quick links

I’m under the presumption that everyone who reads this site/my stuff reads the same group of sites of people I read/know (mostly associated with a dated if fun acroynm) so that linking to individual articles they do would be pointless since you’re already there. Like, even if I didn’t reference Justin a bunch (check your … Continue reading “quick links”

I’m under the presumption that everyone who reads this site/my stuff reads the same group of sites of people I read/know (mostly associated with a dated if fun acroynm) so that linking to individual articles they do would be pointless since you’re already there. Like, even if I didn’t reference Justin a bunch (check your local OO ppv preview), you wouldn’t need me linking to his Heat recaps because the same group of people read both. Right?

I dunno. So maybe I should do more links.

Like, you’re criminally missing out if you’re not reading Scott’s Tuesday’s updates, because it combines the coherent parts of the Observer with intersting analysis and yet, isn’t Bryan Alaverz. Which is good.

(Aside: From reading the Figure Four, I get the feeling that Bryan’s Friend Vince does not realize they tape CMLL in the same two buildings every week. Perhaps he thinks every Arena in Mexico looks that way.)

Watch for me to write a perl program to steal his /baseball blog content too.

I also have to link Albert Ching, because when he’s not on the fast track to radio success, he’s writing good articles that he tells no one about.

Up at Loyola, they have a monuement to honor our NCAA Basketball Championship Team, and I can only imagine the statue they’re currently planning for Bill winning the Apprentice. If they don’t name a building after him. They’re slightly desperate for stuff to crow about, which may be the difference between there and ASU, who can rest on being ASU.

In stuff I don’t assume that you saw, Todd Gerth has a 1/2 part interview with ROH Booker Gabe about the upcoming Chicago Ridge show that I need to read, so I’m linking it here to I can later.

I feel booking the Havana Pitbulls is a blatant suck up to me, if I didn’t book them myself. Rocky Romero must’ve left a really good impression on me, because the longer I go without seeing him, the better he becomes in my head. It’s a dangerous thing.

Weekly Visitor is down again? I think you should sue fivefourthreetwoonecontacthost for haterizing. Did I ever tell you guys that the WWE seems thrilled with Slater Vain? Which may or may not be a good thing because they loved Nick Dinsmore and Rob Conway at times.

Who’s got a worse lot, Conway or Dinsmore? Because even if the character sucks, they’ll push Eugene hard to make a point that they can do whatever they want. At worse, Dinsmore’s got a Doink-like gimmick that he can use and parody that indy promoters will be silly enough to pay for long after the WWE’s gotten over this bit, and at best, he’s got a Just Joe-ish qualitiy where lazy writers can use him as an explaination rather than thinking something up – you need someone to do something memorable nutty, you’ve got Eugene. His matches don’t even really matter.

Conway, on the other hand, is the non-French guy in the French tag team. Woo.

I mean, even if it sucks now, the best thing a WWE undercard guy can get is a recognizible image that they people will remember six months after they’re off TV and still care. Everyone’s going to remember the retard, no one’s going to remember the French sympathizer.

How did I get here? I dunno. I need to be doing stuff.

cold heart something or other

Here’s the playlist of this CD I just burned Cold Hard B****/Jet The Sound of Settling/Death Cab for Cutie Take Me Out/Franz Ferdinand i believe in a thing called love/The Darkness Maps/Yeah Yeah Yeahs Molly’s Chambers/Kings of Leon This Love/Maroon5 Fortune Faded/Red Hot Chili Peppers Nothing With You/Descendents In The Meantime/Spacehog Almost Crimes/Broken Social Scene … Continue reading “cold heart something or other”

Here’s the playlist of this CD I just burned

Cold Hard B****/Jet
The Sound of Settling/Death Cab for Cutie
Take Me Out/Franz Ferdinand
i believe in a thing called love/The Darkness
Maps/Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Molly’s Chambers/Kings of Leon
This Love/Maroon5
Fortune Faded/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nothing With You/Descendents
In The Meantime/Spacehog
Almost Crimes/Broken Social Scene
Whoever You Are/Geggy Tah
Somebody Told Me/The Killers
Time is Running Out/Muse
Pepper/Butthole Surfers
Big Brat/Phantom Planet
The Reasons/The Weakerthans
Still In Love Song/THE STILLS
Seether/Veruca Salt
Muzzle/Smashing Pumpkins
Its My Life/No Doubt

Can you tell I’ve been listening to the 90’s Alternative station on Radio@Netscape too much? It happens to the best of us.

GMS is less the vile hated Scotty 2 Hotty. I can’t believe he’s back. I can’t believe they’d bring him back for RAW. I mean, why bother? I don’t have any strong desire to see him versus Val Venis or something. Nice for JR to help out his buddy in one of his last moves.

Did Lance Storm get cut? No, c’mon – he does the little turn speech, he gets squashed, and he disappears – not on house shows either. I guess we know if he doesn’t turn up next week.

If people want to keep being amusing on my comment section, that would be good. Or if they want to post recaps so I can read them and have things to do during normal waking people hours, I’d appreciate that.

Sleep. Now.

impressive

Dear [name omitted] Thank you for your interest in a position with [company omitted]. We appreciate the time you have taken to pursue employment with us. While we find your accomplishments impressive, after careful consideration, we have decided to pursue other candidates at this time. It’s not that I even really wanted this job (no … Continue reading “impressive”

Dear [name omitted]

Thank you for your interest in a position with [company omitted]. We appreciate the time you have taken to pursue employment with us. While we find your accomplishments impressive, after careful consideration, we have decided to pursue other candidates at this time.

It’s not that I even really wanted this job (no more than I want any job besides…) or that I wasn’t making jokes about how this company is probably getting sick of rejecting me every three months, but I just felt touched. Impressive.

Let’s not talk about opening day. Ever.

You know, Sunday was a good day. Got everything I wanted to get done except get a new phone (darn easter – and it’s not like I’ve got a single message on my phone in the last four weeks) and I finished 28th in free No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament out of 360, best finish ever. And new Space Ghost. Not a great Space Ghost. But a new Space Ghost.

You know, inspired by recent developments in mentally challenged people on my TV, I was inspired to transcribe Space Ghost’s fabled “Retardos #1 Forever” song to post here. But then, after I actually did the work, I thought that I really don’t want people googling their way here on such terms. Yet, I leave the the RollerJam stuff up. So I dunno.

okay now back to watching Tony and Mike (being horribly elitist and in an ugly jinx-ing shirt) yell at each other. I still can’t believe Tony went on a plane last week. Leave your radio show behind and everything changes.

only good on the big wheel

Just did my taxes. I have a state tax refund of $1. ONE WHOLE DOLLAR! I’ll be doing recaps and stuff this evening, I think. That shouldn’t be related to the other comment, because it’s not like I get that dollar and paint the town red today.

Just did my taxes.

I have a state tax refund of $1. ONE WHOLE DOLLAR!

I’ll be doing recaps and stuff this evening, I think. That shouldn’t be related to the other comment, because it’s not like I get that dollar and paint the town red today.

sick break

No recaps till Monday night at the soonest. Check out the RSS 2.0 feeds.

I thought I was feeling a lot better yesterday – I had a lot of energy late in the day, and I got really motivated to do some programming stuff (which is oddly usual for when I’m sick or recovering). But Sunday, I’ve been out of it and tried again. So no Heat or Velocity tonight; I only made it through the first match before realizing I couldn’t really focus enough to be useful. Maybe Velocity Monday night, but more likely Tuesday before anything article wise gets posted from me.

What I do have done, which will be helpful once I start posting things again, is create a RSS/XML feed that mirrors the update box over there on the left side. If you use my.yahoo.com or a RSS reader, and are dying to have an updated listing of what’s been posted when, here you go

thecubsfan.com (these entries) – http://www.thecubsfan.com/index.xml
thecubsfan.com – articles – http://www.thecubsfan.com/articles.xml
cmllblog – http://www.thecubsfan.com/cmll/index.xml

I figure the two actual useful ones will be the CMLL and articles ones, because I go through such effort to make near random titles for these entries. I don’t have useful descriptions for the articles feed yet, but I’m just trying to figure out the best way to extract them from the articles. (The descriptions for the other ones are just the first 50-so words of these articles, which may or may not be actually useful either. Although this one might be different.)

I’ve got RSS 1.0 feeds of the blogs too if you need ’em. If you know what that is, you probably can figure out what the links are, anyway. If anyone uses any of this, let me know. I think it’s neat even if no one does, but if there’s a way I can make it better, I’d only know about it because someone used it.

Cubs! Tomorrow! I suspect that I’ll be lucky if I have time to listen to the game, much less do bad posts about it.

samoa – American samoa

By request, and Q&D SmackDown! Open, 04/01/04 (black and white reflective) Eddie Kurt Show Eddie Booker RVD Eddie Cena Kurt Cena Show Rock Torrie not sure Show Eddie (blue warehouse – and elsewhere) Show Cena Torrie Dudleyz Rikishi Spike Rey Cena Hardcore Haas RVD Dupree Chavo into Eddie Jamie Booker Chavo Show Angle Eddie Jamie … Continue reading “samoa – American samoa”

By request, and Q&D

SmackDown! Open, 04/01/04

(black and white reflective)
Eddie
Kurt
Show
Eddie
Booker
RVD
Eddie
Cena
Kurt
Cena
Show
Rock
Torrie
not sure
Show
Eddie
(blue warehouse – and elsewhere)
Show
Cena
Torrie
Dudleyz
Rikishi
Spike
Rey
Cena
Hardcore
Haas
RVD
Dupree
Chavo into Eddie
Jamie
Booker
Chavo
Show
Angle
Eddie
Jamie
Sable (I think)
Chavo
Booker
Sable
Eddie
Rey
Cena
Eddie

As they’ve gone longer without doing some major set/image redecorating, the opens have become less one artistic style and more a mismatch with whatever clips they can find to fit the guys. Never more so now with all the Booker and RVD stuff added. I always figured that they’d have the top guys shoot stuff for the opens on both shows, just in case they were moved over, but that’s not the case.

No offense to Tony Chimel, but they need to start advertising things like “Justin Jason Roberts is ring announcer for a Rey Mysterio match” just so I don’t nearly miss such things.