Tuesday Links

1. Jaleel White will always be Steve Urkel, but he's not a kid anymore...or a nerd. At least not in Cee Lo Green's new video for Cry Baby. He's a ladykiller, who knows how to cut a rug, yes he is!

2. The NBA owners may have locked out the players, but Kevin Durant is keeping busy. This dunk is ridiculous!

3. I loved the mother-daughter relationship and the rapid-fire pop culture references in Gilmore Girls. I still miss the show, but the show's creator is working on a new project - adapting The Nanny Diaries for ABC. I'm curious to see what she does with a concept that started as a book, then turned into a movie.

4. I wrote about my love for Twitter here and its (probably) unintended usefulness. But Twitter also has benefits for athletes (and other celebrities) and their fans.

5. I had to include this one because it made me laugh. Folks are still passionate about their allegiances to either *NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys. Last time I checked there were almost 900 comments!

As for me, I always have been and always will be an *NSYNC fangirl. ALWAYS!

6. Equal opportunity may soon be extended to the NFL gridiron - in one capacity anyway. Female referees, anyone? I'm down.

7. Think of that movie scene that makes you tear up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It might be on this list. A scene from my favorite movie is the first one listed and I got a little misty-eyed just reading about it.

8. This is just too funny not to share. Novak Djokovic is a throwback, that's all. :)

Tuesday Links

OK, so last week was bad. I didn't blog. I was busy and lazy. I could've done the links and Jam of the Week only, but I felt like that was cheating.

I'll tell you later on in the week what I was doing. (How's that for a big market tease?) I promise to do better with the blogging this week. And now that I've typed that, I actually have to do it.

In the mean time, here are the Tuesday Links.

1. Still mad about Netflix's price hikes? Well, Walmart has jumped in the game. Better yet, there's a relief fund for white people who love GAP khakis.

2. College athletes don't get paid, but schools and conferences make MILLIONS off them anyway. And some student-athletes do get paid and the schools get into all kinds of trouble when it's discovered. This guy thinks we should just end the charade and pay star student-athletes out in the open. Hmm. Maybe I'll blog my thoughts on the subject someday.

3. This video is just too funny. A Dad turns into the Double Rainbow Guy at a Little League game.

4. Any Mad Men fans? An  enterprising fellow took some time to do an unofficial remake of the opening credits.

5. Love this column about the time-honored tradition in baseball of trading talented, proven players for a gaggle of prospects who may or may not develop into Major Leaguers. It seems like a good idea, but I'd rather have the proven player.

6. Want to know who invented the high five? Yeah, you do.

7. This twitter exchange makes me giggle. Over and over.

8. An NFL player demonstrates his love for his wife through song.

9. So you already know I love nostalgia. Or my 80s and 90s versions of it anyway. I worshiped Saved By the Bell, so this video of White Collar's Matt Bomer doing the Bayside cheer melts my heart. And this columnist is crazy for being mad at Zack. She should totally be mad at Kelly for breaking Zack's heart!

And speaking of nostalgia...

10. Kenny Ortega plans to direct a remake of Dirty Dancing. Sigh. I love Ortega. He was Dirty Dancing's choreographer, and since this is my favorite movie, I knew that and adored him for it. He also choreographed Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Shag, two movies I also love. He directed High School Musical, which I think is supercute. And I haven't mentioned that he choreographed Michael Jackson's tours. So yeah, I have mad love for Ortega. But WHY he is remaking a movie that is so classic and iconic? Leave it alone, Kenny! Even Baby agrees!

What I Like About Twitter

Last year, I did what I was supposed to do as a new writer wanting to "make connections" and stay up on the latest industry news.

I joined Twitter. I'm the first to admit, I'm not an early adopter. I don't like change. I was the one clinging to my VHS tapes when DVDs were becoming more popular. Granted, the reason I did this was because VHS was cheaper, but still.

I joined Myspace years after everyone else did. I wasn't keen on joining Facebook because I rarely went on Myspace. Why did I need to join another social media site? Eventually, I did though. But I'm not a Facebook aficionado. It is fun to catch up on people's lives, but that becomes boring after awhile.

I always feel like I'm missing something with Facebook. What are people doing that they can spend hours on it?

But that's not the case with Twitter. I joined and immediately fell in love. The posts were fast and fast to read. There's no superfluous information. All I have to care about or pay attention to are the posts.

It's fun when someone tweets something random (and most tweets are random) and you connect with it. You reply and bam you're having a conversation.

But I've gone completely off on a tangent.

What amuses me most about Twitter is how it's become a news source. I imagine that the founders thought it would be a place for friends to talk to each other in real time and a place to make new friends based on shared interests. Which it is.

But it's also a place that news organizations, especially the kind that report celebrity news, rely heavily on. And it cracks me up. I watch too much a lot of ESPN. I know it's not a Sportscenter until an anchor says, "Athlete A said blah blah blah on Twitter."

It happens every night, and it's great. There's no need to conduct an interview or heck even ask for an interview. Athletes put it out there for everyone to see.

I don't know why, but this amuses me to no end.

Do you like Twitter? What do you like most about it? Are you #teamtwitter or #teamfacebook?