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...and mf-ers act like they forgot about Mae

"Shayna, do you know how bad it makes you look when you disrespect the miracle of motherhood?" I love when dialogue is written by for people that doesn't sound like anything anyone would say ever. Holy shit, I laughed so hard at that line. Shayna's comeback was good, but it would've been even better if she just repeated the line back and laugh "Disrespect the miracle of motherhood". I know some people will say this is what happens when you fire/don't have many female writers. But I think, regardless of gender, these are the kinds of lines that come up when the show is written by non-human beings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8

Congrats to Asuka on completing the WWE Career Grand Slam: And congrats to Becky on taking the coward's way out of facing Bazsler again, and getting pregnant. #ShaynaIsRight ?

Bastards ............. pay me!!!!!!!

FTFY

Lynch has said her due date is sometime in December … she's probably 6-9 weeks pregnant at the moment. My wife and I found out she was expecting when she was six weeks along -- she randomly took a pregnancy test one Saturday afternoon and it said YES (Given our struggles with fertility previously, she used up every pregnancy test in the house between the first test and our previously scheduled appointment with a fertility doctor that Monday. 11 pregnancy tests and a doctor checkup confirmed the good news ? ). Pregnancy symptoms tend to kick in (per the doctors we dealt with) around the second month -- an ultrasound can detect a heartbeat around 6-7 weeks. WrestleMania was taped March 25-26, so she may have been pregnant, but it was too early in the process for her (or anyone else for that matter) to notice. (Another interview I saw said she "found out in April," so I'm guessing the happy news happened before they started taping Raw at the PC again).

What, you didn't trust him?

I'd love for Seth to pull a Mac from Always Sunny and gain 50 lbs and develop a Dad Bod over the next few weeks/months as he starts to lose focus in the ring because he's busy at home preparing for the upcoming birth of his child.

If she has twins she could be called Becky 2 Babies.

Very great Raw. And

IT WAS ME ROLLINS! IT WAS ME ALLLLLLL ALONG!!

I really like Robin's body language here: When I say he's spry, I mainly mean in how quickly he sneaks around like in that earlier cheapshot and how he bumps and stooges, but this is a great little cheapshot too: Just Dave Taylor's dad doing an awesome Torture Rack in 1957 and dumping a guy over the top rope with it. No big deal:

The house tour really well until Tully and Arn popped out of the en suite and beat him down.

Going by years was tough. Especially when one years has like 10 favorites and another has like 3. You’ll get an album that you’d put at 6 that if it came out the next or the year before would have been 1 or 2. The 90’s are a good example. So many albums I love and have nostalgic feelings for, but for a brief period there was just so many of my favorite hip hop albums. From around 87-96 my 5’s are majority hip hop, and very little great alt-Rock bands that were killing it around then. Personal preference, but I could see if someone else did those years it turning out wildly different and still being an accurate depiction of good taste of the time. Also, going through and listening to different artists, it’s a fun ride to watch when different music movements and styles take place. I’m sure if the list was more massive it would be better visually represented, but looking at when Jazz and Folk is slowly replaced by pop rock. Or when Hip Hop shows up. That Brotha Lynch Hung album is so good. It flows so nicely, how he raps with the west coast sound behind him makes it a great experience. Then you add on the horrorcore lyrics and it’s a match made in heaven. Some of his albums can be hit and miss but that one is spot on from beginning to end. Death is a group I’d like to check out more. I tend to gravitate more towards Sludge/ Doom Metal, but a buddy of mine that is more of a Metal Head recommended me a few albums and that one stuck out. Death Metal is a genre I have to be in the mood for. Moreso than Thrash, which I can enjoy is multiple moods. Both Kynch and Death albums struggle with being in the same year as 2 of my personal favorites. Liquid Swords is phenomenal and a Top 10-15 GOAT for me and KRS-ONE’s self titled album is in my Top 3 GOAT. ——— @Execproducer, a few you listed I need to still check out. Next go around I do this I’ll check a few of those out. Townes Van Zandt is legit. Doing this he was one of my big discoveries. ——— Yeah, that was one of the reasons my friend and I started doing these. Today singles and playlists are such a convenient and fun way to listen to music. With all this COVID stuff going on, my wife and I had a lot of fun turning on different Spotify playlists and hanging out. My resources were websites like RYM, best ever albums, and decades lists from sites like Pitchfork. I can roll my eyes at some of the charts but it’s nice having a big list in front of you to scroll through and pick out. Just googling a specific year and typing album brings up a lot of results too. Veckatimest is legit. Great driving music. Always fun to revisit. That album and a few in the years around it were right after I graduated high school and was branching out to new things. A few tough things in life started popping up and it was nice that the music coming out around that time had such a chill, relaxed meandering style. Very needed in life to slow things down when things get hectic.

Other match this week looked like Guy Robin vs Eric Delour. It was not Eric Delour, however, but Eric Taylor. 27 years old and having recently celebrated the birth of his son, and future Squire, Dave. The only footage of him that exists, as far as we know. Here he is with a cobra clutch backbreaker: And here's how Robin got out of the cobra clutch and the slickest trip you'll ever see on Taylor's escape: I really like Robin. The word I'd use for him is "spry." Here's how he sets up a cheapshot and the cool little cupping hit he does, plus a kick for good measure:

Okay ... this is a labor of love for me. And I really wanted to share it with people I like,and who get me and my tastes. I had needed a new set of shelves for movies for a long time. At one point I was going to make this set of shelves using 2x4s and slats (the video was posted here some time ago); I liked the simplicity of that setup. Before I could make that, I had to move. The past few weeks, a shelving system idea came to mind again. After a few thoughts on the project, and with a work-from-home mandate from my job, I designed, created and assembled a shelving unit that may hold the rest of my collection that's been in boxes for almost a year now. There's a seventh shelf with polyurethane drying for now, but I just finished the bulk of the work and I'm very pleased. It's going to be 10'x5.5'. Theres a spinning rack that I couldn't move so the pics are in two parts. https://imgur.com/gallery/DbCVqoM https://imgur.com/gallery/RGoGGdv

What Scott Steiner's tiger couldn't do to Rey, Seth did. Kudos to him. Another kudos, since his boys can swim!

Seth doesn't look like he's taking this pregnancy news very well.

I thought "Lady Bearica has gone to shit" before reading the caption.

only watched a little bit of After Dark, but it looks like Missy Hyatt was attacked by Jack Nicholson's Joker

Did you not see Rey call him a dick right after?

so, with all the talk about Herb Abrams, and the airing of an episode about him on "Dark Side of the Ring", it inspired me to watch some of his UWF. I'm going in completely blind, as i haven't seen anything else he promoted and i'm not aware of any of the matches or even who's involved. Here, spoilered for length, are my thoughts on Blackjack Brawl (#1). TL;DR: This show is a mess.

Truly a banner day for 40 year old dudes that still wear Vans and Thrasher hats.

It's hard to respect Billy Corgan for much now considering how much he's in league with Alex Jones, but the NWA was certainly a bright spot.

Why the Star of David exactly? Did Tam convert for the jokes?

"Are you cruising me, brother?"

Thanks Matt, that warms my heart. That whole section where I am sitting (on the left of the entrance ramp from the hard camera's perspective) is full of Kuuga's friends. Everyone sitting around me got their tickets from him. If you look at the pictures from some of the Asian Cooger drinking parties that I've attended, you'll probably recognize many of the same faces. Mostly, we know each other through him, including some of the now-married couples who met each other at one of his parties or events. And most of us spend the match booing him like crazy. When Kuuga makes his entrance, if you are watching closely, you'll almost always see him take a moment to yell and shake his fist at us while we boo loudly and make the thumbs-down gesture. In the context of a pro-wrestling show, it would be wrong to yell "We love you!" at the top heel... but that is basically what we are doing. Although, in this particular case, I was also going apeshit cheering for Fujiwara... which both Kuuga and Mihara noticed and understood. Kuuga spitting at Fujiwara was pretty much the same as us booing Kuuga. It was a context-appropriate show of genuine respect. Mihara couldn't quite hide how hard he was marking out. Look at his grin after he gets slapped. I can only imagine how it must have felt to tag with Yoshiaki M. F. Fujiwara. I was losing my shit just having a good seat to see him live. The special guest wrestlers were a gift that Osaka pro doled out to us fans in unusually generous measure. I've been third row ringside or better for matches featuring Ohtani, Kyoko Inoue, Jaguar, Great Kabuki, Abdullah, Sayama, Fujinami, Sasuke, Danshoko Dino, Sekimoto, Okobayashi, Kana, Dump, Otsuka, Finlay, Dick Togo, Chono, Onita... a ridiculous list of wrestling legends and personal favourites, either at Osaka Pro shows or through connections I made there... Fujiwara was probably the one I marked out hardest for. He had a connection to Osaka Pro through his former student Fuke, and he obviously got a ton of respect from everyone. Check out all of the Joker heels bumping like madmen for Fujiwara's head-butts. They were loving it!

Gordon is pretty great here. I’m not big on these HoF’s, but Solie sells it well without feeling like he’s ever breaking kayfabe. Also credit to him for not pointing out that the trophy looks like a big black dildo.

I've got some German stuff to watch for Friday and while all of that is likely going to be great (like a Van Buyten vs PCO chain match), it feels like work, and this did not feel like work. I have no background in 2010s Osaka Pro. I have plenty of background in 2010s Fujiwara. I have not seen this. I liked it a lot. Simple straightforward, with an A story and some B color. Fujiwara here, even more than other places he worked during the decade was late era Andre. Relatively immobile, almost impenetrable, the world bumping around him, just a power and a presence and a legend. Kuuga spent the whole match taunting him, spitting, using his own armbar while staring at him, etc. JOKER spent a lot of the match trying to hurt him and failing, eating headbutts or chops. The only time they could get to him was when went to the eyes. You never got the sense that Fujiwara had much affection for his partners. Tough love, maybe, slapping Mihara to fire him up, casually sending a dazed and defenseless Chul back into the fray on the outside. Tough love. When he was hot to get in on the apron, it was more to get his hands on Kuuga (though I'm not convinced that he could tell JOKER apart in a kayfabe perspective; it didn't really matter, no matter how much Kuuga wanted it to), and if that meant his partners got mauled a bit more, so be it. Mihara played his part exceptionally well, and there's a world where I would have gotten to see Mihara/Maximo vs Hideyoshi/Euforia from around this time, but it unfortunately not this world. Shul was there to throw some kicks, get beat up, get shoved into the fire by Fujiwara and launch one big dive. I'm conflicted on the finish. My heart says that it went around in a circle one too many times (and it was only twice, so maybe i just wanted it to be once). It's tricky because you needed the dive and subsequent chaos to clear the ring for Fujiwara and Kuuga but at the same time it was really building to a hot tag to Fujiwara, but then that's not quite the style either. Really though, the armbar being broken up set up the super tricked out submission counter out of Kuuga's awesome sliding leg dive, while still protecting the armbar and getting over JOKER's mob mentality so it's fine. My head thinks it's fine, maybe better than fine. I found Gordi mid match in the crowd and was properly satisfied that he cheered for the babyface comeback in the stretch despite split personal connections. Anyway, this is how you use a legend to elevate and celebrate your product.

I have a working deal with my barber. I bring him a batch of my world famous grilled lemon pepper pork chops and he keeps my fro from getting out of control. I'm about due for another haircut, so I better roll out to Publix and get some more chops before they're totally gone.. I damn near had to kill a man over the chicken wings I bought from WalMart to fry for my mom's requested Mother's Day dinner.

Not sure why Becky's pregnancy feels like a retirement. Maybe all of the acting job rumors. Oh, well. Get out while you still have your health and some money in your bank account. Congrats to Seth and Becky on their new parasite. I am okay with Asuka winning the belt and completing the slam but with Nia and Shayna waiting in the wings, I don't expect her to hold onto the belt for too long. I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard that miracle of motherhood line. The only immaculate conceptions were Jesus and Darth Vader, dude. I am certain that Seth Rollins contributed a little DNA to that miracle. All of the congratulations hugs for the new mom did make the room a bit dusty though. One of the few times I was good with breaking kayfabe. It was good to see the Ilconics back in action. Other than that, nothing surprising in the booking. I cashed out and started listening to Count Zero on audiobook during the basketball bullshit. Move along. Nothing to see here. The humanization of the Viking Raiders is the worst decision WWE has made in a long time.

Seriously, that not only made my day, but I am now armed with info that is going to up my Facebook troll game 1000fold.

Hey. Lots of punk and punk adjacent bands dig thee REAL Sport of Kings. I dug through some of my 7"s for some rock'n'rasslin connection type stuff. I avoided most singles that just used wrestling imagery and stuck with the true fans. Wrestling pics are shockingly common with the indy and/or bootleg labels. Lotsa of Jim Thirwell releases for example have good grappling photos featured. Maybe because he's big in Japan? Anyway--- Side A Side 2 Of course, most of your Confederacy of Scum bands revel in the pro wrestling. These discs sre full of brilliance. The mighty Antiseen have oodles of squared circle stomps. Rancid Vat (close personal friends of thee RAF) share some three covers and an original raver, produced by no less than Greg Sage who is a mover and shaker in the r&r connection - thee hidden history of rock and roll and pro wrestling is arcane and important, kiddies. Whiskey Rebel, I miss you. More RV platters, an odd interview from the radio with the Grand Wizard (an eBay thang, that's all I know) and (breaking my pro wrestling content intent) a super dope usage of a promo pic of a lovely & young thee Slave Girl (not yet Moolah but always Fabulous) for a hip tune from Down Under.. To be honest, I have never even spun this. I dig the mini stand up, tho'. Oh Roddy, will we ever really know you? Truly, I would prefer some bagpipe jams. - these spinners are all winners, RAF

Guess it's time to give up on my chances with Becky.

Also, the end of the show...You have Edge cut a decent promo and then Randy Orton cuts an even better promo to lead to... Edge doing a shitty acting job trying to look conflicted when he really looks like anyone who can't remember where they put their car keys (they're on top of the car) while what's her name says "if this does happen, it may just be the greatest wrestling match...ever." I fucking laughed so hard.

Flipped by once and Shayna was saying something about Becky carrying a parasite. I really don't see the point of her cutting a promo on Seth if it's not going to lead to a match. Flipped by later and the Street Prophets were... playing basketball with the Viking Raiders. That should drive the rating up.

Replace "AN" with "OM" ...... give me $1m please WWE

Alright the gif. made me look for that Ricky Marvin Vs. Virus tag. Instead I found a singles match from Coliseo I don’t think I’ve ever seen.

Kid Kash wasn't the best wrestler, but he had some truly spectacular high spots. He just had crazy balance and body control.

So DC Metro's General Manager (so the person in charge of all the public transportation in this area) announced that in the plan to reopen that is being presented to the Board this week that full service won't resume until next spring and they will "ask the region's employers to limit daily commuters by staggering work schedules and encouraging telework." So yeah... we got that going for us

It was so difficult to find toilet paper around here that I had to resort to using newspapers. Let me tell you, the times were rough.