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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The distance in your eyes
Towards the end of AEW Full Gear, I figured the discourse this week would be entirely based upon either the show being too long or letting too many people bleed. By the ACTUAL end of Full Gear, I knew those potential “problems” had been replaced by another. For the record (and I guess that is…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Three hours will fill him, three hours will kill him
Oh, I kid. The three hours were mostly FINE. Didn’t love EVERYTHING, but as far as AEW go home shows go… I think this one was fairly good. I think there were only a couple of matches that had me HOOTING AND HOLLERING, but that’s not an indictment… and sometimes I have to stop to…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Red skies at night
You know what? Despite some gnashing of teeth, despite the fact that there’s a pay per view nine days from now, so the timing is a little hinky… despite claims of “struggling” to fill the room… you’d have to say AEW’s annual Blood and Guts was a success, certainly creatively. Both Blood and Guts matches…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Think of the consequences
Seemed like last nite’s episode of Dynamite was largely about consequences… matches to determine the MAN ADVANTAGE in Blood and Guts… announcers menaced for chicanery… talent pressured to join factions… the direct results of messing with FAMILIA… not a complaint, just an observation. TL,DR: a fairly enjoyable show and some good hooks (ho ho) for…
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The Real Samhain
A contemptible rasslin’ company ran by a contemptible rock star has tried to corner the market on the S-word (insert your own cocaine joke here) but children of the 80s know the OG. Me pretending to do the painted cell thing, again. Will my perfidy ever end?
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: No new tale to tell, forty seven years on my way to hell
Another year older; not necessarily another year wiser. What have I learned over the past 365 days? I dunno. I specifically recall yelling “wow, I didn’t know that!” about something or other the other night but the fact must have been so trivial, so banal, that it immediately fell out of my brain. Whew! The…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Just who’s pulling the strings
A pal of mine took to social media during last night’s edition of AEW Dynamite, and, after a particularly divisive segment, he wrote “Are you not sports entertained?” to which I simply replied “No.” “Imagine being so joyless that you couldn’t enjoy that segment,” some random chirped in. “Imagine being blocked,” I replied, and did…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: M is for murder me and A is for answering all my prayers
I have to be honest with YOU, my faithful readers (a couple dozen of you, bless your hearts): for a minute there, I kinda almost thought about not buying WrestleDream. Blasphemy? I dunno… yes, the show ended up great and I’m glad I bought it, but for more than a split second, I was a…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
See? BIG DON isn’t the only one with Wu lyrics at his disposal. Episodes like Wednesday’s Dynamite are my absolute least favorite to talk about… nothing was truly terrible, nothing was particularly great. I’m not especially fired up for WrestleDream, which will certainly be fine, but I don’t anticipate it being better than fine. AEW…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A white knight on his steed
Part of consuming wrestling, for better or worse, is consuming online noise about it (he says, typing on his computer in order to post wrestling criticism online). Sometimes that noise is good, sometimes it’s tiresome. Of late, I’ve found it fairly tiresome. Some of the dirt worst discourse of late; takes and raging anti-takes about…
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