Craig H

It’s pretty incredible. I read Wool and then Shift. I didn’t want to read Dust because I wanted to finish the tv series first. Every season has been somewhere between amazing and great and is some of the best sci-fi on TV. It’s also nice to not have to wait forever in between seasons and seasons 3 and 4 were filmed at the same time. 4 may be the final season. And Graham Yost is the showrunner. So all of the great work he did with Justified and Sneaky Pete (that should have had another season) is continued here. EDIT: And the show looks expensive but I don’t think it is. They had the whole set built and now they just keep reusing it.

On the star ratings tip, at one point I gave a shit about them. In my 20s. I'm fourty-fucking-five now. Dave is, fuck whatever age he is, he sounds like he's fucking 80. All the nerds, dorks, and marks waiting with bated breath for whatever star rating he graces one fucking match with need to move on. Or need to re-evaluate what is important in their lives. Like Bryan, said, who cares what he rates it! It doesn't need to dictate how much you should like it, if you were wrong to like it more or less than he did, if it makes you more right than someone else because you can point to his subjective star rating, etc. I gave the Best Friends vs Santana and Ortiz Parking Lot Brawl 1 somewhere between 7 and 8 thousand stars. Because it ruled. To me. The women's Blood and Guts match got something like 18,000 stars. I'd give Takeshita vs Fletcher wrestling in 100 degree heat and humidity, like, 1 star. None of it matters. I liked what Bryan had to say about the star ratings. If he gave something a high star rating then it's something he thinks you should watch. Same thing goes if he gave something a negative star rating. More and more, and I know they're friends, but it feels like Bryan has had enough of Dave being old as fuck. It's all a headache to him. I can't imagine producing Dave is remotely fun because you listen to Bryan on WOR and he basically has to sit there and listen to an old man ramble on while he desperately tries to keep him on track. Listening to Bryan on just about anything else, B&V, WOL, whatever and he's having way more fun doing that shit because he actually gets a chance to talk about wrestling. There is no talking about wrestling on WOR with Dave. Garrett is so much fresher with regards to producing Dave that you can tell he doesn't have it in him to push back and probably can't so Garrett just bends over backwards for him. Bryan desperately wants to be hyperbolic and exaggerate but you can't do that with Dave because he's captain serious.

Seasonly reminder that if you’re not watching Silo then what the fuck are you doing?!

Waiting for Dave to rate a match that people are going to disagree with anyway is fucking dumb.

Oh fuck dude. Since that’s my boy, yeah, I fully endorse any large role for my favorite actor that doesn’t give two shits about fuck.

It has to be WWE’s call, which is still dumb BECAUSE THE SHIRT WAS ALREADY CENSORED. I doubt it’s a TKO call because UFC is profane as hell.

Nonessential things essential to a homeowner or renter if you have the means or disposable income: A silly butter dish, an even sillier gravy boat (ours is a dog where gravy pours out of the dogs mouth), dish towels with puns on them, a pizza cutter in the shape of a cat where a mouse is etched onto the wheel so it looks like the cat is chasing a mouse, a bottle opener that appeals to the geekiness of each person (hers is a shark because Jaws and mine is a luchador that when you pop the bottle top off it looks like he's giving the bottle cap a hurricarana), and a cast iron skillet. Just the skillet. Not in the shape of anything but a skillet.

Man....Dynamite kinda sucked.

We are not a butter on the counter household. Even with a cover for the butter dish which we have. Main reason is that the spring and summer and early fall bring out too many fruit flies and drain flies. It's a constant battle and there's nothing more annoying that pulling up the lid of our butter dish and seeing a fruit or drain fly that got stuck on the stick of butter and having to throw the whole thing away. Also, our butter dish: We think it's pretty cute, but the tail has broken off. Fits a stick of cheap butter or a block of Kerrygold if we want to be fancy (we're never that fancy, that shit's too expensive, and at least I do sense any discernible difference).

Son of a fuck. I swear I fucking looked. This is like looking in the fridge for butter and not seeing it when it's right the fuck in front of you.

I watched a clip of the Seth and Roman exchange. How is it possible that Seth has become an even worse promo the more experienced and older he’s become?

I should have expected it given everyone involved, but this TNA 3 parter for Dark Side of the Ring is the most revisionist history shit I have ever seen. Even more than WWE retiring the history of that Monday Night War series on the WWE Network. It’s hilarious that you have Jeff saying multiple times that TNA was making a profit (they weren’t) and then seconds later talking about how they had no money left and no backing and what were they going to do and on and on. Russo and Bischoff continue living on a whole other planet when it comes to, well, everything. People did not give that much of a shit about the 6 sided ring. Plus, I don’t know, how about you interview the litany of people who said how much that ring fucking sucked to take bumps on, or how shooting someone into the ropes was a clusterfuck. The 6 sided ring was ONLY good for one thing and that was the POOOOOOOOOOOOOUNCE! PERIOD. All this talk about how brilliant the X Division was except all the people who didn’t even understand what constituted as an X Division competitor. Nothing about the all cage match PPV, the reverse Battle Royal, the dumb As fuck King of the Mountain match which may have been the reverse Battle Royal for all I can recall, a cage match Battle Royal, and so on. Them barely mentioning a fucking midget wrestler pulling a gun on someone and that taking place during a section on what made TNA great. TNA for 90%, 85% at the very least, was a dumpster fire. The other 10 to 15% that was good was always pissed away and that starts with not having Raven go over Jeff. Like, they actually booking a very good feud and angle with Raven chasing the title, had everything setup for Raven to win the big one and…Jeff still wins. So when I think of loltna and what that actually means, it’s not the litany of garbage booking that only ever followed garbage booking, it’s the squandering of good opportunities, it’s prioritizing WWE cast offs over their, to their fans, TNA originals like Angle going over Samoa Joe, or it’s making absolutely head scratching decisions that make you wonder how fucking dumb is this company. I didn’t expect this 3 part series to be loltna, but I didn’t expect it to have as much revisionist history as it had.

Was talking to my friend about the potential Adam Driver as Magneto casting and we were both on the same page thinking, eww, no. It also is another step in the wrong direction for Driver with him playing another big bad. And it’s sometimes embarrassing to think he’s from our town. This is all going to dovetail into a problem with the MCU. Anyway, hometown and personal history jokes aside, if they sign Driver then it means the fantasy booking idea of getting someone like Denzel Washington to play Magneto is dead. It doesn’t even need to be Denzel, and while this makes mutant hate look even more on the nose for race relations, it would have been more interesting than just more stale, pasty white dudes. We just struggled with who should be Professor X. My friend had the idea of Rege Jean Page based on him being pretty fucking cool and also the role he had in D&D, but I couldn’t see it and that feels again more like grasping at straws. I preferred either someone older who doesn’t get as much work or someone a little more unknown. The MCU problem we ran into was…….Marvel Studios has essentially hired every known actor in the entire universe. Even if you don’t go full mutant/race relations stuff, Larry Fishburne would be cool as shit as a wizened, older Professor X. Yeah, Jess going to sound like Morpheus, but who cares! Furious motherfuckin Styles IS Professor X. Too bad he already played Goliath. That led to a conversation about how have we not had Fishburne and Whitaker opposite one another in a movie. Delroy Linda would be cool, but they already brought him on for Blade and then he left it so that idea is dead. Can’t get Giancarlo Esposito to play either because they already burned that card on Brave New World. Colman Domingo already does voice work on the Spidey animated series. Even if you didn’t want to go that route, they burned Matthew Macfadyen on Deadpool and Wolverine. Can’t go a little outside the box to cast Anson Mount as Magneto because 1) he could do it and 2) he has magnificent hair because he was Black Bolt. It’s not like all is lost because you still have his like Ralph Fiennes or Jason Isaacs out there but those dudes acted with/against each other in Harry Potter. Plus they’re both old and I’d think they’re going younger. Thinking on Anson Mount again, you have Ethan Peck whose Spock could be a good baseline for Professor X but…then you basically have him playing the same kind of role. Daniel Craig isn’t going to want to be tied to another franchise where he’s stuck doing the same shit for 10 to 20 more years again. So essentially everyone is either too old, has work that’s too similar to the Professor X or Magneto role, or has been in the MCU before.

Yeah, honestly, that would be the best way to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. You do that and you at least have more time to give closure to MM, who was one of the best characters on the show, make it so Annie wasn’t essentially a prop, and yeah, just not everything rushed. In a vacuum or looking at the season before the final episode it’s good. It has a lot of great episodes, but in a final season it wastes so much time and you could easily cut one of those episodes out to separate Homelander’s ultimate end and Butcher’s end.

We have one of those toilet seat bidet things. Cold water only because I was too lazy to go through the hassle of running a water line through my vanity for a warm water hook up. Even with cold water that thing was one of the best purchases I have ever made. It already was, but prep solidified it, no pun intended. So I guess to bring this back around to being somewhat relevant, prep is awful, but it’s worth going through to have the procedure done so you don’t wind up dead.