Edwin MacPhisto

Listening to all of the Stooges' Fun House, halfway through the title track right now. It takes on a certain presence at 3 am, it does.

That was superb. Opening promo - which I think Mark wrote - came off just how I thought it should. Other highlights of the night: I laughed very hard. The whole Johnny/WC angle has just gotten a whole lot better, and it was pretty good to begin with. As far as huge ongoing stories go, this has been one of the best. The whole notion of Judge setting this up back when the tag titles were an issue is also a great one, a sort of "mastermind" angle that isn't too convoluted. I would mark so hard if this ended in an ultimate tag match, the W&D vs. J&R match that we always wanted to see but never quite got. Speaking of tag teams...Sinquizition! Another cool angle - the whole "passing off a tag title" thing works well. Quiz and Show were great as goofy guys, but the potential for Duran to be straight-man here might be even better. Also, getting the motherfucking Mike Patton & Dillinger Escape Plan song as your new music is GODLY, and much, much more suited to Duran than that namby-pamby Price is Right shite. Excellent work. And also speaking of tag teams...B-C-DUB! B-C-DUB! I thought Thoth was joking but apparently he was NOT. Double Jeopardy gets a little more serious and suddenly two guys step up to fill the void. ALSO on tag note: Ejiro's press conference was great for him as a singles guy, but also awesome to get the official word that he and Judge will probably be teaming up again sometime in the future. With the Trinity still floating around too, our tag division continues to be one of the real highlights of the fed. Lots and lots of promos - I've typed enough so I'll let other people talk about 'em. I do want to note, though, some quality character work on the part of Taamo to start squaring Flesher up as a face. After the promo with King and all the potshots Ejiro and Craven took at him, I think it's going to work, and well. With Tom as face champ, there are suddenly a ton of challengers for that shiny-ass belt.

It's Target and Best Buy. You don't need to wear a tie. I worked at Target for a few years and they'll just put you wherever. Depending on how old you are you might get stuck pushing carts, working at the food place, living on a register, or running electronics. You will get hired, though, as long as you have some indication of being a competent human being. You don't need to suck up too much; just be confident. Target and Best Buy are good places to get started...just hope you don't end up there for too long, cause it can get pretty damn monotonous after a couple years.

Oh, I picked up on it. Just didn't want to give you the satisfaction. Ahahahaha! Further thoughts: I think the more stand-alone nature this season is supposed to fall into will work pretty damn well, even if there is no epic story to push it along. The chemistry of all the major characters in their new roles, plus the surprise addition of Harm and now Spike's return...there's really enough to explore there situationally without even having to worry about the huge story arcs. I'm also kind of glad that Spike is going to be back in the mix immediately. It would have been cool to have a big, dramatic build-up for him, but we all know he's going to be on the show and we're all dying to see how the interactions play out. May as well get us in the door right away.

Yeeeah, and a little disturbing, too. I'm surprised it was such a throwaway moment; it's not really his policy to kill humans even if they are evil. Perhaps that's what they'll have to do with Wolfram and Hart to make it work, buuut...still a bit sketch. Admittedly, it was awesome. And I suppose that Hauser or whatever his name was pulled the trigger on his own - he just wasn't really expecting the barrel to end up right under his chin.

Blondie bear! Ahahahaha! Good stuff. Keeping up a lot of the excellent fight choreography and cinematography we saw last year. Holden the vampire lives on in Knox form! Harmony is hilarious, Gunn is incredibly interesting, and the new girl Eve is...well, kinda dull so far, but hot in a "I just turned 18!" way. Still wish it was Lilah, but I'll settle.

Let's start with that American Gladiators match, which I had the pleasure to mark. Truly great, truly sweet - and a great internal storyline in the winning match with tag partner mayhem, and the BEST USE OF A CARGO NET EVER IN AN SWF MATCH!!! ...Okay, that kinda goes without saying, but man, the cargo net spots are pretty incredible nonetheless. Congrats boys!

You didn't threaten to sue anyone. It's good, but it doesn't beat Blazenwing. Now, if you'd gotten a chainsaw driven through your knee, THEN we'd be talkin'.

Queens of the Stone Age, "I Think I Lost My Headache." If I ever kill someone, it will be to this song.

Holy shit! That's my boy! Now rename it the ML title and we've got something! ML PRIDE finally comes through!

Oh, look. 23,000 words to mark. After you're done killing Silent, someone please kill me too. You guys make me cry.

::drops a monster deuce on Silent:: Imma whoop yo ass, boy.

O Fortuna Fred Durst Remix! You heard it here first.

"Could you give me a ride somewhere?" Snicker. I can't tell if I want this to be Janus coming back into action...though, uh, that might mess other things up...or just a really cool PPV bonus. PPV bonus, yes. With fursuits.

::sends in his ballot as "Guy Who's Cooler Than Thugg's Ballot"::

Whoa, kudos. Talk about flashback city. In hindsight the Violator promos are a bit fruity if essential, but I'm still proud of most of what's there. The best thing to come out of all of this, though, was Strangler's comment on "Frontier Psychiatrist": Still cracks my shit up. Woo.

A lot of Big Boi's disc is similar to "The Way You Move," in that it's very rap-heavy, funky, etc. "Hey Ya!" isn't really representative of Dre's side, which is much more slow-groove or atmospheric as a rule; there are probably only 2 or 3 other numbers that keep the pace as up as that song, and he only truly raps maybe 3 or 4 verses on his whole disc. I'm still very much liking it though, if it is overlong. I don't think ?uestlove is involved at all, but all the Dungeon Family guys are there--Killer Mike, Cee-Lo, Sleepy Brown, and Big Gipp all have a few verses, and a lot of outsiders like Jay-Z, Ludacris, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Lil' Jon show up in various places.

Dace, walking painting of death. I like it. I fear for Bastion and Craven. Their collective ass is HEAVILY TROD UPON GRASS! Or, uh, lightninged grass, with the storm and all. Very cool to get a series of promos from a guy who hasn't done a ton of promos in the past. Dace is really stepping into the spotlight.

My roommate's from Hampton Roads, WC, and his family had power last night. Not sure if everyone's got it though. A lot of stuff in Richmond is just getting turned back on today so I wouldn't be surprised if patches of VA Beach were still mussed up.

Dre's my personal fave too. I love them both but Dre takes the cake for me. The comparisons have been made in tons of reviews about this album in particular, but he reminds of my mild demi-god Prince in the variety of stuff he can pull off. Here's hoping his side keeps up that impression in me.

Whoops! Sorry, Mak. All your other ones were labeled Promo and I lost this one in the shuffle. I've edited it in right at the end of the Mak/Duran match so as to avoid having to move have the show around. And now your match makes a lot more sense, too! Just whoa on the show. I read all the promos as they were coming in and got blown away again and again. I'm going to try to take some time to go over a few matches in detail too, but no guarantees yet. Until then...kick-ass show. Especially the Mark/King/Thugg angle. The guys who are going to be in the match get set up *great* on this show and are going to get a lot of the PPV, I think.

I haven't hit Dre's disc yet, but Big Boi's is in-fucking-credible. I thought Stankonia's production sounded cool, but it's got nothing on this. Yowza. This album is all over the place but still flows unspeakably well. I can't get the pianos on "Flip Flop Rock" out of my head.

....Sweet. This card makes me twitch with glee. Writing, marking...that's right, folks. Crown Prince does it all. ::cries at his weekend of thousands of words::

Outkast (but really Big Boi), "Flip Flop Rock." This album is awesome. Check that piano rhythm. Buy it when you wake up. That's an order.

Results! ...good GOD. NINETEEN PROMOS. THAT'S A LOT OF PROMOS. G4 looks *amazing,* plain and simple. Everyone should read this show top to bottom--don't skip around, or you'll miss promos. A lot of them are very short, but very excellent, and very to the point. Mix in a few very impressive matches, a couple returns to TV, and the final setup on the King/Mark/Thugg angle, and we have one hell of a show. Thanks for this one guys; I enjoyed putting it together. The Genesis card will be up sometime late tonight or in the morning. Course, most of you already know what you're doing. Sit tight, rest your fingers, and get ready for the big one.