College pigskin this week
It was the final week of jobber games. The big teams either had the week off or played a patsy so there’s not much to talk about. Tennessee beat Oklahoma in the most significant game.
It was not a great week for the state of North Carolina. NC State allowed 59, NC allowed 70, and the state’s lt. governor turned out to be a pro-Nazi, pro-slavery pervert.
North Carolina came into this week’s game 3-0, and probably didn’t think they were scheduling a tough game when they conceived this match-up, but … boy, were they wrong. They gave up 70 points to James Madison, including 53 in the first half. That’s the same Jemmy Madison team that barely escaped (13-6) with a win in their previous game against mighty Gardner-Webb. So, Jemmy, you score 13 against Gardner-Webb, then 70 against the Tar Heels? That’s some schizo playing right there. JM moves to 3-0.
Speaking of schizo performances … Northern Illinois was somehow ranked in the top 25 coming into this Saturday, based (I suppose) on their win over Notre Dame in South Bend. Turns out that whole Notre Dame thing was some kind of fluke, because they lost this week at home – to Buffalo. So you think maybe that’s because Buffalo is crazy good this year? Nah. When Buffalo played a real top-25 team earlier this year (Mizzou), they lost 38-zip. So I think NIU can abandon that dream of a major bowl game. As Rick Blaine might tell them, “You’ll always have South Bend.”
Brigham Young (now 4-0) might be for real this year. They were matched up against #13 Kansas State and absolutely took them to the cleaners, 38-9. KSU could not put the ball across the goal line.
I feel for those kids at Kent State. Who drew up that schedule for them? They had to play Tennessee and Penn State on successive Saturdays, resulting in a cumulative thrashing of 127-0. They mustered up only 72 yards of offense against Penn State, including a mere 18 in the air, with only two short completions in the entire game. Kent State also played Pitt in their opener, to the tune of a 55-24 loss. According to Sagarin’s computer ratings, Kent State is the worst-rated team in the FBS division, but has played the hardest schedule. OUCH! It’s the worst year for that college since 1970. Fortunately for those kids, they have only MAC games remaining. Maybe all those difficult games have toughened them up to crush some opponents in their weak conference. I’m all in favor of taking on challenges, but next year maybe they should consider balancing that out with an early home game against Bethune-Cookman.
Britney Spears dancing in a thong
She usually edits these dances to avoid showing her butt, but this time she flashes it in a thong.
Denise Tantucci topless in Hotspot: Amore Senza Rete (2024)
AKA Love Without a Net.
This appears to be Italy’s effort to prove that they can make films just as empty and superficial as any from Hollywood. It is a fairy-tale romance employing all the 1980s/1990s rom-com cliches. They meet cute, they have moments framed by pastels and sappy songs, they drift apart … well, you get the point.
KiKi Layne topless in Dandelion (2024)
It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.
Film clip here.
Bella Thorne is a brilliant dancer!
Odd moves. She’s basically Elaine from Seinfeld. She seems completely uncoordinated and nowhere near the beat. The closest she approaches to the rhythm is when the song is cobbled to match her ordinary pace as she walks away.
But she does look cute!
Vanda Chaloupkova topless in Jedna Noc (2024)
Czech film, apparently intended as a serious exercise in social realism.
There are only nine votes at IMDb, but there is a review:
We follow the stories of two heroes (if they can be called that, because they do not exude positivity at all), former musician Adam and his wife Eliška. Their marriage suffers after a tragic car accident in which Adam kills his girlfriend. Now they are in a difficult financial situation because of this, and Eliška is forced to earn money in the form of sexual live chats in order to support her family and their little son. However, during one night, the cup of patience overflows and irreversible actions occur that will forever mark their relationship – can they withstand this too? How much can one relationship suffer and what will we endure for love? And how many bad decisions can one person make in just one evening?
Lena Meckel naked in Un/Dressed (2024)
This is a German softcore that plays out like those assembly-line Cinemax films from the 1990s. So imagine that those Cinemax films had been made by Germans, and you should get the idea. I gather that it is part of a group of films to be produced by Amazon in conjunction with local German studios.
Very few people have seen this film (9 votes at IMDb), but film-rezensionen.de reviewed it in detail. Their summary:
Un/Dressed is just trivial glossy kitsch, accompanied by cuddly music that doesn’t really get the pulse racing. Even if the erotic scenes had been exciting, they would not have been enough to make up for the dreary rest.
Katy Perry and Doechii at the MTV-VMA
Subtle photography
