-
I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Leonard Bernstein
I find myself coming out of Worlds End happy with the wrestling AEW can field, seemingly at the drop of a hat, but depairing at the focus on certain things, certain things I don’t like. I also despair at the state of (some of) AEW fandom, so desperate to tell you if you don’t like…
-
A quick word about grift
“Psst. C’mere. Yeah, YOU.” I beckon you with a crooked finger. “Just a moment of your time, please,” I grin, slipping my arm around you in a friendly, perhaps overly friendly manner. “Ah, you’ve got an eye for quality, don’t you? I can tell right off the bat by the way you dress, the skeptical…
-
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Christmas in the Northwest is a gift God wrapped in green
Speaking as someone who neither believes in Christmas nor God… er… happy holidays? I don’t really have many keen insights to share re: Dynamite last night and a bagel is calling my name before I log into my work computer to do NOTHING for the next eight hours… so I have little desire to write…
-
Chef Recommends: Nigel McGuinness vs. Lee Moriarty from ROH FInal Battle 2024
That’s it; that’s the post. Seek this match out by hook or crook. When pro wrestling is at its best, at its finest, there’s nothing like it in the world… and Nigel McGuinness returning to the hallowed ground of the Hammerstein Ballroom to fight one of the best young grapplers in the world today, Lee…
-
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: But no one wants you when you lose
I’m sure I’ve written about this before as it seems like the kind of cantankerous, old man thing to do but I was irked this week and then flat out pissed off by something… the seeming need of a certain segment of AEW fandom to dismiss criticism, to be upset when YOU don’t engage with…
-
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Give me a head with hair
I didn’t feel especially moved by Dyna one way or the other last night… there’s usually a show or two in their cycle to build the next PLE PPV that just treads water a bit, and this one surely did that, although it did feature some good in ring action (and some not so good…
-
Like Olympus above the Serengeti
I get it to a degree; Monty Brown wasn’t having thirty minute classics back in 2005 in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. I can sort of sympathize with the Powers That Were wanting Brown to take more indy dates, to get better at wrestling, before they would look at strapping him up with the NWA World…
-
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Cheaper by the dozen
Sometime in the last week, TNA AEW died. RIP. At least it looked that way if you were following any sort of online discourse. Last week’s Dynamite had a bad rating, a record low for a normal time slotted episode and EVERYONE freaked out. Let’s leave aside the fact that it was the day before…
-
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive
Sorry I didn’t grind out a Full Gear review. Honestly, I didn’t really have any great takes, lukewarm or otherwise coming out of Full Gear, and I knew it would be covered to death, anyway. The show largely went how I figured; oh, they could have killed Orange Cassidy a bit more dramatically, and maybe…
-
I’m beggin’ and I’m pleadin’ but you always tell me no
I was gonna say something on BlueSky (come say hi if you have a chance) but I didn’t want to deal with word counts and whatever else. Since LZM is a clearing house for my thoughts, I thought I’d jot down some quick ones about the absolute one. I like Ricky Starks. I DON’T like…
La Zona Muerta 