What We're Google Readering: The Iceman Sucketh

Mightygodking: Okay, so Dustin, the snarky movie reviewer extraordinaire put together a list of 80s Movies That Have Aged Badly over at the more popular Pajiba, and he got a lot of crap for including on that list The Goonies and Batman. But then the guys over at Mightygodking put together a competing list, which I have to admit, I prefer. It's not even that safe, what with including Platoon (it's taken me years to admit this movie's mediocrity) and Top Gun (though I've never really cared about Iceman). He also makes great use of the term "werebears", as in, I presume, werewolves that are bears. Much more fascinating, in my estimation. [Chris]

Mediabistro: Blogulator friend and reader Anna, in case you didn't already know, is having her first novel published this upcoming January! So now's about the time when we can start tracking bookworm blog posts like these and talk very proudly about someone we know being a real life author! ! The book's a mystery called All Unquiet Things and totally rocks, by the way. The cover is creepy as eff too! Bonus! [Qualler]

YouTube, YouTube, and YouTube: While this "Google Readering" feature has been absent for a while, DoktorPeace has been stockpiling links to curious YouTube clips on our Blogulator email thread. And I finally am taking a second to spend my day off work in my boxers, watching videos where a high school girl idolizes Cardinals outfielder Colby Rasmus by way of singing Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning", a fake advertisement for a fake DVD of a fake claymation movie about anthropomorphic doggy poo, and finally, possibly the best of them all: a hyperactive balding man shows off his Neo Geo collection to the camera while dancing to Eurodisco. Neo Geo, people. [DoktorPeace]

One D at a Time: Jezebel editor Tracie Egan's personal blog used to be mostly about her sexual exploits and which celebrities are secretly gay, but since she's getting married now the content of One D at a Time is tamer, although the tone is pretty much the same. Egan is basically the last blogger on earth I thought would put up a post about how she inexpensively (and maybe a little drunkenly) handmade her kick-ass wedding invitations, that's what this post is. Even I, who am probably never getting married, starred the post in my Reader for further reference. If you're at work, maybe don't go exploring the archives, just a warning. [OHD]

The Critical Condition: So you know how the Oscars are expanding their best picture nominees to a list of ten instead of a less cumbersome five? Well, the movie nerds at The Critical Condition interestingly point out that if this rule was in place in 1989, it might have actually made for a more interesting Oscars broadcast. You know, back when movies like Driving Miss Daisy and My Left Foot won the big awards. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking to ponder the possibility of Oscar noms for Heathers, Do the Right Thing, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Keep an eye on this blog as they'll be doing the same kind of history revisionism for other Oscar years down the line. [Chris]

Totally the Bomb: Surprise surprise, Scott Baio is a giant douchenozzle. This blogger's friend, who understandingly had a crush on the Charles in Charge star as a girl, thought it would be entertaining to follow him on Twitter. Everything started to turn sour when comments about being rich, comparing Obama to Michael Vick, and golf are exchanged between all three via the most maddening (and for some, maddeningly addictive) Internet craze of 2009. Enjoy! [Qualler]

Missed Connections: Blogulator friend and reader P. Arty turned me on to this blog a while ago, and he recently Google Shared an item from it that was particularly creepsauce and wonderful. What makes it so wonderful is that somehow the artist(s?) behind Missed Connections turn a loony "I saw you on the train reading a book and fell in love with you instantly" post from Craigslist or a newspaper into a majestic work of illustration art. It's fascinating, awkward, and beautiful all at once. If you want a unique glimpse of weirdos around town (maybe yours!), scroll through the archives. You could get lost for hours, and who knows, maybe they drew one of us somewhere! [Shared Item o' the Week]

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