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piranesi

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  1. the love, laughter, and approval of a live audience is probably one of the most immediately addictive things in the world. I’ve heard otherwise really smart and level-headed people like comedian Andy Daly have to kind of admit that once it has you there is almost nothing too demeaning to keep you from going back. pursuing fame must be terrible if you get it you spend your life in a never-ending panic over it running out and if you don’t you spend your life feeling like you’ve beeen denied the only thing that matters to you. Emily Dickinson was the sane one it turns out. Do what interests you not what might make you famous
  2. somewhere out there he's saying to all his friends "See, I told you. I'm not healthy. You all thought I was joking! Well who's laughing now!"
  3. Apparently it is very very easy to reconcile. The process is simple. 1) do what we all knew you were going to do anyway 2) every so often say "You know, it's hard to reconcile" 3) cash another check 4) repeat
  4. Alabama supreme court just ruled that all individual parts of any Frankenstein monster are each children with full constitutional rights. In a related story, they also ruled that already living immigrant children are not children but are, in fact, Frankenstein monsters and can be shot on sight.
  5. I remember I think in Beyond the Mat someone mentioned that Vince’s greatest advice to him Was “never let the workers know how much they are worth.” kind of a moral imperative at the boss level now.
  6. He's a lapdog. I hope he chokes on his millions.
  7. I'm jsut glad that there is one "sort of over the air" live channel that still has Dementia 13 in its rotation. that was a WTBS staple going back to before it was a superstation.
  8. The Night Flight Plus Something Weird streaming section has been there awhile but not a huge list of them. Maybe the Dish one is a bigger collection? Nighrt Flight also has a few other sections just for boutique blu ray label titles. Highly recommend.
  9. UFC never should have gotten rid of the Sumo wrestler and the ninja from #1.
  10. There's not that many businesses where on your first day someone hands you a bunch of Soma and whispers "This will make it easier" Pretty much just 1) "comfort women" 2) "Wife of Uday Hussein" and now 3) "Employee of publicly traded company TKO/WWE/UFC that is heavily marketed to children and young men."
  11. Some of us when we hit our 70s and 80s are going to be sat down and given a stern talking to, and possibly heavy medication, by our grandkids over the shit we used to watch.
  12. I only got back into wrestling around that same time (1998 or so) as an adult. And it was 100% Mankind that did it. And that's why I can't seem to just shake this loose and why I see it as different than abuse in the military, in the film industry, or any other. I didn't follow or have any part in any of that. But like I "know" Mick Foley (not "know him" know him but you know I read his book . i watched the docs. on him. I held him up as an inspirational story). And yeah, he already is implicated in some various shady shit and whtiewashing of nasty stuff over the years and just being a company shill. And that's my culpability and another reason I can't like shake loose from this story. I could've disowned him as a sycophant and follower and apologist for some of the most sadistic people to every work in entertainment 20 years ago. but I didn't because none of that stuff was "bad enough" for me to be bothered with having to rethink my enjoyment. It took a lot I guess. This clearly is. bad enough. But so many workers in that company, some that don't need that work at all to just live a decent life and raise their families, are like "Well, seems like this much might blow over. No ones really pressuring me yet. But hey, If more bad stuff comes out, then I might have to make a move. But I don't HAVE to yet...." In other words this story is only "bad enough" if some outside market force tells them so...and that's kind of fucking gross. This is clearly bad enough. But they will smile right through it until someone else (the media, the public, stock people, The DOJ???) decide that it can't be whitewashed and THEN they'll stand tall! They're not the band playing on while the titanic sinks to soother the other doomed souls. they're just not that bothered with any of this, I guess. And a lot of them knew deep down that this shit was happening and just buried. And I can understand that. I did too and I had a hell of lot less of a direct economic stake in it. But this is bad enough. Anyone who doesn't see that is...just kind of lost for good.
  13. scumbags every single one. Disgraces. No one should have a single bit of respect for anyone who is 1) wealthy enough to leave 2) has daughters of their own 3) brands themselves as some great hero to kids and an icon of "hard work" but still stays to milk a little extra money out of this sick company or to keep their platform in place so they can promote their next big brand move in their precious "career." It's not a career anymore. Dwayne, at this point you're just a rich cowardly weakling and your "brand" is just a lure for more prey and a distraction. Nice work if you can get it. But be careful. If yo buy into the dream you might just end up on the wrong side of "the breaks."
  14. Ribs in a bucket is and always has been perverse.
  15. This is almost worthy of a coveted Silver Sow award.
  16. "We're just such a close family it's hard to process." father of family after a family member is given a paralysis drug and raped at a show "Kid, shut up about it, this is good PR for us. Remember we're all a family." So who is in the family I wonder? I guess Brock is family. But Ashley Massaro was not and neither was Janel Ganet. Nor was Rita Chatterton part of "the family." All those ring boys weren't part of "the family" either. It's kind of like how most companies will tell you this is a "team effort." Who's on the team? Not the workers. Maybe the top executives but no one below that. Not the customers. Not the small owners you sell products to. It turns out "the team" is like five guys and everyone else is blood for the machinery. I wonder how many people who are going to tell us soon how much of a tightly knit family the WWE is were or are really part of the family? How many really think they are part of the family. I guess the family dog is sort of part of the family. But most families wouldn't do to their pet what these families do to their sons and daughters.
  17. How sick is it that what Vince said to this woman is basically what all the rich famous workers are all asking us to do with all of it. But it's not one bad experience. Now it's two women who were professionally and efficiently raped that we know of (and some others that we kind of know about...and the many many others that deep down we know about but don't "know" yet). I repeat my original question. How many gang rapes does it take before we can be okay with ruining the good work of the WWE? The sane answer was always and remains: 1...1 is enough to tear this company down and for any person who has the slightest human conscience left in them to never have anything to do with it again. The new answer is: As many as it takes to keep the $$$$ flowing, I guess but I'd rather focus on my Wrestlemania moment right now. and that's basically the answer you get too from your boss about how many people have to lose their pensions. How many people have to get laid off this week. How many people have to drown in the Rio Grande or the Mediterranean. How many poors have to die of painkiller ODs. How many nurses have to work triple shifts until how many patients live their last days being warehoused like dogs to be put down. A lot of these situations are far bigger and harder to solve and more difficult to avoid being part of than this one. And few are a simple and clear a line staring us all in the face as this one. And yet we still wait for one human being to emerge from this company and say anything other than "let's not let one bad experience ruin the good work we're doing."
  18. It makes sense. Buying the naming rights to an arena has always a brilliant use of money considered by only the smartest CEOs. Why I was just at Guarnateed Rate Field the other day and was zooming with a friend of mine at Enron Stadium about how the new renovations at FTX arena look amazing.
  19. Anyone who is outraged and screaming at the top of their lungs about the Rock ruining their story has made their choice already. Their story is the the more important thing. The company doesn't have to do anything to hold them. They're all on reddit and twitter already doing their best to shout down any news that comes out with "HE"S GONE alREADY!"
  20. All great new keywords that will need to be added into keyword search on everyone’s favorite streaming platform!
  21. I had no idea that was in there. That was a short story they made into a twilight zone ep. Then remade twice in later anthology series before this. ‘man he was phoning this in for a check I guess?
  22. All of this will look so great in Netflix 4k streaming right after How To Train YouR Dragon.
  23. It used to drive me crazy that Mark McGwire's jsutification was something like "As I got older I was a smarter better hitter so it wasn't fair that I wasn't as fast and strong at the same time so I could be my true self." MF that is why the game is hard. By the time you get smart at it you aren't young and strong anymore. Every single person lives that in and out of sports. Can you imagine if Ali was as fast in 1979 as he was in 1965? NO ONE gets to do that. That's the point.
  24. It were the gummies that ruined my maths. the gummies and the lead that ruined my maths. Oh, dear old ma, I didn't mean to draw your wraths. It were the gummies and the lead what ruined my maths. my price point for VS used to be that $18 half price #, but so many are pricier 4K now that start out higher than $40 and I see $23 I'm like "close enough!"
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