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And then for Lana to bury Capitalism and Bradshaw's wife for the reason America is in a recession still.

If that happens I want Rusev to no sell it like Taz did King's piledriver.

You know Speed Force is doomed the moment Cole says it on tv and JBL shits on it

And just like Wally West in the DCnU, they've disappeared from WWE tv continuity.

Best. Stable. Ever. "Where's Wally?" #fowlerized

Denial Anger <---- Bargaining Depression Acceptance

They should be using Orton to put Rusev over, not the other way around.

Rusev holding the US belt needs to happen soon. Not only would the matches with Sheamus be awesome but the promos by Lana would make that belt seem important for the first time in years. The guy that eventually got the belt from Rusev would be over like Rover.

Started in on things that showed up thanks to hoarding B-day Amazon gift cards and cashing in my "Hey, it's almost my birthday...I can order stupid stuff, right?" card: 1) The new HALLOWEEN box set 2) last year's FRIDAY THE 13TH box set 3) the CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES set Popped in the 1st disc of F13th, the uncut original. It looked really great. The thing that makes that first movie work so well is just how real and ambient all the locations are. Everything from the small-town diner to the various cabins. Such great set dressing, I guess is what it's called. And of course directing that takes a little time to let you drink it all in. The great moving camera shots that sometimes look like POV shots and sometimes are just there to give it some realism way before that became such an expected thing. The little bits of POV that keep shifting from counselor's view to "killer's" view to a "fake killer's view" (where the killer isn't there, but we get a POV shot anyway)...it's all just a little disorienting without being overdone and annoying, or even calling attention to itself. And just the right amount of claustrophobia. So much of the time the camera moves so freely in big spaces, and then when it suddenly forces you into tight shots, (like when the guy is in the generator room) it really heightens the tension. I swear most horror movies today has so much in closeup that they miss that change of anxiety-level. Even after all these years, it got three screams from my wife (Kevin Bacon's death, body crashing through the window, and the Jason-in-the-lake shot). Watching it this time, maybe because her scenes looked so great in this transfer, it really felt like the story of poor Annie stands out...the girl who never makes it to the camp. She apparently hitchhiked and backpacked all the way there from who knows where because this was her best shot to actually get real experience working with city kids and she has big plans to be, like a social worker or a teacher or something. That's pretty amazing that we are able to build that much backstory for her in the minutes she's on screen. She's the one that hears the story of Camp Blood along with us. She's the one who hears from crazy Ralph and is warned. She tells us about how she's following this dream of hers to work with kids. The actress is so great. They clearly cast her so that we would think she was the final girl...and even though her story never even crosses the main story, we end up knowing more about this one girl than about any of the other characters. Since they draw her up so much, and trick us into thinking she's the main person we'll be rooting for, her little section is like a little complete short story prequel to the real movie. And I feel genuinely sad when she looks up from the ground at her attacker and whimpers "No!" shaking her head...like "This can't be how my journey ends...I'm supposed to do all this stuff I've been planning." It's like we're seeing what it would look like if the final girl didn't survive, but instead just tripped...and died. And even she can't accept it. The only thing that lessens the effect is that we've already met Alice before we go back to Annie. But, still, none of the other victims feels quite so sad. Like, she was supposed to be a final girl, in a different movie maybe. But she accidentally ended up in this one and so she never made it to her movie. She's also the youngest and most enthusiastic character. There is something about this genre that is bound to the idea of destroying youth. It's such a corrupt thing for a story to do, to set loose a force that seems, for whatever reason, to be compelled to find the people farthest from death, the people who are the strongest and fastest and most full of energy and excited plans...who are just coursing with life an emotions and hormones and racing through the world...and slaughtering them...cutting them down and watching them slowly crawl toward their final breath. I know this isn't exactly a new observation and they made a big thing about this in A CABIN IN THE WOODS, but the older I get, the more perverse it seems...the more horrific. It was always sort of there. Like, say, Mina and Lucy in DRACULA. In the 19th century popular engravings: and even back to the 16th century caution: Renaissance boobs within: But it was only one part of Victorian (and earlier) horror. In these movies, it's a main running sort of Jungian theme: the perverse slaughter of the young. Not children. That's a different kind of horror: But, people at the prime moment of strength...the "Malcolm MacDowell in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" moment of maximum restless energy and potential to do...good, bad, whatever. Like, when I was younger I didn't really understand the power of that moment in life. I was just like "Fuck those other kids HAHA!!!! Get 'em Freddy!!!" But it's a dark theme. And every now and again it really stands out how dark it is. There was scene in HALLOWEEN: H20 where Michael is chasing the sarcastic goth girl. She was a strong character, in that early 2000s, post-SCREAM smart teenager kind of way. The new generation of "we've seen it all" horror characters. And after he wounds her, he just slowly follows her as she crawls across the floor, scraping and clawing hopelessly as her life ebbs. Every October that movie is on AMC and that scene always makes me cringe a little at that notion of destruction of youth. And now I get the same thing from poor Annie: RIP, Annie. You are causing me an existential crisis. Also: Listening to the commentary track, Betsy Palmer is so great...she invented this whole backstory for Pamela Vorhees...and she has the whole fantastic point-of-view "I was a good lady...who went a little wrong..."

Yeah, fun times with the DVDVR crew on PS4. I hope to have many more in the weeks to come. PSN is being weird. I've sent friend requests to Craig, Chaos, and Brisco with issues ongoing. We'll sort it out eventually.

C'mon son, Johnny Dangerously

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE STEELERS STINK

Could Regal have been the last one to use knucks? Also, Chris Hero needs to go full on Mac-circa season 7 where he attributes his weight gain to just cultivating mass to impress HHH, wears shirts a size or two too small and thinks he's almost a muscle-head.

Remind me to never upset Steve Smith.

You f*ck with Steve Smith, he will f*ck with you. He's a bad man.

This officiating crew for GB/CHI are straight up making shit up. The only good thing about them is that they're doing it both teams. It's ruining my enjoyment of the game.

WCW booked Goldberg as an unstoppable monster. when Goldberg came to the WWF, he was a top face. That means he has to both take and give in matches/feuds. Since he wasn't used as an unstoppable monster, people say he was misused. But if the ONLY style you can work is "nobody ever gets over on me and i crush everybody", then i'd say maybe you should learn to work.

I am a god damn moron So I still haven't completed a strike without dying. Since I have the Phogoth bounty I go back to the Summoning Pits Me and the two other dudes are wrecking shit They die a few times but I make it through the whole thing alive. During the 30 second mission end phase - one of the guys motions to me and I realize he wants me to follow him. He runs over to the ledge and jumps off. I then see that there is a treasure chest down there that he was showing me. What I didn't see was the fucking gap between platforms. So yup - I died with 3 seconds away from finishing without dying

Ok...pics or it didn't happen. Here be the pics and other nonsense to demonstrate the insane push I'm getting from my current employer. (Pics spoilered for size)

Every time I hear Bob Ryder's name, the only phrase my mind associates with it is "beefy, Ecstasy-addicted Abyss"

It was actually suplexiglass

If Meng/Barbarian collision was so disastrous, I don't even want to imagine what happend after this:

Yeah....it's pretty unreal. I did however have one of the lady listeners remind me that my head will land right in the cleavage. WINNING!

I'll be back on in 30 if your still on

MLB posted photos of the celebration:

JJ motherfucking Watt isn't human.

Red Rifle is trying to pass on the Bad Andy Curse! It's 112.3 miles betwen the 'Nat and Indy. A 1 hour, 41 minute drive. I'm getting scared. Someone hold me.

Oh man, JBL coming out of retirement to defend America is brilliant and writes itself! Plus, I really want to see one more Clothesline From Hell, man.

Man - that says a whole lot about a lotta things when Fred Jackson is the oldest RB in the league at 33

Just as a general note, I would weep for joy if computer components adopted a more logical, easy to follow numbering policy. Trying to determine what you have and what that means when you are looking at parts is a complete fucking chore. There's a reason car models are just listed by year, you know?

The only problem with giving Swagger the first win over Rusev is that he'd eventually blow it by doing something incredibly stupid.

Anyway, now that I finally have some time, The Incredible Hulk and why I dislike it: The stakes of the story are so very rote, by the numbers, "this got old in the comics before I was born" shit of "Bruce looks for a cure." Liv Tyler is absolutely unconvincing as Betty. Ed Norton (an actor I generally love) made basically every wrong choice possible in how he played Bruce Banner. I never once got a sense that this was a guy fighting to contain his emotions, or that had a dangerous temper. Compared to the repressing that Bana brought to the role (possibly because he lacks the ability to emote, I admit) or the joking to cover the turmoil approach of Ruffalo, I just got... nothing from Norton. Here I pause for some praise: Tim Roth was incredible, and the scene where he, after getting the (presumably) Super Soldier Serum (and I love that they've never spelled it out, yet First Avenger explains what happened anyway) tries to go one on one with Hulk is spectacular. Herein ends the praise. I want to criticize the pacing of the movie, except it doesn't have a pace. It just kinda meanders along. I know a LOT of people find Lee's Hulk boring, but this film actively drives me out of the picture. It just has the most pedestrian lighting, editing, transitions, script... It just kind of happens for two hours, with absolutely no forward momentum whatsoever. Lee's film had so much personality, so much ambition, so much life to it. This one's ambition seemed to be "the most generic superhero film ever made." Which, to be fair, if that was it's ambition, it hit a grand slam. It's not even bad in a fun terrible way, like Spirit of Vengeance. Or in a completely inept way that is easy to mock like Catwoman. It's just terribly generic and off-the-rack and fuck it forever. As for why AvP is better than AvP:R no, strike that, we can't praise it that way. Why AvP:R is somehow, someway, even worse than AVP. Two things: First, AvP had an absolutely terrible premise that even the best possible version of it would have sucked. AvP:R had a decent premise, and completely squandered it. That's much more infuriating. Second, and much more importantly, AvP:R is visually incoherent due to the literal worst lighting I have ever seen in a movie. It's not dark in an atmospheric way. It's dark in a "we hired a first year film student to shoot it, but he got sick and his roommate, who is a philosophy* major came in instead" kind of way. There is so much where I literally cannot tell what is happening that drags it down. I honestly cannot figure out how it even got released. One look at the dailies should have had the cinematographer and director both shit-canned and replaced. Fox should be fucking embarrassed they let such a poorly made film out the door. So, yeah, if AvP:R had been made with a modicum of talent, it might have wound up better than AvP but it wasn't, and it isn't.

No need to feel guilty, Rusev and Lana are fucking great.

Heat is still amazing though.

"But let's be honest—even if you don't, they were blues anyway." ahahahafuckyoubungiehahaha

The more I look at that poster, the more I love it. I love how enthusiastic the hand-mouth is, like "Rowr, we're gonna' eat 'em all!!!!" Meanwhile the hand-eye, looks kind of wistful and worried, like that's the part that understands how unworkable this plan is...like: "Guys, look, I know you're into this and I don't wanna be "that guy", but our anatomy is just not conducive to doing much of anything. You guys know we're two feet tall, right? We can't "hold" anything and we can't really locomote forward without falling on our giant unbalanced head part." "Rowr, come on, guys let's eat everything!!!" "Nope. Our best strategy is to just stand here, carefully and hope some wounded vermin drifts by." That eye-in-the-hand is burdened with self-awareness and the rest of little Yorga is not. I imagine we all have parts of ourselves that are optimistic and enthusiastic and others that are realistic and anxious. Let tiny, helpless-yet-viscious Count Yorga be your model of self discovery.

Our dog, Chloe, and I were killing time waiting for my wife to be done at the exchange yesterday. So, the phone camera came out. (Spoilered for size.)

And then there's this.

Ugh, you're just begging someone to post that Fresh Prince clip again, aren't you? And besides, Will is fucking Olivier compared to Jayden.

Ding ding ding! Here's the full promo shot: Pretty funny mistake on the Sting DVD set, thankfully the WWE went with the other Sting in the wrestling world and not...

Here's one that gets me some funny looks in the real world: Matthew McConnaughy [or however you spell it,] is actually a good actor who has made some appalling career choices until fairly recently.

Kenta isn't cool enough to be Chono.

Worst babyface stable ever. I was so happy when the Hershey bar turned heel on Duggan.