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“Shaft’s lady comes home to Shaft, naked on the couch, perusing the latest CVEs on his degoogled, jailbroken Android phone” just doesn’t hit the same.

My favorite is the use of “character assassination” to mean “writers damaged an existing character with a poor plot line.” Which is not what that term means at all.

TV star for a global company doesn’t have $1000 for bail? Maybe he’s part of the crew who took a pay cut.

As soon as Speedball got near ringside, a mic picked up a fan screaming YOUR JACKET SUCKS Doyle is back! I hope they team him with Cage and keep Davis as a single, because Davis is fucking awesome. Unless they’re getting the belts, he’s wasted as a member of Male Bayne and Kross. When Rush entered the ring, Lio Rush was yelling “WE’RE TWINS!” He’s great.

Well it’s the post-PPV Dynamite — they need to see who’s healthy enough to work.

I thought that was a stripper reference and not a "rioting in Philadelphia" reference.

Any recent example? Asking because you posted this after @Ryback Hates Bullies posted a pretty tame, well-worded story. If that story had been written by our normal corporate lapdog press, it would have used language that implied how unfair it was to TKO and how damaging it is to wrestling. I'm probably too in the smark bubble and don't read the same newz sites more mainstream fans do. Example: Raj parroting WWE's in-house, likely fabricated, definitely exaggerated story about Kaiser defending his girlfriend from elevator guy's ICE threats.

There's a Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg joke in here somewhere

This movie was ass but the soundtrack was amazing. It, along with the burgeoning grunge movement, and whatever wild shit the local alternative station was playing, was the soundtrack of my post high school, pre-college Summer. Damn, now I'm flirting with the idea of making a Summer 1992 playlist, but it might hit me in the old man feels too much.

Now I'm imagining Dave on a bus with a bunch of pilled-out, roided-up carnies and their rats, all singing Tiny Dancer.

I just need Mox telling the Death Riders I HAVE A PLAN! WE JUST NEED SOME MONEY!

The wild part is they weren't even "SNL characters" as in "characters who had been built with SNL skits," like Wayne's World or whatever. Unless I'm wrong, they were just the show's warmup band/musical guests and did some concert spots. The characters and backstories only existed in their heads, which is awesome. "What kind of music do y'all play here?" "Oh we play both kinds! Country AND Western!" I love this film.

Those are good picks! The only one I'd dispute is that I'd swap out MJF and slot in the Bucks for match quality. It's subjective, though. But I'd rather watch the Bucks than MJF. Honorable mention to CM Punk for impact/legacy. I think his bullshit united AEW in the end and, after a rough patch, the company came back stronger. Punk, along with Black and Miro, taught TK a valuable lesson about hiring, too.

Lucky you weren't, then! Apparently, the venue stopped selling food after about two hours. I read a thread elsewhere about general venue awfulness, second time they've had a show at that tennis center where they seemed ill-prepared to handle the crowd.

Weekend gym shenanigans! I'm doing rope triceps extensions next to the adductor/abductor, and a young woman is setting up her phone and tripod to film herself. Trying to give her the benefit of a doubt, I think, "well, it's weird to film a form check for adductor/abductor, but whatever." She proceeds to get onto the machine, lean all the way forward and hug the plate stack housing with both hands, and do the exercise NOT sitting, but rather, up off the seat like it's the Tour De France, with her whole ass in the camera. I looked down and could see what the camera was seeing and....yeah...all ass. As I was finishing up, she'd moved to the stack next to me to do the leg swinging exercise where you attach an anklet to the bottom of the stack. And again, the camera was perfectly positioned to film ass, and nothing but ass. At least she was filming in such a way that nobody else was in her shot but damn, I'm weirded out by our gym being used to film content for gym fetish gooners. I'm doing decline situps. To my left is the gym's head trainer, who is the only person more salty than me about improperly re-racked weights. We've had conversations about it. He's in the middle of a training session. To my right is a dude with 16 PLATES, so 720lbs, on the leg press. And he was repping it well, man, no half reps or anything. Genuinely impressive. And then what does he do when he's finished? He just walks away. Goes over to the belt squat and leaves all that weight. I look at the trainer, who is looking back at me and just shaking his head. So he approaches the guy and asks him to de-load the squat machine and the dude pounds his chest and yells at him something to the effect of "at least give me a chance before you come over here!" Like he's saying "I was going to do it, you just didn't wait before talking to me." But come on man, you went to another machine and started setting up. No way were you unracking that shit. The trainer was cool and said thanks, and went back to his session as the guy started unracking. My gym is usually cool, but the holiday weekend brought out the weirdos, I guess.

If you want to go semi pants free right now, I think all their shows are on Highspots.tv for a decent subscription price.

Ha! I guess he could’ve gotten healthy at the place that made him sick, after all.

Ciampa’s back bump onto those chair back frames made me jump out of my seat. That shit was not good at all. My second thought (after OH HOLY FUCK) was, “better get another round of stem cells ready.”

Shea Serrano is great. Love him on Rewatchables.

I can’t give them too much credit, since Connelly pretty much still looks not much older than 30ish AND Cruise is over 60. Call me when they bring back 2025 Kelly McGillis as the love interest

Getting the “I prayed for this and it happened” meme ready for when TK works out a deal with Excalibur and Super Dragon for PWG’s catalog.

Insanely hot weather for the first few days of this week and then rain for the next few meant no running at all. Six days of alternating chest/shoulders/triceps/legs and back/biceps/core, a hour and change each session, seriously kicked my ass, but I feel great.

Absolutely. It’s kind of like me checking the news every morning when I wake up for another obituary. Not Vince, but a friend of his who is very similar in personality and proclivities. We live in ridiculous times my friend.

Pairing all these ideas together, yes, if you have a promotion that actually has rankings and sticks to them, then putting say the number 20 ranked guy in an eliminator non-title match would be fine. In kayfabe, you would never see that guy ever wrestle the champion, so it creates a fun little story. But O’Reilly beat Mox twice. He shouldn’t have to earn a championship match.

If footage of you taking a bump does not end up on your YouTube channel, what are we even doing here?