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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWXAGDFNjzg

Brody is sub Roadblock and Bull Pain.

For guys who were in WCW - La Parka, El Dandy, and Bobby Eaton.

I only have use for DWB as a heel. I'm way too much a northerner otherwise. I also can't stand SMW face Tracy Smothers but love both FBI Smothers and heel Young Pistol Smothers.

That's the rub. You don't get in on hypotheticals. The flip side is that you can break down what Sting actually did qualitatively, and I think it's hard to say he wasn't very effective in his role. What did Sting do poorly between 89 and 98?

The crowd's reaction to the Purgatory Special was to chant for Mizdow. We all heard that. Let's move on before WWE gets the idea to put Sandow in a wig and have him mimic everything Paige does.

I've said it elsewhere but 1. Sting vs HHH is a terrible Mania idea. It'd be worked like the Brock matches, overblown, way too long, and full of the worst BS. The Bryan match wasn't just an anomaly in Hunter's career, it was also pretty much the only time in that career he had a big match that wasn't five-fifteen minutes too long. 2. If Taker can go, a celebratory retirement dream match like Sting/Taker vs Kane/Show would be super marketable to casual fans and much better as part of a total package.

I'm not a religious man, but that 8 Divas Tag is pretty much my idea of purgatory.

I don't think Dylan had any insider info. I think he was just screwing around and saying what he's speculating will happen. Don't look at #3 as newz by any means. I still think they'd be better off not doing it now and then doing it in an almost exact scenario

Heroes Die is awesome.

Three pages later:

He does poorly with active and former wrestlers because they hold his role in Brody's death against him.

I emailed Bill Apter and he said that Sting was absolutely a magazine draw, so that's something.

Or bitch about the storyline even though they got the end result they wished for? God that was a terrible book, but at least it had a great ending!

1. Yes, we cried. God dammit. 2. You, as a woman, are unquestionably the Dawna of DVDVR with the truth that you spread.

I finished this morning. It was very readable, maybe even the most readable book we've done yet. It flew by in a lot of ways. The author's voice was very honest, and frankly, since we deal so much with unreliable narrators in what we read, I think there's some level of comparison here. He was very quick to be self-depreciating or to admit when he was wrong. It's interesting that he was able to manage that in a way almost none of our fictional narrators could and I wonder what that says about a lot of things really, about non-fiction against fiction, about life against what we consider interesting or meaningful characters to be, about an author vs a character. There were times in the first two thirds that it gets pretty precious. The areas of conflict were mainly about the author coming to grips with his own hesitation and preconceived notions and then with him trying to maintain control and be accepted by the class and the establishment. He seemed to be pretty easily accepted by the class though and he seemed to get past his own notions pretty easily too. Most of the time was then spent with the students without those things as huge concerns. Again, this was a difference between non-fiction and fiction, because this was probably just how it happened. There were elements of stress and strain like when the retreat breaks down, but none of it was too relevant to the main themes. The most powerful bits were towards the end at Kevin's trial, especially when he really had to face the reality of the situation. Maybe because of that, for most of the book, the students' actual works seemed somehow too precious. I'm not saying they felt exploitative but they did feel sort of precious. Part of the problem might have been that he wiped out the spelling errors. My guess is that this was a practicality. He probably only had the typed version of the work and he fixed it then. It's more than counterbalanced by the reality of the situation that these kids were in especially towards the end of the book. I had my own notions. For instance, I couldn't help but visibly picture Javier like Weevil from Veronica Mars. I don't want to know what that says about me. There was kind of a weird Mr. Kotter and the Sweathogs gone wrong feel to this too, but in the end I'm glad I read it. I'd be interested in reading Salzman's other non-fiction work but I somehow feel that would be even more precious. Hearing about him trying to learn karate as a teenager just seems annoying for some reason. I'd be less interested in reading the fiction. I don't think I'd be able to separate it from his non-fiction voice.

I was wondering about that one, actually. I make an ideal Segunda Caida scapegoat though, so I figured I probably just expressed some idea poorly and repeatedly. I haven't seen a ton of Demon as of yet and haven't really wanted to seek him out but I did like his match with Timothy Thatcher a lot and was happily surprised with Demon in that match. I like over the top heel Thatcher more than super technical Thatcher.

This starts 23 seconds in and I'm just going to leave it out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ph61VRj30

I saw an article with this picture linked on my facebook and my first thought was about Survivor Series teams. This month.

To be fair, I'm sure the other half of the world who are googling CM Punk probably feel the same way.

First Law is probably a very good choice for you. It's well written, only three books, complete, done by an author prolific enough that he has more stuff written, both within and outside of the world in the books. It's a great cross section of fantasy tropes merged together in an interesting way. It is very, very bleak though. There's dark humor but it is not a pretty world by any means. I found it cynical enough that I haven't read more of his works but not so much so that I didn't enjoy it at the time. Another possibility is The Warded Man by Peter Brett. I've only read the first two books in the cycle but the third is out as well and it's supposed to be 5. I think. It's been a few years now but I remember it being good. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy is another solid one if you want something that's already done. If you like Sanderson he's extremely prolific, writing one or two books a year in a number of different settings. He's a stickler for magic systems and the actual construction of writing and has a great website with annotations. The problem with Lynch is that he's had a mental breakdown before so it's still iffy on whether he'll be able to complete his series in any length of time. Lies of Locke Lamora is a great standalone book but after that things are more tied together in books 2 and 3.

Finn is a skrull?

Do you have a Queen Sherri available?

We're good. Carry on. God damn FOX.