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....WHO ARE THE AD WIZARDS WHO CAME UP WITH THIS ONE?

Well then there's no excuse. This must be rectified. The bosses are working on trying to resurrect the dead, so I'll offer my services to get the filters working. I'll probably add a few more like burying Daniel Bryan = WAAAAAAAHBURGER AND A SIDE OF CRIES

I said, "sorry."If you should be sorry for anything it's that you didn't get the joke I laid out. Shame on you sir.

We thought we were getting sleaze. But what we got was... unremarkable.

I know it's a story most everyone knows, but fuck do I hate trailers that show the entire arc of a film. I mean it's like the guy making the trailer watched the movie and just cut each scene down to to a couple of seconds and then put some music over it.

The guy filling it out sounds kind of like a douche. "the tongue is unremarkable" "The testicles are unremarkable." He's lucky Umaga didn't pop up and Samoan Spike him in the throat right then and there.

Thursday, September 5 Denver Sunday, September 8 Tampa BayPittsburghNew OrleansNew EnglandSeattleChicagoKansas CityDetroitIndianapolisCleveland San FranciscoSt. Louis Dallas Monday, September 9 PhiladelphiaHouston Tiebreaker #1: Geno Smith total turnovers (fumbles lost + interceptions): 3Tiebreaker #2: Colin Kaepernick total yards (rushing + passing) 294Tiebreaker #3: Calvin Johnson receiving yards 80

I don't think enjoying The Rock's matches in the 2000's is some kind of outrageous opinion now. Yeah, that's not crazy at all. Everyone has their own magic formula. Some combination of psychology, charisma, match quality, longevity, etc. etc. Some of those criteria get weighted differently for different folks. It's not a right or wrong deal, it's more to stimulate discussion. Admittedly I only asked this question to see how easy it would be to change the subject from whatever was going on before I asked.

Shamrock and Rock were about even but their expertise were in different areas. I really think they're perfect complement to each other.

So maybe we should first define what you mean by "best." The Rock is the clear cut most successful. As far as the actual craft is concerned, as in the bell-to-bell, that's kind of subjective. It's totally subjective. When I say best I never ever want an objective answer. What a horribly dry and boring conversation that would be. If I asked who was the most successful wrestler ever(of any race or gender), we'd be bogged down in gate attendances and pay-per-view buyrates and inflation conversions and by the time we finally decide it's Hulk Hogan or Steve Austin or Rock no one cares because they always knew it was one of those three. For this particular question, it would be nice to hear why, but even I myself didn't offer much explanation as to why I didn't rank Rocky very high. Really Fatu/Rikishi is an absolute beast. He had solid to great singles as Rikishi, and had about a million awesome squash matches with The Headshrinkers. His offense looked great, and he did well as a heel and as a face. My only complaint would be his turned out bump off of clotheslines because I never bought anybody hitting him that hard. And his match with Venis in the cage is one of my favorite matches from the era. Like Top 10-15. For me the Rock had a great personality and great energy, but I never felt like he added much in structure to his matches, and my favorite singles from him are against Ken Shamrock, which doesn't say much for his main event run.

okay okay so no Haku. But I'll put Yoko up there under Rikishi instead.

Oh shit yeah, Haku! I'd put Rock behind Fatu and Haku. And I think if Umaga had lived longer, rock would be behind him too.

I'm probably leaning Rikishi but I wasn't sure if I overlooked anybody.

Who was the best Samoan wrestler?

I love that Hammer is trying to resuurect their brand. I quite liked the Woman in Black and thought it was a good change of pace from the usual horror servings today. It's no classic, but a solid ghost story and left me hopeful. So I was digging around their website, which is a pretty neat site with a history of their productions and stuff, and found out they started releasing radio play productions this summer too: http://www.hammerchillers.com/index.asp Really debating purchasing one.

LOLZ

I think there are a ton of Bears fans today, who would retroactively buy fake stock in the '85 Team and only the '85 team.

Watched Hitchcock's Frenzy, which has the historical distinction of being Hitchy's first R rated film, and includes his first nude scenes. And they're used to horrific comedic effect. There's something really kind of vile and dark about all the humor in this one, which makes it even more fascinating. Then again, maybe that stuff wasn't supposed to be funny and I should be ashamed. Also The Hobbit was not particularly good until the last hour. But it's got all kinds of problems in terms of characterization and pacing that are either Jackson's fault or Tolkien's problem. But Freeman does a great job as Bilbo, I just wish he had more to do. Also he totally tosses in an Office face reaction that almost killed me. Not really looking forward to two more of these. Maybe some kind soul will edit it all down to one movie for me.

So we had to watch Born Yesterday because Judy Holliday beat out some CRAZY competition for Best Actress. She beat both lead females in All About Eve AND Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. If you haven't seen Born Yesterday queue that shit up pronto. Absolutely great character, incredibly funny, and it even has something to say about capitalist dick bags buying the national legislature. Oh how far we've come. Also you get William Mother F'n Holden, who can drop a passionately delivered, inspiration monologue like nobody's business. WATCH IT. Man, 1950 is a pretty stout year. I also fit in Max Ophuls' Lola Montes which is a really beautifully shot movie with a really wild story. I love the circus reenactments and the colors are truly gorgeous throughout. So check that out if you get a shot.

Running is our Forte? Who wrote this shit Peggy Hill?

It's like the for pretty much everyone. Marse Jim thinks he still owns Tilda and the Rebels he holes up are the type that think "the South will rise again." The townspeople of Buford are also delusional, thinking we still own these people and we can treat them like shit and they'll still work for us come cotton harvest. There's a union soldier that gives a great speech that I lifted and here's an excerpt that shows his own delusions.: Reality: Eventually is a long long fucking time. It's heavy reading in terms of subject, but I think it deals with a lot of aspects to racism, not just your basic white people being stupid stuff, but also how oppression affects a person's psyche. There's many different types of reactions from freed slaves in this book, and the author explores them evenly.

I used to be like you. I remember those days well. Then I got married and my wife and sadly my son are horror movie sissies. So October has become the one month where they step aside from the DVD player and NEtflix queue and I gorge on a buffet of blood. It sounds kind of sad, but it's become a kind of fun event that I now look forward to all year.

Netflix says it's set to be released in October. I'm seeing Oct. 15th.

Okay, I just finished Freeman today and posted my thoughts. I did two. The following people, according to my files, did zero Mike Zeidler CSC Brian Fowler Phil Schneider Lacelle FOR SHAME.

FREEMAN by Leonard Pitts Jr. Picked by Randy Read and Reviewed by JaeDMC So this was a struggle to read. Not because of the prose, which was easy going and at times quite eloquent. Not because it was boring, as it rarely ever was over the course of its 400 pages. But because goddamn can I not take racism. It's just a horribly stupid concept and in this case it's based on this foolish country's own history, so it's even extra enraging. We're given a trio of narratives that will eventually cross at some point. First we have Sam, a former slave who made it to Philadelphia before the war broke out and has lived a sort of decent life there as a librarian. When the Civil War ends, he decides to walk all the way to Mississippi to find his long lost wife. Yeah, he's going back into the hornet's nest that is the defeated and bewildered south who don't have much of a clue as to what the fuck they're supposed to do now, but their feelings about black folk ain't changed much. Then we have Prudence who, along with her sistah from another mother and father, Bonnie decides she'll use the land her deceased father owns down in Buford, Mississippi to educate freed slaves. And finally we have Tilda, Sam's wife, whose story is the saddest to read and affected me the most. Tilda upon hearing that she is now a freed woman, decides she cannot leave her Master, who is truly a despicable man. She is a beaten woman, and her inability to find something of value within herself that's worth being free is difficult to read, but it's necessary. There's lots of horrible stuff, because, it's a horrible time period and the ending, while poetic is just as sad historically speaking. You know that minds will not be changed at the end of this book, majority of them won't be changed for decades and decades, and so the separation of whites and blacks felt like precursor to rift between the races that's still felt today. Not that I blame anyone for saying fuck it, I'm going over here. The tragedy isn't that the gave up and left, it's that it really was a lost cause to even try. My only real complaint was that there was a little bit of repetition, in dialogue and in recounting events that we had just read in the book. It's certainly a good read, but be warned you'll be pretty sore by the time it's over.