My blog for exercise, music, news/politics, wrestling, UFO's, and anything other dorky topics I feel like talking about.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Yikes!
I haven't updated in a week! What gives?
Here's what's new. I had a really shitty couple of weeks at work, plus I got a ticket for allegedly running a red light. Then my breaks went out and three days after paying for new breaks, my transmission went out. So I still had to get a new car. I ended up with a 99 Saturn that seems to be pretty good. Come back later and I'll have more postings. I promise. :)
Check out the WWE's DVD collection. Right now you can view trailors to all of the DVDs, including the new Road Warrior's one and "Greatest Wrestling Stars of the 80's". There's some cool stuff there.
???? For some reason if you go to the Live 8 site, you can watch a message from the former dictator of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, who also happens to share names with a very fine Mexian Beer.
As you may or may not know or care, I used to have a Pink Floyd fan site. Then I realized that fan sites are usually pretty pretentious, so I turned it into a politics site. Then I realized that politics are stupid because all policital sites either agree with and give lip service to the truth of the right or they bitch and whine like a bunch of babies as hippies and commies on the left.
So now I have this site.
And where was I? Oh yeah. Roger Waters is getting together with David Gilmour to re-form (as oppose to reform) Pink Floyd at Bob Geldof's Live 8 concert.
I really hope they play "Have a Cigar" so that everyone can point to Geldof when they sing "...and by the way, which one's Pink?"
Cheers to the two people out there who got that joke :)
Wrestlecrap linked a site called GumGod.com this week. I have no idea where the site had been hiding all these years, but it's a great wrestling satire site.
Please Vince, never ever put the mic in Shelton Benjamin's hand again. Even Christy Hemme is more convincing on the mic.
Christian who? It seemed like my favorite wrestler was just an afterthought this week.
What was more embarrassing? Christy Hemme's interview, or the fact that they played it twice?
Don't you love it when the audience completely turns on a segmant as stupid as the Edge/Lita wedding?
Even though the angle is pretty stupid, wasn't is fun when the played Matt Hardy's music and worked the crowed that he had returned?
And why are so many people on the Internet angry about it?
You have to admit that it was pretty funny when Snitsky came out to read a poem.
I think they should have waited until PPV to end Muhammad Hassan's "undefeated streak."
I totally popped when Carlito won the IC title.
I'm happy Jericho is getting some camera time now, but what he really needs is to go full-fledge heel and take a title to Smackdown with him.
Who's left on Smackdown, anyhow?
Here's your "Why Jason should be on the booking crew" idea for the week: After the draft is over and Bischoff has brought every star Smackdown has over to Raw, they need to reveal that he rigged the random draft. With Smackdown totally depleated of star power, have Paul E. and the ECW crew invade and take over Smackdown, or feud with the remaining roster for control of the show. Wouldn't we rather see "WWE presents Extreme Championship Wresting" on UPN instead of Smackdown anyhow?
Oh, I almost forgot. Was anyone watching surprised to see Triple H pin Batista in the main event? No me.
Now for fun, go to WWE RAW superstars page and see how many people are there that you don't know. There's a ton of generic "WWE DIVAS" (tm) and tag-team guys I've never heard of.
Check out Star City Scene.com. If you click on the SCS Radio link, you can hear a great sampling of some local Nebraska music. There's some Show is the Rainbow there. The Killigans and Static Octopus sound pretty cool, too.
Much like U2's Bono, Bob Geldof has taken a non-partisan approach to charity. It's so refreshing. It's also funny seeing the elitists get angry at him. A couple of weeks ago, Geldof invited the Pope to his Live 8 concert and the leftist nutcakes blew a fuse. (Don't forget, to Elton John and his ilk, John Paul II is responsible for global the spread of AIDS.)
"Please remember, absolutely no ranting and raving about Bush or Blair and the Iraq war, this is not why you have been invited to appear... We want to bring Mr. Bush in, not run him away."
Yet another former WWE woman talks about her experiences at the PUBLICLY TRADED World Wrestling Entertainment. If this was any other company in the country treating women this way, image how many people would be fired, sued, and, in some cases, criminally prosecuted. Every time I hear these stories it just makes me more and more embarrassed to be a fan.
Imagine this scenerio:
Bill Gates to new female employee: "How was your first day?" New female Microsoft employee: "This guy just shit in my gym bag because I wouldn't have sex with him." Bill Gates: "Well, boys will boys! Not go on an strip down to your panties on national television like a good little girl, will ya?"
Can't see that happening can you? Why should World Wrestling "Entertainment" be any different?
So my girlfriend wanted me to make a copy of a Hall and Oates CD. Yeah, I know. Anyhow, when I looked a picture on the CD, I make a HUGE discovery about the band.
It appears that a certain Chris Jericho has a bigger musical career than we had previously thought...
Only on Whitley Strieber's web page... What, does he write for Weekly World News now?
"In 1996, a UFO crashed in Varginha, Brazil, and some small beings emerged into the streets of the town. One of them was rescued by a policeman, and taken to a hospital, and Dr. Roger Leir has interviewed a doctor who interacted with him. Do not miss this phenomenal story on this week's Dreamland!"
After everything he's said about WWE over the last few years, I didn't think there was any chance in hell we'd be hearing that Joey Styles would we calling the action at a WWE pay-per-view. Unreal. I wonder if he'll be going solo or if someone like Paul E. or Tazz will be working the show with him.
Did I wake up in 1998 or something? Raw was awesome tonight. (With a few exceptions)
Here's the highlights:
1. John Cena joins the Raw roster, WWE title and all. 2. When Christian confronted Cena, I noticed that Christian is growing. That means he could be juicing, which would mean Vince is bulking him up for a run on the top. Christian rules! 3. Val Venis got some offence in a match for once. 4. I love the fact that they advertised next week's show. That's something I wish they'd do more often. 5. There was something else... oh yeah! The show ended with the ECW roster taking out the Raw heels. Paul Heyman led Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Rhyno, the Dudleys, Axl Rotten, and Balls Mahoney in a fight versus Bishcoff and co.
There was some bad: The Triple H segment that lasted forever was bad and so was the tag title match, but that's what DVR's are for.
I doubt Smackdown will be left without a title, so we can assume that either Triple H or Batista will be drafted to Smackdown with the World Title.
At least for one night, it was fun being a fan again. Here's hoping they keep it up.
Here's a cool site. These guys remake classic video games for today's environment. So far they have King's Quest and King's Quest II: Romancing The Stones. They are currently working on Quest for Glory II.
Sorry I haven't been posting too much lately. Here's a good look at the current state of the WWE vs. Marvel Comics lawsuits about the use of Hulk Hogan's name.
