Random Awesomeness (part 138)

• Announcing The Peter Cushing Centennial Blogathon: May 25-31, 2013 [Frankensteinia]
• When Players Had Off-Season Jobs [Bob Lemke's Blog]
• Tom Keifer – The Way Life Goes (2013) [Hard Rock Hideout]
• Random Topps Card of the Day: 1983 Topps #269 Ron Oester [bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog]
• 1967 Topps Tony Perez All Star MVP [Cards That Never Were]
• Tracii Guns Unveils First Video With League Of Gentlemen Project [Sleaze Roxx]
• Gas pump prank turns couple into Internet sensation [MSN Now] (JT sez: You’ve probably already seen this, because EVERYONE has posted it on Facebook already…but it’s still awesome)

Purchase Def Leppard – Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection.

Random Awesomeness (part 137)

• Yu Darvish GIF shows his five-pitch mastery [Big League Stew]
• Airbourne & American Dog At The Basement – Columbus, Ohio – 4/22/13 [Hard Rock Hideout]
• 6 Twisted Kids’ Trading Card Sets [mental_floss]
• Fixed point in time. I am so sorry. [Texts From Superheroes]
• Steam-Powered AT-AT Enjoys Hunting Rebel Forces, Long Walks On The Beach [Epbot]
• 2013 Season Ticket Holders Cubs Archives Set [Wrigley Wax]

Purchase Krokus – The Definitive Collection.

Random Awesomeness (part 136)

• 100 Chrome Extensions That You Should Install [Lifehack] (JT sez: 100 seems like overkill, but there are a handful of useful extensions listed here)
• BP Unfiltered [Baseball Prospectus] (JT sez: A GIF of Paul Householder? Wow.)
• Cool Collections: 10 Creative Ways to Display Your Collectibles [Curbly]
• “Happy” Chandler: Instrumental to Integration [Infinite Baseball Card Set]
• Sons of Israel [Can't Have Too Many Cards]
• I Like That: Superheroes Stylized As Native American Art [Geekologie]
• Finding Pointer…Please Hold Still [Pointer Pointer]

Purchase Dio – Holy Diver.

Random Awesomeness (part 135)

• Black Sabbath To Perform On ‘CSI’ Season Finale May 15th [Ozzy Osbourne]
• Eight OTHER Actors Who Played Freddy Krueger! [Freddy In Space]
• 11 Strange and Wonderful Shakespeare Adaptations [mental_floss]
• Horror Movie Actors (Then and Now Gallery) [Horror Society]
• Teaming Up With Topps [Wrigley Wax]
• 1964 Topps All Stars – The National League Battery [Cards That Never Were]
• Friday Funny [Justin's World]

Purchase Best of Kentucky Headhunters.

Random Awesomeness (part 134)

• Turn Up Your Radio [Mark's Ephemera]
• The Book [The Infinite Baseball Card Set]
• Series 1 Of My 2013 TSR Custom Set is LIVE! [The Shlabotnik Report]
• Lynch Mob Upload Entire Unplugged Performance [Sleaze Roxx]
• Baseball Bats Turned Into Art [Super Punch]
• History Channel Worldwide Brand Campaign, “Know Where You Stand” [Seth Taras Pictures]
• Japanese Teens Are Now Playing Fake Quidditch [Kotaku]

Purchase Tom Keifer – The Way Life Goes.

Random Awesomeness (part 133)

• Fan Made ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Poster Depicting Aged Original Trilogy Characters [Laughing Squid]
• Lesley A. Jensen’s Pop Culture Easter Eggs [Neatorama]
• Undeniable Proof That “The Walking Dead” And “Toy Story” Have The Exact Same Plot [BuzzFeed]
• Want To Save Money At The Gas Pump? [Reaching Utopia]
• ‘Attack Of Life: The Bang Tango Movie’ Theatrical Trailer Now Online [Sleaze Roxx]
• 1963 Topps All Star Managers [Cards That Never Were]
• Dusty Please Win [OMGreds]
• Cincinnati Reds Opening Day Starters [Baseball-Reference]

Purchase Airbourne – Black Dog Barking.

Random Awesomeness (part 132)

• How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide [zenhabits]
• RIP Mr. Virgil Trucks [Carl Crawford Cards]
• Audio Sample of LL Cool J song featuring Eddie Van Halen [Van Halen News Desk]
• Skid Row: United World Rebellion – Tour Rehearsals [Atlanta's Best Concert Photographer : Allen Ross Thomas / artistxposure]
• Mark Kroos Plays Dueling Banjos From Deliverance by Himself [Mark Kroos' YouTube]
• April Bobbleheads around the Majors [Why Did My Dad Make Me a Mets Fan?]
• 1963 Topps All Stars – The American League Outfield [Cards That Never Were]
• Reclaimed skateboard decks transformed into electric guitars [Designboom]
• 10 Vampire Movies That Are Better Love Stories Than Twilight Part II [Horror Society]

Purchase The Definitive Rod Stewart.

Today is National Corndog Day

Yes, it’s a real thing.

It happens every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

I will be celebrating tonight at work, and I am very excited. Not because I like basketball (I don’t). Rather, because it gives me an excuse to make this.

Chuck Norris shaved his beard

Why, Chuck? Why?

Random Awesomeness (part 131)

• Unexpected day: what are we gonna do about Google Reader death? Keep calm and carry on. [The Old Reader]
• Homemade Cadbury Creme Eggs [Food52]
• Axel Gimenez to be working on DC MOTU Comic [He-Man.org]
• Eddie Van Halen to play guitar on one track from LL Cool J’s new album [Van Halen News Desk] (JT sez: I can’t wait!)
• White boy drops another AWESOME new sick beat!!! [C. Smith on YouTube]
• Duff McKagan: So, Yeah, I Was Kicked Out of a Guns N’ Roses Bootleg Shop in Tokyo [Seattle Weekly]
• 1963 Topps All Stars – The National League Outfield [Cards That Never Were]

Purchase Shooter Jennings – The Other Life.

Random Awesomeness (part 130)

• Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling [Aerogramme Writers' Studio]
• Jay Bruce pranks MLB Fan Cave finalists in Arizona [Big League Stew]
• SB Nation baseball cards: The 2013 set [SB Nation]
• 30 for 30 Shorts: Holy Grail: The T206 Honus Wagner [ESPN]
• Suicidal Tendencies Releases First Album in 13 Years — Details Announced for New Album ‘13’ and Upcoming ‘Slam City Tour’ U.S. Tour Dates [Hard Rock Hideout]
• Monster Week, Day 3: Movie Monsters, by Gary Poole! [Jon's Random Acts of Geekery]
• The Modern Hobby Guide To Topps Chewing Gum: 1938-1956 [The Topps Archives]
• Eternian Equity [Behance]

Purchase Twenty One Pilots – Vessel.
I’m still not tired of this album.

Looking for alternatives to Google Reader

Man, I almost cried this morning when I read that Google Reader was going bye-bye in July. Google has decided to discontinue the service due to a decline in usage over the past few years, which means those of us who used it often will need to find a suitable replacement.

So…any suggestions? I need a good RSS reader service that isn’t too bulky and is very user friendly…just like Google Reader, basically. Is there a Google Reader clone out there somewhere? Someone please help me out!!!

I’m going to miss Google Reader.

Random Awesomeness (part 129)

• Tom Keifer at The 20th Century Theater – Cincinnati, Ohio – 2/27/13 [Hard Rock Hideout]
• The Line it is Drawn #128 – Music Album Cover Homages [Comic Book Resources]
• James Earl Jones: I Want To Voice Vader Again [TheForce.Net]
• Did anybody call a doctor? [Cookie Cowgirl]
• Kiss and makeup. [Baseball Card Vandals]
• Humpty Badel: Almost Major League [Infinite Baseball Card Set]
• They’re Not Funny…They’re Art [Garvey Cey Russell Lopes]

Purchase Twenty One Pilots – Vessel.
(At the moment, this is the frontrunner for album of 2013 in my book.)

Random Awesomeness (part 128)

• 2013 WSC Hall of Fame Ballot [White Sox Cards]
• High School basketball player passes ball to mentally challenged player on the other team [Statesman Journal]
• Rewriting Oscar History [Branded in the 80s]
• Mike Tramp – ‘Love Don’t Come Easy’ [Bring Back Glam!]
• 10 Vampire Love Stories Better Than Twilight Part I [Horror Society]
• 1990 George Bush reprint created [Bob Lemke's Blog]
• Jerrod Maruyama “So Happy Together” [Bottleneck]

Purchase Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

Random Awesomeness (part 127)

• New songs from Black Robot [Facebook]
• Topps, yo tengo la solución! [Uncle Doc's Card Closet]
• Cinderella Frontman Tom Keifer Performs Acoustic Set At New Jersey’s WDHA 105.5 FM; Video Online [Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]
• My Hoth Diorama [The Fighting 1:18th]
• 1973 Topps Willie Mays – From a Different Perspective [The Fleer Sticker Project]
• Reds reflect on what it means to be on a baseball card [KY Post]
• The Top Ten cancelled toys of the 70s/80s [Plaid Stallions]

Purchase Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls.
(Note: The above song does not appear on this album.)

Purchase Silver Linings Playbook soundtrack.
(Note: This album does contain the above Alabama Shakes song,
as well as great music from several other artists.)

Random Awesomeness (part 126)

• Wrigley Field Turns 100 Logo Contest [Chicago Cubs]
• Art Print That Alphabetically Displays Star Wars Character Silhouettes [Laughing Squid]
• Introducing Courier Prime [johnaugust.com]
• Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model [Instructables]
• Check Out This Great ‘Round and Round’ Cover! [Bring Back Glam!]
• Super 8 Theater Presents: Star Wars [Dartman's World of Wonder]
• Snowmageddon Spawns Castle Grayskull [Carbon-Fibre Media]
• to the extreme i rock the site with the vandals. [baseball card vandals]

Purchase CRASHDÏET – The Savage Playground.

Random Awesomeness (part 125)

• Florence Freedom announce plans for ‘Manti Te’o Girlfriend Bobblehead Night’ in May [Big League Stew]
• Artist who changed Sox wants to revamp Reds [on flickr via UniWatch] (JT sez: I was alerted to this article by baseball-fever; I would like to see this concept revisited)
• Mickey Mouse was in Star Wars [Neatorama]
• The Top 10 Funniest People Who Ever Lived [Retrospace]
• the 1981 postseason, as it should have been in 1982 [garvey cey russell lopes]
• Major Scaled #1 : Metallica – “Nothing Else Majeur” [major scaled on Vimeo]
• Match the song title: 1984 [Night Owl Cards]

I can’t find any information on Prince’s new album (it’s not even available for pre-order at Amazon yet), but this first song is pretty chill. Get ready for the new Prince by revisiting some of his classics by purchasing Prince – The Hits 1.

Random Awesomeness (part 124)

• Project Ridge Runner 01 [coonk9 on deviantART]
• Handmonica [HandFartMaster on YouTube] (JT sez…this may be the most ingenious thing ever)
• Match the song title: El Camino [Night Owl Cards]
• The King of Pop [Wicked Crispy]
• Tom Keifer is Doing a Solo Tour [Bring Back Glam]
• Joe Morgan [Every Hall of Famer]
• History’s other greatest monsters: 15 pop-culture presidents behaving unpresidentially [A.V. Club]

Purchase T&N – Slave to the Empire.

Random Awesomeness (part 123)

• Chad Murphy argues for his dad, Dale Murphy, to get into the Hall of Fame [Hardball Talk]
• You don’t wanna go down that road: New documentary looks at the making of Pet Sematary [The Moon is a Dead World]
• Win A Stephen King Desktop Calendar [Horror Society]
• Tile Tuesday: The 1989 Cubs [Wrigley Wax]
• same shirt different day still winning. [baseball card vandals]
• Guitar World’s Top 50 Albums of 2012 [Guitar World]
• Birthday Milestones [Pleated Jeans]

Purchase Rival Sons – Head Down

Random Awesomeness (part 122)

• Meet Errol McCarthy [The Power and Honor Foundation]
• The 8 Weirdest TV Christmas Specials of All Time [Office Space For Rent]
• Cotton Candy Fudge [The Cereal Baker]
• Princess Leia and the Seven Ewoks [Avalanche Software Art Blog]
• Exclusive Pack Break [The Baseball Card Blog]
• Eddie Van Halen Performing “Beat It” Live With Michael Jackson, 1984 [Van Halen News Desk]
• 25 Wonderful Words and Phrases We Learned in 2012 [mental_floss]

Purchase Great White – Elation.