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This is a conspiracy theory in of itself, but that show's main event, Goldberg vs. DDP, was the very first time since Hogan came to the company that they didn't have an old WWF star in a pay-per-view main event. It's also the first time that a heavily-pushed Hogan singles match didn't go on last. (Hogan had been in a couple of meaningless undercard tag matches before, which he inevitably won, but they weren't the same thing.) Odd that the first WCW show in which young guys (well, career-wise, in DDP's case anyway) got the main event and Hogan was pushed down to semi JUST SO HAPPENED to be their only show to run unusually long and run out of satellite time, thus making sure that Hogan-Warrior was the last thing we saw, eh? If you think this sounds outlandish, do remember the dubious "fast count" in the Hogan-Sting match which reeked of backstage backstabbing. Plus, when have the Nitro Girls ever danced on PPV besides this show, let alone FIVE fucking times in one night? The WWF PPVs in 99 primarily suffered from Russo's usual crappy booking which pushed the soap-opera storylines as being more significant than the actual matches themselves. And there was way too fucking much brawling through the crowd and mediocre hardcore stuff. Usually the main event would be okay since you'd have Vince and his whole team adding their input into that one, but most of the undercard tended to be forgettable filler with a bunch of turns, run-ins, and various other swerves. One that does stand up well in retrospect is Backlash 99, a neat little show which just happened to randomly have a bunch of interesting matches.

That's on already? Yeah, I'll be checking that out. And hey, when is the long-promised Preacher supposed to finally show up anyway? Aside from that? Nothing, really. I'm not into any new shows on the air right now, except for The Shield, and I won't be watching that yet since I'm only up to season 4 in my backlog of watching stuff.

This trend even continues in R-rated movies too. How many times have we seen a movie where a name actress plays either a hooker or a stripper as the leading lady, yet never gets naked? I Know Who Killed Me comes to mind for one recent example. I'm pretty much the sole exception to the rule, in that I liked Death Proof and didn't like Planet Terror. I actually enjoyed just watching the chicks talk, had no problem with those parts at all. And the car chases were BADASS, and I usually am bored to death by car chases. Then again, I'm also the guy who though Dolph Lundgren's Punisher was better than Thomas Jane's, and preferred House of 1000 Corpses over The Devil's Rejects. I am a majority of one.

The majority of the time, yeah, but even that wasn't the issue. Nashville has zero railway passenger service. None whatsoever. Even Amtrak doesn't go there. No rail in Savannah either. As for Dallas, I haven't been downtown much so I can't speak for the city itself, but there's certainly nothing anywhere near my suburb or any of the nearby towns. Kinda defeats the purpose of public mass transit if you have to drive to it. I'd use the service if it were available, but it's not. Hell, most of the places I've lived don't even offer any kind of bus service either. If you don't have a car, you're fucked, period.

Yeah, during the whole one-sided debate which provided the quote under your avatar. Watching him try to argue with Marney was like watching Kimbo Slice beat up a kid in a wheelchair.

It's about time one of these Genre Movie cowpies lost money. According to IMDB, the budget was $25 million, so they're already way in the hole. Eventually it might make its money back through foreign grosses and DVD sales, but it's gonna take a while, and even that might not do it. Regardless, it'll go down in the record books as a box office bomb. Thank God. Maybe now the studios will think twice before giving those two monkeys more money for another movie. College: meh, no real hatred for this movie, just looked like the thousandth Animal House ripoff. But it is a fine example of how even the most ubiquitous marketing campaign which saturates the landscape like a carpet bombing still can't guarantee a hit, or even keep something from being a total disaster. The ads for this damn movie were everywhere, and yet they only convinced about thirty-two people to go see the damn thing. I'm actually glad for The House Bunny's unexpected success. Not for the movie itself, which I'm sure is a piece of crap. But just because I really like Anna Faris, and hopefully this means she'll get more leading roles (hopefully in better pictures) in the future. The cult underdog success of the summer really has been Mamma Mia!, hasn't it? I guess there haven't been any other movies out this season which appealled to the menopausal demographic, so that may just be a case of right place, right time.

Since I've moved away and can't see any of my old friends, we stay in touch over the phone. I'm a good rambling chatter, and can easily eat up an hour talking about random bullshit with my buddies. Bluetooths do kinda bug me, just because at first it always seems like they're some crazy person who's talking to themself. I always look over at this person having a conversation with thin air, confused, til they turn their head and I spot the earpiece.

He can even make an impact in roles where he shouldn't be able to. Like, in Inside Man, where he was basically just Denzel Washington's sidekick and didn't have much to work with. Still made it memorable. He's one of the best newly discovered actors of this decade, easily.

I find common ground with Milky on the strangest damn things. My dad was kinda like that. Real hardcore conservative, fundamentalist, etcetera. Though not quite so extreme as the example provided here, no dropkicking involved. The worst thing I can think of was during my brother's Eagle Scout confirmation ceremony; while my dad was giving a speech, in the middle of it he suddenly started rambling about the government forcing the Boy Scouts to accept homosexuals, and me and my brother shot each other the "oh, shit" look, but thankfully father moved on to other subjects. But it was weird enough that I still remember it. I think I might have the Hi8 videotape of it right here in my room, come to think of it.

Really? That felt like one of the more lame audience-pleasing copout endings I've seen in a long time. It was a really bizarre Karate Kid "and the crowd goes wild" moment, which was totally out of place in a movie which up til then had been so smart about both the characters and the fighting.

Yes it was, til the last five minutes. WTF?

Thirded on shopping carts. I'm not sure why that annoys me so much, but it does. You can push it all over the store, fill it up, lug it out to your car, but then not bother taking thirty seconds to put it up once it's empty? Plus, ::insert "pushing shopping carts makes me so damn strong" joke here::.

She's not just pro-life, she's hardcore pro-life. She wants abortion to be universally banned, period, no exceptions made. Even specified that it shouldn't be used in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. I'm ambiguous on the abortion debate, but her position just creeps me out. "I'm very sorry you're having a baby, Miss Abused 12-Year-Old girl. Maybe you should've thought about that before swallowing some roofies, getting tied up, and then seducing your creepy molesting uncle while you were unconcious."

What, nobody remembers that Duchovny was the host of freakin' Red Shoe Diaries?

"Well, it's the South so it doesn't count." Man I never get tired of that argument. What are you expecting, exactly? These cities were founded long before the railroad was available to them. Since they had more land to grow on than the crammed Northeastern cities, naturally they weren't as heavily centered around one central area and sprawled more over the years. What's your solution here, exactly? Beyond steamrolling the cities flat and starting over from scratch, there's not much you can do to improve the situation.

I'd take issue with the use of "most" there. I've lived in half a dozen different towns in three states, and I've never lived anywhere which either had a rail or subway service, or was even geographically set up to where such a service would work.

Yeah, I know WWE does brainfarts like this too, and yeah I know the business theory behind the segment. I'm just saying it doesn't make sense that they would've sent out people to break up a fair fight between evenly matched opponents, when right before then they didn't send anyone out to save one helpless victim from a merciless beatdown. Really? Goddamn. It's like "hey, remember how this guy was part of that awful Martyr Angle on the day of the London bombings? Well, we came up with something even worse!". Holy shit that's just reprehensible.

Bah. Too easy. Give 'em a hammer and tell 'em to improvise.

Undertaker also got his wife's name tattooed on his throat. When she wasn't his first wife, iirc. And he later divorced Sara or cheated on her or something. My point is, wrestlers tend to lie all the damn time about all kinds of things, and it's never a safe bet to just blindly accept that they're telling you the truth. Especially when it has something to do with the actual business side of the business, like Punk's gimmick.

Not specifically, but it's weird the number of people who will INSIST that he couldn't possibly have ever done a single drug in his life because, uh, because he told us so. Since we all know that people involved in wrestling have so much credibility when it comes to not lying about stuff.

I didn't watch the show, but I saw the Kong match, cuz I always do enjoy Kong killin' a bitch. It also made me wonder about something. When Kong and Sayyeeeaid were beating the fuck out of the jobber after the match, none of the TNA officials tried to stop them. No referees, no security, nothing. Apparently they didn't give a shit if she lived or died. But then when ODB runs in to make the save... a flood of people comes into the ring in order to stop a fair fight?! How does that make the tiniest little bit of sense? It's especially annoying since it's a double-tease which led to nothing. Kong and the terrorist threaten to murder the other chick with chairs, crowd boos. ODB makes the save, crowd cheers. Security quickly makes sure that we can't have no fighting on this here wrestling show, crowd boos again. Even by wrestling standards, this was insulting our intelligence. They'll be on next week. TNA taped 3 weeks of television in 2 days, as they sometimes do.

That was one of the strangest things about Epic Movie: it didn't even try to use any material relating to either Star Wars or LOTR, by far the two biggest series of epic movies of this (or any) decade. But yeah, if you want an education in just how bad modern Hollywood movies can be, the (Genre) Movie series is pretty much the best example of how low you can go. They're so terrible you can't even laugh at them, which is especially bad since they're supposed to be comedies.

Oh, bugger. This kinda sounds like fun. If anyone drops out, I'm first in line for alternate.

Yeah, PBS was doing that more than the others, probably one of the CSPANs too.

Obama didn't say anything I hadn't heard a million times before, but he did say it very well. Went after McCain harder than I expected. And was it just me, or did it seem like he wasn't using either notes or a teleprompter at all? An interesting little experiment: directly after the speech ended, I flipped back and forth between Fox News and MSNBC. Whoever was talking on Fox kinda sorta praised the speech in a restrained manner, saying he obviously won over this giant crowd here, subtly slipped in just one or two minor jabs at liberals, before basically just saying "ah, the hell with it" and shutting up for several minutes while all the fireworks and confetti went everywhere. I liked that, no real bitching about the opposing side, relatively gracious. (Although they did get in one bit of dickwaving; on the TVGuide menu, every other channel called this "Democratic National Convention", while Fox instead went with "America's Election HQ".) Meanwhile, over at MSNBC? Olbermann and whoever just screaming Obama's speaking points back for us, over and over again, like we hadn't just watched the goddamn speech ourselves. Yeesh that was way past annoying. I remember I used to like Olbermann a while back; has he just gotten this much worse, or was he always a douche and I just never noticed?