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If commercial work was something to worry about, then I'd be more worried about Chris Parnell voice showing up all over the place in voice over ads for random insurance companies and hamburger helper, and weird medicines... except easy work + $$$$$$ = FUCKYEAH PS4's FOR CHRISTMAS, KIDS (and also college!) Although I'm a little annoyed at Jason Sudekis doing voiceover for Applebee's. He supposed to be ironic and cool.

So, Becky Sproles, huh?

I kind of went in reverse. As a kid I was the one who insisted it was fake, and in some way thought it was way easier to do than it actually is...like a bunch of blood capsules and not actually hitting each other. I cheered the heels because I was annoyed at how easily manipulated I thought my classmates were. A real snob. Like most of what I talked about was all the tricks I thought they were using, and we came up with some bizarre ideas for how they did things. It never occurred to us that they actually just took bumps. We all thought there was some secret and that it was all super easy. It was only when I came back to it as an adult during the internet era that I realized how "real" it was in terms of athletic display and complicated improvisation. I do remember I had a high school teacher who always used to say that wrestlers were the greatest athletes because a 300 pound man jumping off the top rope onto someone and not hurting either one of them is incredibly hard, and I was just like "Whatever, it's fake." I just didn't get it.

Right now it's a race between the cities drowning in the oceans and my lungs drowning in White Castle Cheese-Fry cheese. I have to win.

Jim Carrey's peak was in THE DEAD POOL.

Any and all later, shitty Al Pacino movies they've done are amazing. 88 minutes, Devil's Advocate...

That's three sources! GO GO GO JOURNALIGM!!!!

Oh no. What about his match with Bret?

Guys! Guys! This movie is literally, like, next-level bananas. The best guy.

By all rights that match belongs to the Sherri Martel DVD due to the throne entrance. Although Warrior's outfit was almost as cool as hers.

This essentially turns him into a muppet. It will work.

He should run in, run around the ring, and run out. Then every so often during various backstage interviews, he should be seen just streaking across the frame. And once during one of the shots coming back from break where they show the outside of the arena, he should be running around it.

King Kong Brody was everything to me as a kid.

Henry is so awesomely smooth with Kayfabe in that interview. When he's asked at the end about "playing a bad guy" he's able to tell us smarts exactly how to do it without actually "telling us how to do it" out of character. His answer: "Well ask yourself this...Am I really a bad guy? Or just a guy who doesn't follow other people's standards?" So he answered the question. Because that is how you do it. Before you go out there and talk you ask yourself..."How is this not my fault?" And you believe the answer you come up with. That's what makes his promos so believable and real without being "insider"-real.

Shit. I forgot Andre was Bionic Bigfoot. That changes everything.

So dumb. Why would that character give a damn about the WWE? or who controls it? It makes no sense. He should only show up, like Rock, to put some mouthy mother in their place or, like Brock, to correct some injustice (minus the "I just hated not getting to hurt people"). Or he should show up to put that mouthy mother Rock in his place and to correct the injustice that is Brock.

WE DID IT!!!!!!!! I mean, we've been trying since she became The Miz of THE WEST WING. But to have all that hard work, what with the blogging, and the tweeting...to have it all pay off...

I think you have to do a little extra work as a viewer to get past Andre's limitations. You have to pretend not to see what you're seeing even more than normal. Like you have to be "he's caught in the ropew again! Man, is he dumb!" rather than "It's 30 seconds in and he won't be able to leave the ropes because he can't lift his own weight." You also have to let that initial thrill from the staredown/test-of-strength/stalling sequence really sink in and feel epic.

I'm not sure how much more he would have been allowed to do anyway though. As much as Vince loves his big giants, their purpose has always been to squash midcarders before jobbing to the all-American top babyface to prove his strength. So, a few short title runs and a few big main events. That's all there was ever going to be in the WW.

This is crazy-insane. Andre could hardly walk. His selling consisted of laying down against the ropes while whatever menagerie of fools did the actual match. His face mostly expressed exhaustion because he was always exhausted. Everything post, like 88 or so is just kind of heart-breaking to watch. He was a great guy and an amazing spectacle. But Henry is a million worlds better as a worker. Bossman in his 1991 shape would have been so awesome today. Dude worked fast and did some legit surprising thing in every match. Hugely unerrrated. Has anyone's cartoonish costume ever looke more awesome than Bossman with his shirt popped open and that strap around his shoulder? Earthquake was so great. He could do all the squash-a-dude moves that Yoko could do, but he could also run around and set them up and transition into them. So was Gang/Akeem. Was Akeem the first of Vince's dancing fat dudes?

They turned a corner when they became self aware. Since then the actors involved are all seem pretty into the fact that they are starring in the 2010s equivalent of 50s drive-in movies that will be rewatched with amusement for years. The writers and directors all get that too. That joy you were missing showed up in a big way when they cast Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson in MEGAPYTHON VS. GATOROID complete with Micky Dolenz getting pretty awesomely eated. From that point on, they seem to be approaching these as the equivalent to, like, THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, which I've watched in its entirety (three times) more than CITIZEN KANE (0.7 times). They are also embracing the "find the most insane concept and just make it happen as best you can." This seemed to really take off with SHARKTOPUS.

That makes sense. It marks an interesting shift in the tone of the show itself. For the first few seasons, serial killers were presented pretty much along the lines of how Vogel sees them...as almost mythically fixed and predictable creatures that cannot be diverted or helped in any way...almost like a seperate species living among us. Not just Dexter but Rudy/Brian, Trinity, Miguel Prado, and tons of other minor characters. But also Lundy seemed to subscribe to this. For awhile it seemed like the whole show was set in an alternate reality where there were no psychology or psychiatry at all. Everyone just accepted that: 1) serial killers were "created" by a traumatic event or series of traumatic events 2) that once set in motion the process was irreversible and predictable It went so far as the practical reality of Dexter's brother being a kind of proof. Of course he was also going to be a killer, because he went through the same traumatic event. That's just science! But now they're going to reverse all that and claim that all of those ideas were the result of this one woman. It works as an emotional thing, and as a way to end the show...but it changes more than just Dexter's view. It flies in the face of the reality that the show introduced for the first five or six seasons.

It's like SHARKNADO in a hockey rink. It's like SHARKNADO on a bus. This only gets better once we start getting vs. SHARKNADO VS. BEARCANO WInner takes on PIRANHAFOG.

I'm still not sure about the code being evil. They've had Dexter question Harry and the code in various ways for various reasons, but it did succeed in instilling in him a sense of responsibilit about the people around him that almost every other killer he's been in contact with did not have. Whether he truly feels nothing, or disdain, for all the regular people around him, I guess we still don't know because Dexter himself is not always a reliable narrator of his own feelings. But he acts as if he has an obligation to, you know, not kill the inferior beings around him and to somehow make the world better rather than worse. If he doesn't feel guilt (for anyone other than maybe Deb and Rita and his kids) then don't we still have to code to thank for that?

I'm on mac rather than windows. I use Byword as a simple word processor, linked to dropbox. This gives me access to text documents across all devices and quick easy document creation without a million little menus and widgets all over the place in a lean interface without a heavy process running. When it comes time to organize bits of writing into bigger things, I go with Scrivener. Between these two, I have very little use for Evernote anymore. I can't give too much away, but I think I'll be fine if I redact a word or two. I'm currently working on a little piece called ___ Winds __ Winter. Just a hundred more pages! Fingers crossed!!! Wait, I feel dizzy. maybe another candy bar will help. Essentials is a nice way to group and organize programs for quick launching. Scapple is a great free-form program for diagramming ideas. I also have a thing for apps like Mindnode. My brain works better in diagram than in outline. I've also found Documents-To-Go to be a great way to work with Microsoft Office docs on tablets or phones.