Lupus is a 2019 short experimental film with a runtime of about 4 1/2 minutes.
Here is her Nudografia, which consists solely of this film.
College Pigskin, Week 3
The Money
In one sense, college football has always been about the simoleons. But not like it is today. The NIL money basically allows colleges with the biggest budgets to recruit and pay the best players, and the transfer portal allows them to swipe players from other programs. In order to protect players from entering the open market each year, colleges have to offer them multi-year contracts, duplicating the team/player interaction of professional teams. But this money is not distributed fairly, if at all. A superstar quarterback or wide receiver can get multi-million dollar deals. The players who are not considered pro prospects may have to be satisfied with a free education.
As you can see from the table below, the Sagarin rankings correlate very closely to the estimated NIL budget.The AP voters are a bit more eccentric, placing (for example) BYU 9th in the country. I have a hard time believing that, but I guess we’ll find out when they play Notre Dame.
(I extended the AP ranks down as far as the votes suggested.)
| Team | Roster Value |
Budget Rank |
AP Rank |
Sagarin Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | $47,541,661 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Oregon | $41,258,628 | 2 | 20 | 4 |
| LSU | $40,775,918 | 3 | 10 | 9 |
| Ohio State | $38,255,325 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| Miami | $37,892,092 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Ole Miss | $35,494,987 | 6 | 4 | 11 |
| Notre Dame | $34,146,176 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Indiana | $33,206,414 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| Texas Tech | $33,095,287 | 9 | 11 | 17 |
| Texas A&M | $33,024,972 | 10 | 23 | 10 |
| USC | $31,668,120 | 11 | 12 | 19 |
| Tennessee | $31,333,820 | 12 | 14 | 15 |
| Alabama | $31,214,501 | 13 | 6 | 6 |
| Michigan | $30,792,039 | 14 | 18 | 16 |
| Oklahoma | $30,069,418 | 15 | 29 | 12 |
| Georgia | $30,000,235 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
| Auburn | $28,021,577 | 17 | – | 20 |
| Florida | $27,602,360 | 18 | 21 | 13 |
| Penn State | $26,725,176 | 19 | 13 | 14 |
| Missouri | $26,243,453 | 20 | 19 | 30 |
| Houston | $26,106,182 | 21 | 25 | 34 |
| Vanderbilt | $25,709,121 | 22 | – | 38 |
| Clemson | $25,470,497 | 23 | – | 49 |
| Arkansas | $24,521,082 | 24 | – | 67 |
| South Carolina | $24,515,274 | 25 | 24 | |
| Florida State | $23,876,973 | 26 | 42 | |
| Kentucky | $23,825,602 | 27 | 27 | 27 |
| UCLA | $23,598,391 | 28 | 37 | 32 |
| Nebraska | $23,299,065 | 29 | 42 | 29 |
| Colorado | $22,383,650 | 30 | 69 | |
| Utah | $22,105,325 | 31 | 22 | |
| Oklahoma State | $21,738,776 | 32 | 30 | 44 |
| Mississippi State | $21,635,642 | 33 | 21 | |
| Kansas State | $21,601,227 | 34 | 41 | 37 |
| Michigan State | $21,594,449 | 35 | 54 | |
| Washington | $21,498,080 | 36 | 26 | 40 |
| BYU | $21,055,753 | 37 | 9 | 26 |
| Louisville | $20,973,183 | 38 | 23 | |
| Wisconsin | $20,875,569 | 39 | 31 | |
| Virginia | $20,804,575 | 40 | 35 | |
| Pittsburgh | $20,679,986 | 41 | 37 | 28 |
| Maryland | $20,647,502 | 42 | 48 | |
| North Carolina | $20,132,296 | 43 | 62 | |
| SMU | $20,082,787 | 44 | 25 | |
| West Virginia | $19,956,954 | 45 | 28 | 45 |
| Georgia Tech | $19,891,092 | 46 | 58 | |
| Minnesota | $19,850,693 | 47 | 41 | |
| Arizona | $19,646,175 | 48 | 36 | 50 |
| Rutgers | $19,589,661 | 49 | 76 | |
| Arizona State | $19,585,688 | 50 | 43 | |
| Kansas | $19,493,835 | 51 | 61 | |
| TCU | $19,481,293 | 52 | 53 | |
| Virginia Tech | $19,376,552 | 53 | 32 | 33 |
| Baylor | $19,279,419 | 54 | 46 | |
| UCF | $19,062,092 | 55 | 52 | |
| Illinois | $19,039,430 | 56 | 39 | |
| NC State | $18,985,568 | 57 | 44 | |
| Cincinnati | $18,958,239 | 58 | 59 | |
| Iowa State | $18,870,043 | 59 | 57 | |
| Duke | $18,845,847 | 60 | 34 | 51 |
| Cal | $18,460,335 | 61 | 63 | |
| Iowa | $18,378,810 | 62 | 17 | 18 |
| Wake Forest | $18,175,921 | 63 | 55 | |
| Syracuse | $17,597,607 | 64 | 60 | |
| Stanford | $17,517,589 | 65 | 63 | |
| Boise State | $17,264,768 | 66 | 31 | 56 |
| Northwestern | $17,254,306 | 67 | 36 | |
| Boston College | $17,244,089 | 68 | 93 | |
| Purdue | $17,032,078 | 69 | 64 | |
| Oregon State | $11,672,615 | 70 | 84 |
* Of the eight teams with the highest budgets, none is rated lower than 11th by Sagarin.
* The teams highlighted in blue seem to be getting the best bang for their bucks (well, so far – let’s see what Iowa does when they play real teams). Those highlighted in yellow are not getting their money’s worth.
What’s wrong with the underperformers?
* Clemson is the easiest one to explain. How did they fall so far so fast? Coach Dabo Swinney was a luddite. He didn’t like the transfer portal or waving around the NIL money. I appreciate his beliefs, but he created a competitive disadvantage for himself in both recruiting and filling roster gaps. Like it or not, that is the modern game.
The Games
In Jobber Games
For many teams it was another week of lopsided pre-conference games.
The craziest game was Oregon’s 84-0 win over Portland State. Oregon has been trying to pull out of its tailspin through the rankings. They were #2, then #6, then #21. They needed to make a statement. They made the statement, but only rose from 21st to 20th in the human poll. The AP voters were unimpressed when Oregon applied a piledriver to the worst team in an FCS conference (0-8 in the conference last year).
Portland State was swamped. Their QB had only eight completions – compared to three interceptions. Their ground game amounted to two yards. (Yes, two. And that was more than negated by a lost fumble.) They were 0-for-9 on third down conversions. They crossed midfield only once, and that was because of a ten-yard holding penalty.
On the other side of the ball, Oregon scored a TD on its first eight possessions, and finished 12-for 13. Oregon amassed 726 yards from scrimmage, and they weren’t even trying to roll up the score. They never used their top wide receiver or their top wide end, who sat out to recover from injuries, and they used fourteen different receivers, so they got to the 16th guy on the receiving depth chart. They used four quarterbacks. They even used their second-string placekicker. Apparently that is a thing, and this is the first time he has ever played! (It’s a nice story. His name is Rocco Graziano, and he’s a local kid from Eugene, so his family finally got to see him play.)
In real games:
#13 Texas Tech defeated #22 Houston, 28-26. They were evenly matched. Somebody had to win.
#23 Louisville defeated #16 SMU, 41-31. Another even match-up. SMU basically lost the game by surrendering the ball three times on turnovers.
#8 Ole Miss beat #7 LSU in a game that was tied in the 4th quarter.
Unranked Kentucky defeated #9 Texas A&M, 31-21. It was also a “money upset,” i.e. a victory for the lower spender, which I suppose we should celebrate. Kentucky is 27th on the NIL list, while the Aggies are 10th.
Unranked West Virginia defeated #25 Virginia, as QB Michael Hawkins passed for two TDs and ran for three more. The Mountaineers are better than we thought, and Virginia seems to have been overrated.
Florida beat Auburn 44-39 in an SEC conference game where neither team was ranked, even though they are #17 and #18 on the big spenders list, and have each won national championships in this millennium (Auburn 2010, Florida 2006 and 2008). Florida remained undefeated, crept onto the AP rankings, and is now #13 in Sagarin’s ratings. Auburn is #20 on the Sagarin list, but still voteless from the humans.
A shout-out to my mighty Fordham Rams. They were 20-point underdogs and won by 25 over William and Mary, which I believe is not a college football team, but a folk duo. OK, 11 against 2 isn’t really fair, especially when one is a woman and the other is slowed down by carrying a guitar, but it’s still a W for the Maroon.
There was some sneaky nudity in last night’s Lioness (s3e8)
On the surface, it appeared that there were simply two shots of women with well-toned butts, but if you look closely, there is more than that.
The scene with Elizaveta Neretin is still nothing special, but a nipple is barely visible when she bends over.
The scene with Stephanie Nur is the real find, because she’s in front of a window, and her reflection is essentially a full-frontal nude. Not a clear one, of course, but it is there.
Stephanie Nur
Elizaveta Neretin
Speaking of Susan Anspach …
Given that she’s gorgeous, I asked AI to take a shot at the two scenes where we have her face and some nudity in the same frame.
The images from Montenegro (1981) were unsatisfactory. We just don’t have enough definition to work with. The AI picture was pretty slick, but since it was impossible to make out Anspach’s face in the original, AI had to take a guess. It looked nothing like her. I then fed in a facial close-up of Anspach from IMDb, and asked the AI to use that. The result was better, but still unsatisfactory (see here). I repeated the experiment with a second AI, got worse results, and gave up.
The scene from Into the Fire (1987) was another story, which demonstrates how inconsistent AI results can be. Vireel 4.0 delivered a gorgeous, photo-realistic image in one pass.
So it goes.
UPDATE: Carole Laure in Sweet Movie (1974)
(Update: added the chocolate scene, as requested.)
This is one of Dušan Makavejev’s typical surrealistic films. Many consider him the most important figure in the history of Yugoslav cinema. This is not as impressive a distinction as you might think, since the second-most important figure in the history of Yugoslav cinema is a rusty tractor.
In this particular bit of weirdness, Dean Wormer bathes Carole Laure, who is wearing Christmas lights over her fun stuff. After his ministrations, he whips out a gold-painted penis and pisses on her. I believe this is a traditional Yugoslavian wedding night.
Kidding aside, I don’t get the point, but I never get the point of Makavejev’s artistic films. Frankly, I rarely get the point of his commercial films either, even when I can follow the plot.
We’ve seen a few of his films here from time to time, as they occasionally contain some memorable nudity. In two of his more conventional films, we saw Susan Anspach and Greta Scacchi naked. Anspach made one of her rare nude appearances in Montenegro, and Scacchi got naked in The Coca-Cola Kid.
The Dean Wormer scene:
(ADDED) The chocolate scene:
As I feared, I really don’t have anything to add to the chocolate scene. When something is dark, I can bring it out. When something is artificially colored, I can adjust it. But that scene is already lit and colored well, and there’s nothing I can do to make chocolate go away. I did blow up the very first pic below to outrageous size, if you’re interested.
Both videos (download only)
Mia Hunt naked in episode 4 of Route 187
Monica Mejuto – rear nudity in episode 2 of Route 187
This is a new Paramount+ crime series from Tyler Perry’s studio.
Citizens combat urban violence until thugs murder a bus driver and a students, leading authorities to hunt the culprits captured on video.
Yar-r-r-r, Jim-Lad. It be talk like a pirate day
OK, I admit it. I don’t speak pirate myself, but I feel a real closeness to the pirate community. It all started in high school, when the vice-principal assigned me the locker next to David Jones, or “Davy,” as we called him.
I was so close to glory, yet you never hear a pirate say, “We sent ‘im to Davy Jones’s locker, which, by the way, is right next to Uncle Scoopy’s.”
I actually forgot to speak or write like a pirate last September 19. I’ve decided to spin my failure by saying that I chose to portray pirates as they really talked instead of creating some larger-than-life caricature. Just think of it in terms of Dennis Quaid playing Doc Holliday.
Long John Silver and Doc Holliday have something in common. They are roles that are more successful when overacted. Dennis Quaid portrayed Doc Holliday as a real person. Nobody wants to see that shit. That’s like portraying a medieval bridge-keeper without one decent riddle, or playing Richard III as a thoughtful man with perfect posture.
Or portraying a Yarrr-less pirate.
That reminds me of a story my sons told me. When they were kids, they watched some show about a local news announcer who had to fill in when the local kiddie-show guy got sick. He didn’t enjoy acting and he didn’t understand the characters. When he played Cap’n Jack the pirate he would just read the cue cards in his news-announcer voice. “Avast me hearties, it be time for a cartoon. Yar, kids.” (Just pronouncing “yar” to rhyme with “bar,” with no rolled “r.”) The part of the story I liked best was how he hosted the Horror Theater as Ghost Jack, reading his evil laugh off the cue cards in a flat, toneless voice as “Mewee, mewee, ma-ha-ha, kids.” I never saw that show, whatever it was, but I remember how much the kids and I loved to talk about it, and how we would make up other larger-than-life characters to be played by the substitute Something Jack: Cowboy Jack, Vampire Jack, Gabby Jack, Sonny Jack (who had a perfectly sensible appreciation of Cocoa Puffs), Jack the Tiger (“Frosted Flakes are great, I suppose. Well, let’s just say to be fair that they’re quite tasty, kids.”), Yosemite Jack, Jack Ventura (Pet Detective), etc.
Now that I think about it, I would love to see how Dennis Quaid would play Sonny the Cuckoo.
This is a day when we honor Robert Newton, essentially the inventor of pirate-speak as we now conceive of it.
Some four years after Treasure Island, Newton played Long John Silver again in the 1954 film Long John Silver, shot in Australia. The same production then made 26 half-hour episodes of The Adventures of Long John Silver, also starring Newton. Remarkably, they were filmed in color, even though few people owned color TVs at the time—and Australia itself didn’t even have television yet. If Wikipedia has the dates right, Newton was alive when the series began airing in the USA in 1955, but had passed away before it reached the UK in 1957, where he could play the part post-mortem. Death didn’t slow him in the least. Now that is commitment that even Daniel Day-Lewis could learn from.
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Other Piraty crap:
Brooks Nader – usual shenanigans
Brooks Nader flashing a nipple when posing next to her Baywatch co-star Hassie Harrison at the MPTF 20th Annual Evening Before in West Hollywood on September 13, 2026!
The Evening Before event is an industry party held before the Emmy Awards!
