If you're happy and you know it... shoot yourself a Crowder!

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1. Conan O'Brien was in the city last night. And he had a dance-off with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. I know. I know. Watch it here.

2. In NINE DAYS the World Cup begins. I feel like I do not have a sufficient vocabulary to explain exactly how excited I am for this. This Nike Commercial comes close to my level of excitement. It's football, people! Real football, that is played with your feet, not the fake kind with the shoulder pads and 300 lbs behemoths. Football is graceful and beautiful and sweaty. And endurance. How can you hate on a sport where you have to have the endurance to run full out for 90 minutes? I can see some of you fading on me. I know how to speak your language though.

Presenting sarkastic's The Non-Football Fan's Guide to the World Cup or What to do When You're Just Here for the Hot Men. Read it. Embrace it. Print it out and use it for jerk off material. What? I'm just trying to be helpful.

3. Last night's Justified is officially my favorite episode... until next week. Raylan. Boyd. Winona's clothes! The Awesome that is Art. I cover you in hearts and whiskey and ammunition, Justified. (Spoilers for last night in comments!)

4. Last but not least, does anybody have the Broken Bells album, which is the new album from Danger Mouse and, uh that, dude from The Shins. Jesus. I have mentioned The Shins in my LJ I may be barred entrance from my favorite bar for the rest of my life now. And yet, it's not my fault! They cast Hotass Girlfriend of Awesome, Christina Hendricks, in their video for 'The Ghost Inside' and apparently people have seen this, but I cannot and I weep with envy and frustration. But like, not really, my tear ducts have all dried up.

Uh, that's about it really. Happy June!

Comments

[wordsalone.livejournal.com]

1) Walton Goggins is freaking amazing.

2) I didn't dig the Raylan/Winona stuff (well, only to the degree of "Ooh! Look at these attractive people simulating sex on my television screen!"), but I thought Winona's bra was really cute.

3) Art's quip about how he doesn't care that Raylan's daddy didn't hug him made me laugh.

4) I think Ava is pretty and nuts and I continue to like her.

5) I'm sad that next week is the final episode.

6) Christina Hendricks is glorious.

7) The end.

Spoiler for last night's justified in this comment

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

BOYD BLEW UP A FREAKING METH TRUCK. FIRE IN THE HOLE INDEED.

Also, omg all that hot, sweaty manflesh. Jesus.

[stentoriansista.livejournal.com]

Um, I just got like seven dirty looks from my library study room co-inhabitants, b/c I couldn't keep in a laugh from that Stewart/Colbert/O'Brian (Oh, and now I'm thinking about slash. Is there Stewart/Colbert slash? I hurt my brain.) video. Well done. Also, Christina Hendricks melts my panties. Yes.

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Everything Art says is gold. And Raylan's FACE when he took away the whiskey bottle! He was like, "Wait..what?" So confused. Raylan gets what he wants! He looked like he wanted to have a tantrum. So he just drank Art's instead.

And Art's, "Well, I took responsibility for you, didn't I?" (paraphrased) was just so damn sweet.

[aurora]

WORLD CUP! \o/ I even made a bracket and everything (nevermind that it's probably oh-so-wrong).

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

The Awesome that is Art's drinking rules. This was my favorite scene in the episode... I think. I loved how proud Raylan was when he got the extra glass.

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

The football post was epic - thanks for the link - but not complete without Becks. *curse his injury*

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about football (I have in fact actively gone out of my way to avoid football; we have rugby, nothing else is needed) but that ad is AMAZING. Also, the hot men don't hurt.

[lovetheboys.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Football (soccer variation) primer! I have an OC who plays and I have no idea about the game (except what I learned in Bend It Like Beckham [besides that Parminder Nagra is awesome and there really should be more/better femmeslash and/or threesome fic for that movie]...)

Thanks muchly for the link!

[jcase.livejournal.com]

I do hope this works.

Broken Bells (http://www.sendspace.com/file/wdskyw)

[frogy.livejournal.com]

That video is missing this image:

[shaney.livejournal.com]

I never knew you are into football woo hoo! That picspam has made me VERY EXCITED about the World Cup now.

[deedlit50.livejournal.com]

This post is made of so many different kinds of win, I don't even have words.

Well done!

[jujubinha.livejournal.com]

It's football, people! Real football, that is played with your feet, not the fake kind with the shoulder pads and 300 lbs behemoths.

YES! THIS! Thank you so much for saying this. BECAUSE IT'S THE TRUTH!

♥!!!

[sin-fuego.livejournal.com]

That is one quality commercial. FIFA World Cup goodness countdown has been on for the last month in my house! Thank you for the link to the wonderful picspam of fit players :)

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Print it out and use it for jerk off material. What? I'm just trying to be helpful.

Women don't jerk off, we glow. Oh, wait. That's about sweating. Yeah, women totally jerk off.

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

OH JON, YOU MAKE SUCH A LOVELY MEXICAN WAITER <3

And that football post is delicious.

[elzed.livejournal.com]

Oh babes - I am not particularly excited about the World Cup (although, you know, I might watch the odd game - but being in a country suffused with football mania, and colleagues who are football mad, and not being generally that hot on tv sports, it doesn't ignite me) but the ad is fantastic. Especially Rooney's dream sequences. And Gael Garcia Bernal as Ronaldo. Or Ronal- d'oh.

ANd Justified - man, that show started very strong, then had a slightly flat few episodes when it went all monster of the week, and then it stepped back into the Boyd/Crowder/fathers arc and omg it has just gone from one level of awesome to the next every week. The acting is pretty damn fine - Boyd is mesmerising in church (I am finally beginning to believe that no, it's not an act, he really is a religious nut); the father/son dynamic, with both Givenses and Crowders, are some of the most powerful scenes out there (especially Arlo and Raylan - when Arlo mentioned Raylan's mom, I thought his son was going to hit him); and the parallels with Art as surrogate dad (I loved the whiskey moment, and Raylan drinking Art's glass when he was deprived of more, it was so... teenage!).

And the women! Winona who cannot resist her ex husband's smouldering hotness (I mean, srsly Winona, how can you even look at Gary when you had Raylan in your bed? Huh?); Ava and her gun-toting ways; Helen!

AAAANd bonus sex scene (which although it was poorly lit, was rather hot). With Raylan stripping and glimpses of hot manflesh.

Damn.

Best. Show. Around.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

1. I laughed so hard, I needed to use my inhaler. ♥

2. In case you didn't already know how I feel about this: we had an admin-staff meeting yesterday to figure out how to hack the security monitors to allow us to watch the World Cup in the office.

[ricochet]

Football (real world-football, not NA-bullshit-football) is such an amazingly beautiful game. It never feels right watching it on TV, butI've never been able to figure out why.

[shelby-tiger07.livejournal.com]

I always seem to forget I love Conan O'Brien until somebody like reminds me. Which is weird, because I don't think he is a very forgettable person...So thank you. Also, I love me some Stewart/Colbert. So thank you again.

Oh, and the football guide helps a looot. C: