Jingus

Rock's about as black as Sinbad. If you showed his picture to random people, asked "Is this guy black?", you'd get a bunch of No for answers. He's equal parts white and Samoan, iirc. Even if you did insist on naming him as "Vince's first black world champion", then I'd say it tends to prove my point at least a little considering that the first ever "black" champion had skin that was approximately as dark as mine after a day at the beach. Aside from that, what other black world champs have they had, ever? That's right, Booker T, and it took five years and a dumbass faux British accent for a 5-time former world champ to get a belt again. Also, Rock's like 6'5" and about 280 pounds in his wrestling days, how is that not being a big hoss? And guess what, it didn't. It was a one-shot match on a tossed-off minor PPV just a couple of months later, and it ended with Rock running in and accidentally whacking Austin with a sledgehammer. I know the feud was supposed to continue but got cut short because of Austin's injuries, but they didn't do much with the time they had. As for Ventura at SS99, yeah, when the most famous ex-wrestler in the world wants to come work your show and even get physically involved, what else is there that's worthy for him to do besides referee the main event title match?

How about the Rock? Don't remember him burying anyone, ever, and he's now the single biggest name in wrestling history. Mick Foley, Ric Flair, Terry Funk all come to mind at least somewhat as guys who tried to help people besides just themselves. The "you've gotta be a selfish cutthroat in order to succeed in wrestling" meme is one of the more annoying unspoken wrestling commandments. Kind of like those drug addicts who claim that everyone is on something, so it's okay that they're sucking down oxycontins by the handful.

Don't even start that with Edwin, you could be talking about Chaucer or Byron and he'd be all like "ah, you wacky kids and your mainstream literature". (That being said, even as a guy who is often exhasperated by King's novels, I REALLY liked the original Mist short story.) And Edwin, how dare you call Darabont a hack. This man is more than just Shawshank, he's got an entire lifetime of quality work behind his name! Like... um... Green Mile, yeah, and... uh... well, let's check IMDB... he apparently cowrote The Blob remake, The Fly II, some of the crappier Young Indiana Jones episodes, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. So don't fuck with Frank. Even the cinematic greats like Andy Sidaris bow down to his genius.

I've never understood that argument either. Jericho is, what, 5'10" and 220 pounds? In terms of size and working style, he's way closer to Benoit and Hardy than he is to HHH. I can tell you one guy who is sort of a threat: Cena. Just look how HHH dealt with him: -Cena jumps from Smackdown to Raw. HHH finishes his program with Batista and promptly takes a months-long vacation. -HHH comes back, but for the first time in six years, he doesn't even TRY to get involved in the championship picture. Jobs out Ric Flair and Big Show for months on end instead. -Loses the Royal Rumble... after being the #1 participant, lasting throughout the entire match, eliminating half the main eventers himself, and only getting eliminated at the very end, by the eventual winner (Mysterio), and only because of a double-team move backfired. And THEN he somehow scoops Mysterio's main event spot at Wrestlemania; damn, that's some smooth backstage political burial. -Well, he knows that Cena is the new babyface superman and is being pushed so strong that even Captain Trips himself can't bury the kid. He's gonna have to job to him. But look how he gets around that and keeps his heat: a. Their feud just happens to get booked only after Cena starts getting booed out of arenas. b. Throughout all the interviews, HHH keeps hammering on how Cena is a crappier wrestler than him. Cena agrees with him in the dueling promos. c. At Wrestlemania, Shawn Michaels des a DX crotch chop and got a huge pop. In his match, "hated heel" HHH just happens to do the same thing, for another huge pop. d. For the Mania finish, HHH taps out real quickly to a hold which Cena had barely begun to use. You can see fans going "wtf?" in the crowd. Cena afterwards got booked to win half his matches with that hold; Triple H can take credit for "getting it over". -With the guys who beat him at Mania the previous two years, HHH kept the feud going all the way into the summer, losing multiple rematches and finally losing a big blow-off match. With Cena, he has only more match, it's a three-way with Edge, and the finish is a fluke roll-up. -Triple H promptly turns babyface, reforms DX, and never wrestles Cena again. Put it all together, it sure as hell seems like he was threatened by Cena.

A lot of the Memphis show's semi-failure (I saw semi, because that is a massive goddamn crowd for any indy show period) I think was because the main event was changed from Hogan-Lawler to Hogan-Big Show at the last minute. Regardless of whether or not MVP has the talent, you guys are all forgetting something. He's not a big hoss, and he's black. That right there means Vince will almost certainly never push him as a top guy.

Say hello to Christian's latest bodyguard! Dammi,t you stole the joke I was gonna use. Truthfully though, that brings up a point: why did TNA never bring in Severn? Especially during the first few months, when they had a beautiful feud set up. When TNA started, they basically just stole the NWA title belt to use for themselves. The last independent NWA world champion was none other than... Dan Severn, who got stripped of the belt. And then who wins the belt? That's right, the man Severn hates more than any other, Ken Scamrock. They should've brought Severn in as a heel (his legit-but-boring mat-based pro style would work better that way), stuck him with a manager who could talk for him, and hey presto, they might've drawn some money. Or, rather, lost less money.

No, that was the "TNA Asylum", the Impact Zone is their current studio. Yes, they did, and jesus christ it sucked. Anyone else remember the angle where Taker dragged Hogan down a hallway behind his motorcycle? As for possible Hulkster feuds, there ain't many. When he came back to the WWE, Hogan rarely did anything with new talent other than beat them in a one-time match; he only did the feuds and the big matchups with other main eventers. It's probably safe to assume he's gonna be a babyface, which makes his choice of possible opponents incredibly limited; there simply aren't nearly as much top talent in the WWE now as there was five years ago. The company is especially lacking on the heel side right now. I mean, Viscera and fucking Miz are sort of contending for sort of a world belt. Right now, unless they turned someone, the only heels big enough for Hogan to work with are Orton, Edge, Umaga, and Khali. If you want to have nightmares, just imagine what a 2008 Hogan vs. Khali match would look like. So, basically the exact same setup they have with OVW and had with Deep South? Why do they keep opening cookie-cutter developmental territories, getting upset when they don't deliver a bunch of superstars, closing them down, and then opening up an identical territory in another town?

Lots of people said that, but I liked the dialogue. That is, I was entertained by watching those scenes, and wasn't just sitting there going "arrgh, when's the damn car chase gonna start". That statement can be accurately said about damn near any movie not named Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4: The Next Generation.

Including absolutely barf-inducing gore effects, especially in the hospital scenes, which were so gross that it just turned me off. And using Osama Bin Ladin as backstory for a B horror movie really disturbed me, there was no justification for going there. And having Rose McGowan play a stripper but never get naked, that's some sort of blasphemy. Also, like I said, 90% of the time I don't like pretty much any movies Robert Rodriguez does.

She's tolerable in her role, but it ain't like she's Sunny '96 levels of good. Personally, I find it disgusting that in all likelihood her contract is for more money than a lot of the actual wrestlers. She would never have this job if she wasn't Kurt's wife.

The hippies who wrote this have clearly been on a road trip or two. Very amusing... if it works. It crashed once and froze once for me. Also, they need to tweak the hunting. It's even more frustrating than the original OT, and I didn't know that could be possible. Once I shot four different things but still took zero food back to the car.

Oddly enough, on that one I agree with him (ever cared for most of Rodriguez's work besides Sin City and El Mariachi). Hannibal Rising also did thoroughly slob the knob. Haven't seen or wanted to see most of the others. Slight rephrasing: got a list of movies older than a year or two?

Ebert's given everything a good review since he came back too (Except for Southland Tales which is apparently so shitty even he gave it a bad review). I still like reading his reviews for the most part but it's hard to see him give shit like August Rush *** Ebert goes through different phases of how tough he is on movies. Hell, twenty years apart, he rated Anaconda higher than Godfather Part 2. Check out some of the older S&E episodes from the 80s to see what I mean. But in the case of Hitman, he said he found the main character of 47 and his relationship with the girl to be interesting, while the action scenes bored him. Oddly, that's almost the exact same basic review he gave Transfomrers.

I knew an Army guy who said he had better internet service over there than back home.

A piece of art which, despite being well executed, gives a somewhat forlorn and fatalistic sense; plus it's difficult to tell exactly what period or place it comes from, which gives it an odd feeling of being possibly contemporary but hinting at infathomable depths of time. And then a quote from Oscar Wilde. Yeah, it's like it was custom made for you.

And iirc, you also said Shoot 'Em Up was the worst action movie you'd ever seen. So, Douche, would you mind listing all the other movies you fucking hated? Because with the current track record, I'm gonna go out of my way to catch any on that list that I haven't seen already.

I don't know if you can say Bush "turned us into" the aforementioned holy phalli. But the administration over the past several years has certainly been skilled at enflaming and rousing the rabble who might be predisposed to such beliefs in the first place. Also probably doesn't help that the Red States have overall higher birth rates than their liberal counterparts, many of which are experiencing negative population growth. Did you? Laugh out loud, that is? Really? For some reason I doubt your sincerity. 1. Call it what it is, a guerilla civil war. I'm tired of the pansy "sectarian" label. 2. Of course America's involvement has something to do with it. Namely, the fact that we changed the previous situation. That situation being the rule of Saddam and his party, who tended to execute anyone who looked at them funny. And then execute their family, their friends, their entire hometown, and everyone who sat near them in first grade. Except for the women, who got tossed into the rape rooms. That sort of tyrannical rule has the side effect of thoroughly discouraging people from committing "sectarian violence". 3. The United States isn't an empire. If we were doing true imperialism in the old-school sense, the Iraqis wouldn't have their own government, they'd be paying us taxes (except for the ones we made our literal slaves), we'd defile their women and force all their children to speak our language, and we'd arrogantly laugh about how we fully intend to never leave. That's what empires do. So come up with a different word for "imperialism" for the current ham-handed occupation and policing. Do you mean "how many terrorist have successfully attacked a target on American soil since 9/11"? To my knowledge, zero. Or do you mean "how many terrorists have attempted to attack American targets all over the globe"? Too many for me to begin to count. Either way, what's that question got to do with anything? Oh, are you seriously gonna bring the "Bush caused 911!" conspiracy theories? Please do, I beg you. No, scratch that, I dare you, I double-dog dare you motherfucker, SAY WHAT AGAIN try to present a reasonable case for that.

No, he signed with UFC, and Dana White is absolutely against letting any of his fighters do pro wrestling. Why do these "journalist" douchebags do that anyway? "I'm so privileged that I know something is going to happen because I'm an INZIDER, but I'm not going to actually tell you what it is, I'm just going to brag that I know something you don't, kneel before Zod, mwahahaaaaa!" There's absolutely no good reason whatsoever for someone who claims to be a reporter to post a stupid tease like that. Do you see that kind of shit in newspapers? "Congress is probably going to vote on something tomorrow, but we're not gonna say anything else because it might not happen."

For my real name, I get one link to a play I did sound tech for, and a couple of Classmates.com hits. Other than that, it's all cluttered up by at least two other guys who have the same name as me. Searching under Jingus I find some links to various message boards, a couple of pings on my indy wrestling stuff, and then a whole bunch of related things, like sometimes Genghis Khan's name is spelled that way. Annoying thing: apparently the word "jingus" is now some kind of urban slang synonym for bad or unwanted. That didn't come up the last time I tried this a couple years ago. I assume it's my fault somehow.

Why ordered from Amazon? Any library or used book store would have 'em for either cheap or free. I gotta recommend Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's newest Pendergast novel, The Wheel of Death. Specifically, to recommend that even fans of the series (such as myself) stay the fuck away from it. Basically, imagine if an Agatha Christie novel ended with you finding out that a ghost killed them all. Preston and Child write books in which stuff that seems like supernatural happenings turns out to be perfectly ordinary, explained away by some pseudo-science. This time they just said "aw, the hell with it" and wrote a bunch of bullshit about magical Tibetan paintings which can possess your mind and give you the ability to summon incorporeal demonic entities. Plus the main plot is a ripoff of Speed 2. Read Chris Jericho's autobiography. It's about a 0.8 on the Foley scale. Wish it covered his WWF/E run too.

Yeah, provided you could get past them making you do 500 squats in a row, and many other "exercises" which would have Amnesty International up in arms if we tried them at Guantanemo. Plus you had to pay a fee, forget how much exactly, but something like a couple hundred bucks. Basically, if you weren't already a serious pro athlete, you didn't have a chance.

Uwe Boll would be worse. But yeah, McG's just awful.

Also, don't forget that even after most of the old territories dried up there was still WCW and second-tier feds like ECW, Smokey Mountain, and Memphis to poach talent from. None of those are still around, and the WWE doesn't give a shit about stealing anyone TNA has.

Mike at a TNA show? Heh. Doubt it. He tends to hate everything but the WWE, and only barely tolerates them. Yes, Greenville is an old NWA/WCW stronghold town. IIRC, it's also the where that one Flair vs. HHH match from 2003 took place, so it can still draw today.