Category: digressing

My iPod just followed Moxy Furvous with Johnny Cash. That really should mean something. (Sadly, I think it just means “I’ve got too much time to listen to music today.”)

I’d like to kill my time instead writing something here, but nothing’s coming to mind that isn’t terribly self involved and bullet point-ish. And I’m even so desperate to shave off a quarter of an hour, even that’s sounding like a good idea.

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After the nightmare that was me trying to watch ECW last week, Sci Fi is coming in perfectly fine this week.

I’m still glad I gave up the beat – I did give up the beat, I’m so not recapping – but if they make good on today’s rumored promised Not To Suck, I’ll at least get to watch it. (After the Finals and/or some AAA.)

For archival purposes (read: so I can find it again), I’m posting my very scatter brained comments of the SHIMMER show this past week; I posted it on DVDVR the night off and haven’t really thought about it much sense, but you never know. If you’re desperate for NEW content, I’ve thrown some thoughts the top (which went a lot longer than I thought), but the post is exactly as the post was, the better to mock.

So, what’s your favorite moment in the Orlando Jordan era? I think mine was with Josh explained the Johnson Shuffle to Tazz. Maybe now he and Kanyon can respin their non-feud on the indy circuit as Homosexual Man vs Bisexual Man. It’ll draw millions.

Favorite quote from one of the ECW articles on dot com

While the re-launched ECW will undoubtedly be different from the original ECW, McMahon is adamant that the brand will not stop pushing the envelope, nor will it be like the already successful WWE brands SmackDown and RAW

Where is this ‘successful SmackDown brand’? When can I see it? Does Psicosis get actual matches there?

Wish I knew why my stuff wasn’t up on OO again. Maybe I should ask!

New Joe vs the World this weekend. Please be here! Tell your mom! Does this count as Albert’s long awaited sequal to Dropin’ Bombs On Your Moms?

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Got my laptop back from Gateway support again.

Still doesn’t work. No sound. No static yet, but I bet if I leave it on for about 40 more minutes, it’ll be there.

Never ever ever buy Gateway.

I could live blog my tech support call, because it’s so long and boring with frequent pauses, but it’s so amazingly boring. The part where the guy didn’t talk for five minutes, that was superb. The part right here where I was put on hold for “one to two minutes” and I’ve heard the stupid hold song repeat at least once is killer. I’m 34% sure they’re waiting me out and hoping I’ll hang up and/or give up at this point, but I’m going for blood, I’m going for vengeance, and someone’s going down. (see how bored?)

holy carp, this just got far more interesting.

Edit: Yea, it sure did. It’s going to get resolved and it’s going to get resolved positively, I am now completely sure (and completely satisfied), but there’s a story I need to save till it actually is resolved.

Instead of killing you with more small posts, let me get it all out once

1) Someone sound the funk alarm. Justin’s has a new RAW recap on WO.com. Three lines I wish I could steal without people noticing:

– “I can’t believe Johnny Ace didn’t accidentally bring in Jose Guillen.”
– “The statute of limitations? Right out the window.”
– “Sadly, RVD does not have a new tricked out extreme briefcase.”

2) Bizarre personal highlight of the ROH show – running into a friend from college I hadn’t seen since college during intermission. In a dumb move, I’d separated myself from everyone I knew in college as soon I left it, but I finally understood the unbelievable level of my personal dumbness of cutting myself off at the time.

It all clicked when he described his post-college frustration in the exact words I’ve said to myself and others dozens of times in the same period. (I’m not doing a good job of explaining this, I know, and it

I think I’m going to the ROH show tonight. 8pm start time means I get home at, what, 4AM? There IS a 24 hour diner near my place that I’ve dying to got to at about 3AM, and I think that’s the highlight right now.

Here’s the world worst (way to spell) preview in the history of everything ever.

Lacey vs. Daizee Haze vs. Allison Danger vs. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Mischif vs. Rain: This should be fine->good. I’ve never seen Cheerleader Melissa, though the more I think about it, it’s more weird I’ve seen every else (except maybe Danger?) here. You know, I’ll go to the next SHIMMER show if they bring in Amapola or Sujei or India. (That’s about as empty promise as “I’ll go to the next AWA-SLAM show as long as they bring in Tigre Metalico and Tigre Blanco AND defend the Arena Coliseo tag titles.”)

Chad Collyer vs. Ace Steel [First Blood Match] – I offer to CUT MYSELF to end this match instantly if there’s any takers. It can be a draw, it’ll be great.

Jimmy Rave & Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Yang & Claudio Castagnoli – YAY weirdo Velocity/lucha teamups. I’m all over this one. I could use, say, anyone besides Jimmy Rave. If this turns into a CZW/ROH thing, I’ll cry. I could give a flying burrito about CZW vs ROH.

Colt Cabana vs. Homicide with Julius Smokes: no no no this is not the Colt I want to see. Booooooooooooooo.

AJ Styles & Matt Sydal vs. Austin Aries & Jack Evans: flying flying flying getting up without being hurt flying flying; I kinda hate the X-Games sometimes, but I they can be enjoyable.

Blood Generation (CIMA, Naruki Doi, & Masato Yoshino) vs. Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito): This should be super, even if I have no idea who 67% of the people are and probably should know. I found it cool that Jae was coming into see this match; I don’t go anywhere for lucha (but then I don’t go anywhere.)

Samoa Joe vs. Christopher Daniels vs. BJ Whitmer: WHAT IS BJ WHITMER DOING HERE? I guess they can do the CZW/ROH stuff here and I’ll be fine. The real reason I have limited interest in this show is Scott and Scott’s Friends won’t be there to make fun of Whitmer for my entertainment. It’s half the ticket value right there. Now, the only person I’ll be talking to will be myself, and people get weirded out when I do that. I dunno.

Bryan Danielson defends against Roderick Strong: What time will this start? 11:15 ish? What time will it end? 5:40 Tuesday evening. I mean, I’m sure this is going to be a fine fine match, but I’m also sure I will hate everything by the time I get to my car and figure how I’m going to stay awake for the ride home.

Still, I’m going. I’m probably going. I’m most likely going. (Unless I get a better idea between now and then.) I’m 95% sure I’ll end up watching basketball Saturday, so it’s either this one of no shows this weekend.

Other stuff having nothing to do with that…

Finest words ever printed by the Sun Times

As is not uncommon with Mariotti, he has made no effort to be the least bit informed on this important subject.

The rest of the Letter to the Editor didn’t hold up to that standard, but that’s more than you could really expect from those guys. (This sorta thing backfires as a huge ego boost, but I guess the idea is to boost the ego so far it’ll explode.)

The real sign baseball is almost here: ask Paul Sullivan turns angry, crank, bitterly sarcastic by question three. I love baseball!

unrelated: While the color choice seems to be picked just to be mocked, I like the idea of splitting the two branches of the blue line. Unconfused things a bit for suburbanites just trying to read a map.

I was kinda supposed to write stuff for OO due in two hours, so I guess I better do that now. I’d be more interested in doing it if they posted the stuff I already wrote, but what can you do.

03/30 (THU): AWA Chicago
03/31 (FRI): ROH in Chicago Ridge
04/01 (SAT): IWA in Midlothian
04/01 (SAT): ROH in Chicago Ridge
04/02 (SUN): WM22

I feel bad, because there’s some great oppurtinties to see some good wrestling this weekend which others don’t get, but – unlike jtron – I’m completely UNstoked for it; I don’t know of a show I really want to go (and I tend not to go in that case.) My lack of interest has bugged me all week.

I got a comp ticket to Cougars opening day on Friday, but it’s early enough I could still make the ROH show though I’ll have to park twelve miles away by the time I get there. The Saturday ROH show, with the Dragon/Storm main event, just has a red flags flying on it as a show that will be five hours too long.

I know, I whine too much about stupid stuff. There should be some really good stuff somewhere this weekend, if I’m willing to actually GO.

Ever feel like the Bulls have accomplished nothing the last month in a half?

When you graph it out…

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I just put a $6.17 sandwhich on my credit card. It may have cost more for them to charge me for it than it did to make it.

To be fair, I only had $5 and some change on me, so it was that or nothing. To be unfair, I had $12 of bills sitting on top of my change holder and forgot to bring it with.

– I don’t know where my phone is, again. Don’t call me!

I won’t pick up anyway, I screen all my calls because I’m hilariously insane and you probably don’t have my number. But I thought you needed to know.

– X-Men Legends 2 mid-game: I’m in Act 3, having just shut down the power plant. Yay. I haven’t unlocked any of the three ?s yet, though I’ve picked up both parts so far.

Hitting X X O should not be so hard to do, but it’s somehow impossible for me to get it to work in the X-Men games, and now that I’m running into ludicrous opponents who expect me to do just that, it’s tremendously annoying. Their own pop up moves throw off the timing, but the bigger problem is my own teammates getting in the way; the combo doesn’t work from behind, and it’s sometimes impossible to get the bad guy to focus on you. I eventually just dumped the rest of my team, used Rouge to slow the guy, and did the combo twelve times till it actually worked. What a pain.

They really powered down Wolverine in this game as compared to the last; at level 23, I’ve just now barely got his health regeneration up to a rate where it’s actually useful instead of a novelty. But other people are better and it’s interesting to work with the different powers (even if they keep wanting to auto assign lame status effecting specials instead of offensive moves.)

I assume Scarlet Witch is playable character instead of her brother despite Quicksilver actually being on an X-team at one point (even if he wouldn’t wear the uniform!) because they thought of a billion ways for Wanda to use her powers in cool video game ways and “running really fast” doesn’t immediately translate into this sort of format. But it could be she threatened to turn the video game into a line spanning crossover which would be pointless and suck, and they made the right decision. Definite possibility.

The one person who really mystifies me – well, there’s the whole “Iron Man? wha?” thing but that’s so random it’s fine – is Sunfire’s inclusion. It took me a while to figure out exactly who’s side he was supposed to be on – given a new outfit, his usual personality (actually not seen yet), and the way they’re telling the stories in the games, they could fit him in with Magneto’s group fine – and it eventually occurred to me he was supposed to be the replacement token Asian for Jubilee in this game. Which got me to thinking about token Asian X-Men and which ones I liked…

* Jubilee: Thumbs Up. Part of this is because my first (or something close to that) exposure to the X-Men was the cartoon, and she had no idea what was going on and neither did I, so we could relate. Also, I knew people who were exactly like Jubilee except for the mutant firework powers, and she’d act exactly how they’d act if they had mutant firework powers.

This has nothing do with anything but I’m convinced that whoever wrote her most recent appearance read the GenX book (where she was last a regular) and prosperously got her confused with Husk, since she was definitely heading in a direction where she’d end up running politically active websites and Jubilee was certainly not. That last cameo appearance wasn’t even consistent with the cameo from two weeks prior; it was just a random character shift that I’m forgetting happened right after I end this sentence.

* Sunfire: Thumbs Up. Though I think there was probably a twenty year period where every appearance started with him being a jerk, built to him coming to an understanding with his temporary partners, had him leave on better terms, and was back to being a jerk the next time. That’s sorta awesome – he knew who he was and he wasn’t changing. And now he’s – dead? not dead? dead but part of Rouge? dead but alive in future timelines? Probably a jerk.

* Sunpyre: Thumbs Down. What the heck was with that issue, anyway? Was the remit “do everything you can to make this look like a Big Event, but know that we’re going to ignore and reverse anything you do”? Admirable job! Years later, some intern must’ve been working on a list of established characters who can be killed off without anyone whenever they need a cheap death, and must’ve gone boinkers when they found out Sunfire had a sister he seemingly has never met – that’s a gimmie. I’m not good at comparing faked time spans between TV shows and comic books, but did Fraiser go longer without mentioning to the gang at Cheers that he had a sibling who was exactly like him than Sunfire did with the X-Men? One of the two has to have the record.

* Xorn and Xorn and possibly Xorn but certainly not Magento unless maybe it was: Thumbs up, then down, then up, then down, then down again. Call me when your story makes sense again. HINT!!!: That’ll be never.

* Thunderbird II: Thumbs down. No personality, no character expect being the rookie and then not being the rookie, with the name of the Dead X-Men (who I guess may or may not be dead now – boy is he going to be ticked! unless he dies again). They couldn’t spend the half second to think of an actual Indian name instead of just overtones? It’s not his fault he was written to be uninteresting – I was willing to like him – but he was and I don’t care.

* Psylocke and Kwannon: Thumbs down. One wasn’t around long anyway, one’s kinda just incidentally Asian and I really don’t care much about either.

That’s it, that’s the list? There’s others who’ve hung out around with the X-Men but I think these are the only one who were actually in the group (and I really can’t think of one I care much about to squeeze them in here.)

Back to the game…

I meant to half heartedly complain about not even a token mention of Angel in the first game – I didn’t even see a weapon named after him – because he’s one of the original five and all, even if they had like three ideas for him since he turned blue (and one was “unturn him blue”) – but what they’ve had him doing here is perfectly acceptable.

– TK essentially trading his excellent radio show for long bus trips and doing a late night football game I don’t/won’t care about unless it effects my fantasy team seems like a bad deal for me, but I’m sure he’ll say something that’ll cause a mildly hilarious controversy and that’ll be somewhat redeeming.

– You know it’s time to move on when all the places you eat lunch at know you and your order by heart. They all weirdly like me because I’m an easy order, but now I’ve decided that it’s a bit creepy when fast food places know you by order.

– Let’s look at the Figure 4 Daily standings

Justin Shapiro: 2
Joe Gagne: 2 (I think?)
thecubsfan: 1

I’m not saying, I’m just saying. Plus I think I told Hobbes one night I was retiring from radio gigs to go out on a high note, though I may have just been bored. I thought Justin was highly enjoyable yesterday, even if he would’ve lost Tough Enough. I figure he would’ve ended up wrestling Kid Kash and announcing on Velocity, but that’s just my guess.

The revelation, and I may have said this before, is that Bryan Alvarez is actually really good at this radio interviewing thing. That’s not supposed to be a knock – it’s just most of the radio shows who send their own show notes to all the sites each week read like things I would never ever want to listen, and on the occasion I’ve actually tried, I quickly figured out I should’ve stuck with the never ever concept. Bryan’s shows sound like you’re just eavesdropping on conversations rather than a forced interview. Maybe it’s because he’s done in a hundred times by now, maybe it’s because he goes (purposefully or not) the TK route of having on a lot of people who discuss things regularly rather than wrestlers/fighters themselves (who aren’t usually as good discussers), maybe I’m just biased? It just seems quasi-professional, which is another backhanded compliment and I really should stop.

I think I’m giving up on the MMA guest shows, just because I can’t manage to care the slightest bit about MMA shows and wouldn’t bother with them if I weren’t getting them with all the other shows. No offense to the people who do them, and I figure the same is true with a lot more people on the occasion I talk about lucha.

* I’m thinking about going to the SHIMMER show this weekend, and I actually believe the show’s going to be good, but I don’t if I’ll actually go. I mean, I definitely go if it was in my basement and I could stop watching to play video games whenever I’d like, but I think laziness is going to overpower me actually doing anything.

* I’m psyching myself out on doing lucha recaps and it’s killing me. I’d expound on that pointlessly more, but I see the bell’s about to ring and I’m out of time.