River City Rocker

I'm only going to be concerned if I hear about Miley Cyrus getting green slimed during an episode of Hannah Montana.

There's some decent matches picked for the Savage DVD. My only complaint is not including the cage match with Savage and Adrian Adonis versus Tito Santana and Bruno Sammartino. The last time I saw it was on a really old Coliseum Video tape of nothing but cage matches, and it was really, really good. Maybe they're sitting on that one for a second steel cage match DVD, or less likely, a Santana collection.

"...therefore, other than my comments, there will be no mention of Mr. Gagne tonight..."

"There'll be no mention of Mr. Benoit tonight. Can we give you some more time to think about buying this one?"

The Drift was a blind buy for me. It's a killer record, and scary as hell, too. It's hard to believe Scott Walker went from "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" to what he's doing today.

I will never forget the two sentence review that No Holds Barred got in my (at the time) local newspaper after its opening weekend:

Thanks.

Remember Ron Garvin leaving Crockett Promotions not too long after his heel turn in 1988? Didn't they run an angle where Dusty Rhodes claimed that he found and beat the hell out of Garvin in a bar to explain Garvin suddenly leaving the NWA before they could book the blow off match between him and Dusty?

I'm against the move, mostly because I never considered Oklahoma City a first choice for an expansion team, or a relocated one. Aren't there a few other cities out west that sound like a more attractive market for a new or established team? Las Vegas? San Diego? Hell, either Kansas City or St. Louis? Keep the Sonics in Seattle.

I don't think this project will sell anywhere near as well as his run of several platinum selling comedy records from the 1960s, if that's what Cosby was secretly hoping for. It's kind of like the jazz records he's released where he didn't play a note on them, but he still took full credit for everything.

The first PPV I ordered was WCW's Bash at the Beach in 1996. Yes, the whole "Who's the third man?" mystery finally got me to order a show instead of just waiting to find out on Monday evening. The only PPV I attended was ECW's Anarchy Rulz in 1999. I only lived about 30 minutes from Villa Park at the time, and I had always wanted to see ECW live, so it was a can't miss event.

Ah, I remember that. I first saw it in the third grade in 1985, so it goes back even further than what some of you have talked about. If I remember correctly, it didn't really mean anything, aside from that it looked cool to most kids, and it was relatively simple to draw on your notebooks.

That's also a really lousy Santana compilation, to boot.

*bump!* I ordered the standalone disc of The Giant Gila Monster from Rhino on February 12th, because I decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to buy Volume 10.2 just for one replacement disc. So far, all I've gotten are two emails telling me the same thing: the DVD has "not yet arrived", but I've seen several copies of Volume 10.2 on the shelves at Best Buy or Barnes & Noble. I'm starting to wonder if it really would've been easier to just buy that collection again just for one movie. I remember Rhino being pretty slow to respond to fan requests to replace The Killer Shrews from an earlier set after it became known that the original release was sent out with about 90 seconds of footage accidentally deleted from the show. With that said, I wonder how Shout Factory would handle any situations like that, once they start releasing MST3K product...

I get it, but it could be argued that WWE jumped that shark a long, long, LONG time ago.

I haven't been to many concerts at all, so by default (and I hate to say this), the worst show I've ever seen was a live Jandek performance in Indianapolis at the end of 2006. The show was completely improvised, and one of the backing musicians, who was described as "a local improviser" after the fact, largely stopped contributing two-thirds of the way into the performance. He was originally alternating between flute and xylophone, but spent the last 45 minutes of the show walking around the stage as if to say "When is this gonna be over?" I also heard that aside from Jandek, only the bass player seemed like he was really enjoying himself. The other musicians? Not so much.

NWA, 1988. Dick Murdoch suddenly turns face, and it's revealed that Dusty Rhodes talked him into turning face in response to Barry Windham becoming a heel and joining the Four Horsemen. I don't recall Murdoch being anything but a JTTS after his turn.

That's what I was thinking: that they're not publicizing the hidden characters just to have one more surprise once the game finally hits the stores. I could care less about any hidden Pokemon characters (Pikachu is enough, thanks), but I'd like to see Luigi, Captain Falcon, Ness and maybe Falco as hidden characters. Perhaps Sonic's inclusion in the game will justify at least Tails and maybe Knuckles as super secret hidden fighters.

My pick is "Bleed it Out" by Linkin Park.

My dad, every time he saw IRS on WWF TV during his stint: "Hey, isn't that Mike Rotundo?" He never did ask how Rotundo went from the Varsity Club to a boat captain to a dickish tax collector. I still think my dad remembered Rotundo the best from the Varsity Club, though, which isn't bad at all.

I've never had a problem with Applebee's. I still usually stop there during my lunch hour at least once per month. The food's usually pretty good. The only Cheesecake Factory I've ever seen is in Schaumburg, Illinois. I swear that I have never seen that place without a huge crowd just inside the entrance waiting for a table. I've still never eaten there, and it really doesn't sound like a place where I would enjoy going. As for the guy who remarked about how there was "eight hours of nothingness" on I-10 between El Paso and San Antonio...he's right. I've seen a photo essay elsewhere online with a lot of pictures of that freeway between those two cities. I found it fascinating to look at, but it doesn't sound like a ride I would really want to take.

Well, I once wasn't fired for something similar to that, but the head cashier at the store I worked at during that time did threaten to send me home. One older lady came through my register one Friday morning and proceeded to talk nearly non-stop about her bingo game at church. It had been a pretty long week, and I was tired (I normally didn't work in the morning at that time) and not feeling that social. Even if I had been feeling rather talkative myself, I couldn't have gotten a word in with this woman's motormouth. I finally stopped her long enough to tell her the total. She paid, snapped at me that she should've gone through a "friendlier cashier's lane", then went to complain about me. The head cashier came out and started to chew me out about how everyone on first shift is supposed to be cheerful and talkative, and that I "needed to be that way", or I was getting sent home. This was also the head cashier who, after sending another cashier home for whatever reason, called the store manager and told him she had "walked off" the job. So, when the girl came back the next day, she quickly found out that she no longer had a job. But, I have been let go from two different warehouse positions, both times for incompetence. At the first place, I found out on my first day that they had hired a second guy for the same position they hired me in as, and since he was much stronger than I was, this made me redundant almost right from the start. They did wait eight days before letting me go. The second warehouse fired me because I was "too slow". Well, perhaps the supervisor should've let 95 percent of his department go then, because I frequently saw people starting projects at four in the afternoon, and they were still doing the same project at 11:30 that evening. Whatever, though. I was ready to give notice anyway...

Here's the only thing that comes to mind: "BUT I WANNA GO OVER!! ME ME MEEEEEE! IT'S MY TURN TO GO OVER UMAGAAAA!!" *jumps up and down crying*

I wonder which kid gets to play his best friend Kenny in the movie... "Can I have a Coke?"

It was Wrestling at the Chase on KPLR out of St. Louis after my family moved to southern Illinois sometime in 1982. My dad was going through all of the cable channels one Sunday morning, and he just happened to leave it on KPLR. This was about two years before the WWF began its national expansion, so we did notice a change in quality of the program and matches once McMahon took over the show some time after we first started watching. As for the NWA, I never saw them until one Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1985. I liked it immediately. Maybe it was the more realistic presentation, or maybe it's because taping a weekly show in a small studio with maybe 150 fans in attendance at the most seemed to make better television than the syndicated WWF shows taped from much bigger arenas.