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And then for Lana to bury Capitalism and Bradshaw's wife for the reason America is in a recession still.

If that happens I want Rusev to no sell it like Taz did King's piledriver.

You know Speed Force is doomed the moment Cole says it on tv and JBL shits on it

And just like Wally West in the DCnU, they've disappeared from WWE tv continuity.

Best. Stable. Ever. "Where's Wally?" #fowlerized

Denial Anger <---- Bargaining Depression Acceptance

They should be using Orton to put Rusev over, not the other way around.

Rusev holding the US belt needs to happen soon. Not only would the matches with Sheamus be awesome but the promos by Lana would make that belt seem important for the first time in years. The guy that eventually got the belt from Rusev would be over like Rover.

Started in on things that showed up thanks to hoarding B-day Amazon gift cards and cashing in my "Hey, it's almost my birthday...I can order stupid stuff, right?" card: 1) The new HALLOWEEN box set 2) last year's FRIDAY THE 13TH box set 3) the CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES set Popped in the 1st disc of F13th, the uncut original. It looked really great. The thing that makes that first movie work so well is just how real and ambient all the locations are. Everything from the small-town diner to the various cabins. Such great set dressing, I guess is what it's called. And of course directing that takes a little time to let you drink it all in. The great moving camera shots that sometimes look like POV shots and sometimes are just there to give it some realism way before that became such an expected thing. The little bits of POV that keep shifting from counselor's view to "killer's" view to a "fake killer's view" (where the killer isn't there, but we get a POV shot anyway)...it's all just a little disorienting without being overdone and annoying, or even calling attention to itself. And just the right amount of claustrophobia. So much of the time the camera moves so freely in big spaces, and then when it suddenly forces you into tight shots, (like when the guy is in the generator room) it really heightens the tension. I swear most horror movies today has so much in closeup that they miss that change of anxiety-level. Even after all these years, it got three screams from my wife (Kevin Bacon's death, body crashing through the window, and the Jason-in-the-lake shot). Watching it this time, maybe because her scenes looked so great in this transfer, it really felt like the story of poor Annie stands out...the girl who never makes it to the camp. She apparently hitchhiked and backpacked all the way there from who knows where because this was her best shot to actually get real experience working with city kids and she has big plans to be, like a social worker or a teacher or something. That's pretty amazing that we are able to build that much backstory for her in the minutes she's on screen. She's the one that hears the story of Camp Blood along with us. She's the one who hears from crazy Ralph and is warned. She tells us about how she's following this dream of hers to work with kids. The actress is so great. They clearly cast her so that we would think she was the final girl...and even though her story never even crosses the main story, we end up knowing more about this one girl than about any of the other characters. Since they draw her up so much, and trick us into thinking she's the main person we'll be rooting for, her little section is like a little complete short story prequel to the real movie. And I feel genuinely sad when she looks up from the ground at her attacker and whimpers "No!" shaking her head...like "This can't be how my journey ends...I'm supposed to do all this stuff I've been planning." It's like we're seeing what it would look like if the final girl didn't survive, but instead just tripped...and died. And even she can't accept it. The only thing that lessens the effect is that we've already met Alice before we go back to Annie. But, still, none of the other victims feels quite so sad. Like, she was supposed to be a final girl, in a different movie maybe. But she accidentally ended up in this one and so she never made it to her movie. She's also the youngest and most enthusiastic character. There is something about this genre that is bound to the idea of destroying youth. It's such a corrupt thing for a story to do, to set loose a force that seems, for whatever reason, to be compelled to find the people farthest from death, the people who are the strongest and fastest and most full of energy and excited plans...who are just coursing with life an emotions and hormones and racing through the world...and slaughtering them...cutting them down and watching them slowly crawl toward their final breath. I know this isn't exactly a new observation and they made a big thing about this in A CABIN IN THE WOODS, but the older I get, the more perverse it seems...the more horrific. It was always sort of there. Like, say, Mina and Lucy in DRACULA. In the 19th century popular engravings: and even back to the 16th century caution: Renaissance boobs within: But it was only one part of Victorian (and earlier) horror. In these movies, it's a main running sort of Jungian theme: the perverse slaughter of the young. Not children. That's a different kind of horror: But, people at the prime moment of strength...the "Malcolm MacDowell in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" moment of maximum restless energy and potential to do...good, bad, whatever. Like, when I was younger I didn't really understand the power of that moment in life. I was just like "Fuck those other kids HAHA!!!! Get 'em Freddy!!!" But it's a dark theme. And every now and again it really stands out how dark it is. There was scene in HALLOWEEN: H20 where Michael is chasing the sarcastic goth girl. She was a strong character, in that early 2000s, post-SCREAM smart teenager kind of way. The new generation of "we've seen it all" horror characters. And after he wounds her, he just slowly follows her as she crawls across the floor, scraping and clawing hopelessly as her life ebbs. Every October that movie is on AMC and that scene always makes me cringe a little at that notion of destruction of youth. And now I get the same thing from poor Annie: RIP, Annie. You are causing me an existential crisis. Also: Listening to the commentary track, Betsy Palmer is so great...she invented this whole backstory for Pamela Vorhees...and she has the whole fantastic point-of-view "I was a good lady...who went a little wrong..."

Yeah, fun times with the DVDVR crew on PS4. I hope to have many more in the weeks to come. PSN is being weird. I've sent friend requests to Craig, Chaos, and Brisco with issues ongoing. We'll sort it out eventually.

C'mon son, Johnny Dangerously

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE STEELERS STINK

Could Regal have been the last one to use knucks? Also, Chris Hero needs to go full on Mac-circa season 7 where he attributes his weight gain to just cultivating mass to impress HHH, wears shirts a size or two too small and thinks he's almost a muscle-head.

Remind me to never upset Steve Smith.

You f*ck with Steve Smith, he will f*ck with you. He's a bad man.

This officiating crew for GB/CHI are straight up making shit up. The only good thing about them is that they're doing it both teams. It's ruining my enjoyment of the game.

WCW booked Goldberg as an unstoppable monster. when Goldberg came to the WWF, he was a top face. That means he has to both take and give in matches/feuds. Since he wasn't used as an unstoppable monster, people say he was misused. But if the ONLY style you can work is "nobody ever gets over on me and i crush everybody", then i'd say maybe you should learn to work.

I am a god damn moron So I still haven't completed a strike without dying. Since I have the Phogoth bounty I go back to the Summoning Pits Me and the two other dudes are wrecking shit They die a few times but I make it through the whole thing alive. During the 30 second mission end phase - one of the guys motions to me and I realize he wants me to follow him. He runs over to the ledge and jumps off. I then see that there is a treasure chest down there that he was showing me. What I didn't see was the fucking gap between platforms. So yup - I died with 3 seconds away from finishing without dying

Ok...pics or it didn't happen. Here be the pics and other nonsense to demonstrate the insane push I'm getting from my current employer. (Pics spoilered for size)

Every time I hear Bob Ryder's name, the only phrase my mind associates with it is "beefy, Ecstasy-addicted Abyss"

It was actually suplexiglass

If Meng/Barbarian collision was so disastrous, I don't even want to imagine what happend after this:

Rest In Peace to Richard "Jaws" Kiel: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/richard-kiel-best-remembered-as-the-james-bond-villian-jaws-dies-at-74/2014/09/11/ce4ba294-39bc-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html Also, farewell to Charles Keating, who played Carl on the soap opera Another World: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/showbiz/charles-keating-obit/ And for some odd reason, Oscar winning director (and occasional actor) Richard Attenborough died on August 24th and didn't get a thread, even though he, you know, directed Gandhi, one of the greatest films ever: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/24/showbiz/richard-attenborough-dead/index.html

I read that the wrong way and was trying to figure out how the competiton over a prospective coach could possibly turn into a race war.

Good game tonight with mr pooner n Brisco,

Unless someone is in your fireteam there's no way to hear them. Ugh. I can understand the desire to only have people who have chosen to team together able to talk to prevent bullshit, but it kind of sucks trying to play a pickup game and not being able to coordinate.

I decided I better cook dinner before I get too involved, so I am being lazy and doing ground turkey with Hamburger Helper. I should be up and running in about a half hour myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RReMM4VGWd8 so, this happened. (i go by Tristy on EWB)

Reggie Wayne's aged like a fine wine.

Even though it probably wont happen, I'm hoping that JBL's constant shitting on the guys Rusev beats eventually leads to Rusev destroying him in a match too.

The only way Orton even remotely works is if they turn Rusev and Lana face. However, WWE blowing Rusev's first real loss on someone like Orton, Cena, Sheamus, or Show would be the most WWE thing ever. Why make someone brand new when you can use it to let the established guys, who don't need it at all, exert dominance. Realistically we all know this is heading towards an AA or shitty STF. No matter how much I want them to keep Rusev and Lana away from Cena I don't see how this ends any other way and then it's down to mid-card purgatory. Edit: the Rusev/Lana vs Swagger/Zeb feud is some of my favorite stuff this year. Going from that to Henry to Show was a mistake. They should've gone to Swagger after Rusev dispatched Henry and Show, then they could've maybe given Swagger a real win instead of a DQ victory.

I had 15 strange coins and was on the fence about whether to purchase the exotic armor from Xur or wait until next week and try to get a gun after I have some more strange coins. Then a buddy says we can do the weekly heroic on the highest difficulty and that will give us 9 coins. So that only took a matter of hours to complete. But we eventually finished it and I was able to buy the auto rifle from Xur. Used it in a Skirmish match this morning and went 19k 4d.

No need to feel guilty, Rusev and Lana are fucking great.

I don't even think Eddie underperformed. Very few fighters turn the pressure up like Donald Cerrone. In WEC and against Nate, Cerrone was sometimes too tentative much to his detriment. But if you don't constantly throw offense back at him, he will light you as the fight goes on. That's what happened tonight. Alvarez is a good offensive fighter and can put the coffin nails in when he has you hurt, but he doesn't have like all time great offensive output. Plus, he doesn't have this momentous wrestling advantage over a lot of the top guys in the division. He was in tough tonight no matter how you slice it.

I think creative is going to put him in a tag team with Adam Rose called 'Diminishing Returns'.

Why can't I stop staring at how perfect that afro-mullet is?

No, but footage of Spicoli messed up was used on some HBO Sports piece on wrestling.

To quote Raven Mack, wrestling needs less Live Journaling and more Dick Murdoching.

My vote is Ambrose as Taco. The reason he didn't pay the cab driver is because they're Eskimo brothers.

I didn't say that. It does seem kind of shady though.

So, what you're saying is, wrestling is fake?

Goldust's original entrance was to feature two bears as well. True story, per Meltzer.

That final season in 97 with coked up Martin Lawrence and minus Tisha Campbell in every episode except the finale is is brutally bad. I think the combination of drugs, the sexual harrassment thing with Tisha, the ego trip, and all of Martin's other personal problems made the show painfully unfunny at the end. Just UPN fodder on a bigger platform. They went even as far as having a terrible Pam spinoff episode with Jenna von Oy and Tyrese. With all that said, no black sitcom since has been able to replicate the success of all the seasons prior to 1997. The difference between many of those shows is Martin was Kevin Hart before Kevin Hart when the show first started. He was a movie star when the show came to an end. High as a mink coat, but a star nonetheless. The other standups like Tracy Morgan, D.L., and Damon got shows when they were 35+ and already had some sort of notoriety. Plus, those shows veered into corny territory pretty fast.