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I went halfsies with my daughter's stepdad on the cost of a 2009 Saturn VUE that was literally driven to the grocery store and back since it has like 12K miles on it. We got it from a local auto auction for a pittance, but it needs a little work He is an auto-mechanic so I will foot the cost for parts and he'll provide the labor. My daughter will be a licensed motorist very soon with a vehicle of her own.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year. Be good. If you can't be good, be good at it.

Reunited and it feels so good...

I am not really nervous about her being on the road as she is a very good driver. It is the other idiots out there that concern me. The VUE's have a pretty good safety record but the gas mileage on them is pretty shitty. On the plus side, if something breaks her stepdad knows enough about cars to fix it himself. That was the whole point of getting her a vehicle that did not require NSA level cryptologists to help with the maintenance.

It is better to stay silent and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm your stupidity. Then, uh, stop doing that, Terry. I still love you, old man, so please shut up.

The fix is IN~!

You know, about that whole degenerate gambler thing: It's a very LOUD movie. Safdie Bros working that sensory overload gimmick.

The Rockets losing to the corpse of the Warriors must have been Santa's gift to the DVDVR.

Merry Christmas, Happy Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus for the rest of us.

Happy Birthday to Rickey Henderson, RUSEV, and Jesus of Nazareth

I want to wish the NDVDR family a Merry Christmas and all the best for a New Year bringing with it a new decade. Love the community we have here, Paul xxx.

Whilst it is possible to state a theory that Black Panther is very much an American film made by Americans, projecting a fantastical American vision of (a fictional country in) Africa that would be meaningless to most actual Africans... Gilliam is doing a pretty shit job of making that point. And as far as I know, most African people who watched Black Panther thought it was brilliant. It's one thing to go all 'cultural studies professor being contrarion' on matters such as these, but considering how much that movie meant to millions of people all around the world, criticising it strongly and without caveats is kind of a slap in the face to a lot of people. And when those people have spent a lot of their lives being patronised, marginalised or under-represented, to go after the one thing that says to them "These stories can be about people who look like you" kind of implies you have little or no respect for them personally. Which I would hope was not Gilliam's intention.

Unless you are Lawful Metal. He got coal in his stocking this year.

RIP your calm demeanor. ?

Because if its anyone who knows the real story of Africa, it is the proud citizen of a former slave holding colonial power, right?

Well that ended up being a pretty damn good Christmas day slate.

First matched announced for World Collide:

Dio's opening scream on Mob Rules from Heaven & Hell at Radio City Music Hall.

How did your MVP do against the worst team in the league today...? ???

Love that Danhausen!

I was playing this yesterday and got a pistol with timed payload powers and now bad guys are flying in the air like chairs in the Ghostbusters 2 courtroom scene.

As if we needed another reason to love Zach Sabre jr.

And a special Season's greetings to all the WCW Special Forces members who are working today.

A too sweet Christmas Eve at my godmother's...and I found out one of her sons (3rd cousin to me) is also a wrestling fan.

Thanks for all your hard work.

That is it everyone. Happy Holidays.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is officially here. Merry Christmas. Have a good one xxx

What a strange person.

Yeah, after watching that abortion of a Prince of Darkness match, I am only giving Mancer the benefit of the doubt. That goes for the Von Erich kid and Filthy Tom too because that was the most hilariously bad brawling I've ever seen. If you were really gonna mail it in, at least spray gas on each other or stick somebody's head in the trashcan. All the stuff with the Dynasty and the DBS/Low-Ki match was great, though. Dynasty need to be a part of AEW yesterday. Davey Boy will win the Opera Cup and deserves to. He might be the most Canadian talker since Bret* but he can wrestle his ass off. * I forgot about Lance Storm, but Bret might be a closer comparison

Merry Christmas, everybody! Hope y'all get some good shit (pal!) and are having a grand ol' time.

Star Wars fans.

Because he's a shitty wrestler being carried by a lame gimmick?

Safe to say that City is the only thing to worry about at this stage.

Me too, homie.

Damn, there are at least six of us that know who Noddy Holder is? Damn, we're getting old...

Wish y'all and your loved ones a very fun, healthy and merry Christmas!! ???❤

Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown And Alan "Rocky" Lane Whatever happened to Lash LaRue I'd love to see them again Whatever happened to Smiley Burnett Tim Holt and Gene Autry Whatever happened to all of these Has happened to the best of me. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott Has happened to the Industry The Statler Brothers - "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott." Stocking Stuffer Bonus Review!!!! Film: The Cowboy and Indians. (1949) Directed by John English Written by Dwight Cummins, Dorothy Yost. Columbia Pictures, Gene Autry Productions. Suggested by: odessasteps Reviewed by: execproducer Now this? This is exactly why I enjoy doing these things. I've seen a lot of oaters in my time but Gene Autry has always been a blindspot, both in film and music.Sure, I know all about Frosty and Rudolph but that has been the extent of my Gene Autry experience. Having watched the Ken Burns Country Music doc a couple of months ago, I had it in my mind to change that so when odessasteps brought this film up, I was ready. It opens up with a prologue about the plight of the American Indian. Yeah, I know...Native American or Indiginous Peoples...but this is a 1949 film and I'll stick with referring to them as they are in the film. Anyway, bearing in mind this is 1949, the prologue is extremely sympathetic even going so far as to postulate that Indian uprisings against white settlers were the natural course of action of a people fighting displacement. Nevertheless, displaced they are and as the narrator says, 80 years on from the War of the States, after which westward expansion boomed, the plight of the Indian has very little improved. 80 years on? Yes because you see, most Gene Autry films, as well as Roy Rogers oaters, take place in the present. Sure it's all ranches and deserts and mountains and small towns and six-guns and horses (Hey Champion!!) are still in effect but at some point you're likely to see a car show up or outsiders wearing contemporary clothing. And Gene Autry basically plays an idealized version of himself. It even says 'Gene Autry' on his mailbox! So when the movie proper starts Gene is grabbed by his ranch foreman Tom and taken to a part of his land where some off the reservation Indians are grazing their livestock and maybe helping themselves to some of his. "Fuck all that!!" thinks Gene Autry. "Why don't these Indians stay on their reservation?" he says to his foreman Tom. Oh, and it takes me about 30 seconds of hearing Tom speak before I realize " THAT'S FRED ZIFFEL!!!!" If a little pig comes scampering up the hill I'm going to lose it. Anyway Gene heads over to see the tribal Chief, Long Arrow (Chief Yowlachie) to give him what for but finds out that one of the elder women of the tribe is very sick and he instantly forgets about his deal (because he is a good dude and apparently these were issues that the real life Mr. Autry was very concerned about) and he arranges taking the elder to the local trading post and summoning a doctor. The trading post is run by a piece of shit named Smiley who loves nothing more than to cheat every local Indian he can, including Broken Arm ( Charles Stevens) and his wife Lucy (Claudia Drake), whose ancestral blanket he wants to buy and sell to Bradley (Alex Frazer) who covets Indian artifacts, including the Chiefs tribal necklace. Gene uses the trading post phone to summon a doctor. While he is on the phone, Lakohna(the Great Jay Silverheels) enters to buy silver to smith. When the elder woman arrives, Smiley objects to Gene putting her in his bed. He tries to follow Gene outside only to get the front door slammed in his face. Embarrassed in front of some Indians, Smiley decides he needs to give a receipt and they commence ta fightin'. Obviously that isn't going to go well for Smiley. Gene Autry isn't the toughest looking dude in the world but he has some sweet movie fighting skills. A piston of a right hand that leads you to believe if you started some mess with Gene Autry, you might end up picking up your teeth. After the fight is done a woman named Nan (Sheila Ryan) pulls up in a jeep and asks Gene where the elder woman is. As they are talking Lakohna pops into the shot and says "Good morning Doctor!" This completely flummoxes Gene. Inside Doc Nan diagnoses malnutrition which clearly affects Gene. When foreman Tom later complains that the Indians are still grazing his land, Gene isn't interested in stopping them. Gene and Tom spot a young Indian boy named Rona trailing them and spook him into running off when Gene calls his name. Rona leaves his pony behind which Tom assumes he stole. When Tom asks Gene how are they going to catch him, Gene has a better idea in mind. His idea is to sit outside his ranch and sing One Little Indian Boy with some other cowboys accompanying on guitars and Tom rockin' a squeeze box. Hey it works! Turns out Rona wants to board his horse with Gene because he is afraid Grandpa the Chief will sell him to piece of shit Smiley. They bring him inside to feed him and Gene pretends to be distracted and allows Rona to steal every apple off of the table. Rona runs off and takes his haul of fruit to the Indian school and passes them out to the other kids. Having followed Rona to the school, Gene runs into Doc Nan, who is having jeep problems. Gene offers her a ride on Champion. First, she needs to inoculate the kids for whooping cough and enlists Gene's aid. Gene gives Doc Nan a ride to her next stop and she asks him to deliver some medicine to Broken Arm's place. When he gets there he finds two of Smiley's henchmen, Luke (Clayton Moore) and Joe (Lee Roberts) trying to steal Broken Arm's sheep under the guise of being government agents thinning out the herd because their grazing is destructive. Gene calls bullshit on that and him and Luke start fighting. THATS RIGHT MUTHA FUCKAS!!! GENE AUTRY IS THROWING HANDS WITH THE LONE RANGER!!!!! In all of the fuss, the sheep get driven over an embankment to their doom wiping out Broken Arm and family's livelihood. Gene takes the two bad guys to the sheriff and the government official in charge of managing the Indians (actually his assistant) but they're like "well what can we do?" Smiley shows up and claims his men were there to buy wool which everyone in the room knows is a lie but hey, their hands are tied because Smiley has a government contract. The agent in charge is on vacation and anyway, Washington and red tape and all that. Gene tries to interest a newspaper reporter in blowing the lid off this bullshit but the plight of the Indians don't sell papers so PASS!! Now Gene is really pissed!! He does what any red-blooded cowboy hero would do! He calls his congressman!!!! Rep. Who-the-fuck-ever is all "Hey Gene, I'm a fan and all but we need hard evidence before we can move. Can you get that?". SO GENE FUCKIN' AUTRY GOES ON A FACT-FINDING MISSION!!!!!!! He's talking to this rancher there and that farmer here and this guy and that guy and he's building his case and I'm pretty sure this is THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIMES!!!! Back at the trading post When Chief and Rona attempt to buy food on credit Smiley tells them he'll gladly take Rona's pony but Chief refuses and leaves empty handed. Bradley is practically salivating over the necklace but Smiley sees Lucy Broken Arm, who is always wrapped in her blanket, coming towards the trading post with her son. Smiley tells Bradley he'll get that blanket now. Smiley goes outside to meet them and, in front of other starving Indians, starts stuffing his fat fucking face with two handfuls of food talking about how warm eating makes you and all I want to do is pull a reverse Purple Rose of Cairo and go into the movie and choke this bitch out myself! Lucy Broken Arm crumbles and proffers the blanket. Of course, now the blanket isn't worth what he offered before and she ends up walking away with two dollars worth of groceries. Bradley is watching from the inside and making weird faces like he climaxed in his trousers. Gene and Doc Nan are on the road in a buckboard where she is reading his report that he is preparing for Washington. She approves to his obvious delight. They encounter Lucy and son on the road where Nan notices her blanket is gone. Nan converses with Lucy in her native tongue and then informs Gene what happened and you can see it in his eyes ...someone is going to get got! At the trading post Bradley is still pushing for the necklace and plants an idea in Smileys greasy head. Back at Gene's ranch, Gene, Doc Nan and Lakohna sit at the dining room table planning a petition to have Smiley removed from the reservation. As they rise from the table Gentleman Gene goes to put Doc Nans coat over her shoulders and....HOLYFUCKINSHIT JAY SILVERHEELS JUST COCKBLOCKED GENE AUTRY!!!!!!!....and he did it smooth like Cesar Romero and this is most definitely THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIMES!!!!!!. Before things get too awkward Rona shows up on his pony because Grandpa Chief is missing. The trio set out to search for him as Lakohna knows where he was headed. They find him unconscious with his necklace missing. Off-screen they get him to a hospital and Gene goes back to the scene of the crime to investigate. Next scene is Gene showing Lakohna some silver from a pair of moccasins that he found where they had discovered Chief. Nan rides up to tell them Smiley claimed Lakohna attacked Chief and a posse is on the way.. Lakohna is next in line to be Chief and doubt quickly crosses Gene's mind. Lakohna smiles at this and pulls out his moccasins to show they are intact. Doc frets that he wouldn't be in this mess if he had taken that engineering job after college and it is now more than clear that they are knocking boots. Gene sees Lakohna's Marine uniform and all doubt is erased. The sound of the approaching posse spurs them into action. Lakohna flies out on horseback with the posse in hot pursuit. Gene trails the posse and when Smiley stops to take a shot, Gene bumps him saving Lakohna's life. Later that night Gene and Lakohna meet up at the trading post where Luke and Joe are snoring away in the back.They search for evidence of the frame-up which they find right before waking Luke and Joe up. They both light out towards the hills on Champion with the bad guys right behind. It is surreal seeing evil Clayton Moore doing that thing where he draws his shooting hand back towards his head and throws it forward like he is tossing bullets instead of shooting them, just like the Lone Ranger would. Doubly so since he is tossing them in the general direction of Tonto, albeit a much more erudite, sophisticated Tonto. The Lone Ranger series would debut the same day this film opened. Gene and Lakohna end up boxed in on the hills with the bad guys electing to wait them out until daylight. Luke seeks to gain the high ground and we are denied the Tonto-Lone Ranger match up when Gene goes out to meet him. Gene and Kemosabe duke it out once again while Lakohna exchanges gunfire with Smiley and Joe. Gene punches Luke off of a boulder. Gene(s stunt double) launches himself off the boulder like Steamboat. It is a pretty impressive dismount though the cut to the landing is nothing special. While Smiley keeps shooting, Joe sneaks around to get the drop on Lakohna. Lakohna spots him and pins his gun hand to a tree with a sweet knife throw. Lakohna and Joe struggle out into the open and Smiley takes a shot that hits Joe by mistake. Just then thundering hoofbeats! Here comes the cal....WAIT!! NO!!!! I recognize that music cue!! HERE COMES THE INDIANS!!!! Smiley jumps on his horse and gets outta Dodge. The Indians chase Bradley around a corner as Gene punches Luke off of another boulder to end their fight. We hear Bradley cry "No! Don't kill me!" and then Blue Eagle walks out with a handful of scalp. No worries, it's only a toupee and we all laugh and laugh. The White Dudes posse shows up, a day late and a dollar short and Bradley tries to convince the sheriff that he is just a victim of these murderous savages but no one is buying it including foreman Tom who has been anti Indian throughout the film. From the top of the hill Smiley appears and aims his rifle. Lakohna rushes forward and pushes Gene and Tom out of the path of the shot. The sheriff FINALLY does something and drops that bitch Smiley with one shot. Gene pulls the stolen tribal necklace from Bradley's pocket, ending his shenanigans. Sheriff tells Blue Eagle to get that to his chief. Blue Eagle puts it around Lakohna's neck as it seems Chief Long Arrow has succumbed to a combination of his injuries and malnutrition. Gene tells the reporter, who had tagged along with the posse, that he's got some stories to write! A montage of headlines later, Gene and Tom/Fred Ziffel, dressed as skinny Santa, lead a caravan of food supplies to the starving Indians as Gene sings 'Here Comes Santa Claus' . Yup, our Christmas tie-in with four minutes to go. At the Indian school Lakohna and Doc Nan are together and she reveals to Gene that she is actually half Indian, so no 1949 Jungle Fever here. We end with Gene and Indian kids singing Silent Night. Great. Fucking. Movie. 69 minutes of my life well invested.

Holy fuck I never realized how badly I wanted this to happen until now. And yes, young tech billionaire Lex needs to disappear

Never played the games outside of half an hour of 3, and I never read the books. Enjoyed it a good deal.

Saw Uncut Gems this afternoon. This is one hell of a movie. Sandler pulls off a role of a lifetime.

It was the medal Leia was holding on her death bed, so it was likely Han's medal from ANH. Something that would likely mean a lot to him for multiple reasons, much more than a consolation prize

So, I'm watching Rush/Dragon Lee vs Haskins/Williams from ROH TV and, not to single them out because I've seen lots of wrestlers do it in pretty much every company going, but I've decided what my new least favourite spot is. Haskins is working over Lee's arm, he puts him in various arm-locks and the like and all is good. Then he gets Lee on his back, manipulates his hand a little bit, still good. Then he bends Lee's hand underneath him, getting his elbow up at an angle and stomps on his elbow. Now, the actual stomp on the elbow is fine, looks nasty, but the problem I have with this move is that, in this and many cases, Haskins stops to play to the crowd and Lee just lays there, holding his elbow at this ungodly angle while waiting for Haskins to stomp it (To Lee's credit, he acts like he's trying to move his arm but it's stuck even though there is no earthly reason why he can't just move it out the way). There's a simple fix, the stomper just has to put his foot on top of the opponent's hand, thereby holding him in place before stomping it. But 95% of the time I see this spot, the opponent just lays there and lets his opponent stomp on his arm instead of just moving it. It reminds me of the top-rope stomp that Del Rio et al. used to do where the opponent has to hold himself up in the air waiting for the opponent to stomp him, which was even dumber when the stomper would play to the crowd and the stompee has to hold himself in a prone position for no reason whatsoever. There was an easy fix to that one, too, I can't remember who it was I saw do it, but they just stood on their opponents knee, theoretically holding him in place so when the stompee lifted himself up and got stomped, it at least made sense in that he was trying to get out from under his opponent. So, if you're curious, Caley's least favourite move of the year for the last four years 2019: That elbow stomp thing 2018: In a tag match wrestler 1 grabs his opponent 1 and manuever him so he has his partner (opponent 2) in a headlock, then wrestler 1 dropkicks opponent 1 who DDTs his own partner instead of just, you know, letting go the headlock on his partner! 2017: John Morrison's running knee where he slows down and kind of hits his opponent with the inside of his thigh 2016: That Del Rio double-stomp deal

Pretty much the only good thing related to the Emperor was the fact that he looked like something out of HELLRAISER EDIT: I’ll stop at triple posting now.

I got the call today offering me the Fort Hall High job, and I accepted. Besides the $$$, my student teaching will now be done on the job, and 3 less credits next semester. So I'll be doing that, and graduate with 33 credits instead of 36. That's in the design of the program, though so its all good.

I don't care if they sell out. I care if the song is fucking terrible. And that song is fucking terrible.