DrVenkman PhD

Maybe he can't do it since bulking up? I actually have no memory of what his size was in WCW, though.

I should write a Shades of Gray right now and claim the official 1000... or just write one because it's been too long. Strange thing: I had a dream where I wrote a really good SOG, and it actually had real content in it (as opposed to content based on things that happened only in the realm of dreams) but sadly I remember nothing about it. I think tomorrow afternoon I'll just do a hodgepodge of random thoughts.. Bad Blood, Raw, SmackDown, Etc... maybe talk about movies I've seen, I don't know. Apparently it's not cool to have enjoyed Charlie's Angels 2 so I'll just keep shut about that.

Yeah, we do, but he doesn't have an updating schedule. It's all over the place.

Believe it or not, I think some good may come out of Billy Gunn winning the US title. Remember when he came back from an injury in 2000, was really over, so they gave him the IC title? Then remember everyone remembered they hated him, so they quickly put the belt on Benoit and kept Billy off PPV for months (until InVasion... then until Survivor Series)? In theory, the exact same thing could happen all over again, and since Matt is, according to the rumour, his scheduled feud guy, that will work in Hardy's favour. But still, Gunn stinks.

Mr. America ends up being Arnold Schartzenager (or however)... after he pimps T3 and bodyslams Big Show.

They said SHIT!~ on Gary the Rat! Seriously though, I liked Gary and Striperella. The latter had Maurice LeMarche and Mark Freakin Hamill doing his Joker voice for the villain. Gary the Rat was good, but nothign special I'll continue watching it. The new Ren And Stimpy... yeah.. anyway, I don't know about the other 2 shows, but I read in the paper that R&S only has around 6 episodes currently.

How about a Petition to stop Meaningless Petitions that Don't Do a Damn Thing? I'd sign.

Arnold pimping T3 on SmackDown and bodyslamming Big Show.

I love the new finisher but I assume the Dragon Sleeper is a finisher in reserves. It's not like he hit that new move on everyone (ie Big Show... but it's not like they'd let him beat Show anyway).

Well, going by WWE's official explanation, it sounds like it's mostly due to the Real Sports thing, and I can see why being fired for speaking your mind would upset you. But I also took from the statement that Piper was being difficult with them, just like he was in May. The Observer reported that the reason Mr. America vs. Roddy Piper was announced only one week before Judgment Day was because Piper had no contract and was almost out of the company the previous week, but they reached some sort of deal. To me, and this may be misinterpreting / buying too much into the official company spin, it sounds like they were trying to extend (or make official) a deal until August, but this new deal would include seeking rehab because the company feels he has a drug problem based on his HBO comments but Piper won't get rehab, so negotiations were stopped. I was ok with Piper being back, but I'm really not upset to see him go. The only real problem here is O'Haire is probably on the A-Train to Velocity, but based on various SmackDown reviews I've read in the past month, nobody likes O'Haire's in-ring work anyway, they just liked his cool promos before his re-debut.

Remember when everyone was cursing WWE for hiring an old, washed up Piper? Apparently not since people on various forums and IRC channels seem to be bitching about his release now. Anything to complain, I guess.

The way I understood it, they would be using it every Survivor Series at that shows yearly gimmick (like the Rumble's Rumble) to justify the $500,000 it cost to make.

Koch isn't giving out the release dates of those in advance (for now) so I don't know. Last year I e-mailed them three times asking for the release date of the Royal Rumble (they wanted to know what store I worked for the first two times). The general rule is 2 months (or more... or less) after the US release date (and lately, especially since our Canadian dollar is up, I say "screw that" and order from Amazon.com or cross the border and go to Best Buy in Dearborn). Sometimes the specialty videos seem to come out rather quickly, though.

The tape "Hulk Hogan's Greatest Matches" features Hulk Hogan & Rowdy Roddy Piper vs Sid Justice & Ric Flair. I just pulled that from a Coliseum Video match list website and have never seen it (or I saw it when I was 10 or 11 and don't remember it).

Seeing as how I wrote the damn things I don't think 411 should have any sort of copyright on them. Anyhow, if I re-wrote them to eliminate all Smarks/411 references would it be possible to archive them when my other stuff gets archived? I knwo I didn't write them for TSM and only stuff written for TSM should be archived on the TSM forums, but it was just something I was wondering.

Hooray!

I received an e-mail, allegedly from Best Buy, saying someone has ordered something using my CC #. Funny thing though, I've never given BB by e-mail or CC # for them to who I am or that someone else could be using my #. Is this some sort of scam where I verify who I am by giving out the # and 'proving the other person is a fraud'? I only ask because this e-mail comes a few weeks after I made my very first internet purcahse (but from Amazon).

Hey Rob, I don't know if you're already aware of this, or if you yourself are behind it, but TV Tome is using your Confidential reviews for it's episode list.

Well I've never seen any of London in TNA but I'm convinced he's great from that match. I noticed he got a lot more offense in than the usual talent enhancement non-contracted job guys.

Thanks

Big ups, Will.

It would be awesome if when you did a match as a continued feud, Dames had a "Match Backround". It would probably only say shit like "On <date>, Booker T assaulted Chris Jericho backstage. On <date>, Chris Jericho pinned Booker T with interferance by Christian" and stuff like that, but it would still be neat. Maybe.

No one has bothered to steal my columns and cross post them yet. The only thing that bothers me for some reason is when I'll send house show results to 1w or Observer, written in detail with more than just the result, then see the entire thing show up on some dirtboard with header "InsaneWrestlingMayhemInc Reader Stephen Gray sent along these results" when I did no such thing. If smaller websites are going to take house show results from the bigger news sites, I wish they'd just edit out my stuff and list straight results, but since the majority just credited me without calling me a reader or claiming I sent them in to them, I was ok with it.

Apparently it was Mick who called WWE and not vice versa. Basically he just wanted some exposure before his book came out. I figured the deal was made due to the book, but I just figured WWE had called him to ref the match (since it's somehow become about 100x more interesting than it had any right to be).

The question isn't (seriously - it was jokingly... I thought jokingly) if it was Linda Miles. The question is the fact people are saying Shaniqua this and SHaniqua that while no spoilers I've read on the big 2 (sorry, PWTorch, you're out of the loop for me) and the small 1 (LOP) had any mention of that particular name.