ArtVanderlay

Dear Fox Sports Radio, Moving J.T. The Brick BACK to 8PM - 11PM after exiling him to overnights six years ago is not going to magically boost your ratings and cause you to finally beat ESPN Game Night in the ratings. They have this new thing now, it's called "bringing in new talent that hasn't previously been on your network before." You guys might want to try it instead of giving Andrew Siciliano or Tony Bruno their umpteenth different show on your network. Fox Sports Radio: The radio equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

"Right after I shove a rabid chicken up my colon." I sometimes I forget how Bloom County affected my own vulgar language as a child.

Federal judge in Minnesota transfers the Brady lawsuit to New York. Score one for Goodell.

At this point, I'm convinced that if Josh McCown saved Bill Barnwell's wife/girlfriend/life partner from a burning building, Barnwell would still figure out a way to criticize him.

Finished the second season of Bojack Horseman this morning and I loved the last 30 seconds of the final episode, "Out to Sea." I've been kind of blah the last few days and the actually cheered me up.

Apparently there is more money to be made in trolling WWE midcarders on Twitter in the hopes of getting rehired by them.

This probably belongs in the "annoying commercial" thread, but I am so, so, so glad that the 2015 Special Olympics have started, because my local Fox Sports Radio station has been running those "We Are L.A." commercials ad nauseum for the last two months and I'm just sick of it.

No Holds Barred is still available on Hulu as of 1:00 AM Pacific Time.

As someone who is heavily involved in the autograph collecting circuit, Meltzer is wrong when he says that Hogan will never do autograph shows again. He'll be back in a year or so after the heat dies down. The same people who paid to get O.J. Simpson's autograph or Pete Rose or any other "shamed" celebrity will be there to give money to unscrupulous promoters for Hulk's signature. People can justify anything. Hell, John Rocker was at the Baseball Hall of Fame doing an autograph signing last weekend.

It's always jarring to me whenever I see rape in old movies from before the 1960s. I saw the 1953 western Gun Fury this morning with Rock Hudson and Donna Reed as a couple emigrating to California, but Reed gets kidnapped by the bad guys and one of them says he wants to see what's so great about Reed and the camera fades to black as he presses himself up against a horrified Reed. Then there's The Wicked Lady where James Mason is a highwayman who has an affair with his married accomplice (Margaret Lockwood), then, after she doublecrosses him and tries to get him arrested, picks her up and states that he will have his way with her, "willing or unwilling" and cheerfully drags her off camera. As awful as rape scene are today, in The Accused or The Sopranos, it's just smacks you on the head with the implied rape scenes of the old days because you just aren't expecting things like that, especially with wholesomeness personified like in Donna Reed.

The Death of Superman Lives- I wasn't thrilled with this one. I found it cheap and amateurish (which makes sense, given that it was crowdfunded) with Jon Schnepp serving as on-camera host/interviewer being a distraction. I might have liked it better if Schnepp had done like Michael Moore or Barry Blaustein and served as off-camera narrator with limited on-camera appearances. Another problem was that the whole behind the scenes story is so well known at this point. Check it out if you've never seen Kevin Smith tell his stories, or read the various Wikipedia articles about the whole thing, but otherwise Schnepp is just repeating what a lot of people already know. Also, the opening credits with the guy in silhouette running through the graveyard was bush league. Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films- This was a lot better. The Cannon Films are some of my favorite "bad" movies from the 1980s: American Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, Death Wish 3, The Delta Force, Missing in Action. I was very surprised with some of the people they got to agree to interview, especially Marina Sirtis (the general rule at Star Trek conventions is 'you don't mention Death Wish 3' to her) and they all seemed to have a sense of humor about the films, and no one seemed to have a huge ego or get offended at the idea that the films were brainless crap. Really fun documentary.

WWF @ Franklin, PA - December 27, 1994 Nikolai Volkoff pinned Bob Starr (sub for 1-2-3 Kid) Duke Drose defeated Kwang The Bushwhackers defeated Steven Dunn & Barry Horowitz (sub for Timothy Well) The New Headshrinkers defeated the Executioners (Horowitz & Dunn under masks) Henry Godwinn defeated Bob Holly WWF IC Champion Razor Ramon defeated Jeff Jarrett (exact same "Jarrett wins by countout, demands the match is restarted and immediately gets pinned" finish they did at about 20 differnet house shows) This was one of those fundraiser C-shows that WWF did back in 1993-1995 to try and clean up their image after the steroid trials. Remember when WWF would run those promos every week on Superstars/Wrestling Challenge telling people to call in if they needed help promotoing their charity? Franklin is a very, very, very small town in east Pennsylvania, and it was very surreal seeing a WWF show in a high school gym instead of a big arena. Just an awful show where none of the workers wanted to be there and were just going through the motions, Only Horowitz, the Bushwhackers, and Jarrett, guys who came up in the territory system, made any real effort to engage the crowd and try to put on a decent show.

Well, if youre a die hard Opie & Anthony fan and have ever said to yourself: "Man, I love Jim Norton, but I really wish he would spend 90 minute talking seriously about his sex addiction and love of chess," than fucking run out and download his Nerdist interview from last month.

Jeff Jarrett: Okay, Hulk. I had to call in a lot of favors, I mean a lot of favors, but if you agree to lose a match to me, clean as a sheet, than I've arranged for Al Sharpton, Muhammad Ali, one of Malcom X's kids, and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s kids, to all come out and hold a press conference where they will forgive you and declare that you aren't a racist. Hulk Hogan: No way, brother. I'd rather go to my grave as a racist than put your ass over.

So, lost in all the Liger to NXT discussion, Meltzer says there's also heat from New Japan over not using Takaaki Watanabe more often.

Does 1wrestling.com still exist? I only ask b/c I'm afraid if I actually type the address to find out, I'll get a billion spyware pop-ups on my computer.

Lord James Blears and Lord Alfred Hayes. Jarrett's original idea was to have Blears carry an urn with Alfred's ashes to the ring with him, take a bump and make the hot tag to the urn, and then the urn would do the job. Blears refused b/c Hayes was a New Japan guy and Blears is loyal to Baba.

I'm sure Anthony Cumia will be defending Colin on Monday.

No, no. God willing, Colin "Mr. I Have Nothing But Contempt For The People Of Middle America" Cowherd will end up reduced to doing local radio in Wichita, Kansas or Toledo, Ohio, doomed to spend the rest of his career talking Cleveland Browns football or Kansas City Royals baseball.

No, no. More than a dustup at this point: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/with-mlb-players--union-fuming--colin-cowherd-tries-to-explain-his-comments-about-dominicans-170305782.html

Completely remade using the Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas engine, right? RIGHT!!??!!

And just an update, but "The Man Cave" did eventually go on the air at the end of March, but the PD was still fired/resigned.

On the DVD commentary for Shooter, Fuqua threw a passive-aggressive tantrum over being ordered to do reshoots and change the ending, so I don't think he'd be very cooperative with Marvel.

You know who Marvel should get, Vondie Curtis-Hall. He's already affiliated with Marvel due to playing Ben Urich in the Daredevil Netflix series, and he has experience directing movies that are completely controlled by their producers: