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Onyx The Fortuitous is getting the Fathom Event treatment this Thursday. Yes, my wife and I are going to support this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKpkjcspfiQ

Okay, I've been keeping on track with my 31 days of Horror and here's how I've done so far: Sea Fever: Basically made a Covid metaphor movie a year before covid. Nothing new here, with a crew getting infected with something creepy at sea. BUT the cast is really good. The last act felt like they just needed to end it, maybe for budgetary reasons, so it feels a little flat - but not a bad start. Curse of the Blue Lights: Hoo Boy, a 1988 regional horror out of Colorado. It's not "good", but there are some really fun ideas, and that's just about all I ask for. I think there's at least three instances of "So I guess the legend is true..." followed by someone explaining some lore. Spoonful of Sugar: Almost awesome? Maybe too many ideas, none of which are fleshed out in a satisfactory way. Ernest Scared Stupid: How about a bumper sandwich booger lips? Influencer: A better movie that the director's previous effort, but I think they're too in love with the cyclical plotting. The first shot kinda botches the movie from the get go. Great initial concept and a more realistic take on social media influencer. Children of the Corn: OUTLANDER! Tell me you don't laugh when they crack that girl in the face with a car door at the end of the movie. Jeepers Creepers. Still one of the best first acts in horror movies. Then slowly loses the thread the more we see the Creeper. Of course that's also its charm, no? At first we're like, who is this psycho? Then we're like "he's not of this world.." then he's doing backflips over a car like he's Jackie Chan or something. Elevator Game: Should've been a short film. You can't do the same fucking elevator ride multiple times in the movie. No One Will Save You: Almost awesome, but I think it committed to its gimmick to a fault. Gets a little repetitive but totally worth hitting up. Letherface: TCM3. I'd never seen this one. Leatherface is basically an awkward heavy metal teen - which is an idea support. I look at every sequel as it's own world and none of them affect my feelings to the original. Ken Foree is great in this and feels like he's from a John Carpenter movie. Orphan: First Kill. Not a bad sequel at all. HOWEVER it looks terrible. The director and DP decided they didn't want anyone's faces to be very legible. It's just a wash of backlighting gray muck. The Dark and The Wicked. Pretty good, though I feel like when you're dealing with demons and devils, the protagonists should have some kind of agency that can lead them out of the dark. Scream We're doing all the Scream movies this year. That opening sequence is still a banger. But I still cool on the movie once Tatum dies. It feels like the party takes an awkward shift, and it's absurd that she's still hanging in the place where the fucking BEEEER is. We're All Going to the World's Fair: Effectively captures what it feels like to be chronically online. Prone to drifting and allowing you to sit in discomfort. Left us with some interesting questions. The Strange World of Planet X (aka Cosmic Monsters) A bit of a chore, leading to some oversized insects. Scream 2 : I never thought this before, but Scream 2 might be a better movie than Scream 1, if it weren't for the ending. I think it gets tooooo fucking cute at the end, but some of the sequences are really good, and Gale Weathers/Dewey are great together.

Three Colors Trilogy is awesome along with Double Life of Veronique, which might be my favorite of Kieslowski's. I'm almost tempted to bite on the Flash Sale, because I haven't bought a Criterion release in years. I used to crush those sales, and got a point where I had almost everything I wanted. Then I started to branch out to other companies to round out the collection, a man cannot live on Criterions alone, I suppose.

Jonathan Martinez just did it again with leg kicks. Unreal.

Well Michel Pereira is at 185 now and he looks scary.

That looks terrible, but so is the take about this being a "scheme to phase out minority background actor opportunities." Especially when it comes to Disney who is constantly under fire by conservative commentators(and governors) for their diverse casting practices. I mean look at that clip again. They cast an Asian basketball player for that scene. They clearly don't care about logic or even physics when casting.

woah, what a weird coincidence, I just watched his Leatherface for the first time on a whim on Tuesday, which is apparently the day he died.

I wonder why Conor and UFC even bothered getting him back in the testing pool this week. (This week has been nuts.) If they want him for UFC300 then wouldn't really need him in the pool where he could potentially get popped. The report I read last night said UFC hasn't commented on it yet, and I haven't read anything from them. It makes me wonder if the USADA just said fuck it, and publicly announced the break up before Dana and Company were sure that's what they were going to do.

I already said horse meat for everyone, we can't return these horses, homie. Joe Rogan said within the last two weeks that UFC should go in house with testing, which felt like a huge red flag that the USADA/UFC relationship was about to end. I think he said it because it was already being discussed between the top brass. I doubt they go to VADA, because in USADA's statement they imply that the lack of exemption for Connor is what soured a relationship they thought was good back in May. So if anything the UFC is probably looking for something with more wiggle room to get guys they know are using (even if just to heal up), back in the cage ASAP. And they're probably right to move on from USADA anyway. It seems like there are a lot of problems with the testing, and getting around the tests doesn't seem very difficult according to some fighters and people I'd consider an expert on the subject. So if people are still using, then why be in a business partnership with them, right?

LOL. Two guys not ranked at Middleweight fighting for a shot at the middleweight champion. How much do they hate Dricus? There is now a possible timeline where we get Israel Adesanya vs. Kamaru Usman for the Middleweight title, and Alexander Volkanovski vs. Justin Gaethje for the Lightweight title in 2024. And even better, USADA is out and all the PEDs are back on the table BAYBAY. 2024 is gonna be wild, I can feel it. HORSE MEAT FOR EVERYONE.

Now there are whispers that if Costa gets pulled over the elbow, Kamaru Usman might be getting on a plane.

Holy shit. I thought Paulo Costa's elbow surgery was going to be as wacky as this show was going to get. Now Do Bronx is out and Volk is in. Just madness. Just the mind games of Volk accepting the fight is crazy. Like he already fought Islam, but he's so confident from that encounter that he thinks he can win at any time, any place. 11 days notice. So much pressure just shifted onto Islam Makhachev's shoulders. Fuuuuuuck who wants to see Alexander Volkanovski vs. Justin Gaethje in a BMF Lightweight Unification match? A fucking dream.

Bobby Green in the top 10 like that. Now he can sit around and stare at the Top 5 like everyone else.

Let's go ahead and skip to Khamzat vs. Joe Pyfer.

Wow, really great, complete, performance by Joaquin Buckley against a tough out in Alex Morono.

I haven't felt this good since October 24, 2022 apparently.

EVERY TIME I THINK I'M OUT THEY PULL ME BACK IN

Question: Was last night the first time that Toni Storm did the "HOW. DARE. YOOOOOU?" reaction to a ref counting a near fall? Because I want that catch on until everyone chants it with her.

I wouldn't discount a minority stake 70% for a cousin, let alone for some guy who never played on my team.

The Jay naming was a weird sticking point with me too but I think it's because I'm old. I feel like we've reached that point in the imaginary universe of pro wrestling logic, that people use aliases and it's common knowledge. Especially in a fanbase for a company that uses former WWE wrestlers under different names. And if any generation can get that idea, it would be the current ones who live understanding that they're not just people, but individual brands. As for the fight for me vs. entertain... I agree, but only because "Fight" sounds so much more dramatic and passionate. I'd rather hear about people fighting for something than "well I just show up to put smiles on people's faces."

Christian and Edge didn't disappoint. Edge hyping the fuck out of what we want to see. Christian... taking a big dump on it as succinctly as possible. The detail about Christian getting the surfer Sting rat tail hightop and Edge keeping his locks Lex Luger style, was the most beautiful best friend stuff. And Edge was proud to tell that story like that spirit is why they are so great. They are us, they just actually became pro wrestlers. How cool must it be for Nick Wayne to be in the middle of this? Did you guys see how that kid bumped for the spear? Looked like a million bucks. I haven't really watched much of his work, but he looks like a perfect lackey already. Was Nick Wayne even alive when Edge and Christian were a tag team? Wardlow beating the ever fuck out of a guy until the ref just calls it and then stomping through the crowd is the BEST Wardlow. Juice Robinson. That's it. Juice. Fuckin'. Robinson.

Watched the show. I got choked up when the Metalingus hit. I don't know exactly why, but Edge is just someone I root for no matter what. Remember when they did the original brand split and they took it really seriously? I also took it seriously and was hardcore Team Smackdown. I looked at the show as the place where the guys WWE didn't really care about got to be themselves and grow. Like the whole Smackdown Six period, and later when it was the La Familia era with Vicki. I still remember going to my friends house to watch RAW(I never had cable) just because I heard this new guy named Edge was going to debut and I wanted to see it. And every time he's made a come back or cashed in MiTB - that fucking music hits and I get hyped. And I think there's just something beautiful about the idea that he's been pretty much a WWE lifer and as he looks at the possible end of his career - he chose to go be where his best friend is. That's the most AEW shit ever. So yeah. I'm happy. I'm excited to see what story they tell with him and Christian. I want to see how they fight and I want to eventually see how they reconcile, because I think deep down everyone eventually wants this to end with E&C back together(against FTR!). Rest of the show thoughts.... Julia Hart is good. I love those moments where she got to display her character quirks in the ring. I don't know what to do about Statlander and how to connect her to an audience. Do people not like her? She used to be a quirky misfit alien, but now she's a power house kinda worker? I don't watch enough to know, but that's kind of the problem. Over the course of the match I learned what Julia Hart was, and I didn't feel the same with with Kris, who I've enjoyed in the past. Bryan Danielson and Zack Sabre was fucking awesome. Jim Ross was lost. I mean really lost. I've defended Ross in the past, particularly in the early days in the company. But he was wildly disconnected in the match. And any time he'd interject, it felt like he was pulling any random old saying he's used in the past out of a bag. Hearing Moxley trying to work around him was tough too. Excalibur, Tony Schiavonne, Taz, and Nigel - are pretty much the only people who should be in the booth. Swerve Strickland is magnetic. There's just something terribly cool about that guy. His promos have been spotty for me during this feud. He does this thing that so many wrestlers do, where they kind of half chuckle mid sentence, while they figure out what the hell it is they're trying to say. It's no good. But the guy looks like a fucking star, and he's good at using his agility to do heel behavior. Like when he often does a dive or flippy move, I usually think "that guy is an asshole" instead of "that was pretty." Fun show.

Why do I even watch football?

Bears are driving me to an early grave.

Justin Fields just did a James Harden style stepback to evade a defender before throwing a TD. It's like we're in love all over again.