Sunday Potpourri: Cultural Learnings ...

Today you get some of my "Best of the Internet". I'm not fooling myself that what I present here is any sort of ultimate best list. It's just the best stuff I know about.

The Best/Funniest YouTube Series:

The Retarded Policeman. He likes eggs. And he had a puppy named Adolph. He draws good too. Here's episode #1 to get you started. Take a half hour of your life and watch them all.

Watch them drunk. They're even funnier then. And don't even start with the feeling sorry for the guy. He's getting paid.

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The Best Sports Pirate Streams:
Click on this link for pretty much any sport that you'd care to watch. Live. Sometimes, they're not the best quality. But watching something grainy live is better than highlights. I won't say that every NHL game is on there. But more are than aren't. I watched Curtis Glencross score a beauty backhand goal to put Calgary up 1-0 over the Oilers yesterday and then got to see the Khabibulin flub with under a minute lose the game for Edmonton. And you don't have to pay DirecTV or anyone else mega-dollars to watch. Listening to something in Portuguese could teach you something.

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The Best Historical Drama Ever:
This series didn't start on the Internet, it came from HBO. But you can watch every episode on it in pretty high quality by clicking on this link. If you remember and enjoyed the old PBS series "I Claudius" then you'll love "Rome". The stories are told primarily from the perspective of two members of Rome's 13th Legion, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo. Here's probably the grittiest scene from the series. It is entirely an adult drama ... "R" rated. It gives you a good idea though. Pullo is condemed to die for a murder he committed and is prepared for his death as Vorenus watches.

I found everything in this series so compelling that I've watched it 3 times over. And yes .. a scene with this much gore and violence is tough to watch. But the whole series is so much more than just that. If you don't want to watch it pirated and all ... then buy it. It's worth it. The producers deserve to get paid for making it ... I guess. Best TV eVAh! Thirteenth!!!

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The Best Online Video Guide:

Where do I find all this stuff? Simple. It's called ovguide.com. If you can't find what you want to watch linked somewhere by OV Guide then you're not trying very hard. Pirate links abound so you can watch films that are still in the theater that some douchebag recorded with a handheld video camera in Moscow. If you want. I prefer to wait for some douchebag with the DVD that copied and upload it. Sometimes some douchebag with an advanced DVD copy will upload it while it's still in the theater; I watched Terminator 4 in HQ online when it was just being released in the theater. Hooray for douchebags?

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Best Fake Movie Star Show:

Anyone watch Entourage on HBO? It's a show that follows a fictional movie star and his friends through his life and the guest spots are always actual Hollywood movie types. I'm addicted to it. I don't know why. When I think about it, Johnny Drama is pathetic, Turtle is a wuss, E is just painfully dumb and Vince is just dumb lucky. I guess I love Ari. If you've never seen it because you didn't want to pony up the bucks for HBO then you'd have to know I'd have a link for it online. TV Shack is "teh shit". I found it using OV Guide of course.

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Stay tuned this week for lots of hockey coverage. Mighty Mercyhurst and Michigan are coming to town this weekend. I'll have previews of course. I'll probably bust the chops of both programs in some manner. Red Berenson is a bit of a tougher target than any WCHA coach though. So the quality of anything coming off my keyboard is difficult to predict.

Why is College Hockey News offline? The site has been completely down all day.