King Kamala

For all I know, this could backfire horribly with all of my haters coming out of the woodwork to vote for pbone!

In news no one cares about (judging by how many votes he got); twiztedmind is the first casualty of the tournament. Will I quit the board in frustration if pbone comes through with the upset? Only time will tell. Vote Kamala!

This was a coin flip pick. One was one of the first episodes I saw but doesn't really hold up quite as well as I remember it (though its still decent and would be a solid choice at this stage) and the other is perhaps my favorite Simpsons Christmas episode. Now I know its a little late for a Christmas episode but what the hell? Again maybe not the funniest pick on the board but certainly one of the better episodes left available. It also features one of my favorite one-shot characters in Simpsons history and not one but two great random guest appearances. Season 7, Episode 11 "Marge Be Not Proud" Brodka: Oh, sure, now he's just a little boy stealing little toys. But some day, he'll grow up to be a man stealing stadiums and---and quaries! Homer: How could you? Haven't you learned anything from the guy that gives those sermons at church? Captain Mcwhatshisname? We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all of those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you!? Except at the guy who made sound effects. (Homer makes some and laughs to himself) Where was I? Oh yeah: stay out of my booze.

Yeah but look at Terry Funk on the other hand. Sure, he had his fair share of bloody matches in the '70s and '80s but I'm sure no one back then could have imagined the crazy matches he would take part in 15-20 years later.

I watched Heckler. It's way more entertaining than you think a Jamie Kennedy vanity documentary would be although perhaps not in the way he intended. His pouting over critics not liking his movies is unintentionally amusing and his attempts to confront them backfire in semi-hilarious fashion (One he eventually resorts to asking if they go Comic Con all of the time and another he asks if they've ever gotten a really good blow job as if getting good head is a sign of genius). Plus it's got one of thethe most eclectic list of interviewees assembled for a documentary (Mike Ditka! George Lucas! Arsenio Hall! Carrot Top! Jon Lovitz! Henry Winkler! The Dice Man! Rob Zombie! Male strippers!) Oh and there's a scene where him and Deep Roy get sloshed in a jacuzzi. Not particularly well made documentary but wildly entertaining.

This thread has been done but it's a fun one so I'll jump in. My older brother and his friends became fans around the time of WrestleMania VIII. I remember they would rent WWF tapes at the local video store and watch 'em in the basement. I sneaked downstairs sometime to watch a bit before my brother would kick me out (He was still at the stage where it wasn't cool to hang out with your younger sibling). The first wrestling-related thing I remember seeing was a WWF action figure commercial starring "Macho Man" Randy Savage and I was absolutely fascinated. The crazy voice, the colorful outfit. He was a human cartoon character and thus- my first favorite wrestler. For some reason, I don't remember watching very many matches during that period. Anyways, my older brother's interest waned around the time of WrestleMania IX, though he didn't completely abandon watching it until '02 (and even then he ordered both One Night Stand shows). However, one day after my dad picked me up after kindegarten in the Fall of '93, he asked me if I wanted to go to the video store and rent a wrestling video. To this day, I'm not sure why he did that. He was a fan of the WWWF in the late '60s when he was an adolescent but he didn't really like having to take us to shows (but to his credit, he always did). Anyways, I looked at the relatively small selection of wrestling tapes and was drawn to the one with Hulk Hogan (him being one of the only wrestlers I could name at the time) flexing his pythons on the top of the world. For some reason beyond me, Hulkamania IV is what made me a wrestling fan. Soon after, I rented almost everyone of the wrestling tapes that video store carried with the exception of The Making of WrestleMania: The Album (even as a five year old I had some sense I guess). Anyways, shortly thereafter, I discovered that WWF Superstars came on after cartoons on the local Fox affliate. I watched it religiously but my mom wouldn't let me stay up till 9 P.M. to watch Monday Night RAW (ah to be five again). Well, one night, she was at work late and my dad let me and my older brother stay up to watch our favorite, "Macho Man" Randy Savage challenge the dreaded WWF World Champion Yokozuna for the title. I think from then on I was hooked. Again, an odd match to hook you on the stuff but my tastes as a 5 year old wrestling fan are a bit different than my taste as a 20 year old wrestling fan. Boy that post is the definition of TL;DR but you can't stop me when I;m in a nostalgiac mood.

Dr. Venkman- Toughest choice of the round as I consider these two my best board buddies. Like picking between children for pete's sake! I picked Venkman only because he's slightly more consistent. I still love you Dandy! EHME- Don't think I'd ever pick EHME over Incadenza but Inc really hasn't been around enough this year for me to vote him too far into a Best Poster tournament. This is another step in the healing process after the King Kamala-EHME minor feud of '07 as well. Cheech- Five tool grouch. Slayer- Can't say I really know Ortonsault all that well other than being a proponent of Leena. I'll give the edge to the TSM Legend. Kinetic- I apologize to snuffbox. If I advance to the next round, I hope he'll consider voting for me. However, I have to give the edge to Kinetic in this case because it's his year. CanadianChris- I like Matt Young but I can't say he doesn't come off as a bit of a dope at times. Plus I don't want to upset the Canadian Contingent I like to think of myself as a honorary member of. Mellowblissful-Breakout poster of '08. Damn fine contributor to General Wrestling as well. Edwin MacPhisto- Possibly my favorite Music Folder regular...well back when that forum was still active enough to have regulars. KOAB-Kings got to stick together Smues: Mattdotcom is another recent "breakout poster" (though he's been here for about as long as I have) but I got to go with Smues if only because whenever I read his posts I hear Tony Kornheiser's voice. King Kamala- I imagine I'll have the same trajectory this year that I did last year. Cruise to an easy 1st round victory, narrowly avoid the upset in the 2nd round, only to be trounced in the 3rd round. Oh well. I can't make a compelling argument for me being a better poster than alkeiper or Agent. I'll just be happy to get by this round because pbone is a tough, tough matchup. Agent of Oblivion- 2nd toughest matchup of the round. Two of the most valuable contributors to the board. I have to give the edge to Agent since he's a bit more well-rounded. Sensei John Kreese: Like CanadianGuitarist a lot but Sensei John Kresse deserves to go far this year. Treble: The tie post narrowly edges him over Lushus. Again, both are good contributors. Milky: Royalty sticks together usually but I can't go against my man Milkhawk and King changed his name to 909. Vitamin X: The glue of the food folder.

Plus the three way Godwinns/Smokin' Gunns/Bodydonnas feud led to the debut of Cloudy, which my non-wrestling fan dad still brings up to this day. He/she only made a few appearances but one of them just happened to be at the house show he took me and my brother to back in July '96. I won't turn this into "what do your parents think about wrestling part deux" but the weird thing about my pops is the only things he likes on the weird times he watches wrestling are the exact things you think a non-wrestling fan would use as evidence that wrestling is retarded. The Stinkface (and anything Too Cool related), Chyna's mini-feud with Mark Henry, Cloudy, bra and panties matches. Dare I say that professional wrestling might be too high brow for my dad's tastes!

I don't remember any of their matches being particularly good or horrible. Kind of boring but nowhere near the worst and didn't seem nearly as long as The Harlem Heat/Nasty Boys feud.

Tony Atlas is the nicest celebrity I've met. Weird as hell but incredibly nice.

I'm downloading a lot of hair metal on Ruckus for some reason, tonight. I guess I'm feeling particularly nostalgiac for The Summer of '02 when I was hanging out with my cousin who loved hair bands (His favorite was Slaughter for some reason) who my mom thought was a pedophile for some reason. He isn't thankfully---at least as far as I know. Maybe I wasn't an attractive enough adolescent. Combine that and Metal Ed's reign of supremacy here at TSM around that time and that'll explain the three months where I liked hair metal.

Czech, perhaps we should move these namedrops into the "The Brushes With Dubious Fame" from earlier this year in NHB. I remember one day in Boston last January, where I had three brushes with dubious fame in one day. It was glorious. Sat a couple tables away from PTI substitute host and legend of Boston sports journalism Bob Ryan at Mike's Pastry, ran into former Last Comic Standing finalist and current Dane Cook buttboy, Gary Gulman outside of a comedy club, and saw Donnie Wahlberg at The Celtics game. It was a glorious day.

I met Bruce Campbell at a book signing and it was reassuring to see one (minor) celebrity that seems like their on screen persona. He was kind of a smarmy dick but I didn't expect any more or less.

I used to pretend that I knew Ricky Martin in Yahoo! Chatrooms back in '98/'99ish to get the ladies in a tizzy. Continue voting for Kamala and you'll get more embarrassing confessions from King Kamala's adolescence!

You know ever since we started banning her, I was one of those "Just Ban Leena for good or let her stay for good" douches but now I think I could tolerate an annual appearance and ensuing banning(s?) around the time of the Best Poster tournament. And I seriously do want to be part of a clique. I guess that's my #1 goal in '09.

I'm assuming I'm "the useless clique douche" not "some guy". What the hell clique is she talking about? I'd love to be part of an internet clique!

Yep, Guster On Ice was recorded over two shows at the late, lamented State Theatre in beautiful Downtown Portland. For whatever reason, I didn't jump the gun fast enough to get tickets and I didn't go to either. And I regret to inform you that there are a lot of those douchebag bros rocking out at Guster shows. Oddly enough, the biggest drove of them I've seen was not at any of the Guster shows I saw in Boston but one I saw here in Portland. The bros were out in full force and they weren't taken to kindly to Rouge Wave (WHO THE FACK ARE THESE GUYS?) or Ray Lamontagne (HAHA LOOKS LIKE A FRIGGING BUM!) that night. One semi-juicy tidbit I got in my interview with Ryan Miller was that they didn't get along all that with Ray Lamontagne. But knowing Lamontagne a bit thirdhand through him getting his start on the local scene, that guy doesn't really get along with anyone

Czech, you haven't checked out Traffic and Weather? Did it fly that under the radar for you not to notice or did you just not bother. It's not up to par with the first two albums but I thought it was quite a bit better than Welcome Interstate Managers (which I also enjoyed). I wouldn't say they've gone downhill since their first two albums but they've kind of flat lined, for lack of a better term. They aren't going to switch the formula and I can see how it can get tiresome to some. It works for me though, I always manage to find four or five songs on each album that I really like and that's good enough for me. Guster's next album is going to be an interesting one. I think they're stuck in limbo right now. Again, I liked their last album better than Keep It Together (which seemed to be trying a tad bit too hard to get radio play) but it's kind of schizophrenic. What are they trying to do? Indie rock? Top 40? Powerpop? Personally, I'm hoping they go back to basics but I think it's too late to turn back now. In retrospect, I think they should have stayed a trio. MINOR BRUSH WITH FAME ALERT. I interviewed their lead singer shortly after the release of the last album for my college paper. It was a pretty big coup as Guster plays arenas here in Maine for some reason.

'Taker jobbing to a returning MIIIIIIIIISTER KEEEEEENNEDY would be up there as well. 'Taker jobbing to Tito Santana (back for one night only!) again would be pretty bad. Aw- who am I kidding that'd be awesome!

As a religious viewer of early '90s Nickelodeon, I had to this. I do consider myself a fan of beets though. Should really have 'em more often.

That's what my gut reaction was to but to verify the quote, the site I looked up at it had as Timmy. Well its fixed now.

I think I'm getting the weirdest pair of Netflix I've gotten in my two and a half years of using the service tomorrow. Sam Fuller's controversial racist dog movie White Dog and The Jamie Kennedy vanity documentary Heckler. Let's open up the floor, what are some of the weird pairings of movies that you guys have gotten on Netflix or at any ol' video store?

Yeah I'll agree with you there, cabbage. I don't think anybody will deny that The Finger Poke of Doom as it happened sucked shit but if Goldberg had not gotten injured and had mowed down the nWo members one by one as planned, it certainly would have sucked significantly worse. But let's face it, Goldberg getting injured before he could avenge his loss and that confusing ass Flair/Hogan double turn are a lot less sexy reasons to blame WCW's demise on than The Finger Poke of Doom

Saw this episode again about a month ago and I had kind of forgotten how good it was. The show was really starting to hit its stride here and I'd go as far as to call it one of my favorite episodes of the early seasons. Season 3, Episode 19 "Dog of Death" Bart: Is there a doggie hell? Homer: Well...Of course, there couldn't be a heaven if there weren't a hell. Bart: Who's in there? Homer: Oh, uh...Hitler's dog....and that dog Nixon had, what's his name, um, Chester. Lisa: Checkers Homer: Yeah! One of the Lassies is in there, too. The mean one! The one that mauled Timmy! (Disclaimer at the end) NO DOGS WERE HARMED IN THE FILMING OF THIS EPISODE. A CAT GOT SICK AND SOMEBODY SHOT A DUCK, BUT THAT'S IT.

My votes (featuring explanations!) Venkman Dandy (I have a feeling he'll be overlooked because he hasn't done much in the past few months but he was on fire early in '08 and deserves to have a good run in the tourney) Incadenza (Almost didn't vote for him because he really hasn't posted all that much this year but I don't really know HarleyQuinn well enough to vote over a TSM legend) EHME (He's really gotten quite a bit better. Not only has he not called me a fag in months but we might be on friendly terms) Byron The Bulb Cheech (Still a grouch but a damn fine poster. Again like Dandy, might be overlooked because he hasn't been around all that much lately but deserves to advance) Slayer (Currently- I'm mildly annoyed by BruiserBrody's overboarding so I'm goin' with the old standby Slayer) Ortonsault (Can't say I've really noticed either, coin flip matchup of the round!) Kinetic (My pick for Poster of The Year. Though I'm sure I'll say he's slightly overrated and vote against him in a The Elite Eight as I did with Milky last year before changing my mind and voting for him in the last two rounds) Broward83(I'm voting against snuffbox- solely because he said I was trying too hard during last year's tournament. I can hold minor grudges with the best of 'em) Matt Young CanadianChris Mellow Bored EdwinMacPhisto(Again- like Inc, hasn't seemed to have posted that much this year but is probably one of my top ten favorite all time TSMers) fazzle KOAB (Do the right thing TSM- and make The Clash of Two Kings the Stephen Popick Region finals) TheFranchise Smues (Toughest pick of the first round. Would put both in my Top Ten current favorites. Sorry bob- just want to see the upset) Mattdotcom King Kamala (my campaign slogan; Just Happy To Be Here) Damaramu alkeiper Agent of Obilivion (Damn I'm in a tough bracket again. Some shithot posters in here. I predict I'll be eliminated in the Third Round again---deservedly so) Sensei John Kreese (Wow- did not expect to see him as a #1 seed which is not to say he doesn't deserve it. Big ups to my fellow BUTT rock lover...boy, did that sound homoerotic) CanadianGuitarist Treble Black Lushus (Briefly considered changing my name to White Lushus after an AIM conversation with Dandy where I told him my aspirations to be The White Black Lushus. That ship has sailed...for now) Milky Gary Floyd Vitamin X godthedog (possibly the most underrated poster on here. Though he's at the point where he may be underrated by so many that he's overrated)