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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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If you like Giorgio, you’ll LOVE Primo
Sorry, I’ve been a little quiet the past couple of orbits about the sun. I’m actually on a few days’ holiday, so I have been purposefully trying to lay low. However, the world of La Zona Muerta, your favorite lukewarm takes-based blog, never stops. Just today, no fooling, I received an email from a bot…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: “I don’t know what the fuck Central time is. I need Everett, Washington time.”
Shout out to the late, great Buddy Wayne. A big regret of my life is that I never got to meet him. Also, I must offer a belated mea culpa to the people of Everett, Washington. On Monday morning, I wrote the following: “At any rate, Vancouver was a terrific crowd, up for everything, even…
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Chef Recommends: You Know you Ain’t Gettin’ No Younger
The thought occurs that I talk a LOT about wrestling I don’t like… but how about a quick recommendation for something I do like? Hence, a new, recurring feature: Chef Recommends. Have you TRIED the Clams Casino? A fake (aka digital) painting of my shoot El Desperado pyonsuke on some shoot drapery I think it’s…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Something for the Weekend
The old lady and I took in a LOT of graps this weekend. Three hours of AEW (man, I can’t wait for the shows to go back to normal; I’m a weirdo who actually LIKES Rampage on a Friday night, for the most part), NJPW Best of the Super Juniors night one, a bit of…
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