Placebo Effect

I'll be going Sunday if I got press tickets (aka, free). If I didn't get them, fuck 'em. I've got free tickets for Type O Negative, Ozzfest, Warped Tour, Manson single show, Aguilera/Timberlake (photography, nothing more), Sister Hazel, Eve 6, and I haven't even started to get the minor things that are on my list for August, so if I don't get Lollaalooza, ehhhh. No one there I'm going to mark out for, minus Steve-O and some Distillers.

If they come to New York, I'm totally going up there for it. They should just get a supporting gig on a small tour, as the name Anal Cunt will draw in just about any teenager.

You skipped over my point about ROH. Ring of Honor was an exhausting night for everyone involved, and much the audience didn't get home until 2 - 3 AM. If I hadn't had a schedule conflict, getting up at 11 AM to get ready and drive another two hours to the arena is not the top of "To do" list. Especially after ROH's blowaway show, as once you've been to a fucking awesome show, the idea of going to another show that will be good, but not perfect, isn't entirely appealing. That's why the fans got so burnt out at ROH/BOTB this year. It doesn't matter that TOD is at a bar. After last year's show, every blood mark within three hundred miles is trying to be there. There was no bus trip yesterday, day shows plain draw bad, etc. I was at the one in December, and while the crowd was a bit better, it wasn't anything spectacular. And I can proudly lay claim to the fact that I attended almost every XPW show in Philly and never spent a dime on tickets. I really enjoy the product, though, as I'm far from a blind mark for CZW like others.

J Love wasn't ever in the Enterprise. It was Veronica, Kaos and GQ Money towards the end (the same time period J Love was there). Partial tsk, tsk, tsk. Veronica was gone by the time Kaos jobbed the belt to Pac. J Love, due to the relationship with GQ, became an unofficial meber of the E after XPW as far as GQ and Kaos were concerned, and by the time they took indy bookings, the name was changed to Hollywood Inc. Half right, half wrong on my part sort of. I'm an XPW mark too

For one, there were news reports saying that Stasiak was really mentally unstable, and the whole "Planet Stasiak" Heat gimmick was pretty much a rib on him by the bookers because he was so fucking weird. Back in a WCW Magazine (thanks to Russo, the thing suddenly had little kayfabe), Stasiak even mentioned have a pet monkey. Stasiak was gold during some of the stuff with Perfect Event, where they became pranksters. And ultimate gold is, of course, the stuff during the Invasion. I still chuckle when I remember him spearing the fucking knight suit. But in a wrestling ring; horrible, overly tanned, ugly, etc. And this is from a guy who doesn't mind Test or Nash.

The crowd was NOT bad for a Sunday. 250 is lowballing it for sure, as I was there. When you consider that it was a Sunday, the schedule was fucked up, ROH was the previous night (and with some people not getting home from ROH till 3 AM, waking up at 10 AM in order to drive two-three hours to the show was NOT a main priority), etc. I didn't think the attendance would be much different then what I saw. TOD is going to have a HUGE crowd. The bus trip always brings in a ton of people, and when you consider that it was pretty full at an undercard show like Extreme 8, this is going to be a hot fucking crowd.

Great stuff as always. As Punk just told Cabana on the ROH 1st Anniversary Show that I'm finishing up, "You can sleep on my floor if you'd like." Just for your info, Tracy had car problems or something along the way to the arena. Taking over for her that night was J. Love, aka Valentina, who is dating GQ Money and was a member of the E, now Hollywood Inc.

Eh, it's dated. If they held the book back a few months and ended it with Bischoff working for Vince, everything would have felt full circle and appropos. They barely scratched on the problemse of the XFL, mostly ignoring things near the end when they started scripting conflicts, and ignoring the problem inherant with putting Jim "BAH GAWD THAT MAN MUST BE DEAD" Ross in your primetime NBC announce team. No, I mean, Negative in reference to Party of Five being on the WB. It was on FOX, as I'm sure Dames could tell you in a heartbeat.

Negative.

Yeah, everything you said was pretty much right. It never actually led anywhere, as is the norm with midcard angles in WCW.

AJ Styles mentioned in an interview that Paris no longer has a lot of love for the business. PWI also brought note of this in some random issue I read while waiting in line. He hardly ever works anymore, and when he does, he mails it in.

I was planning on going, but Feinstein hasn't updated me on whether or not I have a photo position on Saturday. If I do end up there, I'll be down at ringside in khakis doing photography.

Make that two. I pay for the TNA PPVs because I support them, then I use my cable box on WWE PPVs.

WE should sue them for them trying to set our homepage to their shitty site three times on the same welcome page.

Mike Tenay used to pimp Lyger as inventing the move, while Kidman "perfected" it. So even Tenay is pretty sure Lyger was the first to use it.

Uhm, no. Unless 40 is suddenly senior citizen. STFU NUB I WAS BEING SARCASTIC AHHHH! What? He said for you to shut up. He was being sarcastic. And he called her a n00b, though he spelled it the less attractive way.

If she turned into a forty year old white woman.

The person with UT and Benoit looks like Keith Hernandez, the baseball player. Hall was doing his 80's porn star look here, though, so it might be him.

Does anyone remember when WCW had their "press conference" to announce that Master P was coming to WCW, and Gene Okerlund did the introduction. "He's the singer and songwriter of 'I Miss My Homies..." You don't know how odd it is hear that coming from Okerlund.

He was a Power Plant guy, who Paul Orndorff fired shortly after doing the Re-Enforcers gimmick I believe. Russo saw potential in the guy, and decided to bring him back. I'm 99% sure this was Russo's doing (the segment). It was Juneish if I remember correctly.

I seriously do not get the hype for the Raven/Punk feud. I've watched all the events, seen the promos, etc. and while I love the feud simply because it's getting CM Punk over, it's not rocket science. The gimmick Raven has is grungy. Grungy is associated with drugs, which Raven has done in the past. Punk lives the life of a straight edge, and people in Philly hate clean cut people. Thus, Punk hates Raven for representing a society of druggies. There hasn't been much to the fued. Cabana turned on Raven in the tag match, and if Russo did something like that (Cabana took punishment in the match, and why wouldn't he just do it in the first place?), you'd be all over him for it. Plus, why'd Daniels tag with Raven? Wasn't he a heel competing in a four-way tag the month before (unless this was explained at the show in-between, which I haven't taken a look at yet). I like the feud, but it's not as if something with CM Punk and Raven, with a simple backstory like that (one which I guarantee had very little to do with Gabe or Rob), is a feud of the century.

I always thought AngleSault was a woman.

I believe that was from one of the backstage segments where Kanyon was with his partner, and kept on sizing him up for the Kanyon Cutter despite him being his teammate. And yes YNA, that was fucking great. I hope that makes it to DVD some day, in some form. Russo was with WCW at the time, as he was the one who made WCW rehire Sanders I believe.

Kanyon was fucking genius with that. I loved this segment *Mike Sanders is walking through the hallway; Jarrett is pissed and busts a guitar over his head* *20 minutes later, Sanders is getting up and Daffney runs through and knocks him with a chair.* *20 minutes later, he gets up, and Kanyon randomly shows up and Kanyon Cutters him. "BANG!" Then there was his book, "Positively Kanyon." He had a book signing and no one came. Then you see tons of people lining up and there's a sign, "Free drink voucers for over 21." The Perfect Event thing where Kanyon ran in at the end of a faux 1800-Call-ATT commercial and Kanyon Cuttered Jimmy Baron was gold. The co-author of his book, Mark "Smokey" Madden. The fact that the book had a brick in it for a few weeks. Kanyon reading chapters out of the book, which featured some worked shoot comments about DDP.

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