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Better yet, just print the picture and then fold it like one of those things in the back of Mad magazine.

My two cents, as someone who has never paid for an autograph: It should always be the signer/celebrity's option and comfort level, regardless of pandemic. I got to meet Simon Pegg years back at a book reading and signing (actually was able to meet him beforehand privately as my friends worked at the bookstore). I didn't ask for a photo, but he offered to pose with us and did the arms on lower backs pose. Likewise with Springsteen, the books were pre-signed but there was a 30-second photo op so I stood next to him and when he did the lower back arm I did the same. I've never bothered a celebrity at an airport or a bar, although in retrospect I wish I had yelled some choice words at Ted Cruz at DFW.

Ok, I paid money so this is what we’re gonna do I stand directly behind you and we hug in a totally wholesome not creepy midwestern prom date kind of way I wear your shirt all the time and like your poster my two favorite posters are the one I have next to my shelf where you’re thinking about what wrestling move your gonna do and the other one I keep next to my human skin lamp where you just won the title and I’m so proud of how far you’ve came I feel like a big brother to you and I paid money so we can take a picture of us hugging.

Hemp wearin', Prius ridin', glider flyin'...

"SO YOU SEE, EVERYONE IN THE PITTSBURGH INDY SCENE HATES BRITT BAKER. SHE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE WAS TOO GOOD FOR ME. NEVER SAYING HELLO TO ME AND HER OUTFITS AND WHAT NOT. I'M NOT SAYING THIS PERSONALLY, BUT I TOTALLY HEAR SHE SLEPT HER WAY TO THE TOP, BRO."

My pitch is he enters every scene by introducing himself like, “I’m Frank, my pronouns are he/him, and this skull shirt is in honor of the college professor who taught me CRT.”

Terrifying children is the highest form of pro wrestling

...kissing only when both parties have consented...

Pedro, calm down, you stated an unpopular opinion. Some people shat on you, but others like Stefanie gave you reasonable counterpoints. Drop it, log off for a few days. He's sensitive because a bunch of you are bullying him. He made a statement, and a bunch of you mocked him for it for several pages. And I'm sure you're justifying it in your heads with flimsy rationalizations like: - he criticized a woman, so it's alright to shit on him cause he's probably a misogynist - he's defending himself passionately, he must be a troll Yeah, no, you're just fucking bullying him. Ya'll can drop it too.

In general I'd say that if you spend $130 to have a picture taken with someone you shouldn't have to do so at a distance... but I've seen way too many pictures of wrestling ladies at these types of signings where I was creeped out sitting at my desk thousands of miles away so I think I'm okay with it in this case.

it's been a long time since I've felt so passionately about a difference of opinion here, but I have absolutely no desire for any kind of authority figure on television ever again, in any promotion. Its a concept that peaked 25 years ago with Bischoff and Vince, and they were lucky to have gotten the extra longevity they did out of the idea, owing largely (IMO) to just how talented the people they cast in those roles are - Foley, Regal, Teddy Long, Flair, Austin, AJ Lee etc. I'm sure there are many I am forgetting or have plain blocked out. I just don't think you get the same mileage out of it if it were, let's say, Stephanie or Mike Adamle (or yes, the fucking laptop) the whole time.

I think I like the idea of it becoming a mentality that is spreading outside of the faction, rather than becoming a huge faction.

... Settle down EVERYONE-netico.

The best answer I can come up with was in the episode because Vince wanted to prove he could be a king maker & do something no one in WCW thought they could do with Luger thus Vince shows how much better he is which feeds his ego as Bruce and his underlings tell Vince how great he is for that call.

Doesn't seem all that weird to me...

someone in the vein of Jack "Best President Since Noriega" Tunney

TAFKA Malcolm Bivens is a favourite of, @Dolfan in NYC. One for you!

Well, you did summon this so I’m obligated to oblige. Nickelodeon theme songs do not get the recognition they deserve in comparison to Disney. For every Solange Knowles backed up by Destiny’s Child singing The Proud Family, you have TLC’s All That. Raven Simone on That’s So Raven, Coolio on Kenan and Kel. Hana Montana? The B-52’s did mother fucking Rocco’s Modern Life! Disney had a much better factory to create young culture defining pop stars but Nickelodeon was able to capture theme songs that didn’t need words but could encapsulate the essence of their entire series. Rugrats, Clarissa Explains it All, Doug! The themes were without peers. What is Disney’s answer to the Hey Arnold theme? What slaps that hard? You have the floor, @GuerrillaMonsoon. in like a, “I wonder what my friend is up to” or a “wonderful, just wonderful” kinda way?

Look, if WWE is trying to bring back and bring in some people that's awesome. It'll help the product. You can take MJF even if you want to, but don't you damn dare take Takeshita.

Will you stop?!

There are actually two Finlay vs. Callihan matches, one from EVOLVE which was Finlay's first match back and I was live at and one from WXW in Germany.

I FINALLY got around to watching the INTERNATIONAL FEED and MAN, were both the women's match and the ROH match fucking amazing with the added layer of texture. That Takeshita/Claudio match WAS Barry Windham vs Barry Windham. That match is fucking awesome. Thunder Rosa was great in that match because of her facial expressions. That's how you sell an ass beating.

Man, imagine that actual feud though. Yuta Vs Tully, Mox Vs Arn, Windham Vs Claudio, Flair Vs Danielson, Mox/Yuta Vs Tully/Arn, War Games, promos, Regal and Dillon shenanigans. Anyone else not want BCC to add any more members? I mean, maybe a female representative. But I feel they have the perfect dynamic and number right now, and adding anyone else, even though there are other wrestlers that fit the bill, would just be overkill and in danger of watering the concept down.

IS THAT THE SAME GUY?? Well, that looks like a solid 6, or 9, or 10 feet to me. ??️BOOM! ....? *thud*

Yes, and I could not possibly listen to that fucking 911 call again. If they had even a shred of taste or respect for the dead they would have cut that out, but it's WWE.

Just let them meet each other socially distanced, then photograph both on a neutral background, then have someone adept at Photoshop onsite to quickly whip up a cringy back-hug photo for these dudes to post online (I was going to say "to show their friends" but come on). Problem solved.

I've always thought they should have stuck with The Narcisist gimmick for longer as that seemed a much better fit for him, especially with Henan as his manager.

Crush was my absolute favourite wrestler when I was a kid but I only saw WWF PPVs, so that was mainly from thinking he was cool in the magazine. I was eight, the amount of neon in his ring gear went a long way. Having seen more of his matches since then, he is remarkably bad in quite a lot of them, he just doesn't look natural moving around a ring. The first live wrestling I ever saw was in 93, when my parents took me to Wembley Arena, where they ran back a lot of the Wrestlemania IX matches, including Crush vs Doink. As at Mania, Doink won by underhanded means. After the match, Crush got his heat back and ran off Doink, and his music played. I hopefully ask if that means Crush won, and my Mum, who has never had the slightest interest in wrestling and was probably already flagging at that point, sharply informs me that no, he lost. And that's how Doink The Clown ruined my childhood twice in the space of a few months.

Mox is now Arn Anderson and the Blackpool Combat Club are the Four Horsemen. Claudio is Barry Windham.

Nickelodeon has the range, sure. But does it have the heart? The heart that comes with Bowling For Soup's "Today Is Gonna Be A Good Day". DUCK TALES. Life IS like a hurricane. Here, there or Duckberg. Will you solve a mystery or re-write history today? No, you probably won't, you simp coward, but you can live vicariously through that group of pantless ducks-a-woo-ooo. Call Me. Beep Me. Motherfucker.

Putting aside the "person probably smells like a city garbage truck just passed by" personal hygiene aspect, I would say that being in the same picture is much better than the 25,000 feet you were apart before you met said celebrity. Maybe it's because we're in the age where you can incessantly troll celebrities all day long before they block you, but I am more weirded out by the fact people get as excited and have the same respect meeting a name celebrity as they do their city alderman. In the olden days before social media, a celebrity would tell you to fuck off and there would be no picture at all even if was a meet and greet. Either that or their personal security would get in front of you before you tried to confront them. After the murder of Christina Grimmie (which by the way, wasn't that long ago), I'm surprised people are allowed to get anywhere near a celebrity of any magnitude. You never know when you're meeting some person who just wrote a manifesto.

Speaking of mediocre filmmaking… my film, Ode to the Whale of Christ, is going to be screening in Minneapolis (at the Trylon Cinema) on October 8th. After so many screenings being postponed due to the pandemic, I’m pretty excited to have it playing in a US theater. Shameless plug Derp.

If I ever pay $130 dollars to meet someone at a convention, and I say this without shade for people who enjoy doing this sort of thing at conventions, please sit down and have a serious talk with me. I like to waste my money on things other than pictures with celebs, like Steam Decks or lottery tickets or stupid trinkets from tourist trap trinket shops. But if I did do this, and the female celeb was like, "please stand over there, dudes are weird sometimes, not saying you're weird, but no offense," I'd be like, "yeah" and stand my skinny little ass over wherever she was pointing because I'm not a stupid jackass. Well, not completely. On another note, once I went to a party and someone mentioned that they liked wrestling, and I didn't say anything, and then they said that they loved Bret Hart as a kid, and I was like I LOVED BRET HART AS A KID TOO and it didn't scare anyone away because we starting naming things we liked from childhood in general and everyone nearby joined in and it was a nice little trip down nostalgia lane. So you know, it's not ALL bad if it ever happens that pro wrestling comes up at a party. We didn't scare anyone away and I still ended up getting a phone number and a whole short-term fling with a nice young lady out of the whole experience even though I really just went with a friend who knew the people there and not in search of anything like that. One more reason the Hitman is the G.O.A.T. in my book.

AND THE THING ABOUT DR WAGNER JR IS…. *friends nodding while drinking from a red cup while one guy’s arm is folded shaking his head*

Excellent. I want all the "fire me, you fucking mark" angles they can throw at me.

The articles about Miro being unhappy is tied to him liking a tweet about "Who the fuck is Mance Warner" getting a shot on a random Rampage, that started a flood of "Why the fuck do these unsigned people get on TV all the fucking time whilst all these people under contract barely see anything not YouTube" tweets to go along with it. Take it with a grain of salt and it's well within Miro's character to troll online. Andrade is always going to be miserable unless someone puts him in the same position he was in CMLL, and even then he wasn't happy (and I really haven't seen anything out of Andrade to indicate he's wanting to go back to Hunter).

Miro getting hurt right when he was being pushed towards a belt was bad luck for him. He did get somewhat lost in the shuffle once he was better.

The meeting happened today and apparently Durant told him that he didn't have faith in the direction of the franchise and they could either keep Marks and Nash or keep him. So, as per usual for the Nets, not great.

Didn't people use to say Shunji Takano was the Japanese Barry Windham? There ya go. If they want a woman in BCC, Leyla Hirsch would fit like a glove once she comes back from the ACL.

If they cap it right now for Takeshita and extend an offer to a women's competitor, that'd be the perfect fit and limit for right now.

Japan is the country that originated the term "otaku" to mean an obsessive fan (with a subtext of being a social misfit/outcast with no social/hygiene skills), and the US is the country where anime fans decided to embrace the term as a compliment.

Lol. Isn't anything involving Simmons on The Ringer "Boston specific" by default?

You are really sensitive about this issue. I mean, first you say it's six feet, then you say nine feet, then you say ten feet. Basing all of this on pictures. I ask for clarification and you respond about how I "sound". What else do you hear that other people can't? Are you hearing those things at this moment? How about you do the diligence to get an accurate picture of what you're actually so angry about and come back with some consistency? I don't think it's the thread that will get shut down seven days* into the month. *Or eleven**. **Or twelve.

My question though: Why do something like that in first place? I do get it from sort of a PR move, but it's not like Lex didn't have a reputation before going to WWF. Keep in mind, there was a reason why they put Harley with him in WCW. He also had a rep amongst the boys. Moreover, when Hogan became WWF champion, I could be wrong but I don't remember him going on a glorified one man field trip across the country. He was already a big enough name that he didn't have to do that. Ironically when Lex Luger was doing that, this was around the time when the manager of Riddick Bowe Rock Newman had the bright idea to have the newly crowned HW champ Riddick Bowe grow his name by having him tour the continent of Africa much like Muhammad Ali did decades prior. It was a pretty good idea on paper, but thing is Bowe hadn't earned that. After going through what happened protesting the Vietnam War and losing the HW title, Ali was seen as an absolute hero and a symbol of standing up for your rights. He begrudgingly earned the respect of people here in the USA and was almost godlike in Africa, where you had several countries who had became independent throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Whereas Ali was treated with reverence everywhere he went in Africa, Riddick Bowe basically went on vacation and a sightseeing tour. Add in the fact that Bowe, despite being a hell of a boxer, was never Mr. Charisma to begin with. It's very much parallel to what was going on with Luger. IMO they could have gotten more out of Luger's run with those factors, but they went with in the wrong direction it felt like 95 percent of his time there. You never had that genuine star making or mark out moment on WWF television that you got when he had when he beat Hogan for the WCW title. Nothing even remotely close to that.

I went with Thunderstorm vs Britt/Jamie since finally Hayter got a big winning pin.

What an excursion for Konosuke Takeshita. He'll be missed.

Enjoy y'all!