King Kamala

Well no...I'm just saying Maven hardly qualifies as a celebrity in the wrestling world let alone amongst non-wrestling fans. Besides he didn't do anything interesting in the house except hit on that hot Playboy model occasionally.

Yeah, what the hell happened to The Surreal Life? I remember they had a press release for Season Seven about a year ago listing the cast which had "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Phil Hellmuth, Carrot Top, Miss Cleo, and Honestly, The Surreal Life was the epitome of a show with diminishing returns. The first two seasons on WB were truly the best. Loved the argument between MC Hammer and Corey Feldman in the first season over Corey taking a twenty minute dump. Truly surreal. The first season on VH1 (the one that's spawned a gajillion spinoffs) was pretty awesome too but after that, they just progressively worse. Last season was pretty terrible. Who cares about Florence Henderson and Tawny Kitaen's beef? And everybody else in the cast was just boring (and Maven qualifies as a D list celebrity? I don't think I'd have him anywhere on the alphabet!)

Around the time of Tourgasm...damn, my fondness for "performers go out on the road" documentaries/TV series...made me watch that show. My brothers were huge into Dane Cook around '03/'04 but stopped liking him when he got a bunch of teenage girl fans. Par for the course for most performers in the comic and music worlds. I can honestly say I never really liked the guy though he's too bland to deserve my full on, vitriolic hatred.

Oh I nearly put Boston's self-titled debut on My Ten Favorite Albums list. If the list were expanded to twenty, I would have definitely put it on there.

Jim Gaffigan, Zack Galifinakis, and Dave Chappelle are probably my top three current ones.

I'm not really fond of the term "guilty pleasure" either because I'm not ashamed of anything I like. I think Chuck Klosterman defined the term best as something you pretend to like ironically but secretly like un-ironically. Does '80s Rod Stewart count as a guilty pleasure? Now surely there's nothing to be guilty about liking his work with The Faces or Every Picture Tells A Story but I guess if you liked his Great American Songbook stuff, it'd be kind of a guilty pleasure. Anyways, I've listened to this song three times today.

Yep...that battle royal also has everybody going after recent Royal Rumble winner, Shawn Michaels at the beginning and HBK getting out of harm's way by throwing himself over the top. Fun match.

I'm having a hard time remembering the movies of '05. That was a great year in my life, not so much for movies. I think my favorites that year were Hustle and Flow, 40 Year Old Virgin, and Me and You and Everyone We Know...what an odd trio. No Direction Home would be up there but I think that premiered on PBS so I guess it's in a whole other category.

Yeah the key difference between Milky and Brody is that Milky adds stuff to the discussion in a lot of folders that's entirely unrelated to sick shit, Brody on the other hand doesn't really add anything worthwhile other than sick shit and even that's getting tiresome.

Cinderella Man was a pretty good by the numbers sports movie but was ruined for me by the dopes who unironically stood on their feet and cheered when Jim Braddock beat Max Baer. I like an enthusiastic movie audience as much as the next guy but that was ridiculous.

I think Brody's amusing for about ten minutes every two months or so. The rest of the time? Annoying as fuck. And I wasn't surprised at all that the dope is A TROOFER. My solution is to simply ban Brody and then bring 'em back every year or two for a couple weeks before banning him again. He's the quintessential poster best in small doses.

Embarrassing confession time; I find said annoying brunette oddly attractive. Doesn't change the fact that the commercials suck though.

Current favorites (in no particular order) "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" by Marvin Gaye "Teddy Boy" by Paul McCartney "For No One" by The Beatles "If There Is Something" by Roxy Music "This Whole World" by The Beach Boys "I Would Die 4 U" by Prince "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack "Real Man" by Todd Rundgren "Come See About Me" by The Supremes "Bernadette" by The Four Tops

Yeah, I liked it better than Brokeback Mountain as well. Brokeback Mountain was perhaps better made but it always has stood out to me as a stereotpical staid period doomed love affair film with two dudes.

IIRC, the guy who was selling it to him told Randy that he could give him something like $400 up front and he knew that Randy would be good for the rest. Still a bit unrealistic but not as much so.

Crash wasn't as terrible as some people make it out to be...but Bob's right, winning Best Picture is the worst thing that ever happened to it. It's an OK movie (way too preachy and a bit manipulative) but a terrible Best Picture.

The short answer is the big guys don't need titles to maintain their credibility. At least, if they're booked to look like monsters like Taker is or Andre The Giant was back in the '70s and '80s.

I find the dumb wrestling fans to be entertaining, but only in small doses. When I went to indy shows every month, it wore a bit thin. Didn't help that the wrestlers weren't much smarter (if I had a quarter, every time one of the heels would call me a "faggot" for no particular reason!) Now that I only go to a show every other year or so, I'm more entertained than annoyed.

Randy Savage as commentator is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. The announcing team of him, Vince McMahon, and Bobby Heenan have provided me much laughter (intentional and otherwise over the years). Of course, my love of Savage the commentator is almost entirely attributable to the fact that he was the color commentator when I started watching wrestling.

I feel sort of the same way...it's kind of hypocritical considering the movie is basically about how the wrestling industry uses up and spits out talent. At the same time, as I've said, I would probably mark out if he showed up as The Ram!

I watched a couple of newish episodes last Sunday with Pops Kamala. I've got to say even though this isn't a very popular opinion 'round these parts, they weren't bad. Maybe they've started to come around since the movie (which even most of the curmodgeons seemed to like) Certainly better than most network comedies (not saying much) and significantly better than the show was five or six years ago (again not saying much). Part of me thinks that it doesn't matter how good current day The Simpsons is, its become such an institution that a significant portion of the fans will reject it because its not as good as it once was. Now they're right, it isn't a tenth as good as it was in its heyday (Season 4 through 9 IMHO) but with a few notable exceptions, I've always vehemently disagreed with the "Current Simpsons is the worst shit ever!" crowd.

cabbage! cabbage! cabbage! I don't know about bedtimes for all y'all when you were wee TSMers and I guess it varies but I'm assuming there was a good percentage of the 6-11 crowd that WWF was marketing to at this period that didn't get to stay up till 10 P.M. on a Monday.

To be fair, I cut out some of MilleniumMan and Bob Barron's comments as well.

I vaguely recall this being answered before somewhere on the board but I'll ask again. Why did Jim Neidhart leave WWF in early '92? The New Foundation seemed like they were going places!

Yeah, I think Lushus put it best the biggest problem with The Big Show's career in WWE and to a lesser extent, WCW has been how inconsistent his character has been booked. Is he an unstoppable monster? A gentle giant? A big pussy? A big goof? I'm sure he'd be able to do all of these to some degree (and has) but just as he gets comfortable in one role, it gets changed.