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Who Killed WCW Episode Two: Night train to Mundo Fine
Oh dear Gotch above, why am I doing this to myself. A birdie told me this was going to be the “Eric Bischoff redemption train” episode (all aboard), and yes, it absolutely was. Bischoff was betrayed by the meanies at Turner, it was those gosh darn Standards and Practices, Turner didn’t want WCW, etc., etc.,…
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Where does he get those wonderful toys?
Largely the internet. *crickets* “Hey, DJ?” some have asked over the years. “Are you a shoot DJ?” Leaving aside the fact that I know pretty much nothing about popular music after, oh, I dunno, the year 2004 or so, the answer is no. I have dicked around for friends and put together set lists and…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
“Was the movie really bad or was I just in the wrong mood?” – Tom Servo Sometimes (read as: often), I feel like a picked a bad time to launch this blog. Not because no one reads any longer… well… YES, because no one reads any longer, but more because I picked a time where…
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Who Killed WCW Episode One: Down where the tradewinds play
“There are very few voices that can speak with any kind of authority or credibility on what happened back during the time when WCW and WWF were going head to head, and I think the audience is interested in that period of time, clearly. And like I said, nobody could speak to it quite the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A house divided
No, not Swerve’s house. That guy is great. There are two AEWs. There’s the AEW where Will Ospreay and Kyle O’Reilly kill each other for twenty five minutes; the AEW that casually put on that ridiculously great battle royal gauntlet, the AEW where world class wrestlers like Roderick Strong and Swerve Strickland struggle for ring…
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A word on art, bullying and inkers being tracers
“Oh, DJ,?” you may ask. “What do you do when you aren’t lamenting the sorry state of pro wrestling, bitching about comic books, promising us Transformers photos you never take and the like?” Well, mostly, I draw, at least as much as my old hands let me. I drew a LOT as a kid. I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I wonder why in LA
Despite my dour, cynical leanings and tendencies, I promise… I do try to enjoy things. Now, you have to work HARD to convince me something is worth my time… but once you have me on side, I’ll give you a LOT of leeway. So it went yesterday, when I saw a LOT of people losing…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Love will get us through the awkward stage
Double or Nothing Weekend started, for me, with watching Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Star Navigation night two. I don’t want to be here all day or I’d probably write more about that show than I would about the AEW Pay Per View. NOAH is interesting to me; like AEW, it’s also a company that struggles with…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Sing, you pricks
I’ve really whittled down my wrestling consumption and ancillary wrestling content consumption of late… I’m really down to a handful of podcasts largely because either the insights are can’t miss… or the creators are my friends. There’s only so many ways, so many times I can hear about the softness of AEW business, the dissatisfaction…
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