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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Sucks me in when you’re aloof
Gotta be honest with you, gang… and if I weren’t, there’d be no point to me writing this OR you reading it: this was another week where I don’t feel like I have much to say. Not symptoms of burnout or anything, at least I don’t think so; I just wasn’t particularly moved. There was…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: It’s your world and I’m just a squirrel
Continental Classic episodes of Dynamite tend to be a bit harder to write about; I have some thoughts about yesterday’s show (mostly positive, obviously; it was a good show and the time went by very quickly) but there’s not a lot to drill into without boring blow by blow move recaps… that’s not really what…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: One guy’s wasted and the other’s a waste
Is ‘Nevermore: The Raven Effect’ worth a stream? I’m torn. It certainly wasn’t bad or anything; it was clearly made by filmmakers with a vested interest in the subject and was able to even achieve poignancy a time or two. On the other hand, if you’ve been watching wrestling since the time Raven was actually…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: You f*ckin’ wit’ the champion (you already know)
Greetings, friends! DON’T WORRY; If AEW died the second Hangman Adam Page lost to Samoa Joe, it was resurrected when Kazuchika Okada stepped in the ring with Kyle Fletcher (he who implores us to say his full name but I don’t feel like anyone has a problem doing that in the first place). IS THIS…
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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 By the ACTUAL end of Full Gear, I knew those potential “problems” had been replaced by another.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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