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Yeah I noticed that too Greg. I just smiled, let it go, and enjoyed the movie.

Hey Choken I'd actually look for Duns to land here with the Rockets before Van Gundy. Word has it that Mike's interview with Carroll Dawson (Rockets' GM) and Les Alexander went very well, and JVG's was so-so. Then on tonight's news one of our local sportscasters (one who actually knows what he's doing) said that Dunleavy wanted the Rockets' job VERY badly, and even used the word "desperate". I guess he'd rather have Yao and Steve then rebuild Atlanta. Can't say as I blame him.

LAME!!!! Geezus I can't remember the last time Booker won here in Houston. Probably the Smackdown after 9/11 when he pinned Big Show after a standing Houston Hangover. Ok thanks.

Well first *gazes up at RRR's earlier post* I miss Clone High. SCREW YOU MTV! SCREW YOU WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER! Ok now then: In defense of the Bashams, look at who they were up against in "The New Bradshaw" Rikishi. Seriously, do they EVER book him to look bad, especially to a newcomer? There was Brock, but Brock still needed Paul E. to get out of the stinkface and hit the F5. Just let him come out, do his little dancing, then get his considerable ass kicked by any and everyone. I will concur wholeheartedly that the 1st tag match was excellent. Eddy G and Tajiri are tremendous, what with Eddy's tearing up and "He's learning so quickly" comment. Although one thing surprised the hell out of me. They actually let Tajiri speak English? Jumping Jesus on a pony I was waiting for the WWE to acknowledge that Yoshihiro could actually speak in something besides muttering Japanese. Now they need to say more than him being from Japan. You don't announce HHH as being "from the USA" do you? Is it so hard for the ring announcer to break out the Crayolas and a new notecard and learn how to say "Yokohama"? Anyway, the 2 teams work together excellently, and they are more than willing to make the others look good. Hogan/Vince took up about 3 segments and 15 minutes more than it should have, and learning that Vince abuses his wrinkly, steroid-shrivelled Genetic Jackhammer to thoughts of Mae Young and her bouncing baby hand is really too disturbing to dwell on. SOH should just stand at ringside looking cool and let someone who can tell a wristlock from a wristwatch step into the ring with Mr. Benoit. At least in WCW he had the Seanton Bomb. Here in the big leagues that move is only for effeminate little Rainbow Brite experiments gone horribly wrong, thank you very much! Finally, the last tag match was entertaining. Brock may look like a strategically shaved gorilla, but the dude will bump for people, even those who have no business beating on him (I'm looking at you, Mr. Stamboli!). Palumbo looks like he's trying REAL hard to make people forget he was ever about to marry Billy Gunn, and Nunzio is an adequate enough mouthpiece as long as he gets to interfere in every match the other two have. Undertaker looks like he actually gives a crap and busts his leathery tattooed ass, unlike some other big old guys *coughNashcough*. As for Big Shit, as long as he keeps actual attempts to interact with the others in short 1 or 2 minute bursts, all is well. However, how bad is it when you are so slow you depend on guys 6'3", 295 pounds to run up and bounce off you like a Superball to make you look like you're doing ANYTHING? The fct that they're trying to stretch the Brock/Show feud for another month shows me how large the gap still is between the upper card and the rest of the card. C'mon WWE writers, elevation isn't a cool magic trick ya know! Anyway, I await the arrival of Horshu with the trepidation matched only by a trip to the proctologist.

Well since 6/24 is a Tuesday and it's in MSG, not a generic arena, I'll assume that it's at the SD taping. Besides, do they even consider house shows actual "occurances" nowadays? Practically the only time I ever heard them mention anything on a house show is like when Diesel beat Backlund for the title in 8 seconds. Edge defeated Jeff Jarrett for the IC title at a house show...the day before the PPV he lost it to Jeff at. Oh yeah that's right I forgot about that one. What was the reason behind the double switch? My memory goes so easily now that I'm becoming an old fart.

Horshu had a FINISHER? You mean he actually WON?? Damn from what I can vaguely remember he should have been part of the JOB Squad (aka, pin me and pay me). Well, he's hoss-tastic enough that I'm sure he'll show up soon on SD and promptly pin Benoit, Spanky, Eddie G, or some other "useless lightweight" (TM WWE Inc.).

First of all, is that Dusty in your sig, Hogan? Damn that's a fat ass cat! Now, in Sum of All Fears, they could replace the terrorist organization because you could pretty much put in whoever you wanted and explain how they got their hands on a nuke. The Arab terrorists in the book got it via a crash of a plane during the 7 Days War, but there are numerous other explanations possible. In The Runaway Jury, the companies being sued are an integral part of the story. The WHY of the whole story is explained by WHO is involved. Changing it means changing the whole basis for the story. I'm sure they'll come up with something, it's just a pet peeve when major plot points of a book are radically altered or dismissed altogether in the movie.

Exactly Mik. Why did they have to change it from tobacco? They can paint just a big, if not bigger, conspiracy with tobacco companies as they can gun companies. And it's not like it un-PC to rag on cigarettes.

Well since 6/24 is a Tuesday and it's in MSG, not a generic arena, I'll assume that it's at the SD taping. Besides, do they even consider house shows actual "occurances" nowadays? Practically the only time I ever heard them mention anything on a house show is like when Diesel beat Backlund for the title in 8 seconds.

What I'm scfared of is what was posted in another thread about the "Matrix" look to the video. Matrix = The One The One = Billy Gunn I mean, apparently he is ready to come back and he's Vince's favorite kind of wrestler, big and untalented, so why not a big build up.

Thank you Askew! *designs a new wallpaper....for his computer, of course*

Good point Grand, but I wish Peter Jackson would hop on the bandwagon. I'm pissed at having to wait this long for Two Towers (and yes I saw it in theaters, 3 times actually) and since I'm a firm believer in the more extras the better, I'm waiting for the Special Edition to come out probably in November like LOTR was. I'm having withdrawl symptoms, but I'm looking forward to the even bigger and better Helm's Deep battle.

OK I'm lame, I'll play. I'd have to fall on the side of the ISD, and not just because I'm a Wars fanboy. The Enterprise's phasers may be powerful, but there's no guarantee that they'd slice through the ISD's shields. For all we know they may phase shift as well, making it difficult for the phasers to break through. In fact, I know that the Wars universe has developed ray shielding, since the exhaust port in the original Wars was ray shielded in the book. And how many photon torpedoes can they fire off at once, 4 or 5 maybe? The ISD, on the other hand, has about 70 paired turbolasers (if my memory serves from several books), and several dozen proton torpedo launchers. And it's not like they're firing at X-Wings or other manuverable fighter craft. It's a 1000 meter long cruiser, for cryin' out loud! I figure they can hit THAT, given enough practice. I'd have to guess that one or two broadsides coupled with the TIE's (figure 4 squadrons of regular fighters and 1 squadron each of bombers and Interceptors, both with shields and torpedoes) all merrily blasting away since apparently Trek didn't believe in having fighter cover for their big ships, and you'd end up with a lot of Federation scrap out in space. And that's just with a smaller Liberty or Triumph class SD. A Super Star Destroyer, for instance, has 250,000 just in CREW and 12 squadrons (144 for those of you not keeping track) TIES. Any attempt to ram it would result in some chipped paint and an Imperial captain wondering about his opponent's sanity.

OK folks because I'm a glutton for bad movies and I KNOW you are too, this gets a bump back up top with fresh news on the sequel everyone's been waiting for. Found at IGN here. Basically says that plans are still going ahead with JCVD to "star" in it, contacted Holly Valance to take on the role of Cammy (one Aussie pop star for another I guess), Damian Chapa to be back as Ken and the big news: Dolph Lundgren MAY come out of retirement to play the bad guy! At last, together again! Universal Soldier's cinematic impact will be felt throughout the ages I tell you! BTW I'm still waiting for some Kylie as Cammy pics Kotzen!

Well, since I consider Avril an annoying piece of crap, my response to this news is somewhat predictable and oft repeated so far. A) There is no God, or B) There is a God, but He hates us. C) Hollywood has truly run out of ideas, and are selling their souls to Satan for bad plot ideas. I seriously hope this movie bombs, and bombs HUGE. Like Ishtar huge. The very fact that they're apparently keeping the title "Sk8er Boi" makes me loathe this with the blinding white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns. In closing, FUCK YOU MTV! Fuck you up your stupid asses with clown shoes. Thank you. P.S. Avril Lavigne & horrible movie ideas

For my favorite little Final Fantasy fangirl, a little tidbit on Gamespot.com (more specifically, here) says that Final Fantasy XII, "is scheduled for release in the second half of the fiscal year ending March 2004). So, assuming that's a Japan release date, it looks like there will be about a year between X-2 (still dated as November 3 *grumble*) and XII. I'll still get X-2 first day though. Yuna might not have been my favorite character (Auron is rule) but it's Final Fantasy, dammit!

To me, the presentation (graphics) is almost as important as the gameplay. If the opening has blocky or jaggy graphics, I start thinking "Man if they made THIS look bad what about the rest of the game?" That kills my interest quick. Hey Sakura if a lot of the RPG experience doesn't appeal to you, you might want to give Dark Cloud 2 a try. I've just gotten started and although the cel-shaded graphics look cartoony, the gameplay is great thus far (only about 3 hours in). All enemies are seen before they are fought (except for boss battles) and all fights are real time. There are the requisite RPG "buy this, look at that menu" interface, but all in all it's a good game with good graphics, very good voice acting, and a couple of interesting little extras (the "idea" concept and the Georama[??] world building).

Yeah it's on my sister's list on Netflix. If it's as good as what I've read has led me to believe it may be a "to purchase".

Well unless it's a Twilight Zone evil Yuna and Tidus. Hmmm..that's got possibilities. By the way Chirs3 the only date I've seen is November 3rd.

I gotta say that if you like Troma Studios, get your hands on a copy of Troma's Cannibal: The Musical on DVD. It's Trey Parker and Matt Stone's first movie, done when they were still in college and basically shot over a spring break. The movie is about what you'd expect but the commentary track is quite possibly the greatest extra on any DVD. It's basically Parker, Stone, Dian Bachar (the little guy in BasketBall and the voice of Sexual Harrassment Panda I believe in South Park), and a few of the other actors sitting around in 2000 or so watching this movie and getting drunk. As he gets more drunk, Parker's recollections of his freshly ex-girlfriend (from the movie) get funnier and funnier. Highly recommended.

Bruce friggin' Campbell baby! It's going on my "To Buy" list. Plus I want to try building a Troma type studio.

J-Pop *shivers*. The promo video they put out ("real Emotion" or something like that) isn't that bad, but a whole game full of it might cause diabetics in the audience to go into sugar shock.

Man Bad Blood is looking more and more like a steaming pile of donkey crap. It's hard to believe that this is the best PPV they can come up with, considering what they had last time they came to town for PPV (WM X-7). BTW it looks like they can't come up with any reason to separate the PPV by brand so they're kinda just doing a "OK let's just do it like this and pray no one notices"? It's like they're not even trying anymore. And no, this isn't the first time I've thought this.

Crap. Ok thanks for the help.

How do you post an image saved to your hard drive onto your signature? I wish to make my own little witty sig but I can't get it to work correctly. Since I don't have a website or anything (yeah I'm lame, not enough in my life to warrant building/keeping a website) my drive is the only place I can access the image.