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Heh. Just last week, I was hanging around after TNA with the Heel Section and other various people, and Scott Hudson and Athena almost got into a slapfight over The Darkness. Athena: THEY ROCK! Heel Section Guy: Sounds interesting, what's their website? Scott Hudson: www.wesuck.com.

I've never understood the controversy over the morning-after pill. It's not a convenient method of birth control. You have to get it from a doctor, and it's got some unpleasant side effects as well. Using a rubber or standard pills is much, much easier. Or, to put it another way: does anyone here know ANYBODY who's ever had consensual, willingly unprotected sex and then used a morning-after pill as birth control?

Yeah, I'd much rather live in a world where I would never need a gun. Or one where guns never existed at all. (Although I say that because I'm a fully grown man with martial arts training and thus little to fear from an unarmed criminal; a 98-pound grandmother might disagree with me.) Thing is, though, in America, GUNS WILL ALWAYS BE HERE. We live in the fourth-largest country in the world, with massive unguarded borders connecting to two other large countries. Millions of guns are already here, and more smuggling occurs in America than in any other country on the globe. Sure, the government could crack down in Stalinesque ways on all types of firearms, but such a massive effort would severely crimp many of our freedoms aside from the 2nd Amendment. Criminals will ALWAYS have guns in this country. That fact renders this entire discussiong pointless.

I'm just amused at RF taking an anti-piracy stand at all. Don't forget, RFVideo still has TONS of bootlegged ECW, WCW, and WWF footage on hundreds of tapes, which are still for sale on his website. Plus the bootlegs of various foreign horror flicks that he sells also.

And that's my point. The bad guys have all the guns they want, right now. Gun control laws don't stop them at all. The flow of illegal weapons through America is simply too vast to be contained. And until such a containment could be effected, any other debate is pointless.

I've happened to read quite a few of SD Perry's books, thru the Aliens series and various other stuff, and I've come to know his style pretty well (the man is OBSESSED with guns). Weird thing: he wrote the novelization of The Mask, ya know, the Jim Carey flick. It was pretty weird reading a page-long description of the bad guy's pistol and ammo in a book version of The Mask of all damn things.

This is making my head hurt. FACT: bad, evil, violent people will always have some sort of access to guns, whether through theft, a black market, or whatever. COROLLARY: good people need to have their own guns to protect themselves from the bad ones. Could it be any simpler?

I'm the grand master dragon at a few different games. I've played Max Payne 2 so damn many times now that I've memorized where everything and everyone in the game is, so I know pretty much exactly what to do at every second. And I got ungodly good at plenty of the old NES strategy games and RPG's, from Pirates to Dragon Warrior to Defender of the Crown.

A rebuttal to the whole "if you know someone who's been shot you'd be for gun control" argument: A few years back, a maniac broke into my father's house and shot him full of holes. The main thing that saved my dad's life was that he got to his loaded shotgun (which he keeps in his bedroom) in time, and ran his assailant off. The attacker didn't legally own his gun. My dad legally owned his shotgun. And at the time five children lived in the house. And despite the fact that they were all minors and at least two of them were fucking idiots, the fact that the parents took time to educate their kids regarding firearms and didn't leave the damn things lying around where anyone could grab them have resulted in a house where nobody was ever in danger of being accidentally shot. I don't own a gun. That's because I'm broke. Once I have the money, I'm getting a nice Glock and a concealed carry permit. I don't trust other people in this world not to try to kill me.

For my little homegrown indy show I do commentary for, God knows that I've had my share of complete shit to call at some time or another. Last week: trying to find an explanation of why a guy bumped for a kick that missed him by a good two feet ("And he just got scared and fell away from that superkick!"). It's often damn hard to call this stuff straight and not just go hog-wild shooting on the mike.

Mystery Science Theater... cancelled? FUCK SCI-FI!!! ...oh, and Mike and Pearl ruled it over Joel and Forrester.

Maybe it's just me, but I've never gotten into any of Argento's movies that I've seen. I thought Suspiria was overrated, Trauma was boring, and his Phantom of the Opera was the worst version of that story ever filmed. (I'd count The Church as one of his, too; comparing this to Argento and Soavi's other work, it looks a lot more like Dario directed it.) Also, I just can't stand the way he uses his daughter Asia either. She can't act, even by horror flick standards. And yeah, she's smokin' hot, but it's just WRONG to have a father directing and shooting his daughter in an extremely sexualized manner. Lucio Fulci is another case altogether. His movies are cheap, amateurish, and have all the style and finesse of a massive blow from a sledgehammer, but he still captures that something that makes a truly frightening film, instead of just another crappy horror film. I've seen Zombie and The Beyond, was impressed by both, and would like to see more. I've seen one Mario Bava flick, Black Sunday, and was pretty impressed, it was creepy in an old-school gothic way. And finally, anyone else here seen any of the even more obscure and disgusting Italian horror flicks out there? I'm talking about the Cannibal Holocausts of the world, the ones that are SO sick they make even guys like Fulci look like complete pussies in comparison.

I saw all the matches live, and it looks pretty good overall. Not as good as the X cup, I think a single-elimination tournament would've served purposes better; Sonjay seemed kinda off in some of the matches, and Abismo Negro didn't do anything for me at all. However, Lynn and Juvy are always good, and Hector Garza surprised me with his flippityfloppity moves, considering he's a pretty big guy. Overall, probably worth the $10.

. . . Oof. No wonder I've been posting less and less, with DRAWMUH like this going on seemingly every day on here.

I liked American Gods, though not quite as much as some of Gaiman's other work. (The "big surprise" about the real reason for the war was pretty lame, I saw it coming a mile away.) And Shadow himself was actually a fairly one-note character, in a Steven King sort of way. But still, it's Gaiman, and that means it's worth reading no matter what the flaws. I love the way he'll throw in random little details about subplots that really don't have anything to do with the story, but are stll great vignettes by themselves. I damn near cried when I read the part about a certain unusual lady getting a 3rd-shift job at a gas station.

Okay, I gotta ask something. I've seen countless markout references to THE BEAST~!, but I only started watching Angel recently, and have never actually seen the damn beast. Just what is so cool about it? (And don't give me the "wait and see it yourself" crap, nobody's playing season 4 reruns, just tell me.)

About the whole ICP thing: I doubt it made that much of a difference. There were about a hundred Juggalos in attendence, but since they parked themselves smartly on the TV side of the audience, it looked like there were a lot more than there actually were. They probably didn't pay for their seats either, since general admission is generally papered.

What a fucking pussy. If your Free Speech is so inflammatory that it incites many of your peers to truly want to beat the shit out of you, then maybe you should consider keeping your mouth closed on occasion. Now THAT'S funny.

This is flaming? Well, you guys are all flamers, but you do indeed suck at insulting each other, besides sucking other things associated with each other. Banky: I actually respect Banky. I mean, it takes a man who is TRULY secure in his limp-wristed girliness to base his entire gimmick off Jason fucking Lee. When your idol's best work was as a sidekick in Vanilla Sky, it's time to worship at the altar of a cooler god. Like maybe Richard Simmons. Moleslayer: it's so fresh and invigorating to see a guy who's so solidly with the times. I mean, he's got a vidcap and a quote from a years-old TV show in every post! In his SIG, no less! Only truly aware and unique individuals follow Family Guy around like so many lemmings, of course. (P.S.: don't tell him the show was canceled, it'd break his heart.) Frigidsoul: I hate to keep going back to sigs and avatars for my material, but hell, it's not like any of you peons are interesting enough for me to actually remember who you are. Frigid, take a long, loving look at your sig. It features a guy with huge oily muscles and long sweaty hair hefting a giant phallic knife as if he were jacking it off. Just saying, y'know. JSYK: what, ya too lazy or too stupid to type out your entire username? electric boogaloo: nuff said. CWM: the nightmare next door that you NEVER want for a neighbor. I mean, he drove his perfectly innocent friends down the road insane. And how? With fucking LAWN GNOMES. He spent hundreds of dollars, countless hours, and risk arrest on dozens of occasions, just to plant goddamn gnomes in his neighbor's yard. That reminds me of nothing more than the time Plucky Duck went nuts and tried to get revenge on Hampton with a boombox. Gnome-loving freak. Mario: christ, where would I start. But the time someone found his name on a list of rejected checks or credit cards seems as good a place as any. But hey, all I really need to tell you is that this guy's goal in life is to kill Kevin Sullivan and take his place. IDrinkRatsMilk: the guy who became famous and popular because he had a weird name. Not because his posts were insightful and well-written, not because he was funny, not even because he had a good sig. Just because of his fucked-up unsanitary beastiality-advocating name. Zack: so exactly why was it you became a mod? Couldn't be that you hung out with Dames and constantly kiss his ass? Nah, never. Furthermore: Saved By The Bell sucks. Always has sucked. Always will suck. And name one good role that Mark Paul Gosselawhatever has had in any tv or film, ever. Not your jet set role model material. fearmosaicphilosophy: I want to go all Jesse Custer here and scream "WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?!?", but I'll keep it civil. Answer me the following questions: 1.Have you ever taken an English class? 2. If yes, did you pass it? 3. If yes, then why can't you follow the example that even children like Superstar set and learn how to fucking type? See, there are these two buttons on the keyboard you're probably not familair with: the Shift and Caps Lock keys. Experiment with them, like you did with your mom's underwear. Go to town. Have fun. Kotzenjunge: Kylie is a generic anorexic blonde who can only barely dance and tries to sing like Madonna. And beatboxing is weird. And the State was lame.

I claim dibs on a neato Wolverine extending claws set I saw in a catelog.

What Mario, no mention of me? I know there was never any real heat, but still, I clawslammed you about a zillion times.

Question: who would be the villain of this flick? A few suggestions: -BPP: could be a villain in a Buffy Season 6 Trio sort of way. -Mario: ditto, except nuttier. Reminds me of Steve Buscemi's "Because I'm MAD!!!" skit on SNL. -Sandman: the straightedge maniac goes OVER THE (straight)EDGE. -Dames: the Usual Suspects choice. -Banky and CWM: come on, you know they'd make a great pair of misanthropic heels. "We hate each other, but we both want to destroy the world, so..." -Marney: one of those infuriating people that, even if you know they're wrong, you couldn't win an argument with them even upon threat of assrape. -Tiffany Malibu: anyone else played Resident Evil: Code Veronica? If so, then you know where I'm going with this one.

Hell, I was there live when they were planning lots of their angles, and I'm still confused.

I'll be there live... but looking at the card, it'll be more for hanging out with some friends than actually watching the show.

I love Danielson, I think he's probably the best wrestler in the world who isn't signed to a contract. I just don't think that Hero is as good as him. AmDrag's mat skills are worlds better than just about anyone around, including Hero, and he's in much better physical condition.