Prenups and Tiger Woods -- Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo

Exclusive footage of new playable characters in Tiger Woods PGA '11 has come out. I hear that downloadable content will include different 2:30 AM costumes, a dozen cars to crash besides the Escalade, and a minigame where you have to text a certain number of booty calls before Elin finds your Blackberry. Fun for the whole family.

I'm thinking I'm not the only one suffering from extreme Tiger fatigue. It's tiresome, and I don't plan to blog about it anymore. But the long and short of it is that Tiger is an arrogant moron. As we were preparing for a conference yesterday, I talked to a couple of co-workers about Tiger. These were middle-aged African-American women, smart and opinionated, but based in a certain level of reality that sheltered golf icons seldom experience. "Tiger doesn't know how to cheat." "You let someone else set up your hook-up, you don't send 300 sex texts, cuz you're going to get caught sooner or later." True enough. Tiger's probably got an entourage with enough people to fill an amphitheatre. You'd think one guy could be "Trim Coordinator." Give him one of those Secret Service earpieces, a clipboard, and a strong pimp hand to keep the bitches in line, and send him on his way.

Golden Age Artist Spotlight - Matt Baker

Matt Baker (Clarence Matt Baker) is famously known as one the Golden Age's most provocative artists, primarily for his "headlights" covers on Phantom Girl.  "Good girl" art, as it's commonly known, is one area of comic book collecting where you can get more or less what you ask for dollar-wise on eBay and at conventions (well-drawn chicks appeal to nerdy dudes -- who'da thunk it?).  What's less known about Baker is that he is commonly considered as the first major African-American artist in comics.  He also died far before his time, passing away from a  heart attack at age 37, in 1959.  Who knows how much stellar art (and personal fame) he could have achieved had he been able to draw any of the major superheroines of the time (say Wonder Woman, Supergirl, or Mary Marvel, for example), because there are few artists with a better command of the female form.  And as related in several books about that period in comics, Baker knew women, because he KNEW women.  A snappy dresser, he was reported to have said:  “Why make one woman miserable when I can make many women happy?”  Don't hate the playa, hate the game.   A collection of great covers after the jump.

Enjoy!

Comcast and NBC Announce $30 Billion Merger; Ask Boards of Directors to Be Available Between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM on Friday

Merger Announced -- Washington Post

Not sure that I'm cool with this.  Under the proposed plan, Comcast will end up owning one out of every five television viewing hours.  In addition to the NBC network and the Universal Pictures movie studio and theme parks, NBC Universal currently owns 34 TV stations, including WRC (Channel 4) in D.C.  Its other holdings include the Spanish-language network Telemundo, and 13 cable networks, the biggest of which are USA, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, Bravo and Oxygen. Comcast will contribute its cable-network group to the marriage, including such channels as E! Entertainment Television, Style, Versus, the Golf Channel, the Major League Baseball channel and 10 regional sports networks.

Giant Robots -- I for One Welcome our Mechanical Overlords

Here's a short film by aspiring Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez that ended up netting him a $30 million development deal with Sam Raimi's "Ghost House" production company. Apparently, Kanye West, of all people, linked to his film on his blog, and that got Alvarez the Hollywood attention he needed.

Called "Ataque de Panico," or "Panic Attack," reports are that Alvarez made the film for $500. Considering that I already think it's better than either "Transformers" film, that's almost beyond comprehension. I'm ready for a new guard in scifi action cinema myself. Less Michael Bay and James Cameron, more Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") and Fede Alvarez, please.

Fantasy Football - Week 13 - QB, RB, WR, TE, K, D/ST Rankings

Quarterback Rankings -- QB

1. Matt Schaub, HOU (at JAC)
2. Peyton Manning, IND (vs. TENN)
3. Tom Brady, NE (at MIA)
4. Brett Favre, MIN (at ARI)
5. Phillip Rivers, SD (at CLE)
6. Aaron Rodgers, GB (vs. BAL)
7. Donovan McNabb, PHI (at ATL)
8. Drew Brees, NO (at WAS)
9. Carson Palmer, CIN (vs. DET)
10. Ben Roethlisberger, PIT (vs. OAK)
11. Tony Romo, DAL (at NYG)
12. Alex Smith, SF (at SEA)
13. Matt Hasselbeck, SEA (vs. SF)
14. Jay Cutler, CHI (vs. STL)
15. Kyle Orton, DEN (at KC)
16. Joe Flacco, BAL (at GB)
17. David Garrard, JAC (vs. HOU)
18. Josh Freeman, TB (at CAR)
19. Chris Redman, ATL (vs. PHI)
20. Vince Young, TENN (at IND)