Jingus

I thought The Ring was a very well-crafted film, excellently written, acted, and directed. That being said, I don't think that I'll ever watch it again. It just upset me way too much, got under my skin in a way that very few other movies ever have.

That brings up one hell of a point: would this guy get any punishment at all if it were a 60 Minutes investigative reporter who had done this? I don't think they should punish this guy. He showed them just how dumb and useless a lot of these new airport security measures are. As someone who has endured several time-consuming-yet-worthless "take off your shoes and spread your arms" searches through my bags and clothing myself, I applaud him.

Having heard many, many of Terry Gross's interviews on Fresh Air, let me assure you all that she is much less aggressive and hostile towards her subjects than O'Reilly ever is. She never shouts them down or calls them stupid or wrong, which is something Bill does all the damn time on his show. Claiming that this interview (which I did listen to) was unfair is completely ludicrous. All that being said, O'Reilly did say a couple of things that did surprise me, like that he was anti-death penalty and pro-legalization of marijuana. Unexpected, to say the least.

One BIG question: is there any proof of what Terri's actual wishes are in this situation? All I've seen so far is the husband claiming that she wants to die... and he's already got another woman and a kid. Not exactly the most reliable of proxies.

Two big, big problems with the whole "face of Satan" theory: 1. Those particular smoke formations did indeed look like some sort of demonic face... from the angle of the photographs. From any other angle, they wouldn't have looked like a face at all, since the smoke pictures are essentially two-dimensional illusions. 2. If there is a real Satan, he doesn't look like that. The devil's looks are never once described in the Bible. The horned-and-hooved image came from early marketing campaign by a young Catholic Church, which claimed that the popular Horned God worshipped by many Germanic pagan tribes was actually the Beast and the enemy of mankind. As for the UFO thing, where did those pictures come from?

::lights up:: Go ahead and pee free, dude. It's not like I'll be in a position to care about it anyway. Uh, dude, TheGame90210 is a chick.

Thing is though, LOTS of japanese shows don't have a specific name. Take Misawa/Kobashi vs. Kawada/Taue 6/9/95 match for example. It's one of the damndest things I've ever seen. Maybe the single greatest tag match, ever. But the show it was on didn't have a name. It's just "that 6/9/95" show. Now, keep in mind that that particular matchup has happened at least four or five times that I can remember, usually on shows that, say it with me, had no name. That's why they type out the dates like that, because they have to.

Which is basically the exact same plot as the original movie, which wasn't all that good. But he doesn't turn huge evil until waaaay into the season, just a few episodes before the finale. That's not a great overall story arc. But Wilkins would've gotten his ass kicked in a straight-up fight with Buffy, or hell, even with Xander if it was before he got the invulnerability thing. Yeah, he gets points for mind games and manipulation, but he just didn't come off as really evil to me. Although I will give extra points for the last battle; the graduation robes come off and BOOM, major markout. They didn't do as much with Adam as they could, true. I wish they'd started him off a little sooner in the season. But still, he was a fascinating character, taking Frankenstein's monster to the next logical level. And no, Buffy didn't just kill him dead; Adam knocked her around like a rag doll every time they met, and she had to take some pretty drastic special measures to finish him.

(Is counting the long, long hours until someone names a wrestler who hasn't worked for ROH, MLW, IWA-MS, or CZW.)

Instead of arguing over stuff or saying "this one match went like this", can anybody provide a full results listing? I mean, sorry, but "Sonjay/Young vs. Fuego/Clark was MOTN" doesn't tell me about what it was like, hell, it doesn't even tell me who half the guys in the match are.

I liked 4 also. I can't believe how much people crap on it, when it's the season that produced Hush, Superstar, and Restless. Plus you've got Adam, who in my opinion is second only behind Glory in terms of ass-kicking villains. (Sorry, but Mayor Wilkins mostly sat back and let his underlings do all the work.) I get the feeling that the ones who hate Season 4 so much are the kind of people who bitch about how Mike Nelson is so much worse than Joel Hodgson on MST3K; rabid fanboys who want the show to stay the same forever and can't deal with change. Yeah, Riley isn't Angel, and Tara isn't Oz, and Anya isn't Cordy, and the university isn't the high school. Whine whine whine, grow up already.

Tonight's episode: meh. They did the werewolf thing ad nauseum with Oz, and certainly didn't add anything new or interesting with the generic blond lycanthrope here tonight. Angel's "solution" to getting out of the restaurant was weak. I don't know if he's supposed to be getting soft or corrupted or what, but the old Angel would've burned the place to the fucking ground, not just mosey on out and leave the cannibals in peace. Furthermore, Spike had about five or six lines in the entire show, and the whole "disappearing to Hell" thing with him is getting pretty old, pretty fast. They better do something to mix up the plot next week. And where the FUCK was Harmony? She MADE the last two episodes, and she was completely absent tonight. Also, where was the new Lilah-wannabe chick? Way to Russo off that plot thread, guys. Really crappy show overall.

The stupid fucking pictures on the stupid fucking problems still won't load for me. What's the deal? But looking at the test, damn, they've got it easy in Illinois. Everyone makes fun of Tennessee's educational programs, but here we were way past this shit in 8th grade, on into algebra. Hell, I even knew a freshman who took pre-calculus one time. This kiddie test is way below average difficulty for its claimed level.

That's rarely how it works, though. That kind of show is called a "bought show", and is a highly coveted but seldom occuring thing in wrestling, at least 'round these parts. I've worked a couple hundred shows now, and only four or five have been bought shows. The vast majority of the time, the wrestling company pays the building owner, and then the promotion keeps the gate money. Concessions is different in every building, sometimes the building gets it, sometimes the promotion.

You know, we really should do something about that, like maybe BAN AGNES.

Why is this even a question? The woman is brain damaged, not comatose. And the only one who wants her dead is her husband, who's already had an affair and had a kid with a new fiance? Fuck him, he doesn't have any say over her anymore.

The pictures for the problems won't load for me.

Most wrestling shows pay rent to the building owners, not the other way around.

Another vote for Captain Planet here. Christ, the entire roster of heroes on that show sucked, hard. The five kids on their own were pretty much useless; the show had that Voltron vibe where the five mini-heroes had to combine into the one superhero if they wanted to get anything done. And of course, at least one of them gets kidnapped in every episode, like clockwork. The show also had some of the weakest villains of all time. I mean, they never actually wanted to do anything, like get money or conquer the earth. They just had this burning desire to... pollute? For no goddamn reason? Right. Captain Planet was lucky to be going up against such pussies, because if he had to face a real villain, like Skeletor (or hell, even Hordak) he would've gotten his ass whipped. Shit, even King Hippo and the Eggplant Wizard from Captain N were scarier than the anti-environmentalists. Speaking of Captain N and worst cartoon characters, anyone else here want to throw a vote out for the horrific travesty of justice that was the thing on that show which they claimed was Simon Belmont?

Why are there so many conspiracy theories about Earhart's disappearance? There's more than enough room in the Pacific Ocean for her plane to have crashed and sank, which wasn't unusual back in those days. Why do people have to keep coming up with cockamamie stories, usually involving the Japanese military somehow?

It's a message meaning that the board is overloaded with traffic. (Though why it would be overloaded at this hour is beyond me.) The only thing you can do is wait til it goes away, usually just a few minutes.

I also get real tired of teh kind of people who can't look down at teh keyboard and figure out how to correctly spell teh most common word in teh entire English language.

The test is bullshit. I got 136, which is below what I score on any reputable scientific IQ test. It also labeled me as a "visual mathematician". Seeing as how I scored 110 points higher on my verbal SATs than my math, how does that make sense?

What did people say about her? As far as I can tell, she's just one of those people who're born tone-deaf. It's not her fault that the TV show she worked on did a musical episode. And hell, Dawn and Xander weren't a hell of a lot better when it came to their numbers. I bought the CD yesterday, and listened to it about a zillion times on a long car trip. Great stuff, I have it damn near memorized now. It's got some bonus stuff on it as well, one track each from Hush, Restless, and The Gift, as well as Whedon and his wife singing and playing one of the songs. Oh, and Dawn apparently never had a full song to herself; she had a dance scene that got cut, but no singing numbers.

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