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U.N. Squadron sounds like a Cannon film starring Michael Dudikoff
When I walked into the classroom, that shining day in 1989, she was there, waiting for me. The one. Well, maybe not THE one. That would come later, of course, at a time where I was unprepared and from a direction I didn’t suspect. But for eleven year old me, smart, awkward, head full of…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no Canada like French Canada
We could argue all day the merits of AEW slowly but surely crawling towards the once per month pay per view model… suffice to say I don’t like it but it’s not like I don’t understand it. Money talks, and all that. I do think that there is a touch of nuance lost when AEW…
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40th Anniversary Non Apology Tour
An awful looking, tacked on CGI horror dropped into MY Transformers the Movie (1986)? A “secret” in a story “we know so well?” I know I’m supposed to sink to my knees in fanboy supplication and say six “Hail Hasbros” while I hold my hand over a resin copy of the Matrix of Leadership, but…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When I needed soul revival
May as well get right into it this week, as I kick it speed style. If you want the more thoughtful, more introspective side of my writing, I dropped a near 7,000 word screed about TNA earlier this week. Tranquilo. Assenayo. Much like most heel commentators when the in-ring action gets… questionable… you might say…
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Dark Side of the Ring: In this world I find a way to cross the line
This is for you; you know who you are. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and poorly produced documentaries. While this isn’t really the space to go into a line for line attack on the latest Dark Side of the Ring documentary, this time featuring Total Nonstop Action (a dark…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Clarissa wrestlesplains it all
I could write paragraphs, COLUMN INCHES about the difference between wrestlers using sand for a dumb, crooked finish and wrestling MANAGERS using powder or salt since time immemorial but I get tired of wrestlesplaining or being wrestlesplained to, so we can table that. A plea from ship to shore and all points east; I try…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can blow you away or you can ride with me
You can’t say AEW gave you a sleepy post pay per view Dynamite THIS week, and to top it off, due to the impending holiday, a Thursday night Collision to boot. Then, on top of all that, next week’s Dynamite sounds insane. AEW feels fairly hot, feels like they are stomping on the gas pedal.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: RAGE ROCK ROLL FIGHT BRAWL FALL RUMBLE
Finally, FINALLY, Shane Taylor Promotions has made their way from the backwaters of unwatched, unloved Sinclair-style Ring of Honor to the weird, somewhat adrift Tony Khan iteration of ROH to the safe, almost pleasant shores of AEW. A Tony Khan booking trope; when he gets into an act, suddenly they’re all over the dang product,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’m a skateboarder (I’m a Transformer)
I mean… Look. I like Darby Allin well enough. I’ve seen him have crazy matches, or crazy spots, anyway. So have you. If you’re the kind of wrestling fan who believes in “you deserve it,” there’s no question that the man deserves it; he’s put his body through Hell for wrestling, long before he came…
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Here’s the Easter Rabbit, hooray
Happy “Inoki died for our sins so we could enjoy hard boiled eggs or whatever and oh yeah, there’s something to do with rabbits, I think” day if you celebrate. I drew this a few years back for fun. I’d do ten times better on a piece like this today, maybe more due to better…
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