Jingus

I have yet to see one Adam Sandler comedy which I liked, and have invariably hated him as an actor and never found him funny. But I did like Punch-Drunk Love, and actually liked his performance in that one.

Either way, it went off like three seconds after he was last shown holding it, so he'd have still been right next to it when it exploded. Although given that the guy survived a spear through the chest and the Magical Sonic Forcefield Of DOOM, they did kind of build him up as being nigh invulnerable.

For this kind of comparison, yeah.

I dunno, I kind of dug her character arc of trying to fend for herself now that her brother was gone. Her death was fairly outta nowhere. Was she one of the infamous DUIs?

It looks gloriously cheesy. I have a real weakness for ludicrous action flicks which gleefully break every law of physics, the Shoot 'Em Ups of the world, so I wanna see this one. Plus it's directed by the Russian guy who did Night Watch, and when it comes to soulless-but-cool shit, that guy is the most soulless and coolest of them all. Hah! Next, let's remake Cannibal Holocaust and Pretty Baby. Although I do think it could get an R. Come on, if Grindhouse and the Hostels could all get R's, anything can these days.

Hush, I brought this up a while back during an argument where I was opining that The Rock doesn't "look black", and it just pissed everyone off. Nobody likes to talk about how you can literally have seven great-grandparents from Sweden and just one from Nigeria and somehow still be pidgeonholed as Black by society.

Not that I think many of these choices are necessarily a bad thing. Shamrock was a good enough champ for a new startup company, Christian wasn't used to his full potential in the WWE, and and Killings' title reign was just some kind of miracle. Raven and Rhino I'm not so solid on, but at the time anything was better than another minute of Jarrett. TNA is right to at least attempt to elevate talent which its nearest competition had overlooked. I'm just noting that way more often do you see a former WWE undercard guy become TNA Champion than you do the other way around.

(long argument) I say it's a trend. You deconstruct each title reign individually to dispute my claim. What words am I putting in your mouth?

Dammit, making me have to get up and actually research facts, grumble grumble. The scarf in question: For comparison, some bonafide keffiyehs: I dunno. Ray's looks more like a paisley floral pattern, and doesn't have the sort of regular symmetric checkerboard style that the real deal uses. The fringe looks different too, longer and shaggier. Plus the orthodox method for a muslim to wear it is over their head, while hers is standard European style around the throat. I don't think there's much of a resemblence, other than "strip of cloth, two colors, simple geometric pattern, maybe fringe, worn on/near head".

But since Rachel Ray is obviously not a muslim, and her scarf was not a kaffiyeh but was instead probably some frightfully expensive thing custom-made by a fashion designer and then wrapped around Ray by her wardrobe specialist, I fail to see what the relevance is. There's no connection. It's just a scarf, which is a very common piece of clothing in cold-weather climates all around the world. It's like complaining that a nun's habit looks too much like a burkha.

The point is that, five times now, TNA has taken someone that the WWE let go, someone who had never been treated as a main eventer in that company and then made them world champion. Sure, Killings wasn't there long and Raven was better known for his earlier stuff and Shamrock was more of a shootfighting guy and Rhino wasn't in theory supposed to get the belt and Christian had allegedly been unfairly held down. But those are just excuses. It's a very precise sequence: 1. WWE hires person. 2. WWE does not push person to main event. 3. Person quits/gets fired. 4. TNA hires person. 5. TNA puts world championship on person. This has happened five times, five times, five times in exactly that manner. That's a pretty clear pattern, regardless of what the individual piddling circumstances were. They're even in line to keep doing it if they ever decide to give Tomko or Morgan the belt. How can you say this isn't a trend?

My point is, they're more than happy to put the world belt on guys who were considered Just Another Midcarder in the WWE. As Truthy pointed out Shamrock was another one, and hell you could even count Killings and Raven if you defined it broadly enough.

I don't think they'd fall all over themselves to push him THAT hard. It's just Bobby Lashley, a jumped-up midcarder who wasn't close to being an established top guy, so he wouldn't get the Angle treatment. Of course that wouldn't stop them from putting the belt on him sooner or later. This is after all the company that boasts such world champions as Christian and Rhino. The real question is, does he even want to return to pro wrestling? Him quitting the WWE despite receiving the megapush from hell and then starting a new shootfighting career, suggests that he doesn't.

Yeah, that's my point. Any time someone was killed off, the show went out of its way to make sure we understood that this person was fuckin' DEAD and not coming back. They've never had an important character just get killed offscreen where you didn't see either their death or the body. Jin's alive.

Based on what? With the Port of LA being America's largest point and LA being the media capital of the world, I don't know how you could rate SF as more "important." Chicago is the third largest city, important transportation hub, and and has important agrocultural markets. SF seems like a nice place to vacation and has a lot of gay pepole. I don't get why it's so important. He lives there.

When on Lost have they ever killed a main character and not very specifically showed that they were dead? This isn't like Michael, who was standing right next to the bomb so we can be certain he's gone. When we last saw Jin, he was as far away from the bomb as he could get and still be on the boat. We didn't see his body afterward, like we have with every other main character who's been killed. And there was a sizable gap of time in between the last time we saw him, standing on the edge of the boat right above the water, and when the bomb actually went off. The way they filmed that part, I assumed that he's alive, because otherwise they wouldn't have been so vague and would've just shown him dying.

Don't know, never been there. Aside from the top 4 or 5, I have no idea which cities are actually bigger than OKC, so I just listed a bunch to make sure.

Yeah, same here. If some of my favorites over in the Movie Draft get picked, no big deal, there's dozens more. But I'd have a hard time thinking of that many television shows which I feel that strongly about. And I'd be amazed if we somehow got past the first round and yet still had some of my favorites like Firefly or MST3K. Whoops! Maybe just mentioning them makes more people think about choosing them, haha! Mole is gonna cry when it gets back to his next pick sometime around Saturday and there ain't a single Whedon show left. And somebody better eventually pick Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. That show was THE great lost classic of the 80s, but nobody ever remembers it. J. Michael Straczynski never again wrote anything that cool.

Motherfuckers be slow. It's now godthedog's turn, but at 5:13 EST we're once again past the 12-hour mark and it goes to PGOAT.

Quiet, you polygamist cult weirdo. Although being a native Tennessean I must admire your practice of treating women as subservient babymakers, keeping your gun collection handy at all times, and staunchly believing that your spinoff-of-a-spinoff religion is the right one. What? How does that work? That means that out of the list of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas-Forth Worth, Miami, Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Houston, Indianapolis, Orlando, Memphis, Denver, Seattle... somehow OKC is bigger than all but two cities on that list? Are we talking just some kind of technicality where their incorporated county land happens to cover more area than usual?

Wait a minute. That was the first ever singles match between Christian and Tomko? And they just throw it out there as part of the KOTM prelims, with no buildup about the history behind the match? Argh, ice cream headache. You'd think that would be an obvious feud, but TNA often seems bizarrely hesitant to do obvious feuds which the fans might want to see.

I don't particularly like Barack either. But I do understand the Hillary Hate over the past few weeks. She was clearly so far behind in the polls that she couldn't realistically win, but kept charging mindlessly onwards. And then resorted to some King Of Kong type shenanigans being all like "ok, I know I said That, but that was when I thought I might be winning and now I'm not so instead we're doing This". However this is also a valid point.

"All right, we'll call it a draw."