Jingus

. . . Mario man, you just get weirder and weirder.

I'd buy a ticket for that. Haven't seen a decent horror movie since Freddy vs. Jason, so I'm sure that I'd love it.

First of all, I don't have that high an opinion of Low-Ki's work. He often looks like he's way too stiff with those kicks to the face, his high-flying is usually sloppy as hell, and his selling is often the goofiest this side of Kobashi. I've seen Chris Hero wrestle several times, both live and on tape (including the snoozfest 93 minute match), and I don't doubt that he's good. But I prefer Teddy's stuff to Hero's, it's a matter of opinion. Ace Steel and Matt Stryker I've only seen in TNA, and yeah, it didn't seem like the greatest atmosphere for them, but I still wasn't impressed. I've seen a couple of Colt Cabana's matches from IWAMS, and he's decent, but hell, why be a goofy comedy wrestler when you're on the same show with Nate Webb, who you know is always gonna outdo you in that department? Quackenbush I actually haven't seen in years, and my memory is kinda fuzzy, so yeah, I'll retract that one. A question to those making the comparisons: how much of Teddy's work have you seen? I've caught six or seven of his matches, and the thing that always struck me about him was his versatility. He can do tight traditional Canadian matwork with the best of them, along with old-school Memphis stallfests, and then there's few better high flyers and spot machines in the world. (Jack Evans is better in that category, one of the best I've ever seen, but that's another subject.)

The new Muta was an American indy worker (forgot his name) in a goofy-looking masked outfit, and he got injured just a few weeks after his debut, so it wasn't anything big.

RobStone, eh? Haven't heard that name in a while. He was a troll here back around a year ago, maybe more, and he definitely is not and never was Downhome. Oh, and probably quite a bit of the Downhome hate are some of the neanderthals at DDT posting here under different names.

I need a decent feud. Since all the Puro guys departet, there's nobody left out there who can send me from complacent to enraged in 2.5 seconds like they could. Best bet though: Miscellaneous folder, most likely one of the "Teddy Hart is a worthless spot monkey and needs to be castrated and murdered" types.

A short, vague, crappily written article on an obscure local TV news show website with no author named and absolutely nothing in the way of fact-finding, quotes, etc? Of COURSE it's gotta be real, it's on the Internet!

The books are just novelizations of the comics, nothing more. "AvP: Prey" is the original comic series, and they go from there.

I'd say he already is a better all-around wrestler than all the guys I put in bold type.

Hah. Nashville cops, gotta love 'em. They'll pull over damn near anyone who doesn't look like a WASP republican if they feel like doing a drug search. Hell, we've even got a catchphrase for it: getting pulled over for DWB, or "Driving While Black".

My personal life with jobs and girls and whatnot hasn't exactly been the stuff of dreams recently, so thank god I at least have wrestling. Managing a match last thursday, I got pummeled and thrown out of the ring by Bobby Eaton, which was fairly cool. The next night, Scott Hudson just happened to show up at our indy show TV taping, and sat in on commentary with me, which was even cooler. Uh, that's all. Just marking out for myself. Nothing to see here, move along, +1.

Preacher is a weird, weird little comic. It was my introduction to the fucked-up mind of Garth Ennis, which isn't good, as Preacher is probably the heaviest and most brutal book he's written. (Yes, it IS more violent than Punisher.) The series has a problem with pacing at times, there'll just be four or five pages of random boring existential dialogue with NO plot movement whatsoever, but the characters are very well done, and the ending RULES. Period. Ballsiest thing EVER WRITTEN in comic book form, and I'm amazed that Ennis hasn't had entire legions of religious fanatics trying to murder him for it. But no, I wouldn't say it's the Best Series Ever or anything. Sandman's better, as is several of Alan Moore's projects (Watchmen, From Hell, Miracle Man, etc), in my opinion.

A final point on the whole "non-lethal shot" theory: It is almost impossible to shoot and hit a target as small and mobile as a human limb in any kind of real-life combat situation, unless you're at point-blank range or you're a DAMN good shot. (And the chances of one bullet to the knee area "completely immobilizing" a pumped-up human are iffy at best.) That's why 100% of firearms instructors teach their students to aim for the torso.

Uh, no, she wasn't the first suicide bomber, not by a long shot. Remember a few months back when a teenage Palestinian girl killed herself and an Israeli teenage girl with a bomb?

I've seen Draven work, and no, he wouldn't be my first, second, or hundreth choice to put the world jr. title on. Very amateurish and sloppy-looking, at least in the one match I saw.

Heh. I've worked with GQ/Devilish Lee on several occasions on indy shows, and he is certainly an unique individual. He's actually a better wrestler (or at least a better bumper) than half of the indy workers out there, but he knows that his main talent is talking, so he sticks with that, and I respect him a lot for making that decision (it's one that I've faced repeatedly). I don't know exactly when he's moving back to California, but Lucharesu, whenever you talk to him again, tell him Jingus said wassup.

You know the weirdest thing about Abyss? Back when he was plain ol' Prince Justice, he was actually really good on the mic, delivered fine promos. He had a bit of a Sid-ish tendency to alternate screaming and then whispering, but overall produced strong stuff. Weird that they've given him Kane's old mute gimmick.

The majority of the crowd (and I've been to dozens of TNA shows) are smart marks, at least by Nashville's standards anyway. Remember, this is a town and a territory that still has several fans here and there who REALLY think wrestling is 100% real. So I'd say that TNA drawing a watered-down version of an ECW crowd is quite a feat, comps or not.

Then how do you explain Kendra's line: "That's me favorite shirt! That's me ONLY shirt!"

Have gotten no such spam over the PMs, though I did get a dude trying the same thing over AIM a week or two ago.

It's incredibly easy to cover up the illicit gain of a thousand dollars or so. Just go to Vegas, or anywhere that's got some nice big casinos, spend a little time and money there, and then come out and report to the IRS that your (otherwise illegally gained) new monies are gambling wins.

Nope, it's more of a Resident-Evil-meets-HP-Lovecraft type game, creepy as hell at times, generally fun to play.

I saw the movie last night at the Imax. I liked it, was generally impressed, but I didn't think it was the best movie of all time or anything like that. A few points and quibbles: I didn't like the bit where Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Gollum tricks Frodo into ditching Sam. I'm sorry, but I don't believe that Frodo would EVER believe Gollum over his best friend, and Gollum's little trick with the bread was lame, we're talking Three's Company=level contrivance here. My personal favorite moment was when Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Frodo was above the lava in Mount Doom, and he turned around and simply said, "The Ring is mine." The expression on Elijah Wood's face was chilling, to say the least; it's like we just saw Frodo turn heel. One last little bitch, and this one is more at the books than the movies, as Jackson was just working with what he had: Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Does it seem to anyone else that the good guys never actually win a battle by themselves in the movie? All throughout Fellowship, they're just running away from the enemies as fast as possible. At Helm's Deep in Two Towers, they were saved when outside help arrived (elves in the movie). At Pelleanor (sp?) Fields, they're mostly getting their asses kicked until the Dead Army saves their bacon. And finally, we've got the biggest deus ex machina of all in the battle at the Black Gate. Why did Tolkien never just let two armies fight, and have one win, period?

Hell, if we started talking about various continuity errors in the Buffyverse, we'd be here all damn day. For example: 1. Willow knows how to do the spell to give vampires their souls back; she's known it since the end of Season 2, when she did it to Angel. The HUGE question is, why didn't Willow ever cast this spell on Spike, Drusilla, Harmony, or any of the other vampires in the series? 2. Same thing: forget the name of it, but the Angel episode where Buffy visited, and Angel got turned into a human by touching some demon's blood. Okay, they explained by the end of that one why Angel had to remain a vamp, but why not find one of those demons, capture it, drill a keg tap into its arm, and then make turning vamps into humans your full-time job? 3. The Watcher's Council. I just found the whole concept to be bullshit, period. Here you have this giant, wealthy, powerful, globe-spanning organization, and the best thing they can give to help Buffy is... Giles? Not knocking Giles, but when he first started, he (and even moreso Wesley) were not exactly the first person I'd chose to back me up in a fight. 4. Another Watcher Council question: why do they expect the Slayer to work for free? They never gave Buffy so much as one dime for her years of service for them. This is especially irritating in Season 6, when Buffy is constantly broke and worrying about money, yet Quentin Travers, with his thousand-dollar suits, can't be bothered to so much as pay for Buffy's rent.

He was apparently also known as Mike Anthony. And if it's the same Mike Anthony that I'm thinking of, then that's really fucked up, cuz I met the guy a couple years back and talked with him briefly.