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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin
As much as I’d like to have told you Dynamite was a home run, especially after a weekend where AEW announced a stinky match and it was OPEN FORUM WARFARE between the haves and have nots… it was probably a solid double, at best. If that. It wasn’t all bad, certainly… Kenny Omega and his…
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I yam what I yam
The other night, I was a bit bored and wanted to draw but couldn’t really find anything I wanted to do. The missus suggested “Why not Popeye?” We both have a mutual fondness for Thimble Theater, particularly under EC Segar’s pen… and of course the character (in)famously just fell into public domain. Actually, before I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Return of the good gumbo
So God came back the other day. Look, I know I was not particularly kind to the Kenny Omega / Gabe Kidd match, but that was largely due to my distaste for both Kidd as a performer and the match layout casting Kidd as a virtuous defender of New Japan Pro Wrestling. KENNY, in the…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no more blood and no more pain
I had a startling revelation around about the third time I sat down to try to align my thoughts about the combined Wrestle Kingdom and Wrestle Dynasty shows into a coherent narrative (keeping in mind that I have not yet seen or read results for New Year’s Dash): this wasn’t going to be a review.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A self imposed penance
Unless I wake up tomorrow and it turns out David Zaslav sold off WBD to a conglomeration of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ari Emmanuel, it would be hard to say THE MOTHER OF ALL SIMULCASTS was anything but a success. The picture on MAX was GREAT; the feed looked like a million bucks. The…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Leonard Bernstein
I find myself coming out of Worlds End happy with the wrestling AEW can field, seemingly at the drop of a hat, but depairing at the focus on certain things, certain things I don’t like. I also despair at the state of (some of) AEW fandom, so desperate to tell you if you don’t like…
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A quick word about grift
“Psst. C’mere. Yeah, YOU.” I beckon you with a crooked finger. “Just a moment of your time, please,” I grin, slipping my arm around you in a friendly, perhaps overly friendly manner. “Ah, you’ve got an eye for quality, don’t you? I can tell right off the bat by the way you dress, the skeptical…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Christmas in the Northwest is a gift God wrapped in green
Speaking as someone who neither believes in Christmas nor God… er… happy holidays? I don’t really have many keen insights to share re: Dynamite last night and a bagel is calling my name before I log into my work computer to do NOTHING for the next eight hours… so I have little desire to write…
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Chef Recommends: Nigel McGuinness vs. Lee Moriarty from ROH FInal Battle 2024
That’s it; that’s the post. Seek this match out by hook or crook. When pro wrestling is at its best, at its finest, there’s nothing like it in the world… and Nigel McGuinness returning to the hallowed ground of the Hammerstein Ballroom to fight one of the best young grapplers in the world today, Lee…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: But no one wants you when you lose
I’m sure I’ve written about this before as it seems like the kind of cantankerous, old man thing to do but I was irked this week and then flat out pissed off by something… the seeming need of a certain segment of AEW fandom to dismiss criticism, to be upset when YOU don’t engage with…
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