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Hot boy summer
Man, I love the Transformers Missing Link toyline, the initiative by TAKARA / Tomy to recreate the original Transformers / Diaclone toys as faithfully as possible, but with more modern levels of articulation and sometimes eschewing stickers for actual molded greeblely detailed parts. They’re NOT all home runs (looking at you Bumblebee and Cliffjumper; both…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: The traffic is waiting outside
The groundswell of Japanese people going about their lives, the push of bodies against them. The chance meeting on the crowded street afforded one more opportunity to say what hadn’t yet been said. Darby Allin and Bryan Danielson embraced amongst the tulmolt, one last defiant gesture before real life came crashing back down over them…
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Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Quickie self portrait. The beauty of the digital canvas… you don’t have to deal with my pores / complexion, the actual patchiness of my slovenly beard, my receding hairline (I shave bald every month or two these days), my wrinkles, etc. I was handsome, once upon a time. Now I’m just old. Also, yes, I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow
This week saw an interesting Dynamite in a few ways. I’m not sorry to see the residency come to an end… we’ll get to that, but the show was bookended with some stuff that makes me VERY hopeful for the future. Look, I nitpick AEW every week. I wouldn’t say it’s my JOB; but it’s…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can feel myself fading away
Another week where I can’t tell you Dynamite was bad but it didn’t really do a lot for me, either. Another week where it feels like Colision might be the thing I’m looking for, instead. I dunno. Just not really feeling the residency, I guess; I’m about ready for the thing to end. And the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: War has always been the bosses’ way, sir
Looking back, I feel like I don’t have a great deal to say about Dynamite; not a bad show by any means, but I wasn’t particularly GRIPPED by it, either. I was a bit worried it was gonna be an endless parade of misplaced ECW nostalgia and was dreading that, honestly… but other than the…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true
On the whole, Forbidden Door was a better show than All In, but it was still let down by two things: not enough New Japan participation (more on that in a bit) and the absolute scourge of modern wrestling… overwrought, overthought overbooking. This show probably made it to at least 1.2 MegaJarretts on the overbooking…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ll take the low road
Feels like football season started early. Did the Zombie Princess come back and we just weren’t told? The last couple of weeks of Dynamite have felt a little… Fed-y? Fedular? Fedtastic? I can’t call a show with a thirty minute FTR / Bandido / Brody King (I refuse to type the other thing) match BAD.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Vegetable lasagna
As Forbidden Door finally comes into sharper focus, the eternal battle rages… is there too much New Japan content on the show with people the Western audience won’t know? Not enough New Japan? Where are their biggest stars? Why are there no New Japan tag team in the FD tag team tournament? Wither STARDOM? Why…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There is no god up in the sky tonight
Approaching this a little different than usual this week. Normally, I like to think I’m fairly thick skinned, but last night after Dynamite, someone who I thought I was cool with kept attacking me over hating the finish to the main event. Like, maybe they had a bad day, I dunno… but I was told…
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