Day: October 26, 2012

You Missed It: To crush your enemies edition

Is it really still hurricane season? Half the Eastern Seaboard is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, which is supposed to hit sometime Sunday evening and not go away for a couple days. Also, apparently it’s supposed to hook west–something mankind has never seen in the 100+ years we’ve tracked these things. There has to be a bitchin’ Halloween costume in there somewhere. If you were busy installing the newest version of Windows this week, odds are you missed it.

Go to Valhalla, already
Remember how they rebooted the Conan the [Job Title] movies last year? Well forget about that–the old ways are best. Fresh off his book tour, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 65, is in talks with Universal to do another movie, following the original ones from the 1980s. This time, Conan is an aging warrior king looking for one last battle, and hopefully wearing a bit larger of a loincloth. The working title of the movie is Conan the Moneygrabber.

Have I told you lately how I did drugs?
Rod Stewart didn’t do enough cocaine to burn a hole in part of his nose, but his bandmate did in the 1970s, so they decided to try a different method for taking the drug. Stewart said that though he was only a social user of the drug, he and bandmate Ronnie Wood took cocaine as a suppository for a while. You know, because people who aren’t addicted typically drift toward shoving their drug of choice up their butts.

And in Canadian news …
After failing to reach an agreement with the players union, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced this week that games through the end of November will be canceled. In other news, the competition in amateur men’s leagues just got a lot tougher.

Drink yourself smart

Are you worried you’re getting older? Don’t worry, The Guys are, too. We’re well over 15 at this point. How do we manage to stay so young and agile minded? If you have to ask, you don’t read this blog enough.

The answer, of course, is booze. Apparently, if you are over 50, and moderate drinkers’ brains have better cognition, less depression and “a better sense of well-being.” Translated: booze is the fountain of youth for your brain when you hit 50. (Also, apparently regular exercise helps, too.)

But you’re not 50, are you? No problem there, you should probably up your alcohol dosage. If drinking lots of milk keeps your bones strong later in life, doing shots is like giving yourself a better, smarter future. It’s science.