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He separated his shoulder flipping a burger after that shot.

Speaking of Sasha Banks, I decided to watch Takeover Respect on a whim, and the best part of her harassing Izzy in that Iron Man match is that it starts about two minutes before she actually steals the bow. Sasha throws Bayley into the stairs and starts barking at Izzy, who is stony-faced except to wipe away a single tear right as the camera starts to follow the action back toward the ring. A minute later, Sasha dumps Bayley again and points right at Izzy, who is still holding it together though she is starting to slip. She wipes away a couple more tears really quickly. You can read that she's thinking, "I am NOT going to cry." Then Sasha flings Bayley into the video board, comes back, and snatches Izzy's bow, and instantaneously, Izzy breaks into tears. Sasha set up that spot by wearing down the psyche of a nine-year-old girl by taunting her as she beat up that girl's hero. It's mean, it's cruel, it's pro wrestling. I actually think that people were more down on this match than they should have been because actually, once the first fall happens, everything that happens after it builds on each successive fall and is sublime.

It was a really good match but I have to admit I remember asking my girlfriend why they had so much hair. Like she'd have some pearl of wisdom about hair extensions making you more aerodynamic. But I got this...

My biggest hope is for a shoot draft. None of that random lotto shit. Let's see who Shane and Stephanie would pick if they were really in charge. Creative can pick up the pieces afterward. With the 1st pick, Stephanie McMahon's Raw selects...TRIPLE H! Shane McMahon's SmackDown selects...THE UNDERTAKER! THE BIG SHOW! Andre was my friend! JBL'S HAT! THE SMACKDOWN FIST! Dammit! SON OF MITCH! Jericho, I guess. ROMAN REIGNS! JOHN CENA! AJ STYLES! AN USO! AN USO! ANOTHER USO! There are no more Usos on the board. You have 30 seconds to make another selection. Shit! Uh, BROCK LESNAR!

I await the Mets mid-season trade for Utley confusing everyone.

Barrett said Shango was going into the Rumble for like 3 years straight so that was his bit

You should not have Ambrose in the ring being interviewed by Michael Cole like they did on Smackdown. Makes him seem like just another guy. He needs mystique. His promos always need to be solo, taped affairs, kinda like ECW Raven's but not as angsty, more crazy. Piranesi should be the field producer for his promos.

OKC shot 3-23 from downtown, and 22-32 from the line. I don't even know how this was close. In the two would be close out games KD has shot 22-62. What an epic choke job from him. Westbrook hasn't been much better at 21-55. You saw the difference between a championship team and a pretender in the 4th quarter. Waiters has played 60 minutes the last 2 games and has 3 points. How is that even possible? His ORtg has been 66 and 83 while his DRtg has been 124 and 117. The guy is literally useless. Westbrook and KD will both have to play at an MVP level to win game 7. I'm not holding my breath.

I don't think it's a coincidence that he teed off twice on lesser pitchers after the team ace got himself tossed for absolutely no reason. Thor cost the Mets a quality start and almost certainly the game because he just had to wiggle his dick at Utley, consequences be damned. I don't blame the umps one bit.

Also, never forget the awesomeness of this promo.

I want to see all the marquee wrestlers in a green room and as the draft moves forward each wrestler is picked one by one until there's someone left in there who neither Shane or Stephanie is selecting. So when they are finally selected they have a chip on their shoulder and want to prove Shane and Steph wrong. So they set out to destroy people who were picked before them.

That's one way to make Bullet Club stop being seen as cool; like when Nsync started wearing FUBU.

I just watched American Grindhouse and I'm in the mood, baby, so let's see what B Movie TV is serving up to honor our fallen heroes this Memorial Day Weekend...why it's Demonwarp: (1988) starring George Kennedy who wikipedia says is somehow not a veteren despite everything his face and body and posture and attitude and every movie he's ever been in would seem to indicate...he's actually just a rolly-polly ball of cute. So I am already going into this shaken a bit in my core beliefs. Hollywood has somehow deceived me about something. You know what, I'm pretty sure Wikipedia is a fucking liar. I love you Hollywood! I will always believe you first! After a cold open that shows a creepy old-timey western wanderer with like a mule cart in like the old west reading the bible and seeing a meteor maybe? crash we completely forget any of that happen and instead flash to George Kennedy playing trivial pursuit with his daughtANDBIGFOOT JUST BROKE DOWN THE DOOR AND DRAGGED GEORGEKENNEDYSDAUGHTERINTOTHEWOODS!!! Guys, meet Bigfoot! Yeah. So let's not put a lot of stock in the Bigfoot factor itself to carry this movie. Why do you ask, is Bigfoot the main antagonist in a movie whose title is made of the words "Demon" and "Warp"? Since Bigfoot is an idyllic woodland creature who admittedly occasionally crosses the line into hiker-murder and/or dragging-people-off-to-be-his-sex-slave and not either a demon or a time travler, this seems odd? Well, the connection is not really evident until literally the final ten minutes or so of this ridiculous movie. We now flash to a bunch of teens driving into the woods. So if you're keeping track so far we into at least our third movie opening in this movie andHOLYSHITIT'S BUDDY FROM JUSTONEOFTHEGUYS!!!! Buddy from Just ONE OF THE GUYS is literally y favorite film character in the history of film. He is completely unchanaged, like a smidge taller, and so I am going to assume this is, in fact, Buddy, and this is the unofficial sequel to Just One of the Guys and maybe Bigfoot is writing a story for his school newspaper about teen relationships and this is all a big misunderstanding. So the slasher-teen-fodder are at this cabin to find the uncle of one of them who has disappeared and I am assuming is being mated to various Bigfeet against his will. This is a good time to mention there are not nearly enough good Bigfoot themed horror movies, though nothing could really live up to the sheer terror I felt when I heard Leonard Nimoy narrate "In Search of Sasquatch" in 1978. At one point Bigfoot drags a guy wearing a bigfoot mask (to scare his friends) off to his cave, so, yes, if you were wondering if they were going to skip over the Bigfoot-sodomy angle, they didn't. Bigfoot is definately spending a good part of this movie nailing that guy in his lady-Bigfoot mask. George Kennedy is wearing overalls. Adorable and he killed seven Nazis with his bare hands on the eastern front. Yeah, that's right, he paratrooped into Stalingrad because Normandy wasn't intense enough for him FUCK YOU WIKIPEDIA, GEORGE KENNEDY IS A WAR HERO!!!!! And if you know CREEPSHOW 2 this seems like his wheelhouse, clothing-wise. He says "THere's a thing out here. It took my little girl. I couldn't stop it then, but I'm gonna stop it now." That is both a good summary of the film and the subtitle of Heidi Cruz's father's autobiography. Political! We settle into a lot of boring direct-to-video level boobie and innuendo junk as the teens settle in for the night. I'm guessing one of the reasons this movie was greenlit was that they got a Penthouse pet (Michelle Bauer) Hello, 1988, you were pretty hot in a big-haired Sam Kinison kind of way! and knew they could drop at least 15 minutes of late 80s VHS slow motion lingerie massage in there. Buddy is playing around with some advanced Squatch-sound equipment and the soundtrack (and presence of girl towling off after a shower) tells me its time for some Bigfoot action. Buddy takes this as a chance to feel her up, which is exactly what the Buddy-from-Just-One-of-The-Guys that I know and love would do. and FUCK BIGFOOT JUT KILLED BUDDYFROMJUSTONEOFHTEGUYS!!! What the fuck purpose could there be to watching the rest of this? ILOVE YOU BUDY!!! After this we just get Bigfoot stalking and killing random hikers Jason style including a nice head-tearing-off which really hits home because that is exactly the shit Nimoy warned me about. Also a disembowling with a dull stick which Nimoy didn't say a godamned thing about! But this goes on awhile and it pretty badly done with the sad synth score doing most of the lifting while we just watch people run around acting scared. Now, I mean, we know something is fishy when we see Bigfoot disabling an explosive device but who knew... at 11:04, approximately 64 minutes into an 80 minute movie, the following happens (from the evil lying Wikipedia): - It is later discovered that one of the campers came there to find his uncle. His uncle is later found to be the Bigfoot, and - that a bigoted Catholic priest used him (turned him into Bigfoot) for his own evil plans. - Actually, the priest thinks an alien who arrived from an unknown planet 100 years ago is an angel who is here to be served by him. - and to do this work he is creating a horde of mindless zombies, - to defend the hidden spacecraft inside the cave they used to hide it. The living fuck???? All of that is just sort of vomitted out of the 15 minutes or so of this movie.. Also we find the guy in the bigfoot mask who has been literally butt-raped into submission by Bigfoot and he just kind of expires from sheer rectal exhaustion (which is a thing. It's called R.E. in the squatch-chaser community). And hey, ZOMBIE BUDDY FROM JUST ONE OF THE GUYS!!!!!! Somehow this all leads to Brain guy from late-era MST3K FUCK YOU M KNIGHT SHYAMALAN...you lazy fucker, I demand you wathc DEMONWARP to get your twist mojo back because this was 10 times more satisfyng than the ending to THE VILLAGE and made more sense than the ending to SIGNS. And everyone remember to take a moment in the next few days to honor the sacrifices of George Kennedy, who singlehandedly saved the crew of PT-109 after it was torpedoed by the VietCong at the Alamo. And if Wikipedia says otherwise, you know who you really trust.

FTFY

I think the way Cody Rhodes handled this is commendable. Told them what he wanted, got told no, peaced out. Way better than sticking around and doing the passive aggressive or whine to the internet approach like way too many do. Look how he put all the Bucks but Bunkhouse. He knows his daddy ain't around to save him from The Stud Stable.

Just watched "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" for the first time since it was in theaters. That movie is so, so, so, so great. It's one of the funniest movies I can remember watching. It's so slept on. I don't think I've ever actually talked with anyone other than my wife about what an amazing movie it is. John C. Reilly deserved every award.

Vince finally saw Lost. Wrestlemania is going to end with Dolph dying with "Not Becky's Boat" written on his hand.

You say he's that old, but we all know Drake younger.

If he's the younger brother, he should be called Secundo, not Primo.

Matrix/D-Man is a young Canadian guy wrestling for Zero-1 and documenting it in a vlog type way. Shogun Okamoto is another IGF refugee. Jordynne Grace is wrestling Sonya Strong next month, someone is clearly reading my thoughts.

A bunch of stuff I enjoyed -

Plus Rusev has a basketball court and Lana. Rusev wins.

Well today might have been the most extreme example of what the Yanks were hoping for with the Run-DMC bullpen They got one hit but it was a Starlin Castro 2 run HR. So Betances, Miller and Chapman faced 9 batters - 7 of them were strikeouts Yanks win 2-1

Cody really should put a line through Shibata if he wants to keep his head on its shoulders

Sam Adams makes a pretty good Cherry Wheat too.

Spoilering this cause it's already long enough halfway through. Maybe you can get a chuckle or a thought anyway SMACKDOWN NBC Universo Replay Report 5/28/16:

I think I want Sterling to win all of the fights so kids will listen to golden age hip hop and bring that fashion sense back. ZULU NATION REVIVAL! Caraway's got TOO MUCH ON HIS MIND, so Sterling will put his ass to sleep.

Just got home from a WWE house show. Fun times, and listening to kids cheer and boo really is the best thing about wrestling. Results: Big Show beat Eric Rowan with the KO Punch Epico beat Sin Cara Ceasaro over Baron Corbin The New Day (holy shit, they sold a lot of unicorn horns tonight) over the Vaudevillans Paige, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks over Summer Rae, Lana and Dana Brooke Rusev over Kalisto & Alberto Del Rio Chris Jericho over Dean Ambrose in a Winnipeg Street Fight. Jericho worked babyface, and Ambrose was the heel for the night. Random observations: Becky Lynch's fake hair is out of control. Trying to cram my 6 foot 4 frame into the MTS Centre seats after a soccer game this afternoon was a terrible idea. Epico and Primo's new gimmick makes me laugh, but makes everyone else stop paying attention.

They. Had. Their. Chance.

A lot of nervous energy in the building. They've seen this team fall apart before.

The belts have really looked so cheap since they lost the winged eagle.

Somewhere in the mostly useless form that is Dean Ambrose dwells the spirit off John Moxley, one day it will emerge. (I hope)

Mark just wants to go to Babar's house.

I hope it's the Winged Eagle making a comeback as their other world title.

Let's be honest, we all know how this is going to end. John Cena will win the rematch, Pabst Blue Ribbon will get de-pushed, and then eventually everyone will shout "if creative has nothing for you, fire creative" when PBR gets released.

Someone who works on their Twitter probably suffered a head injury and thinks they're promoting Survivor Series 1990.

One of them should have countered a headscissors like this in that match.

Hell, that's half the fun of having a large collection (or accumulation) as the case may be. For example, in addition to the brag shelves in the living room (books I wrote, edited, introduced, or appeared in...), we have now started "Special Collections" to coincided with the Masters of SF series I edit for Centipede. Once a volume comes out, I not only shelve my contributor copy, I pull all hardcovers by that author from the regular shelves so that one can see at a glance all the research material that went in to making my selections. This is actually a sneaky way to make room for more books in the regular collection without triggering the "book comes in, book goes out" clause that Mrs OSJ foolishly believes that I am abiding by. (On the other hand, after 30+ years she's knows most of my tricks, so I'm likely not fooling anyone...)

Let's get this shit back on track with some nerd rage. Hereby follows things concerning The Greyjoys and the Kingsmoot: First things first, the Greyjoy brothers: Balon - Old angry bitter man, with reason thought, since no father should bury his children and he buried two and had to give away Theon to Ned Stark. He dies and things get even more fucked. Euron - Captain Jack Sparrow if he was made of pure evil. He's charismatic, cunning and ruthless, a master of mind games and a skilled warrior, has an eyepatch that cover his weird sinister black eye (the other one is blue) and blue lips from drinking the same drug that the bald warlocks that kidnapped Dany's dragons drink. Has a red ship with black sails named Silence crewed by a motley crew of mutes from around the world. He's fucking cool (this is very important) and one of my favourite characters. Victarion - Commander of the Iron Fleet. The perfect henchman strong and fearless but kinda dumb. A good commander and a better warrior, like I said he doesn't afraid of anything and wears full plate armor while on board of his ship (capping his chance of drowning at 99.9%). Hates Euron for various reason, one being that Euron seduced and impregnated one of his wives so Vic beats her to death with his own fists. A vile human being and also one of my favourite characters. Was axed from the show which makes me very sad. Aeron - The youngest of the Balon's brothers, a drunk reckless frat boy in his youth until he had a near-death experience when he went down in a storm and drowned. He became a hermit and devotee of the Drowned God and is now a sour, humourless zealot that commands a ton of respect in the Iron Islands. Like his brother Vic he hates Euron with a passion but also fears him for unexplained, dark, creepy reasons. Amazing character, one of my favourites. He's replaced by a random priest in the show which makes me very sad. The Kingsmoot: Aeron Greyjoy calls the Kingsmoot, the first in thousands of years btw, because he wants to avoid a potential civil war in the Isles and to keep Euron from being king, also Aeron totes wants for Vic to win. Each claimant has to make a speech and an offering to the voters, several lords make their claim but the important ones are Yara/Asha, Victarion and Euron. Vic makes a short speech all about continuing Balon's war and offers a nice trunk of gold, silver and gems, most people eat that shit up and he looks like the winner until Yara/Asha makes her offering of trunks filled with cobblestones, pinecones and turnips and says that's what they gained with the dumb war against the North that and a bunch of dead Iron Islanders and proposes that they make peace, gain some northerner land while they're ahead; it's not an happy speech but the crowd likes it and it seems like there's a 50/50 split between Yara and Victarion. Shit's tense and people may even get violent. Then a horrific sound fills the air. A big bald tattooed pirate is blowing a twisted, gigantic, shiny black horn adorned with red gold and dark steel bands, incised with glyphs. With the crowd's total attention Euron takes the stage and makes a rousing speech belittling both Victarion's petty war and Yara's lame peace, he says he will claim all of Westeros using this crazy fucking horn that can bind DRAGONS~! to his will! he also lays out huge trunks filled to the brim with booty, the mother of all booty, a Serena-sized booty!! Needless to say the crowd goes fucking nuts screaming EURON EURON like mad men and even Aeron, for a split-second, thinks that shit is awesome and Euron's the coolest before thinking "Fuck this, fuck me.". So yeah that shit last week was lame bruh. P.S. I'm sorry.

It's not Saliva. It's not Nickelback. It's not Flo-rida. I'm ok with Babymetal.

He uses a gas grill? I am disappointed..

I don't get why people are so in favor of two World Titles. I don't care that "WRESTLER X" or "WRESTLER Y" gets a World Title reign if they wouldn't have gotten it. That kind of thinking got us Jack Swagger, World Champion. Two World Titles dilutes what it means to be THE World Champion. Use this as an excuse to build up the IC and US Titles as the main brand titles while the World Champion appears on both shows. Make the World Title also a ticket to just show up wherever you want. The World Champion could handle doing two TV tapings a week.

I think we're one Randy Orton wellness violation away from them changing how many wellness violations it takes for them to fire you if your name is Randy Orton.

I don't know how many WCW shows were involved in filming that movie, but having been at one of the Nitros that was used, here's a couple things I remember: Oliver Platt's character has a full on ring entrance with Nitro girls at his side. This took place between a couple matches. Watching the replay of the show the next day, I think it was done over the span of two backstage interviews and a commercial break. You know how if you go to a show that's being recorded, you'll see a sign or two that points out it is being recorded and you may appear on camera? That flier they put up on the front doors to cover themselves for legal purposes? Well, I'm sure I saw a dozen of them throughout the building and they had twice as much legalese plastered on each one. People were actually talking about the movie as if it was going to be great.

It's tough to judge a character from only two scenes, but Holland already made a tremendous impression. He does nerdy-teenage-outcast Peter Parker much better than Andrew Garfield did, and he does quippy-carefree-motormouth Spider-man much better than Tobey Maguire did. And it certainly doesn't hurt that I think his costume, special effects, and fight choreography all looked better here than they ever have before (that perfect sound effect for the web shooters!). So.. yeah, it MIGHT be the single best live-action portrayal of Spider-man we've ever seen. If nothing else, they didn't fuck anything up.

Melbourne, Aus. I will say this. If the goal was to make you want to see the new Spiderman film, they smash it out the park ten times over. One of the best cameos ever. New Black Panther film? Ehh, not so much.