Corey_Lazarus

No, it's terrible. Only time I laughed at American Dad tonight was at the "why do we still graze here?" joke.

You missed the best ringwork and angles TNA has had to this day (IMO on the ringwork, but I'd bet money angle-wise), as well as the turning point where they began losing everything (4/30/03 Destiny) and the first AJ Styles non-X main event. Russo was actually GOOD in his role, though not as good as he was as a face in the DOA role (IMO, of course), and while the whole show seemed to revolve around him hating Jeff Jarrett, there was plenty of other stuff to keep your mind occupied as well. The video packages definitely got better during this period, too.

Yes on alcohol/illegal drugs. No if the test was to see if I smoked butts, since I'm a pack-a-day.

Damn you, Rudo! Spoiled a bad Nova joke run! Why not just come out in STANDARD camouflage and be "invaders from up North"? HOHOHO! Simpsons did it. Well...no.

Almost all of the 4th quarter '04 TNA weekly's. WWE-wise? Ummm...prolly KOTR '02, since that's the last non-Big 4 PPV by WWE I bought until Vengeance '03. Even WM21 was extremely underwhelming to me, as I was bored by everything but Angle/HBK and 'Taker/Orton.

The current trend is to feature more athletically-gifted workers, and the best homegrown talent in years have been those with a legit fighting/amateur background. Puder had a legit fighting background, and won the TE Challenge because the fans OBVIOUSLY wanted to see him. So no, of course they wouldn't want to see him when he's in ring-shape and ready to go.

I dig Huey Lewis and the News, and not just because I love American Psycho either.

I like Ed Wood more for Depp's depiction of the man himself and how it wasn't your typical Burton work. There wasn't the standard "goth" atmosphere to it, not much absurdity to it that wasn't rooted in fact, etc. I can't get into most of his work, especially the likes of Edward Scissorhands, because I just can't stand how he tries to make everything seem weird as if to yell "HAHA, I'M DIFFERENT, SEE?!" Plus, that whole "Anybody who knows me knows that I would never read a comic book" quote in a published interview as part of his reply to Kevin Smith's joke about Burton ripping him off (Smith joked that the end of Planet of the Apes was ripped off from one of his Jay & Silent Bob comics where Jay talks about monkeys taking over the world, and one panel has chimps replacing Lincoln's head with a gorilla's) and directing Batman and Batman Returns and just sorta, you know...making them a lot worse than he should have. Of course, I've been spoiled by GREAT comic movies like The Crow, Spider-Man, and Batman Begins in the last decade or so, but alas. His direction just doesn't entice me. I say this because after seeing Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, all I could think about was just how bland everybody in the movie BUT Wonka was. A lot of that was the script, and quite a bit was also the child actors, but the overall visual style of the movie didn't make me wanna see it again.

So you must've missed the entire first half of 2003 then, eh?

I must be the only person who sees little-to-nothing special about Burton's work outside of Big Fish and Beetlejuice.

I think it's a definite slap in the face. Interest in TNA has picked up tremendously ever since Jarrett lost the title, as top-to-bottom the cards have been enjoyable, but now with Jarrett back in the main event and holding the NWA World title, we're right back at the position where many TNA fans left. Well, let me rephrase that: where many of the paying TNA fans left.

U-S-A! U-S-A! Well, if it makes you feel any better, Ripper, I have to quit both jobs I have now (one of which I haven't even started yet, and was supposed to start training for next week) so I can get one big full-time one (which I'd prolly be making about the same money from, if not then prolly a little less) just so I can have health insurance.

Well, it's Wisconsin. What else are they gonna do?

He INVENTED expiration dates!

What was the buyrate that was believed? Also, Massacre was probably the second-best ECW PPV of 2000, right behind Hardcore Heaven. Guilty As Charged 2k was decent, Living Dangerously 2k sucked, Heat Wave 2k had a good match or two that were overshadowed by the XPW bullshit, Anarchy Rulz 2k was mediocre (ESPECIALLY since Anarchy Rulz 99 was insanely good), N2R 2k was "meh," Massacre was solid. GAC '01 was good for what it was: a farewell to ECW with the best they could get at the time. And Mike, pedestrian booking by a guy with a skullet and 1 hour of a sleep a night (ECW in 2000) is better than awful booking by a guy who works best with somebody standing over him going "okay, that's TOO stupid" or somebody right next to him going "okay, we'll do that tonight, but never again" (WCW in 2000).

But they also made for bad television. What's more important: getting somebody over by just having them squash somebody, or getting somebody over while also entertaining the majority of the audience?

So today was bloody terrific day. Hung out with this girl I've been hanging out with every day for the past week or week and a half (it really feels longer than it is, which is awkward) who I have a thing for and has a thing for me (but neither of us want a relationship), and had some great times (nudge nudge, wink wink). We come to an agreement that we are "untitled friends," meaning we're not going out but we're more than friends with benefits, and I think that's awesome because I haven't really had this much of an emotional attraction to somebody since me and Heather first started dating (and she turned out to be quite a bitch, as some of you may recall, later in our relationship). So we decide to leave her house after our second round, and we're heading out to our friend Kim's so we can hang with her before she (my untitled friend) goes to a party with her older brother, and I go to Club Hell with a few of my pals for Anarchy in the UK night (a special event where all music played was 70's/80's British punk and metal). We're heading down, dooby dooby doo, and I go to change the radio station, taking my eyes off the road for less than a second...and she yells "SHIT!" I look up, and an airbag pops me in the face. I scream "FUCK, WHAT THE FLYING FUCK, GOD DAMMIT" and then ask her if she's alright. We both get out of the car and I look at the damage: whole hood of my car is folded up, trailer hitch of the car (an Envoy) in front of me that I just rear-ended burst through my radiator and is spilling antifreeze all over the place, and there's two cars in front of the Envoy that were also rear-ended due to the whole chain reaction thing. Turns out that the car in front stopped short, so everybody else did, and I did it just half a second too late. So I sit here with a sore nose, a busted lip, and a pair of friction burns (one on my left cheek and one on my left wrist), and my untitled friend only has a small bruise on her chest from the impact of the airbag. You wanna talk about lucky? So now I have to go fill out an accident report tomorrow at the police station, I'm getting a full-time job on Monday (after I just worked everything out so I'd be working my current part-time job from 6am-10am only and then head over to the local Strawberries and start a little after 10 until whenever) because my insurance is gonna go through the roof and I need a new car. After the crash, my parents came and picked me and my untitled friend up, dropped her off at Kim's, and then we came to our house while they sorta joked about everything (because I was alright and all) and I saw two of my pals that were going to Club Hell, Salina and my buddy Crawford, and my "little sister" (known each other since we were in diapers) Jackie. Told 'em all what happened, and Jackie was in shock for the rest of the night while Salina gave me a couple hugs and Crawford actually choked up a little bit. Later on I went to Kim's and met up with everybody (they all went, too), including my other pal that was going to go to Club Hell tonight, Petone, who LITERALLY broke down crying and hugged me tighter than almost anybody else ever had. For a small Polish man, he sure has a good grip. Hung around Kim's for a little then went to Crawford's RV and had a few shots of Jager in celebration of me still being alive, and I got home about 40 minutes ago. So yeah, that was my day.

He invented inventing. Wow..."Nova inventing" jokes. In 2005.

Exactly! And let's face it, where the JJ marks wanna admit it or not, being "the new ECW" is infinitely cooler than being "WCW 2000." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, not really. No, it really is. Casual (well, non-SMARK fans) still think of ECW as some ultra-cool renegade promotion that changed the way the product was done. Hell, WWE even admitted that with the release of the Rise & Fall of ECW, as they heavily hyped how revolutionary of a promotion it was in the ads for it. So, really, being hyped as the second-coming of one of the most talked-about promotions of the last decade? Definitely cooler than being compared to the darkest era of another company that went out of business. So THAT was why ECW had to paper their crowds heavily...wait, no, they didn't. So THAT was why ECW still had the same guys on top in 2000 as they did in 1996...oh wait, no they didn't (though for different reasons). So THAT was why ECW in 2000 is looked at as a complete joke and one of the worst booked promotions ever...again, no, they aren't. You can argue that ECW in 2000 was a joke (which, compared to just two years prior, it was), but I don't see how you can argue that giving some decently talented unknowns a place to show that they can - and even DESERVE - be seen nationally/internationally is worse than having a man from Long Island with a Brooklyn accent yelling about Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett and Booker T trading the World title back and forth sometimes two or three times in one night. Hardy just may be the only choice WORSE to be World champion than Jarrett at this point. Again, only choice in TNA worse than Jarrett to hold the title. I still do not understand why they'd put the belt on Jarrett besides to have him drop it to either Brown or Raven at BFG, or maybe somebody else that TNA wants to push as their focal point when they're on Spike.

Actually, I sorta hope they DON'T sign Mercedes, if only because I enjoy seeing her beat the shit out of people every month in NECW.

I'm grabbing it, since Jake was one of my favorites in 80's WWF. Right behind Rowdy Roddy. Speaking of which...RELEASE A PIPER DVD! His book was an interesting read about the old-school territories, and is entertaining when he begins ranting about how stupid some of the shit he did was. Also, I wanna see the Piper/Hart match from WM8 (I believe that was the show, where Piper put his distant cousin Bret over for the IC title), as well as the match with I believe Bad News Brown where he painted half of his body black and was doing disco dances for half of it.

They despise them for completely pussifying their sound after Clayman. Seriously, listen to The Jester Race and then to Cloud Connected. It's like the Black Album to Load transition, where they're both good...just not what the fans expected or wanted at all.

Maybe Bubb...er...MARK will go back to being MONDO, his original gimmick in ECW, and Devon will be his sidekick CONGA. Yeah, I got nothin'.

*smacks you* MsChif > Martinez <{POST_SNAPBACK}> **smacks you harder** Mercedes is better simply because she STIFFS THE FUCK out of everybody.

Hopefully this means that Raven/Jarrett II goes down how Raven/Jarrett I should have: Jarrett eating a DDT and then being pinned 1-2-3. And if he bitches and start refusing to job? Hmmm...who would frighten him with the threat of physical violence like 'Taker did to HBK at WM14? Whoever could (likely a good portion of the roster...JOE, BROWN, possibly HOYT and ABYSS) should be around just to make sure shit goes down as planned in case JJ throws a tantrum. As long as Raven gets the belt back, or Jarrett drops it at BFG, I have no quarrels with this. It sets a precedent that BIG DEALS can happen for TNA without it even being a TV taping or a PPV, which means that when they start running house shows they might get a better attendance if they have important things happen now and then (also, it might be a good idea to tape the house shows anyway for release on home video, much like ECW used to do and call it "Fancam" shows) off TV and PPV. BUT...if JJ pulls his usual bullshit, then I'm going back to the whole "not watching TNA as long as he has the belt" belief. Putting the belt back on JJ was what helped drop their popularity in the first place, so why would putting it back on him when the majority of the core fanbase already dislikes him and won't pay to see him, and the "casuals" left that they'll try to attract won't give a fuck about him when they have somebody playing the same game and doing a much better job at it on the rival company's show?