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Apter was Liz Hunter and would dress in drag to really get into it

Still working my way through. Night 2 is GREAT. Holy shit Tommy End vs Drew Gulak was something else. Realistic (by wrestling standards), weird, and it ended out of nowhere with a punch. Any news at all on the next show?

I forgot about Ray Rice! Damn. Also Brian Billick. He coached the Ravens for 9 seasons. It's hard to complain because we got a Super Bowl out of it but oh man was his shit boring. One Super Bowl vs 9 seasons of dull-ass game management football. "Oh shit we're inside the 30, better calm down and play it safe, don't want to risk losing that field goal by going for a TD."

I saw a Deadspin post about Steve Smith and the ball got rolling. You might be faithful to your team but, like your family, that doesn't mean you need to like them all. So who plays for your team, past or present, that you hate or at least dislike a good deal? For me, as a Ravens fan (yeah yeah I know), it's Ray Lewis and, to a lesser extent, Steve Smith Sr. Lewis because he's a sanctimonious ass who likely killed a dude, celebrated constantly as a player even when making routine plays when the team was down on the scoreboard, and generally made everything about him. Fuck that guy. Smith because he's constantly talking shit and seems angry at everyone, while making some outstanding catches and, at the same time, dropping balls he should be catching easily. If you're talking shit that much, you better be consistently amazing. BONUS ROUND: Speaking of being inconsistant, I really dislike Joe Flacco. Here's a guy who, if not for a streak of brilliance in a contract year that ended with a Super Bowl win, wouldn't even be on the team right now. One fewer crazy pass against Denver and he'd be playing for Jacksonville today. He is maddeningly inconsistent. One play he'll make an amazing deep pass and the next he'll float a duck right to an opposing safety. I saw him described once as "one of those superheroes who can't control his powers." That sounds about right. Also, he always has this hangdog, sadface that makes him look like he has zero fire at all. Fuck, dude, get up for the fucking game and look like you want it. Anyway, what you got?

Yeah, this, just swap PWG for LU. I barely watch Raw ever and I just get mad listening to Dave & Bryan recap it. I almost drove the car off the road when they discussed World champ Rollins CHASING U.S. champ Cena and jobbing.

oh sweet jesus that is amazing

I was following a guy on twitter and he said him and his wife had privately decided not to go to one of the Star Wars screenings right away in case of a Dark Knight Rises-type incident. On one hand, I wanted to tell him he was being paranoid. On the other, I 100% saw his point. I'm sorry, this isn't a political thing anymore. It's a "how much longer can people in America keep living like this and keep thinking it's OK?" type of thing. Sad, sad situation. The answer is "forever." If Sandy Hook didn't make us change anything, nothing will. Only Joe the Plumber was dumb enough to actually speak the words that I'm sure so many are only thinking: "Your dead kids don't trump my constitutional rights."

Hogan traveled so much he added days to the calendar, so seeing great distances is no big deal, brother. Shit, his visual acuity may even be related to his time travel abilities. Perhaps Future Hogan saw this on TV and told Current Hogan that it was The Wall.

Morgan better figure this shit out. Dude sat there with Father Useless, taking his sweet time to carefully tie up a Wolf while people were getting hacked to bits all around. Rick may be a nutcase be he is absolutely right about this world. Also, for a brief few seconds I swore Morgan would get shot in the end. I thought the house he was going into toward the end of the episode was the armory house. Carol had told Olivia to shoot anybody who came through the door, so I figured he'd walk in to check the place out and get capped for his troubles.

I'm sure there were plenty of "marks" among the wrestlers in the old days. Look at all the guys who couldn't give up the spoitlight long after their time was up. If it was "just a job" for them, well, you normally get a new job when the one you have isn't working out anymore, and they didn't do that did they? And what about headcases like Flair who stopped being able to separate the man from the character, even when it became a detriment to their lives? I think there are more guys today that are into it for "markish" reasons but the old timers are full of shit when they talk about only being into it for the money.

How fast do walkers shamble vs how fast did Morgan run? The Wolf fight took less than an hour -- Carole started a casserole just before she saw the wolf kill the cigarette lady and the casserole finished just after they fended them off. Morgan was a little late to the fight. Did he run fast enough to put maybe 45 minutes between him and the walkers? Fuck, I didn't know there'd be a math quiz today. From the previews, it looks like the next episode will be another "time overlap," showing Rick & company trying to fight or detour the walkers as the Wolf attack is happening. They really missed the boat not naming this episode "Casserole."

A "taste the meat, not the heat" t-shirt would only work in the attitude era

This oldie but a goodie just arrived in the mail. looks better in person, where the red is really vibrant.

I had the weirdest thing happen to me online yesterday. I have the high end apartment model and I loaded the online game from single player but was unable to leave the apartment. I'd walk up to the door and wouldn't get the "Exit Apartment/Enter garage" prompt. Instead, the door would actually open and I could explore the hallway. Why Rockstar would build the hallway, I have no idea. There was even a window in the hallway showing the more of the exterior. Anyway, I could even enter the elevator but it wouldn't go anywhere. All I had access to was the hallway, apartment, and elevator. Pulling up the phone would immediately minimize it again. The other weird thing was I still had the single player life bars. I dropped a grenade hoping I'd blow up and respawn. There was an explosion and I bounced off the wall, along with the intact (?) grenade. No "Wasted" screen, just my guy lying there. Then the screen went black and refused to load anything else.

My takeaway so far is that I need to try rye whiskey, and I'm also wondering how far into Autumn/Winter I can grill.

I caught Insidious Chapter 3 over the weekend. Not as good as the first two but a perfectly serviceable little horror film. It was a prequel so it had some neat tie-ins to the earlier films intertwined with the plot. The scene where The Man Who Can't Breathe stalks the girl in her room is fucking top notch.

As this past Sunday's episode started, I remember thinking "Hmm, they haven't touched on bipolar Carrie yet this season." And then we got not only cryface Carrie, but off-her-meds-batshit-insane Carrie to boot. Awesome. Oh, and in case y'all missed it, some artists hired to provide Arabic graffiti in the previous week's ep managed to punk/critique/burn the entire show in epic fashion: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/middleeast/homeland-grafitti-racist/ HA! First two episode, I was thinking the same thing, "Oh, Carrie must be on the meds for good." AND THEN. Great episode but holy shit, what a bad plan. "When I get too crazy, just give me a sedative and then my lithium." Yeah, unless the dude has a tranquilizer dart, a Dexter-style syringe or mad sleeperhold skills, no.

Yes but it has far less impact on us in the states, being that it wasn't "our" history and because it happened over 700 years ago. Sorry, I should have qualified that better.

Sure, but those nuances are lost on guys who saw him fall off the cell, go through flaming tables, etc. All they saw was the easy violence of it and thought "shit, I can do that."

Before Foley: "I'd like to be a wrestler but I'm a fat slob with zero athletic skills so I guess I'll just stick to my job at the waste treatment plant." After Foley: "Shit, I can do that. Bring on the flaming tables! I'M FUCKIN HARDCORE." Yes I know it's not just Mick Foley and there's plenty of blame to go around, but I feel he brought the most attention to this style.

Definitely, but I'm talking about one specific film that Jingus brought up. The impact of Braveheart getting facts wrong is far less than Sniper being fictional political propaganda.

Not really the same. The events of Braveheart happened so long ago that it might as well be fiction. If Braveheart got facts wrong, who cares? American Sniper sent dangerous messages, like the war can be won if we just kill the right Evil Brown Sniper, to people who actually vote in elections today.

The second sentence is the problem. Nobody in that film's target audience of slack jawed yokels understood that it was a Hollywoodized dramatization and not a fact-based retelling of this guy's life. Then again, his book was a collection of lies and tall tales, too, and you're only as good as your source material. Garbage in, garbage out and all that. Do we celebrate Clint for making a good movie or demonize him for making an irresponsible propaganda piece? It ain't Leni Riefenstahl but still.

WE'RE MAKING MOVIES, PAL Remember that time Jamie Foxx didn't act like Django 24/7 so Quentin Tarantino punished him by rewriting the movie so he lost in the end?

Scrolling down in this thread, I saw the TNA letterhead and, for a brief, shining moment, thought it might be their press release announcing that they were about to cease operations. Oh well.