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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: To hurt, they try and try
We are at that part of the weekly AEW discourse where jerks are making (some) good points but in insufferable fashion, the defense force is out in full force and mad YOU might not be into the PPV since this is a weird cycle, diehards are telling you why a LITANY of WWE people coming…
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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: Shave and a haircut, two bits
I have very mixed feelings about the Darby Allin AEW title reign. On the one hand, you are getting fun World Championship matches on TV every week (and sometimes more than once a week). On the other hand, those matches are INCREDIBLY formulaic; Darby absorbs egregious, over the top (and sometimes, scary in real life)…
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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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Crackin’ in heads and jumpin’ in and out of beds
We’ve looked for evidence for years, and the ribald, violent nature of the movie should put paid to the notion, but the missus and I have always felt that Joe Don Baker’s disheveled and sweaty Mitchell (1975) really, really, REALLY feels like it’s a pilot for a TV show. We get patterns of behavior, call…
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I was born about ten thousand years ago
The yearly Voices of Wrestling top ten wrestling poll has again been compiled, and again, the nebulous space I occupy in wrestling “media” has granted my opinions and I a slot. I didn’t vote for what will likely be the number one match AT ALL (readers of this space can guess what match everyone else…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I need somebody to shove
Not a bad Dynamite last night but a bit disjointed, perhaps, so this, too shall be equally disjointed, just some thoughts, no big picture whatsoever because what is the big picture, anyway? Sorry… huffing and puffing due to that run on sentence. I’m winded. I hate when AEW does angles / promos / gives you…
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If you aren’t sick of me by now
And mighty PRIMUS, why wouldn’t you be… you can “enjoy” (?) two plus hours of me yammering about music with the young but mighty Andrew Rich on his show, MUSIC OF THE MAT. THRILL as we speak of sophomore records and the value therein. CHILL as I admit ignorance to BOTH classic seventies rock AND…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: And the sound of the battle rang through the streets of the old east side
Fuck Cody Rhodes. Well, maybe not LITERALLY. That’s someone else’s job. But seriously, I have NO SYMPATHY for those who are given everything but still manage to cry poor. Boo hoo, he was disrespected. Boo hoo, there was bad blood by the end. Mr. Revisionist History seems to forget that the AEW audience had largely…
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