Stefanie Sparkleface

Rage is the entire basis of the internet. Our thirsts are unquenchable and yet we must drink!

Personally, I think everyone sucks in this situation and we just need Kris Statlander to be an alien again. Come on. All Extraterrestrial Wrestling is right there.

It's also funny that he said he wouldn't talk to Cabana without a lawyer before the scrum, at the scrum said his door is always open to talk to anyone, the Bucks and Kenny come to talk to him - with a lawyer! - and a fight somehow starts. Not like funny ha ha, but funny "uhhhhh".

The other territories would use Kung Fu Fighting, Memphis would actually give him two videos and break out Dance the Kung Fu as well.

My favorite pizza for years now has been pineapple, mushroom, and jalapeno, but I never thought of sauteeing the pineapple and jalapenos together. That sounds really good.

Note to self: at the DVDVR pizza party, don't offer to share pizza.

Yuuki Mashiro has been teasing that she wants Unagi Sayaka to come to Ice Ribbon and maybe challenge for the Triangle Ribbon. Unagi has acknowledged it with a series of vomit emojis (which might mean she's interested, if one is familiar with how Unagi talks).

The Porkchop Cash squash where Porkchop punches the Intercontinental belt and hurts his hand. (Which is more due to Porkchop than Warrior, admittedly.)

It's like blaming the match for setting the fire and not the gas-soaked pile of kindling that's been there for a year or so and you never got around to cleaning up.

I like that more companies are forcing captions on their commercials. Accessibility is great! I especially love when those companies misspell their own name, like Applebee's does (as "Appebee's") when claiming they have the best boneless wings.

I can't wait for the argument about how Dynamite Kid's right to privacy was violated because they discussed him holding a gun to his wife's head. After all, don't we all have the right to privacy?!!?!? You're going to act like a fool, especially if you're a public figure, expect people to discuss you acting like a fool. Especially if you do so publicly.

I wonder if Shockwave the Robot is 1) still wrestling and 2) ever proclaimed themselves to be a god.

Ice Ribbon had a good turnout for Korakuen, with 541 for this go-round to see Ibuki Hoshi successfully defend the Infinity Title against her mother, Hamuko Hoshi. Ibuki was able to retain after 23 minutes, and Hamuko put the belt on Ibuki after the match. Hamuko was asked at the pre-show press conference what she'd do if she lost, because in the past she had mentioned that if she ever lost to Ibuki it might be time to retire, and all she said was that "her mind was made up", so we'll see what happens with Hamuko from here. Cheerbell, the team of Mifu Ashida and Kyuuri, lost the International Ribbon Tag Titles in their first defense to a reunited BIG DEKAI, with Totoro Satsuki pinning Kyuuri following Moving Like A Thunderstorm to gain the titles for herself and Ganbare's Yuna Manase. No word on next challengers, but Totoro's former(?) partner Asuka Fujitaki was very upset that Totoro chose to team with Yuna and walked away from the two. Yappy has sympathized with Asuka and how she reacted to Totoro teaming with Yuna, so we may be in for a hoss battle if Yappy and Asuka start teaming regularly. The Triangle Ribbon... hoo boy. So Yuuki Mashiro came back and claimed that she was still the champion, having never lost the title after retiring. This even confused Cagematch who still listed Mashiro as champion for a while. When Mashiro tried to set up a defense against Kaho Matsushita and Makoto, though, MIO said that it was not a defense because Mashiro wasn't the champion, she lost that status when she retired. Those three met for a decision match, and Mashiro ended up winning, scoring one of her sneaky rollups to pin Kaho. Mashiro is now claiming that this was her seventh defense and she's been champion since the start of 2022, but Ice Ribbon says this is a brand new reign that started today. There was some chatter about the status of the Challengers, as Yuuki Minami, Yuu Hanaya, and Mayuka Koike have only ever appeared at Korakuen shows, while Nanae Furukawa and Asuka Fujitaki have been at all varieties of shows (as has Mifu Ashida, who had a reign as tag champ). It appears their contract lapses at the end of March, so we'll see how many stick around. There was a trios match that a couple of fans said was a farewell to the project (with Ganbare's Yoshiko Hasegawa replacing Mifu), and Nanae scored her first win, tapping out Asuka with a double armbar. Nanae has already confirmed she's staying in Ice Ribbon past March, as she's scheduled for a Triangle Ribbon challenge on April 6. As a reminder, this was a film project so I don't think too many would stick around; if Mifu, Asuka, and Nanae are the long term catches out of this (and it appears they will be), then I think the project was a success. Ancham beat Yappy in the second match, where there was a bet for dinner and drinks on the line. Yappy tweeted that she needed to borrow money to pay for Ancham's tab. Saran (who was teaming with YuuRI) also debuted a diving foot stomp, using it to beat Arisa Shinose (teaming with Yuko Sakurai). I think the turnout was very healthy considering how the last couple of years has been freelancer heavy, and this was mostly base talent, with freelancers only in the undercard. A lot of positive momentum on the horizon!

Too esoteric. Just stick to cool robots and you'll cast a wider net.

Mark Kermode used to preface close to a decade of reviews with variations "he was in Punch-Drunk Love so he can't be that bad", so this isn't even the first time he's done this.

DDP is definitely in Nitro. Do you mean WCW vs. the World? He's not in that.

Combination of Gen Z being very environmentally conscious, so reusable bottles are important to them, and it being popular on TikTok because again, cute colors. WaterTok (don't ask) loves the Stanley in specific.

So I don't have a Stanley, I have Hydro Flasks (which are basically the same, just different form factors), so I can tell you why. 1) They aren't plastic, they're metal. Like almost all metal (except the lid, of course). They're darn near indestructible. I've dropped Hydro Flasks from the top of scissor lifts 15 feet up and it only got scuffed. Not even dented. The lid didn't crack or anything. 2) They keep water cold for a really long time (they're double-wall insulated, I've had water stay cold for almost two days in this thing). I left mine in a car in the middle of summer by accident for several hours... came back and the ice inside was still rattling around, and everything was nice and cold. (They do the same for hot drinks, I'm told, but I don't like hot drinks.) I've bought at least six for myself over the last decade, and it's not because they've worn out or they go bad or anything, it's because I'm awful about remembering where I put things. You'd think I'd take advantage of the carabiner loop and put it on my bag, but nope. I used to have Nalgenes but I'm almost exclusively on Hydro Flasks (I take a Nalgene to the gym because I can - and sometimes will - lose a $10 Nalgene there but I'd be distraught about losing my $40 Hydro Flask). The Stanley is primarily for the form factor (handle, larger size) and because of the cuter colors, but they're almost as rugged as Hydro Flasks are from what my friends tell me. When you have water bottles that you take with you everywhere and you need a super tough option, your choice for "rugged" options in colors are usually like... black. Grey. Ugly shades of green. Ew. So if you're comparing them to a Nalgene or a lunchbox Thermos that will break if you drop it off a desk, it's not the right comparison because they're a different product with different construction and different quality. I think they're worth it because I put my water bottles through absolute heck.

I do wonder if she actually won't wrestle anywhere else. Bushiroad seems pretty open to working with other groups if how they handle New Japan is any proof; Stardom's isolation seems like it was due to Rossy. It will be very interesting to see how cooperative Stardom will be post-Rossy, and I'd like to see how that goes before I write off Saori as being gone from Oz for good. This could easily be Saori making Stardom her priority and letting them handle her outside bookings (especially since Oz only runs 20-ish shows a year, so letting her work a handful might not be out of the question).

The Tokyo Dome would hold a million people that night. Then David Zaslav would explode with joy. (Though I'm sure we'd wish he'd just explode.)

He's so lazy that if you put him anywhere but the opener he might not show up.

I don't think we can chant that without some severe side-eye from staff.

And if we don't like Star Wars? Then what? THEN WHAT?!

No need to involve my stepfather and fussy drive belts, it's on YouTube! https://youtu.be/CK1p3WzA-34?si=yGJ6qgsc-D57707M

My stepfather took a course in VCR repair at home, and lemme tell you, it was really lucrative!* * Until approximately 2001.