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I'm oddly not very interested in Punk/Brock. I just don't get Brock's purpose as a WWE wrestler. To just show up and challenge dudes who don't have a belt? It's a fun sideshow attraction, but for me it's not interesting until Brock is in the ring wrestling. Maybe it's because I don't watch consistently, but what is the motivation behind Brock being in the WWE now? Is it just to fuck people up, does he want to be the champ and shit on the WWE? I don't know.

Probably that too. Really the gauntlet covered a lot of bases. Bryan got to go long, face down guys bigger than him, look like a world beater in prep for Summerslam, and showed he can beat multiple guys a night while keeping the audiences attention the whole time. It was a great booking decision and I think it helped legitimize him as a fighter and not just a Eugene.

I would think the entire impetus behind this gauntlet was to create this concept that Daniel Bryan can defeat multiple opponents back to back, so that when Randy cashes in there will be some tension.

I watched more minutes of last night's RAW because of Daniel Bryan than I have in years. I'm also pretty excited about them seemingly planting the seeds for a long terms story with Bryan after Summerslam, with him as the People's Champion, and someone in the office not like it. It makes me feel like they actually have a bigger picture than just DB vs. Cena at Summerslam and then the end. I dig Brad Maddox as this "what if Vince went back in time, plucked up a young Eric Bischoff and then brought him to the future to train him?" character. I wonder what would happen if he sent him back in time with all this knowledge. Maybe that is the bigger picture. What if Vince just wants to play Monday Night Wars again, but now he's trying to tweak the difficulty settings...

Matt Morgan is probably not the answer, but he's one guy that on TV doesn't look like a 7 foot tall monster. I know it's not the case, but I, for whatever reason, think Ryback would look completely dominating compared to him. However I wouldn't think that'd be the case if Ryback wrestled El Gigante.

Anyone else have this problem where you're looking at all the options and you realize you've spent 40 minutes NOT PICKING A FUCKING MOVIE? I noticed I was about to do that on Saturday, where I'm just like YEAH I want to watch that.... but not right now. And I was like NO PICK SOMETHING. So just watched Teen Wolf again. This seems to be a pattern with me. I want to watch so much, but I get overwhelmed and I just go with something I've seen a hundred times. Like Teen Wolf. Or Ferris Bueller.

I don't understand how that happened at all.

It's not the only one lost. If that makes you feel better.

Crash Holly.

Sadly, I do not. I didn't save anything on my harddrive, I was just saving the PMs via this board. This is the problem with THE CLOUD. If you wrote a review that got killed by the Boardquake of 2013, I'm not going to ask anyone to rewrite it. That's way too much to ask for a fun project like this. I'll just reopen the threads and maybe conversation will cover the points lost in the fire.

Peculiar. I meant to say it wasn't the weirdest part of the movie. So that must have sounded confusing. I really enjoyed that movie for its madness. All the actors went for broke, and you can add it to the list of recent Matthew McConoughey performances you should be checking out.

That's the weirdest moment of the movie. EDIT: Weird, I meant to say that WASN'T the weirdest part of the movie.

The other night I watched a car hit a guy on a bike and then speed the fuck out of their. So fuck you to the person driving that White Cadillac SRX, that was leaving the Congress Theatre Tuesday night.

Evil Trendy Douche Guy that can also knock you out sounds kind of good. We can get vignettes of him foraging for food in urban settings. Flipping through vinyls. Hire Christina Von Eerie to just sit and look disaffected behind him. He can say shit like "John Cena doesn't look grass fed to me. But me? I'm Non-GM-OH-NO."

RE: Hogan/Bret. I wouldn't be surprised if Vince was fucking with the two of them just to get bad blood going. I think he totally stirred the pot later with Bret/Shawn. I think he's just a born shit starter. And if you haven't seen it in a while, go back and watch Yoko beat Hogan for the belt. Besides the flameball, Yoko whipped Hogan's ass in that match. It really felt like he killed Hulkamania dead, and the fact that Hogan didn't come back and fled to WCW made Yoko look like even a bigger badass. I feel like Bret beating Yoko instead of Hogan set up an even better story than Hogan/Hart would have. Bret was the real hero, the people's champ that stuck with WWF and slayed the evil Yoko dragon. I don't think Vince ever liked Bret as champion, either. To Vince Bret was just a safety net Vince used while he tried to create the star he really wanted. Somebody with an edge - Shawn, Diesel, Sid, - and eventually he hit the right note with Austin.

Who needs genetics or gym time? Just be a man and get some Polo shirts. Everyone will think you're a stud. Even Chris Hero's Blind Melon lookin' ass.

I can't seem to find the studio version of this on youtube, but you get the idea. This version of Everything In It's Right Place has a Burt Bacharach kind of feel which is fascinating concept to me. There's some tremendous stuff on Spotify, if you can use that. I went nuts on Charlie Parker. There's a collection of those War Bond concerts that he lead where in between sets they're telling people to purchase war bonds to support the troops. Brilliant shit.

Any one mention that Tom Hanks and Natalie Portman are doing the film adaptation of Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts? Michael Hazanavicius, who did The Artist, is directing. The book is a great read and I like the casting already.

I've been working on building one of my own. I load my freezer with old gallon juice containers to keep it energy efficient, so when it gets too hot we just lay on top of them. Eventually they'll be my ammo for a "swamp cooler." I'm just trying to find the right housing. It's a pet project of mine. But I will say I've become ridiculously good at naturally venting my house. I know I'm complaining now, but I can usually get it down pretty nice in the evenings. It's the days that are rough.

Cold front moved to 9 Then to 11. Lyin sonsofbitches. IT'S NEVER GONNA GET HERE.

Weather guys said this cold front was going to come in around noon. Now it's moved to 7. Not very fast for a jet stream if you ask me. It's 86.5 degrees in my apartment. Still this summer is WAY better than last year's. Last year I went crazy from the heat. I was like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now in this motherfucker.

I don't think you can really look deeper into the details of what happened because there's so much speculation. Would you have screamed, would you not have screamed? would you have run? Would he have believed it was a gun and that's why he punched him? Did beat his ass, did he rough him up? Shit man, I don't fucking know, I wasn't there. All I know is that if I ever get accused of something I hope people's first instinct is to believe I'm innocent until someone proves me guilty. And it's also possible that both people were not very good people. It doesn't have to be an either/or deal.

FICTION All the Names by Jose Saramago Another Road Side Attraction by Tom Robbins The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway High Rise by JG Ballard The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Miracle Monday by Elliott S. Maggin In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torchia The Rook by Daniel O'Malley The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty NON-FICTION A Curious Life: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It Or Not' Ripley by Neal Thompson Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz EDITED into the first post.

If one person concedes then what's gained by the other party here? Say Benji or SDAusmus just says, "you know what, you're right." Then what? I need there to be a clear goal, a briefcase on a cable hanging above the thread for example, if I'm to enjoy this.