Afternoon Links: Scranton just got a little Blacker

• If you haven't gone outside after finals, opting for catching up on masturbation and movie rentals, it's raining buckets.
• Good news for you Office fans on a rainy day, which will hopefully cut out the bad news.
• A great piece done by the LA Times (newspapers relevant? who knew!) on the dreams of families done in by the housing bubble-burst here.
• While weather is on your mind, it might snow in my hometown of Santa Clarita tonight (elevation around 2,000'). Which means hit the slopes nearest you. I will come Thursday.
• If you opted to celebrate with hideous festive sweaters over the weekend, you missed one of the best SNL's of the season. No Jizz My Pants, but apparently the send-off of Amy Pohler, involving cheap blind governor jokes (just watch) is causing quite a stir on the other coast. Video below.

Thoughts?

• If you haven't seen The Prestige yet, please do. An absolute breathtaking project that will make you appreciate The Dark Knight and Batman Returns ever-s0-more.
• Guy Ritchie just got a shit-ton more rich-ie-er. (I try) Note to self: Once wife gets semi-old and ridiculously rich, introduce to douchebag male athlete.
• Here goes my only chance to get on a jumbotron.
• As to why me and Matty didn't take a year off of school and think of this, I will forever hold it against me.
• The whole TO/Tony Simpson/WhiteBoyWhitten thing gets wierder by the day, with ESPN's "factual" reporting taking the blunt hit in all of this. If you quote an "anonymous " source with just a couple people involved, how hard is it to just say who told you?
• Pepperdine's disgraced son and national douchebag-of-the-month embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thinks he has a fighting chance and won't give up.