RavishingRickRudo

If Powers Booth doesn't have a face to face, voice to voice,b showdown with Jack Bauer, I will be pissed.

I made a stew the other week. It was delicious. I ran out of jasmine rice so opted for some pasta. A radical move, but one that paid off and was well-received. Other than that, been good. I dunno if you heard of it, but Superdeluxe.com is great. Bunch of shorts. Brad Neely is the shittles.

Ok, Seth as Ryan means this has too much potential not to kick ass as a regular sketch. Lorne is Lorne, all he can be is Lorne and the only reason he was Scott was because he's the boss. Beyond that, the talking head, "Worlds Funniest Box" "...Timing" and the glare at the end were enough Michael Scottisms for me. Granted, Lorne sexually harassing a Seth-played Ryan would have made it pure *****.

I know, how else can he effectively sulk if he doesn't have those locks flowing in his face?

I thought the monologue was at least ****. The best thing I've seen them do in a while (which, admittedly, is not much). Sudekis and Wiigs' Jim and Pam was so good that I almost want to see this as a regular sketch. Lornes Michael Scott was better the second time I watched it, with the look at the end being the capper.

I liked 23. It really doesn't get all thrillery until the last act, so up till then it's pretty lighthearted, but if you like the twist and don't think about it too much, it's a fine way to waste 2 hours. If you don't like the twist, you'll probably hate it, since the movie pretty much puts its entire weight on it. Also, the top star is Virginia Madsens rack.

They are *really* getting down to business, now. There's like half a dozen things they did tonight that LOST would take a year to do.

Everything in that fight had attached to it this huge weight. Every punch Randy landed was a huge step towards victory, every strike Tim landed was a potential defeat. Every takedown was a leap forward, every guard pass was a win. It wasn't just a fight, it was a series of fights. It's what defines an epic.

The show started off fine with Babalu/Lambert. I say "fine" in the 'fight that was pretty active and back and forth and had its fair share of moments when I thought it was over' way. I say "fine" with the "" around it above because Babalu lost in the most dumbfuck moves of the night that had me sour. Late in the first round Babalu went for a lunging knee and got hammered by Lambert and was almost finished if it wasn't for the bell sounding. There was no real purpose to this move as he didn't get enough height nor did he look to bring Lamberts head down to complete the move. It was basically to close distance in a totally ineffectual manner and he got tagged cause moves like that leave yourself open to a counter. After clearly getting the message that he shouldn't do that ever again and that Lambert has it timed, Babalu, of course, does it again and gets KOd in the second round. I thought the Liddell fight was just overzealousness, but this fight proves that Babalu -while a talented and wellrounded fighter- is dumb as a post. The second fight was Hughes vs. Lytle. I had watched Lytle vs. Ross Mason from Cage Rage (I think CR15) where Lytle completely dominated and looked very good in winning that companies WW title. So it wasn't a big surprise for Lytle to last as long as he did. What was a lil more surprising was Hughes going about as he did, which was a lot more cautiously than anticipated. Clearly he was gunshy about losing 2 in a row, but he worked position way too much when he could have been GnPing. He was looking for one big game ending position and never got it, and because of that, it was a frustrating 3rd round. The first two were very good though, so overall it was a good fight. Lytle sweeping Hughes was a bigtime shock. Third fight was Franklin vs. MacDonald and, well, MacDonald was a good choice of opponent for Rich. He never really had Franklin in trouble and couldn't deal with Riches technique and power standing. The Post Fight Hug from Anderson Silva and the mutual admiration was tremendous, proving that Silva and Franklin not only compete for #1 MW in the UFC, but also "coolest dude in MMA". As of right now, Silva has both titles. The look on his face coming to the ring was PRICELESS. Fourth fight was a banger and I knew the second I said "MCFEDRIES vs. SILVA WOULD BE AWESOME" I knew McFedries would lose it. SWEET headnarm, but even sweeter fake-mount-to-switch by Kampmann. Kid got skills. Fifth fight was amazing.

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really want to see this fight again. Fucking Youtube, hurry the fuck up. I want commentary. I heard SHIT after all the table pounding and voice losing.

Franklin trains with MFS. I know he's technically under Jorge Gurgel, but his ties are close enough to MFS to be considered one of their own.

This was basically Randy vs. Chuck I, but this Chuck was a lot slower, but also was better on the ground. In the past six months MFS went from having 3 champions, to zero. Ouch.

Randy Couture is Forty Fucking Three years old. His injury of being closer to death by a solid fucking decade, having a foot reach disadvantage and being half a foot shorter and 50 pounds lighter is far fucking greater than whatever pain Tim Sylvia has in his pussy. You don't top that. MMA goes downhill from here.

RANDY FUCKING COUTURE!!!!!!!!!!

I got the Box set yesterday (yeah, that's right, I bought it instead of Buffy Season 5 :swerve: ), and I'm just blown away. This is, without doubt, the best first season (and the only season, therefore having an near-perfect record for quality episodes) that I have ever seen... and I'm only done Disc 1 & 2! I've watched the first episode "Serenity" 2 1/2 times in the past 24 hours (The second half -I had seen it before, and had seen the 1st half again last week), then again with Commentary, then again forcing a friend to watch it), and it's such a good fucking show. It's full of... oh what's that called... oh yeah, DICKERY! Everyone is a bastard, in someway, on that show. Gotta love it. Ok, THOUGHTS?

Might as well start: Evangelista Cyborg vs. Melvin Manhoef Cage Rage 2/42006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4oI8lu-H3E...elista%20cyborg The last three minutes of this fight may be the most awesome insane minutes I've seen in MMA.

As the sport gets more popular, as it becomes more lucrative to be a fighter, as it opens up around the world, there will be more and better athletes getting into it. This could do 2 things: make MMA better, or make it worse. Right now, MMA is pretty free-formed. It's pretty open. There are many different styles and types of fighters; athletes who grew up with traditional martial arts like wrestling, boxing, tkd, bjj, judo, etc. and have centred their fighting style around those bases. Shogun is different from Silva, Silva is different from Liddell, Liddell is different from Tito, Tito is different from Couture, Couture is different from Babalu. It's very diverse, and guys are good enough and well rounded enough and wreckless enough to make for fun and exciting fights (generalization). So as more fighters get into it, as MMA becomes the base style -the one athletes grow up with-, it will probably get more standardized. More structured and rigid and less open. Fighters will be more similar stylistically and things like conditioning and strategy will become more important (we are already seeing that become more important in the past few years). So rather than "styles make fights" it will be "the best athlete wins" Whether that makes the sport better or worse becomes the question. It could be very possible that fights will be more competitive, yet along with that it will be more bland and less interesting. Today when you get two high level fighters, you are either going to get an awesome match, or a really boring match. The thing with strategy is that fighters will be fighting to score points rather than go for the win (in the UFC, PRIDE has rules that try to avoid this), so you would get fights that consist of a takedown or two and that's it, because that's all they need. I don't think I want to see the day when that becomes prevalent in the sport. However, there could also be positive effects of better athletes, better training, better conditioning that means fighters can fight at a high level throughout the entire fight. Which means there is still lots of room for improvement. SO, in the future, is MMA going to be better, worse, or the same?

I'm sure Paul E watches CSI and will rip from their use of subculture. Vampires, Furries, Street Racers, Lil People, Transexuals, Infantalists, S&M, Boxers... and then in defending these awful plots will claim "hey, CSI does it..."

So what does that have to do with you being retarded? Do you like fire? Do you like the bright-bright? Watch out, fire is hot. But then again, if you couldn't figure out the whole ECW creative situation, maybe you won't be able to figure that out either... maybe Meltzer should do a news report and help clue you in.

I can't believe some people still have to be told something like that rather than it being totally obvious to them.

I'd watch the ECW show just as much as I watch TNA and the WWE.

I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but... I know this can't be the old ECW. But you can't really say Sandman coming out to lame generic music is better than Sandman coming out to Enter Sandman. You can't say that Balls vs. Tanaka in a match that was maybe 5 minutes long and ended with a single chair shot was better than what they could have done given more time (in other words, their HH2000 match). This "new" ECW seems a lot like the "old" WWE. And by that I mean, the WWE from 2001-on. I am all for a new ECW, it's just this new ECW is god awful.

Then don't watch. Simple. Wow, it must've taken you hours to come up with that one, genius. Please, don't hold back any more pearls of wisdom, because surely the world needs more insight from such a great mind. If we're exchanging suggestions, stab yourself a lot with a really long and sharp knife and see how long you can go before passing out and dying. Simple, you dumb piece of shit.

Yeah, this show didn't tell us anything about what the new WWE project is about... cept... The Wrestlers will use Generic WWE Music. It will be at least 90% WWE guys. They will wrestle the WWE style with WWE pacing. There will be much less blood and hardcore trash on the TV shows. ECW Kurt Angle is a laugh. There will be similar booking in ECW as there is in WWE. The production of ECW will be the same as the WWE. Big Show push #5780 begins where Big Show will squash a bunch of lil guys a lot as they try to rebuild him as a monster and then eventually job him out and then rebuild him, then job him out, then rebuild him, then job him out. Paul Heyman will make a bunch of worthless speeches. Styles and Tazz will be very annoying on commentary. Oh, and since the show is filmed infront of WWE arena audiences, the fans tonight are gone from those shows. And can you imagine what ECW, what a show like this, will be like infront of a WWE arena audience? The direction is pretty clear, skippy, and it's no good.

ECW is a WWE project. Therefore it is booked by WWE morons. Don't fool yourself or let Paul E fool you into thinking there is any autonomy in this WWE project. That bullshit vampire line should have been enough to tell you where Paul E stands in this mess. You actually think Paul E would have given Sandman that generic shit? Or let Sandman come out to that generic shit? And you think Sandman is going to stop coming out to that shit after tonight? You think the WWE is not going to produce this ECW show, which means the same sorta camera angles and cuts and shit like that? You are one dumb naive lil cocksucker if you think that.