Batman trying to get a dumb power-up. [Smoking Section]

7 Things About “The League” Cast that You Probably Didn’t Know - I wish the guy who does the voice for Space Ghost was actually on ‘The League’. [Warming Glow]

Daniel Day-Lewis In Full Costume On The Set Of Lincoln - I’ve never wanted to chant “holy shit” at a picture before, but here we are. Lining up to see this already. [Film Drunk]

Donald Glover Tells Marc Maron That He Masturbates To Susan Sarandon - And I masturbate to Susan Sarandon’s daughter. We’re destined to be best friends. [UPROXX]

Patton Oswalt Made A Parody PSA Of The Alamo Drafthouse No Texting PSA - Alamo Drafthouse rules because it’s the only place in the world besides my living room where I can watch a movie in silence and eat a tofu sandwich simultaneously. [UPROXX]

Rick Perry Dr. Seuss Books - There are two books. No, three. [Buzzfeed]

Adult Swim Interview: Norm Macdonald Digs Shakespeare - I need to Google Alert Norm or something because I missed FOUR NORM MACDONALD SHOWS in Austin. He needs commercials and blimp messages and couriers stopping by my house with printed-out reminders. [Adult Swim]

‘We Bought a Zooey’ Is the Quirky Feel-Good Movie of the Holiday Season - doooooooooooooWOP! [The FW]

Best Performances of 2011: From Uggie to Rooney Mara, the Top 11 in ’11 - Reed Diamond as Mark Shapiro in Moneyball in a walk. I thought it was actually Mark Shapiro for like two weeks. [Moviefone]

Rating the 10 Most Traumatic Character Deaths of the Year in Television - Lists like these are the best reason to not give Joss Whedon television shows. [Pajiba]

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Morning Links: Wizard World Austin, Gina Carano’s Womb, More

Written by Brandon Stroud / 11.15.11

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This is what happens when you get excited about meeting a Power Ranger.

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Funny, Sexy And Austin Cosplay Of The Week: The Best of Wizard World - Relive my hilarious/awesome/unnerving weekend at Austin Convention Center, asking people if I could take a picture of their costume. It’s my Gamma Squad debut (and probably the only thing they’ll ever let me write), so please don’t miss it. [Gamma Squad]

Frank Miller Is A Delusional, Curmudgeonly Old A-Hole - I’m with Vince on the “you’re a delusional asshole” parts, but not on the “your comics are bad” part or especially the “The Spirit was bad” part. The Spirit is so good and I’m living in an empty universe of people who agree. [Film Drunk]

portia-perez-paintingACW: An Appreciation - The best part of Wizard World for me was loitering around the Anarchy Championship Wrestling table and bothering the wrestlers. To the immediate right of this is my favorite wrestler in the world, Portia Perez, finger-painting something for me. My heart is on fire. [The Wrestling Blog]

Jay-Z Hails As GQ Magazine’s “King Of The Year” - I’m sure this will do wonders for his ego. [Smoking Section]

Don’t Worry Guys, Gina Wasn’t Pregnant - Whew! Now I just need to make sure Phoenix from American Gladiators hasn’t gotten pregnant and we’re straight. I’m going to go see your bad movie, Gina! [Cage Potato]

R.I.P. The Fake ‘Jack & Jill’ Twitter Account - I really wanted that EXCOOLSIVE ringtone. :( [UPROXX]

Football Guys: Mark Sanchez Comes Of Age - Jon uses his football version of The Dugout to make an extended joke about Mark Sanchez looking like Kevin Arnold in his Jets jacket. The kind of thing you should click and fawn over immediately. [SB Nation]

Coonskin Cap Witness: Florida or Ohio? - The best part of a coonskin cap is that we still call it “coonskin”, instead of just “stupid raccoon hat”. I think when you get to the point where you’re saying “I want to wear something’s entire body as a hat” you’re f**ked. [Warming Glow]

A Very Young Stephen Colbert In FirsTier Bank Commercial - His career lasted longer than that bank’s. [Buzzfeed]

10 Reasons Life in Skyrim Will Be Better Than Real Life - You know what I hate about real life? Not being able to stop every five seconds and scroll through a huge menu of options, then leave the menu, hit a button, then go right back to the menu. [Adult Swim]

The Men Who Camped Out for Twilight: A Photo Essay - The Greatest Generation. [FARK]

Remembering Eddie Guerrero - The “Hurt” video loses its emotional impact now that we see Chris Benoit and Vickie Guerrero as different people, but still, losing Eddie was the worst and we shouldn’t ever forget how great he was. [The John Report]

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