DrVenkman PhD

It's my understanding from the Grungy Punk fiasco that new members are supposed to be automatically flagged as larvae but aren't, meaning someone with admin powers has to notice it and assign them the "larvae mask".

I like the giant video screen the Niitro set has where I'm used to the "Star field" backdrop being. Was that a permanent thing or a temporary change? I don't remember it, but I very rarely saw Nitro by the time of this Goldberg/Booker match.

Oh, scratch that. I just saw trailers for it on CP24/CTV that it opens Dec 25th. So, we must be getting it up here at one of the bigger theatres! Hooray for having something to do on Xmas day!!! When I went to Toronto last weekend, someone on the train was reading a paper (that looked like The Sun) with a large ad for the film with all this award bragging, so I just naturally assumed it was playing somewhere in the city. I was sad that it was not. Anyhow, from today's F4W Newsletter: "[Vince] got his private screening of the movie this week. I don't know what he said to Aranofsky immediately after the film ended, or what he told him to his face, but apparently his private reaction was such that "the word negative isn't strong enough to describe Vince's reaction." One person noted, "No surprise because Vince's vision of the 2008 image of wrestling and even fading stars directly contradicts what The Wrestler accurately portrays." Others who know him knew going in that this was the kind of movie he was going to abhor."

Unknown at this time.

Raw was good times. I try to avoid backstage gossip about who s lurking around backstage so I didn't know Trish was reported as being there, but I figured Cena's partner wouldn't be Kelly. For the first 90 minutes I thought it would be Gail's re-debut, but then I remembered "oh yeah, Trish might be visiting" and that was a pretty cool moment. Her facebook status indicates she's "still buzzing" and she was nice enough to thank people that wrote kind comments on her wall, so good stuff. I thought both Rey/JBL and Jericho/Punk were strong matches, especially the latter. I'm glad someone else caught the "LUGER!" chant (which I think was just one loud dude) during JBL's torture rack and the "Oh! Canada" during Jericho/Punk was awesome. I enjoyed the finishes of both matches though I see in some reports the HBK/JBL thing is getting some flack. Oh well, I thought it was smart. As for Toronto chanting "You Screwed Bret" at Shawn, I don't remember us Canadians getting on Shawn's case whenever the last taping was (this was 11 years ago) so I just assumed everyone chanting it had watched the Raw episode on 24/7 right now (it's from the night after Survivor Series). Just to clarify something - are the anti "Face Melina" posters saying they didn't agree with the face turn several months ago, or did they forget all about it?

No, nothing like that, I just find it odd when posters who dropped off the face of the earth in 2003 re-appear without a storyline to explain their absence.

I'm consulting Tom P. Baxter. As I see it TSM, the future of wrestling, well the future of this country in fact is... computers. I've been waiting 3 months and 1 week to finally make the Tobin's Spirit Guide reference and you make it all the better with a Tom P. Baxter namedrop. He doesn't own a computer but plans to get one.

And Jesus, what crypt did JoeDirt crawl out of? That's not a "why the WWE folder sucks" comment, this just seemed like the place to ask. Does he still have that avatar of a drawn man wearing sunglasses, possibly instructing me to watch and review old school matches?

I don't know what the easy solution to this is, but Vince has got to find more time to pay attention / hire people he trusts to pay attention for him. People are GETTING ON TV ('Double Double E' Kozlov, this guy, Fake Kane though that case is a bit different) only for Vince to determine far too late in the creative process that someone isn't ready / an idea is stupid.

I was going to make the basic "someone leaking info from the office would have better knowledge of storylines than a wrestler being lied / placated to by management" argument but bob and HTQ already did, so good stuff.

Wow, Festus just turned 24 today. He looks much older. Meltz's daily update did mention that R-Truth was indeed sent home due to a criminal record.

Did you consult your Spirit Guide for any of those predictions?

With that winter weather, you could call this the "Weakened Box Office Report". Amirite?

Leave it to a random wikipedia entry to entertain me at work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Jesus

We call that "racism" (at least they do when I told someone that I thought our waitress at Japanese restaurant looked exactly the same as the waitress from Benihana on The Office).

Flipping through my guide to see what movies were debuting on TV in the coming weeks, I was happy to see the Dead Like Me revival film will be on in a few weeks (the 2nd, I think) on Superchannel. I don't know how it will be without Rube (nor do I know why it lists Laura Harris as a star - my very quick research on the subject indicated she had to pull out of the project) but I'm looking forward to it.

I figure we're due for some Marty Jannetty action on Nitro soon too. I remember it being a topic of discussion of my grade 11 gym class and that was over by January 98.

Santa's Slay is all over Canadian movie network "Super Channel" right now. I keep meaning to DVR it.

I hear ya on that one.

I always thought that was supposed to be Faith No More Guy.

I haven't seen the DDP match since it aired on Nitro, so I'm up for that. I had to convince someone at high school that Goldberg/Raven was actually a fun match. I came close to being an asshole to Enigma and saying "into the already existing Shorties thread this goes", but the spirit of Hanukkah moved me to leave it be.

I was going to make some comment about JLH but my math said she would have been like, 11 when she appeared on the show. I'm not THAT bad.

I gotta say kids, I was pretty upset about WrestleMania VIII being imploded. I also thought of noting it!

Nothing says Hanukkah like Bill Goldberg's head on a lighting up a menorah! 10 years later and I still don't like Goldberg's casual selling (at best) of receiving TWO deadly legdrops.