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I've seen people mention Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie. But they're just e-cigarette smoking scarf wearing movie snobs 'cause Transformers was awesome...

I think I'm going to start a podcast called postmodern chair shot.

But he's great in Cars. Some days I feel bad for Johnny. We have to frustrate him each and every day but there's probably nowhere on the internet that he'd be frustrated less. "Why can't you squares just LIKE stuff?" At least we like some things Johnny. At least we like some things.

Was doing laundry in my building and I could hear through the walls Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse Ventura doing commentary. Macho Man's music hit. I thought I was dreaming, but my neighbors are apparently watching old wrestling with the volume turned up downstairs. Thinking about knocking on their door and yelling "OHHHHHHH YEEEEEEAAAAAAH DIG IT!" but since the only reason I knew about it was because I could hear it through the walls, I feel like I might be perceived as a creep. But it's Macho Man, and our possible comraderie over Randy Savage would probably outweigh potential creepiness, right?

My Mum didn't have any fits yesterday, a pleasant change from the norm. My Mum's home, all I/we can do now is hope she recovers best she can as her health isn't the best. We were told my Mum will probably be going between staying in and out of hospital.

I'm going to go ahead and stomp on some eggshells, because I've been biting my tongue on saying this all week... but why is it not ok for a white person to borrow elements from "black culture"? To paraphrase a comment I read on another site during the week, "you wouldn't dream of telling a young black girl that she can't pursue ballet or classical music or any other thing that's perceived as "white culture". Guarantee if Rihanna showed up next year in a tutu doing ballet moves, the popularity of that artform would spike, and yet I can't imagine white people making a fuss about it. Again, this seems to be a thing that's only really relevant in the US. Us vs. them. And yet, there are a million things that unite both blacks and whites and everyone else. What culture does playing video games belong too? Or playing sports? Or car enthusiasm? Or reading comic books, and so on. The idea that any one thing belongs to a group based on skin colour boggles my mind. And I have both "black culture" and "white culture" in quotation marks, because I don't really believe that there is such thing as a culture based on skin colour. I, as a white Irishman have no connection to the baseball cap wearing, souped up Civic driving douchebag across the road from me. I don't walk down the road and feel I have a special affinity with other white people. They're just random people. Nor do I suspect that a gangbanger in Compton has much in common with a lawyer in New York.

Simmons also pointed out that one of the things Hart had over Hennig was the whole Hart family thing. If only Mr. Perfect came from a long lineage of wrestlers...

How many people do you imagine will get those jokes? There's only one person who needs to get those jokes. Me.

I think Raul Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter may be the right answer despite the amount of retro love that Street Fighter gets.

I would encourage everyone to try and write about wrestling academically. I would also encourage said writers to learn the meaning of terms they bandy about. Really, I think that people should learn that writing clearly and correctly about simpler ideas makes you seem more intelligent than throwing random words around when they don't actually apply to any idea you are writing about. For the record, I really like Dead Wrestler of the Week.

This is a fucking weird thread.

Condit vs Kampmann was a great fight. Fun night of fights for a Wednesday. Gastelum is a BEAST at 170.

That reminds me of nerds in highschool that watched a lot of Anime. They'd look at my slanty eyes and think me some mythical beast.

*clompclompclompclompclompclompclompclomp *BAM* ... *gasp* Bella *wheeze* joke? *koff, koff* Am I late? (Jesus, the stairs ...)

no I'm 36 to this day the greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was seeing Transformers: The Movie as a kid

NONONONONONONO Unicron was Orson Welles' crowning achievement, no matter how many critics fed on that "cartoons based on toy lines can't have artistic merit" horseshit say otherwise...

Maybe Hogan had that overturned. If he can have Bully's divorce finalized without his consent, he can do that. Joseph Park Esq. does some amazing things.

Shit, that isn't even R. Kelly's best song of the last 13 years.

Writing from an academic standpoint about wrestling is fantastic and gives an enjoyable added texture to why certain things in our fair sport become popular. Wrestling is pretty much a reflection of the power fantasies of the fans, and those change based on social, economic, and political issues, like concern about foreign powers invading America, the economic elite cheating their way into the champion over more honest and hard-working people, or some dude getting jealous eyes and stealing your girl so you have to elbowsmash the shit out of him. The problem with The Masked Man is that he sees himself as Roland Barthes, but he writes more like Barthes after a severe brain hemorrhage.

Not unlike Ruffalo, I guess.

I miss Hyatte, since we're talking about writers influencing hacks who cop their style.

I hate to do this every month, but this month the masked man said CM Punk used a steel chair and the ring steps in a post modern fashion. He's got to be trolling at this point, right? I mean, he can't be serious any more. It's like someone gave Gonzalez a masters in Literature and made him write for Bill Simmons.

Curtis Axel is gonna make this CM Punk guy a star.

I thought it was a nice call back to a similar situation in WWE history but I also remember Edge and Christian being members of the McMahon/Helmsley Regime, or Factgime as they would refer to it, or at least they where in favor with HHH and Steph. I mean they were there playing triple H's theme on kazoos. They were after they turned heel around April/May 2000, but right after HHH and Steph got together, the Hardys and E/C were on their weekly bullying list with The Rock, Foley, Kane, and Show for some reason. Yeah that sounds about right. I think E&C got on HHH's bad side due to their association with Angle (and being kind of annoying, especially with the kazoos which was around the time HHH turned on them). I remember the one backstage segment after HHH made a match with Angle that went: Angle: Me vs Triple H? I thought we could be friends. Christian: He's the game alright, if the game is pin the tail on the two-faced reek-a-zoid. Edge: Kurt, go out there and beat Triple H, kick the snot out of his never ending nose and afterwards we'll all have cake. Christian: Cake rocks the body that rocks the party. Edge: Here we'll play your music. (Christian plays Angles entrance on the kazoo) Edge: ...Angle...Angle...Angle..Angle I have no idea why I remember that segment so well, it's kinda sad that I can recite to from memory 13 years after the fact. But I regret nothing. And yeah they did end up on the bad side of the Regime due to their friendship with Kurt.

Christian's hop over the ropes to punch a guy move is completely ridiculous and makes no sense. I love it, I do, but let's not try to act like it's anything other than completely stupid.

Somebody insulted Transformers the Movie. Several people defended it. Several people are correct. That movie FUCKING RULES. (For the record, I have it scored 5/5 on Rotten Tomatoes...)

Transformers: The Movie is great. And the Street Fighter movie sucked, but man did Raul Julia give it all he had. That's an interesting point. The topic didn't say "worst movies", it said "worst roles". And Raul was damn good as Bison. Even though everything around him was utter dogshit. And I vote Big McLargehuge gets the banhammer for that Transformers comment. Bah weep gragnah weep nini bong!

EPISODE REVIEW!I really hate Corey Graves and The Ascension. But I liked how this got set up. Corey was kicking game to Renee/waiting to do an interview when he got assaulted in a cheap shot. The Ascension did some great "bad guy from MST3K film in the Mike era" taunting laughs.Tyler Breeze's gimmick is great. I loved how he cowardly fled anytime CJ Parker indicated he was going after his face. He's still got a lot to go before he's ready for primetime but he'll be on the main roster at some point. This match, though, had a great terrible ending. Tyler knocked CJ out with his iPhone. What, a model who spends all day taking selfies wouldn't have a $2,000 protective case on that thing?Emma/Renee Young was pretty funny. Renee does exasperated really well. Emma's goofy charm knows no pounds. Summer Rae swatting away Emma's leftover bubbles was a great little bit if prissy heeling.Emma/Summer Rae was pretty solid. Emma tried to go for her submission early and then got into a nasty little catfight with Summer. Summer used her horribleness as a person to gain advantage and then worked on Emma's left shoulder. She did a fairly decent impression of ADR in terms of finding a weak body part and going for it. Summer also did some great taunts mocking Emma's dance moves. Emma ended up back in control, hit her version of the tarantula that she teased earlier in the match (I hear you, dolt in the crowd, chanting ECW) and ended it with the Emma Lock that made Summer Rae tap immediately. After the match, Summer poured Emma's bubble solution in her face. Emma sold it like it was some sort of toxic agent. Regal also put it over, too. Summer stood over her making fun of her dance while pretending she was blind. This wasn't epic or groundbreaking. But this was good professional wrestling -- a decent match that saw moves executed pretty well and ended in ridiculous fashion. This makes the whole Total Divas thing that much more depressing. Sara Del Rey and everyone in NXT is training these girls really well. At the very least, they know how to tell a competent in-ring story in their allotted time. (Paige and Emma, in fact, had a really good match to decide the first champion.) They execute their moves decently well, for the most part. They have good characters besides "bimbo." I know the Total Divas crew have a huge E! rating but all of the current group of NXT girls are way more entertaining than the Bellas/Funkadactyls/Rookies. Sigh.A French guy who is mostly shirtless and wears a giant gaudy cross manages some redneck goof and is obsessed with making money. He's trying to broker a deal with some Test looking goof and his manager who looks like he's in some weird Color Me Badd rip-off band that you'd see in like Season 3 of the original 90210. This is why I love NXT -- parts of it are actually really good and parts of it are great indie weird mismatches. The Test dude/Enzo Amore combo also is a great look at the subtle differences of Jersey culture. The redneck goof called them Jersey Shore wannabe's. They got upset at that. They are Jersey Shore wannabes but aren't Seaside guido trash. They're more Wildwood human garbage. Summer is in the back and is confronted by Sasha. This had a great Degrassi: Next Generation vibe. Summer explained why she's "up there" and Sasha and the rest aren't. She's willing to do whatever it takes, even if it's not popular. Also, SummerSlam was named after her. Sasha has a match in two weeks against Paige. Summer told her that she needs to get a mean streak or she's going to lose. I like this -- Summer justifies her awfulness and is not trying to corrupt someone into following her. And we see the payoff in two weeks. Dawson/Enzo was sorta there. It ended with that Bulgarian dude in the toga ran down and attacked Enzo's boy Cass. The French dude raised the Bulgarian dude's hand in triumph -- I guess paid him off. So great that a French slimebag has arranged to have a stable of some redneck mesh hat guy and a Bulgarian muy-Thai expert who wrestles barefoot and dresses like he's in some Gladiator LARP deal. They (rightly) hype up the Cesaro/Zain classic. Sami comes out wearing a jeffcap and Against Me shirt underneath a blazer -- if you substitute Against Me with Less Than Jake, you have the same exact wardrobe I wore in 1996 or so. I approve of this message. Sami's character of being a nice guy is so great. It sounds so genuine. Bo Dallas is an amazing tool. Zeb comes out and calls Bo a "hardworking American" before taunting Sami some more before Swagger attacks him from behind. Sets up a future Bo/Sami match but with Cesaro's running buddy looking to get his licks in first. Nevile/O'Brian had a match. This was also just sorta there. Nevile's got great spots but Conor's a total load. Rik VIctor (we don't make fun of his hairline enough) lays Neville out after the victory. Graves comes out with his ribs taped up to help his brother but he goes down, too. Whatever. Thank you, NXT, for being you. As always.

It is too bad the European belt is not around. Cesaro could have a great run beating up on guys defending it.

Nikki is looking good. Actually Brie is the one hooking up with Danielson, Nikki is one the fucking Cena. ....So this is it? This is what I'm doing with my life, I'm the pathetic pedantic asshole going correcting people on which Bella is fucking which top guy this week.... Don't pity me, for I'm already dead.

It'd only work if you enacted a portion of this promo with them. Finishing with "NO MORE QUESTIONS" is imperative.

Obviously, she's just paying homage to rappers Da Lench Mob.

Okay, figure I should do something constructive like suggesting authors that you may have missed. So what I'll try and do is come up with one author per week and suggestions on where to get their stuff (cheaply if possible). So, the first author to be so honored will be a cranky old guy who blew me off completely when I queried him about publishing a collection of his work (not that I''m going to give up that easy). Ladles and Gentrymen, I give you: Albert Cowdrey A very odd career, Mr. Cowdrey published his first story in 1968 and then vanished for several decades. He does both SF and horror fiction, much of the latter centered around his native New Orleans. As you'll see on his bibliography (lifted from the internet speculative fiction database), he's almost exclusive to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (which y'all should be getting anyway...) Anyway, there's one e-book thus far and as Mr. Cowdrey just celebrated his 80th birthday, I should probably ping him again about a collection. Enjoy! Novels Crux (2004) Chapterbooks The Tribes of Bela (2006) (This here is available as an e-book) Short Fiction Series Azalea Place, New Orleans The Familiar (1997) White Magic (1998) The Great Ancestor (1998) Colonel Kohn The Tribes of Bela (2004) Murder in the Flying Vatican (2007) Paranormal Services "Jimmie & Morrie" Hartmut's World (2012) The Ladies in Waiting (2012) Shortfiction The Lucky People (1968) [only as byChet Arthur] Revenge (1999) Crux (2000) The Stalker (2000) Mosh (2000) The King of New Orleans (2001) Nature 2000 (2001) Tomorrow (2001) Queen For a Day (2001) Ransom (2002) The Posthumous Man (2002) The Boy's Got Talent (2002) Grey Star (2003) The Dog Movie (2003) Danny's Inferno (2003) Rapper (2004) Silent Echoes (2004) A Balance of Terrors (2004) The Name of the Sphinx (2004) The Amulet (2005) Twilight States (2005) The Housewarming (2005) The Revivalist (2006) Imitation of Life (2006) Animal Magnetism (2006) Immortal Forms (2006) Revelation (2006) Envoy Extraordinary (2007) The Recreation Room (2007) The Overseer (2008) Thrilling Wonder Stories (2008) Poison Victory (2008) Inside Story (2008) A Skeptical Spirit (2008) Seafarer's Blood (2009) Paradiso Lost (2009) The Private Eye (2009) Bandits of the Trace (2009) Fort Clay, Louisiana: A Tragical History (2010) Mister Sweetpants and the Living Dead (2010) Death Must Die (2010) The Bogle (2011) Scatter My Ashes (2011) The Black Mountain (2011) Where Have All the Young Men Gone? (2011) How Peter Met Pan (2011) Mindbender (2012) Greed (2012) Asylum (2012) The Goddess (2012) The Sheriff (2012) [only as byChet Arthur] A Haunting in Love City (2013) The Assassin (2013) The Trouble With Heaven (2013) [only as byChet Arthur] The Woman in the Moon (2013)

Yeah, I miss reading his departure articles when he would go from website to website. Scoops, 411wrestling, DOI, there was another one I'm forgetting, then his own blogspot I think. Each time riding the coattails of former glories.Edit: Replace "there was another one ..." w/ Inside Pulse.

DB also needs a feud with yoshi tatsu as the Kaboooki and for kofi to turn on him and become shaska kingston.

Good news indeed natural - it's progress mate.

I can't decide what I want more: Bringing back Tough Enough so that Davey has to take wrestling advice from Trish Stratus and get yelled at by Steve Austin, or the WWE to steal my idea and give Davey a Rodney Dangerfield tribute gimmick where he talks about getting no respect and does the Triple Lindy as his finisher.

NEWZ!!~!!

You forgot he's not just a grizzled vet. He's a grizzled WILY vet, and that gives him permission to hop over ropes and the like.

Classic, put the video back on anxiously awaiting the 1:02 mark and was not disappointed.

Don't care. Mr. Sinister can go fuck himself and his endless array of clones.

I AM STING *steps over top rope*

He had no clue, the gimmick wasn't fully invested in the Twitter account. He just knows I exist - which is more than any of you fan boys can say isn't it? Doesn't that make it even better, though? Your arch-enemy inadvertently created a window for the rest of the board to see into your unfiltered soul. Those few pages where you were denying it was the most cringy thing. So awesome. Does Anna Kendrick know you exist too? She will... they all will