DrVenkman PhD

Besides all the other aspects of guy culture previously mentioned (cars, football, etc.) that I'm not that interested in, strip clubs is right up there. I have nothing against naked women (at least not as often as I'd like) and it's not a moral high ground (though I often act like it is), I just hate being nagged and pestered or spoken to. Dance on stage and shut up, I don't want you begging me for money for a private dance. Cover charges and overpriced drinks are things I can do without too (though since I'm not a big drinker, that doesn't matter that much). I suppose I could have just said "clubs" or bars in general - people acting up, crowding small floor spaces... the whole deal. Not my thing. A lot of that comes from my introverted anti-social nature. To tie the two together, I have a good group of friends who enjoyed both of the above (especially since one worked as a DJ at two different local clubs and now works the bar at Zanzibar in Toronto) and I rarely tagged along with them. If they went to pick the DJ friend up after his shift, I waited in the car. They left a party to go to a strip club in June, I patiently waited for them to return for the poker tournament. Whenever another friend in the Niagara region has a big BBQ, he always excitedly gets people to go to some nearby club while I stay at the house and watch something from his DVD collection. Now, we DID have various random weekend and/or going away parties that brought us to bars/clubs in 2007 that I quite enjoyed and while I've probably described myself as a boring person, I can actually be pretty funny and outgoing when I'm with a large group of people I know / am getting to know and have had some mixed drinks in me. This is really the exception to the rule though - if one dude were to say "let's go to the bar tonight!", I'd have to pass. If a GROUP of people planned an outing (meaning I'd likely always be able to be around someone I knew), I'd be for that. I much prefer house parties though.

This match from Sunday's Lexington house show can't go unmentioned:

The 21st. Several weeks away (February 25th). Some cable companies seem to struggle with updates that aren't the standard Tuesday night / Wednesday morning fair.

From inside the pages of the F4W Online website, here's UPDATE with Lord Alfred Hayes an update at the alleged "6 disc" edition of the LOW set:

Quite the display in that Aladdin sketch. I thought the episode was fine, but that could be because as soon as I see a skit is going to have Kristin acting stupid or no English dialogue, the DVR gets put on FFx4. DA LEARN'IN TRRAIN!

This sounds a lot like the Ford Road Circuit City in Dearborn.

Someone has graduated the WWE 24/7 Sub-Folder to have it's own folder status. Some people are probably happy that this completely removes it from what they consider the "retards playground" while others have noted this means they have to "back out" of the WWE Folder to check the 24/7 folder. I have no say on this issue but figured, at the very least, I'd give it a public thread for people who do have power to consider.

I now think Todd Bridges will be in the Rumble.

How come it has nothing to do with the Dragonball universe? Isn't it going to be the story of Goku and the gang that was told in the Dragonball cartoons? Of course, he does look nothing like kid Goku. I'd prefer a Dragonball Z movie to it as well. I think it's a movie I might end up liking just cause. Like Mortal Kombat. It does have something to do with the Dragonball Universe.. it has the characters and the Dragonballs.. but it just doesn't follow the same plot as the anime. And why would it follow the exact same canon of the anime? When does a live action version of a cartoon, videogame, comic ever follow exact canon? Hardly ever. I still don't understand why people get upset about that. It's movie canon, it's going to be different, get over it. Also, it's called Dragonball: Evolution. I agree. Look at Dark Knight for an example. It is so different from The Long Halloween (the story that inspired it), they don't even bother saying it was based off of it. On the other hand, the Dragonball trailer is so awful it makes it look like an Uwe Boll movie, so I don't exactly have high hopes for it for different reasons. The Dragonball anime won't work in live action without changes. You can't have a little kid getting the crap kicked out of him by grown men, aliens and demons without it being simply disturbing. And that's without the talking animals and dinosaurs. If they make a film that has the Videl / Spopovich fight in it, I'm there. Otherwise, not so much. I am interested to see how Marsters does Piccolo though, but I'll wait until it's on TV next year. Hah, I remember that. It was one of the most disturbing fights from the series, especially with Gohan having to watch his girlfriend be nearly beat to death. If this does well, and a sequel gets made, I hope they jump into Goku vs Vegeta. That would at least be a fun special effects showcase. I just watched it for the first time in probably 7 years or so yesterday, it's still pretty cringe-worthy. Also, I had no idea there was a new DBZ animated special - http://www.jumpland.com/animetour/db/index_en.html

Those matches are being put onto DVD so they'll last forever? Dear lord. Vince Russo winning the world title shouldn't be put onto DVD, the masters of that should be burned. And that boxing match was really, really, really bad. IIRC it went beyond laughably bad into just bad bad bad. The idea of the "Heatseekers" roundtable was to yap about people everyone hates, so this selection is the worst of the worst just to make a point, I would assume.

I guess it depends what you were looking for. In Dearborn, there was a Best Buy and a Circuit City across the street from each other. I'm usually only looking for DVDs if I'm shopping in the States and wow, did that particular CC have an awful selection compared to BB. The first time I saw a Circuit City commercial was in 1992 on KTLA (one of the "Superstations" offered to us Canadians). I really enjoyed the giant building flying down and plugging into the ground. Welcome to Circuit City, where circuits are state of the art! (I think they actually say "service is state of the art", but I like mine better).

I had a premonition that The Godfather was going to be making a cameo appearance at the Rumble, but I then realized his antics aren't PG.

Still not following. NOTHING was lumped with the WWE Folder. Barely active folders about Japanese, Mexican, and Independent wrestling were merged with General Wrestling.

Superhero Movie was on TV here last night... gotta say, NOT awful. Calling it good would be a stretch (a big one), but I enjoyed Christopher McDonald, Leslie Neilsen, Jeffrey Tambor, and Tracey Morgan.

More on the "Updates From the Future" saga: Either on Thursday or Friday, I received a majority of the updates that are supposed to be available on the 21st. I did not receive the NWA show or Unforgiven 2008 though. Despite the fact I'm receiving future updates, KOTR 96 was allegedly due today and did not appear. I don't know what to make of any of this.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe247/RR09VOD

I added K-Kwik, Carlito, and Kendrick as per WWE.com and fancified Scroby's list with brand colours.

The statement confused me in NHB and it confuses me now. Lumping Indy/ROH/Overseas into General attracts the WWE folder how?

It's funny that I just watched that too. I think the deal was they hadn't decided on 2 minutes or 90 seconds for time constraint purposes so Fink said what he said. Ross makes a point of saying "90 seconds". I think the same thing happens in 2003 (but the DVD has a re-dubbed Fink saying 90 seconds).

None of these people are selling themselves out to JBL. For shame, Shawn Michaels.

As long as he starts a "My new job" thread, we're set.

Brooklyn.

Books are for elitists.