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Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Quickie self portrait. The beauty of the digital canvas… you don’t have to deal with my pores / complexion, the actual patchiness of my slovenly beard, my receding hairline (I shave bald every month or two these days), my wrinkles, etc. I was handsome, once upon a time. Now I’m just old. Also, yes, I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ll take the low road
Feels like football season started early. Did the Zombie Princess come back and we just weren’t told? The last couple of weeks of Dynamite have felt a little… Fed-y? Fedular? Fedtastic? I can’t call a show with a thirty minute FTR / Bandido / Brody King (I refuse to type the other thing) match BAD.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Vegetable lasagna
As Forbidden Door finally comes into sharper focus, the eternal battle rages… is there too much New Japan content on the show with people the Western audience won’t know? Not enough New Japan? Where are their biggest stars? Why are there no New Japan tag team in the FD tag team tournament? Wither STARDOM? Why…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There is no god up in the sky tonight
Approaching this a little different than usual this week. Normally, I like to think I’m fairly thick skinned, but last night after Dynamite, someone who I thought I was cool with kept attacking me over hating the finish to the main event. Like, maybe they had a bad day, I dunno… but I was told…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Ol’ Chicago, she’s a woman, make a young man a bum
If I liked Toni Storm better, that would have been a pretty killer title. Oh, how I LAUGHED when young Billie Starkz gave the Timeless one a gentle TAPPY TAP with the title belt in order for her mistress, ROH Forever champion Athena to get heat. Just the most GENTLE of belt shots. Athena keeps…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: ‘Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
Well, that’s that. All In came and went. It played host to probably something near 30,000 spectators and apparently is on track to be one of AEW’s most purchased pay per views EVER. So business wise, an absolute smash. And yeah, for ME, the back half of the show delivered. It’s not even that the…
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Trouble Shooter
“I wanna be Jim’s Shooter!” some ‘clever’ wag in fandom said once in the 80s. HA HA GOT ‘IM. Cool way to enjoy comics, bro. There was a LOT of vitriol around Jim Shooter then in those times (and certainly extending into the 90s as he launched several failed publishing ventures), some of it warranted,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: New moon on Monday
I dreamt I had invited Tetsuya Naito over to my apartment and was feeding him Golden Grahams… and he was really, REALLY impressed (with the Grahams, not me and my apartment). “SUGOI!” NO, I don’t know what that means. Dynamite (and Collison) did NOT emanate from Seattle, Washington as they said no less than six…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Que soy yo quien te espera
You’ll have to forgive the (relative) brevity of this week’s column… I’m very under the weather thanks to my plague carrying wife. She’s forced to go into our office three times a month and clearly the last time she was there, she caught THE DREADED SKUNGE and passed it along to me, so we’re coughing…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: You rock me like the real thing
I don’t really have the energy to rant about four hours of AEW action being too much this week… and I think the more militant weirdos about it have largely backed off, anyway. People sort of figured it out… this wasn’t really a four hour “blockbuster,” if you’ll excuse the term, a four hour “pay…
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