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I once came across a homeless guy in Baltimore ranting about other homeless people invading his spot and "taking food out of my pocket." Which is better than "taking money out of my mouth," I guess.

I've enjoyed all three so far but I'm apparently a shitty barometer, as I've liked every Terminator movie as well. The scene in Insidious 3 where The Man Who Can't Breathe stalks the girl in her room is one of the best horror scenes I've seen in a while, particularly because it was so drawn out. In the current jump scare environment, you keep thinking the scene will end, but it just keeps going until maybe you pee a bit.

I love when people fuck up cliches/metaphors. Even better when they mix them, like when Meltzer conflates "balls to the wall" and "go all out" and says that a guy "went balls out." Like a dude is just raging with his nutsack swinging in the breeze.

Oh shit, good point about that. I remember reading book 4 in 97 when book 3 had come out in 1991. So I'd actually finished high school and gone completely through college between books! I remember reading chapter 1 and thinking , "okay, some flashbacks, then we'll go to the current story." Then a few chapters later, ".....oh, okay then."

ROH's business model changed. They went from a contract free super indy with infrequent shows that were sold on DVD to a promotion owned by a (really miserly) corporation that does weekly TV and tries to lock guys down with contracts. They essentially stopped being PWG and started being TNA.

BBQ sauce or, really, any kind of sauce, would definitely be preferable but maybe he doesn't want the sugar/carbs?

College loans, my own college experience vs what I'm doing now, and the costs vs benefits in general have me thinking I'll tell my daughter that it's cool if she doesn't want to go to college. Shit, the world needs mechanics more than it needs English majors. Then again, who knows what the educational system will look like in 15 years?

Choking down one of those barely seasoned, plain old dry chicken breasts is a chore. 3 is hell on earth. I'll gladly take the eggs and home fries, though.

I saw it posted elsewhere, you could see CFO$ line of thinking as, "well, he loves Freddie Mercury, so let's figure out something that sounds like Queen." Needs more glass coffee table though On the "Lana was a dancer" tip, when she was telling the story on the Jericho podcast, it was really a shock when she followed up "I was a dancer" with "actually classically trained in ballet" because in wrestling, "I was originally a dancer" means of the pole variety 99.6 times out of 100.

Or any 80s WWF house show, matches 1-3.

Missed opportunity: Braun's silhouette in front of the mountain should be in the same stance as the Patterson Gimlin bigfoot.

That's pretty much me. Book 1 was literally the first book I ever read for pleasure as opposed to books I was forced to read for school. I was 14 or 15 so that would have been around 1989/90 and it turned me into a King fan. So yeah, 14-15 years of this series, through high school, college and into adulthood, literally half my life, reading it and all the books that tie in to it, to end up with that? Dirt worst. Just like you said: that ending would have been fine for a one off, like a short story, novella or standalone book. But as the final chapter of a decades-long series a lot of people were hanging on? Damn. It literally tuned me off to King. I read just about everything he wrote before that, but only a handful of his books since. King famously said (somewhere around the late 90s maybe) that this series would be his CanterburyTales -- that, like Chaucer, he'd die before finishing it. I think his accident caused him to realize that was no joke, and he rushed out the final three books. Because, while they do have some decent parts, as a whole they're seriously not good.

Jimmy's a bullshit artist, not a smooth spy. He was desperately out of his depth.

One of the best, more obscure references has to be the flashback to Jimmy in Chicago waking up next to a girl who says, "YOU'RE NOT KEVIN COSTNER!"

Just ask her to keep in mind Saul's line, "a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha!" Another BB reference from this past episode: Kim telling Jimmy to give her a dollar, which establishes her as his lawyer and affords them attorney/client privilege.

Split idea I stole from a coworker

I had to look it up...same secretary. Awesome. Also, the black SUV was driven by Victor, who eventually is killed with a box cutter by Gus. Chuck is the worst. I have a certain respect for a scumbag who admits they're a scumbag. But a sleazy person who wraps themself in a phony veneer of righteousness so hard that they probably believe it themself, too? The god damn worst.

That show was good but it bugged me a bit, probably because I don't think a lot of ribs are funny. Prank call Stu Hart? That's funny. Call Ahmed Johnson and tell him he's going to be on the tonight show, then he goes and spends a lot of money on new clothes and waits outside for a limo? That's a little fucked up.

Is this the part where Indiana Jones just says "screw it" and shoots him?

LOL At first, I thought ROH was becoming TNA Now I know ROH is becoming late era WCW

I'd give you a hard time for being pedantic but I know the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery, so I can't talk. Good article. Cremation is my first choice. Barring that, I want to bring back the coffin.

All you're doing now is making me desperate for the Dark Tower movie/TV series/whatever to fix the bullshit that made the book series ending come off worse than a popcorn fart. I'm about to go Annie Wilkes here and force King to write an ending that doesn't include 1) Stephen King as a character 2) a late addition deux ex machina character who literally erases the big bad from existence with zero build 3) an ending that doesn't need to be set up by the author actually saying "this ending is going to suck but it's your fault for wanting a good ending because it's the journey, not the destination."

Option 3: Anderson looks like he's taking a particularly painful dump. Just relax and let it happen. Maybe take some Miralax and wait a day.

Or maybe has pics online "looking like a thug." "Oh this kid posted a profile pic holding a joint and mean mugging the camera one time? Well holy shit, I guess it's okay to shoot him dead then." On a side note, this is why it's good to either make your Facebook profile as private as possible or, better yet, just not have an account. When some shit happens to you and your intrepid local news team needs a headshot to go with a salacious story, the first place they'll go is social media. I can't count the number of times I've been watching the news and a story comes up about a shooting or kidnapping or some shit, and the pic that goes along with the story is some ridiculous Glamour Shots/duckface bullshit that some PA copied from a Facebook account.