Published on 17 Jan 2006 at 8:50 pm.
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Filed under Life.
So, today I sent out probably the most job applications than I have ever to date. I admit that I should have sent out many more already, but I just absolutely hate writing cover letters. I have a basic template which tells me what to write in each paragraph and such. I always remember to change the location it should be sent to as well as the name. Normally, I literally spend hours dissecting what I write. I am trying my very hardest to get the wording, grammar, etc. correct (meaning it gets a lot more work than my blog entries get).
So anyways, I’m working on the cover letter for the latest job posting that my old boss Steve passed along when I realized that I have been a complete idiot and everything before this has been a waste of time. You see, at the very top under my name and address I list the date … which I have been forgetting to update … since I applied for a position with SUNY Brockport in 2005. Sigh. Should I re-apply to all the other positions I’ve applied to with an updated date? Will that matter? Gah. I cannot believe I missed that in all the hours I have looked at these things, nor that anyone I asked to look them over mentioned it either. Oh well.
Published on 16 Jan 2006 at 12:42 am.
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Filed under Politics.
Well, it took me a bit, but I finally found a link showing the media covering the certificate of use suspension in the mainstream media. This article even got the reason people are upset partially correct!
Lisa Bilski, the owner, didn’t like the idea of a background check and a $100 charge for another city-issued license.
True, both of those are reasons why people are upset, but if the $100 charge was the issue, there wouldn’t be a group of businesses up in arms over the certificate of use.
The background check, along with the loss of due process, and the discriminatory method that the city uses to cherry pick which businesses are covered by the real issues.
All of that said, I’d like to issue a congratulations to my old friend Jeff McEntee, who was recently hired by the city to join the police force. He must pass a six month training program, but I know he can do it. He has always wanted to be a cop since he was a kid, and now he is finally getting a chance to live his dream. It’s great to hear we’ll have more cops are going to be out on the street. Lord knows this city needs it.
Published on 15 Jan 2006 at 11:33 pm.
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Filed under Wrestling.
Got caught up with the Carolina/Chicago game, so I forgot to turn it to the preshow on time. I join Team Canada (A1, Erik Young, and Petey Williams) vs Kenny King, Jay Lethal and Lance Hoyt near the end of the match. Jay Lethal misses a splash off the top, and Petey connects with the Canadian Destroyer for the three. Canadians win.
For the record, my picks for tonight are: Sting&Christian / Samoa Joe / Team 3D / AJ Styles/ Abyss / Raven / James Gang / Roode / Alex&Strong&Aries. I’m unsure on Abyss and Roode, and I am torn on the Joe/Daniels. Daniels needs a strong win to get heat back, but Joe should have a lengthy run dominating. I guess it depends on how the contract re-negotiations went.
Cut to a promo showing Brother Bubba from Team 3D from last week on Impact putting over how America’s Most Wanted has the one tag title belt they want that they have never held. Put over having held the ECW, WCW, and WWE tag team titles.
Cut to Douglas and Borash questioning what will Sting do in TNA?
Showing Don West and Mike Tenay giving us a run down of matches for the show.
They show the ring, and introduce Konnan’s new group, the Latin America Xchange (LAX). Konnan is wrestling tonight because Apolo couldn’t make it to the show from Puerto Rico in time. Konnan begs The Truth to join their group because they’re friends and what happened with the James Gang and them have nothing to do with them. I guess Konnan forgets that Truth isn’t Latin American?
The Naturals come out for their match. Naturals start out on fire with multiple double team moves on Homicide. Powerbomb/drop kick combo, Chase Stevens slamming Homicide’s head on Andy Douglas’ knee. Konnan gets tagged in and starts working on Douglas. Konnan yells at the crowd before he hits a rolling thunder clothesline. Tags Homicide, who starts laying in elbow drops into Douglas’ knee. Tags in Konnan who tosses Douglas Into the air. Tags Homicide. Douglas tries an enzugiri but misses, Douglas rolls through and sends Homicide into the corner. Konnan comes in and gets beat knocked out of the ring by the Naturals. Natural Disaster on Homicide. The ref yells at one of the Naturals to get out while the other pins Homicide. Konnan hits The Natural that is pinning Homicide gets hit with something Konnan had, and then rolls him over for the three.
Cut to Shane Douglas trying to get an interview with Sting. Shane enters the locker room and finds Team Canada eating Sting’s welcome food. Petey is upset that Sting got a plaque welcoming him. Eric Young says he has a Canadian-Sense warning him of danger and that he senses that Sting is here somewhere. The lights go out and Young shouts his head off saying he didn’t mean it. Lights come back on and Young is in Shane Douglas’ arms (he jumped in fear). Douglas dumps him on Team Canada. We turn to see that Scott D’amore had turned the lights out to mess with him, and says that they have to find Jarrett.
Cut to the Jarrett and Monty Brown promo from last week’s Impact. Brown says he is Darwinism incarnate. He brings up being on the field with people like Bledsoe and Kelly among others.
Cut to Don West in front of the crowd selling all the matches coming up. God is TNA putting way too much into signing Sting.
Video package hyping matches for the Pay Per View. It starts with the split of 3 Live Kru, focusing on Konnan being the jackass that caused the split. Next up is Sting in TNA, random clips, Team 3D, blah.
Long ass FBI warning! The show is on!
Start the show with a better video package hyping the show. Starts with Jarrett and Monty talking all about Sting. Yea, Christian matters in this match. Blah. They show AJ Styles, Christian, and Dutt talking about Sting. OK. I am sick of Sting.
TNAwrestling.com presents Final Resolution. Wait, what? The company’s Web site presents their Pay Per View? Huh?
Pyro goes off. The pyro sucks … TNA needs to work on their production value.
Alex Shelley, Roderick Strong, and Austin Aries start off the show facing Matt Bentley (with Traci), Sonjay Dutt, and Chris Sabin. WTF, Sabin has a new look. He has some funky new hair style and has a black suede jacket. Sabin starts the match against Shelley. they try a test of strength and Shelley stomps on Sabin’s hair, tries to rip the mouth open. Sabin flips over Shelley in the corner, back kick, snap mare by Sabin and then a drop kick to the sitting Shelley. Sabin powerbombs Dutt onto Shelley. Shelley breaks out by biting the thumb of Dutt. Funky Octopus variation on Dutt as Strong is tagged in. Dutt with a series of arm drag variations. Bentley is tagged in. Strong pulls his hair and backs him into the corner. Bentley turns it around and hits some punches. My video screws up. Uhm. Bentley with an arm bar on Strong now. Camera man shows Traci in her nice school girl outfit. Bentley with a northern lights suplex for two. Arm wringer. Tags Dutt back in. Dutt is back dropped onto the apron. Sonjay attempts the sprinkler and Aries breaks it up. Strong and Aries have Dutt on their shoulders and Shelley jumps on his stomach stomping him. Camera man shows Dave Hebner looking on. Strong with a butterfly suplex for two. Aries is tagged in and kicks Dutt. Springs off the ropes and kicks Dutt. Belly to back suplex for two. Aries drapes Dutt on the ropes and then kicks him. Aries distracts the ref and Strong throws him off. Camera man shows Jerry Lynn looking on. Shelley holds Dutt in a slingshot position and Strong kicks him as Dutt gets flipped over, Dutt lands on Shelley’s knees. Aries with a springboard somersault senton on Dutt on Shelley’s knees. The heels all pick Dutt into the air and slam him down. Crowd starts chanting Dutt. Strong tries to flip Dutt over and he lands on his feet. Multiple revolutions by Dutt and both men are down. Tags Sabin in. Shelley tries to jump in and gets kicked. Sabin with a rana on Shelley. Running kick on Shelley in the corner. Tree of Woe set upon Alex. Sabin with two running drop kicks to Shelley’s face. Sabin drop toe holds Aries into Shelley’s groin. Sabin with a standing tornado DDT on Strong while kicking Shelley and Aries. Bentley with an elbow drop off the top. Strong with a back breaker on Bentley. Dutt with an Asai DDT on Strong. Dutt tries for a Hindu Press but Aries knocks him off. Sabin pushes Aries off the top. Sabin with a suicide dive between the ropes on Aries. Bentley with a wave of the future. Bentley tries a super kick on Shelley, but Strong hits a mean drop kick from no where. Strong tries a back breaker but Bentley falls off. Strong yelling at Traci who is on the apron. Bentley with a super kick on Strong, but turns around and gets school boyed by Shelley for the three. It’s over. Woo hoo, 1 for 1.
Video package on the death of 3 Live Kru.
Next up is the Diamonds in the Rough against the James Gang. Simon Diamond is not wrestling this match, but managing Elix Skipper and David Young. Jeremy Borash introduces the former New Age Outlaws as “teaming together for the first time in Total Nonstop Action”. BG James gets on the mic and welcomes us to Final Revolution. He says a modified version of his own the old Road Dogg bit for the New Age Outlaws. Kip James says that if you don’t like it he has three words for you: “get it, got it, good” … that isn’t three words. Anyways. Skipper starts off against BG. I miss part of it typing up the above. Primetime Elix Skipper is dominating BG, slamming him down multiple times. Elix beats him down with a punch. BG with the ole Road Dogg punches, followed by the shake rattle and roll. Elix matrix-es out of the pin. Kip is tagged in as well as David Young. Kip does a crotch chop and shouts “SUCK THAT”. OK, enough with the DX references. Kip kicks David , both diamonds in and kip hits a Japanese arm drag on both of them. BG double lariats both men out over the top. James Gang slam both Diamonds into each other. The crowd chants "New Age Outlaws*quot;. The announcers point out that it’s been years since the James Gang tagged together. Elix is tagged in. Snap mare on BG, followed by a soccer kick to the back. BG is down. Two count. Simon yells at Elix for not hooking the leg. Elix slams BG into the corner and then tags Young. Drop toe hold by Elix, followed by a drop kick by Young. Kip distracts the ref from counting the pin. Young misses a moonsault off the top. Kip and Elix are tagged in. Kip clears house on the heels. Kip knocks Simon off the apron. Kip misses his corner splash. Elix with the springboard apron flip lariat. BG tries a humping pump handle slam. Young takes BG out and both men are outside. Elix wants a Play of the Day, but Kip rolls out of it and hits the One and Only for the three. 2 for 2.
Shane Douglas is interviewing Christopher Daniels. Daniels points out that it took Joe six months to say something, and that Joe has never beat him in the record books. Daniels says he is not feeble, and hurt Joe last night on Impact. Daniels says that he believes that when it comes to the X-Division there is no “you” there is only “me”. He believes that Joe should say his prayers.
Time for the international showcase as New Japan’s Jioroshi Tanahashi comes out to face AJ Styles. Crowd is chanting “Tanahashi”. AJ is introduced as the 2005 Mr. TNA. The announcers put over that Shannon Moore stole his award on Impact. Tanahashi is happy to be cheered. Show of respect by both men. They lock up. full nelson by Tanahashi. Crowd trading chants for each man. AJ with a hammer lock. Tanahashi backs him into a corner. Tanahashi with a mule kick followed by an arm drag. they replay this spot. Series of arm drags by each man. Tanahashi counters an arm drag by AJ and turns it into an arm bar on AJ. AJ with forearm smashes on Tanahashi. AJ with a drop kick on Tanahashi. Tanahashi rolls to the outside. AJ tries a splash to the outside but Tanahashi moves, but AJ saw this and turned his attention to only jump onto the apron and then jumped right back into the ring. Tanahashi back in. Both men trading chops, and then trade forearm smashes. Tenay puts over Tanahashi being the best pro wrestler in his university’s pro wrestling club. AJ with a high knee drop. Tanahashi with a hard german suplex, followed by a high jumping elbow drop. Tanahashi with an abdominal stretch with an elbow into the gut. Tenay puts over Tanahashi beating Negro Casas and Scott Hall. AJ makes it to the ropes for a break. Stomps on AJ. Both men up. There is a series of sleepers by both men. Tanahashi gets the last one, and then turns it into a dragon sleeper. Giant Swing by Tanahashi and then chokes AJ with his knee. Tanahashi with a scoop slam on AJ. Tanahashi misses an elbow drop off the middle turnbuckle. AJ with a spinning kick to the back of the head of Tanahashi. AJ with a running lariat on Tanahashi. Hits a second one. Tanahashi fights of a suplex, and puts AJ on the apron. AJ with a springboard forearm smash. AJ with his vertical suplex into a neck breaker for a two count. Tanahashi sent to the corner. AJ runs into the boot. They reverse this but AJ hits an elbow. Tanahashi with a full nelson suplex for a two count. Tanahashi frustrated. Styles misses a spinning kick that looks like a missed spot. Tanahashi with a lariat type splash thing. Two count. USA chant from the crowd. AJ is slammed into the corner. AJ is then put onto the top turnbuckle. Tanahashi tries a belly to back off the top. AJ with elbows. Tanahashi with head butts. Tanahashi tries the belly to back and AJ twists so he lands on top of him. series of standing switches by AJ and Tanahashi. Moore runs in and hits Tanahashi with the plaque when he goers for AJ. AJ hits the pele on Moore. Tanahashi dazed. AJ hits the Styles Clash on Tanahashi for the three. Wasn’t clean, but it saves Tanahashi’s credibility in Japan. AJ is made he won this way. Tanahashi hands AJ his plaque, and raises his hand. Moore runs in and steals the plaque. AJ is pissed. Still, I’m 3 for 3.
Video package on Raven and his history with Larry Zybisco. They are acting like Raven is a jerk for wanting his rematch for the title that he should be given for having lost the title six months ago. Blah. Raven says he hopes it is someone else from his past, and Raven says he has never tapped and cannot be pinned if he doesn’t wants to.
Shane Douglas is interviewing Raven in his sanctuary. Raven cuts a decent promo, but avoids his usual eloquence. Raven says someone is going to get hurt, and Larry Zybisco better hope that it’s him.
Cut to Larry in the ring saying that if Raven doesn’t sign his release, he has to wrestle someone tonight. It turns out that it is “X-Pac” Sean Waltman. Well, there’s a lawsuit right there, isn’t it? Still, nice to see Waltman back. Raven comes out with the shopping cart of stuff. Raven rams that cart into Waltman, and then chases after Larry. Larry runs around the ring and Raven eventually gets hit by Waltman when they arrive to that side. Waltman tosses the trash can of crap into the ring. Waltman starts beating on Raven inside the ring with a cane. Waltman tries to hit Raven with a Trash can, but Raven hits him with the trash can’s lid. I guess Raven was hit, as he falls outside the ring. Raven is juicing here. Raven comes after Larry, but is stopped by security. Waltman hits a splash on Raven and the security. Waltman rams the shopping cart on Raven multiple times. Raven walks up the ram getting hit by the cart. They are at the entrance way and Raven hits Waltman with a trash can lid multiple times. Raven puts Waltman into the shopping cart and pushes the cart off of the entrance way. Waltman falls out right before it goes over, and lands on the top of the entrance, but bounces off and falls down (ouch). Raven rams the shopping cart on Waltman multiple times. Waltman makes his way into the ring. Raven tosses a table and a ladder into the ring. Raven goes for his rebounding lariat on Waltman, but Waltman ducks and hits the ref who falls outside the ring. Raven hits the Raven Effect on Waltman and gets a pin, but no ref to count. Larry yells at Raven for hitting the ref. Waltman tries to hit Raven with a trash can, but Raven kicks it into his face. Tries a pin, but Larry counts very slowly. Waltman is in the corner and Raven tries the mounted corner punches. Waltman with a low blow on Raven, and then hits a face buster. Larry with the same slow pins. Waltman lays Raven onto the ladder in the corner and then tries the bronco buster. Raven moves, and then tries a pin, but only gets two. Raven sets up the ladder and the table now. Raven walks up the ladder and pulls Waltman up it. Larry hits Raven. Waltman punches him, and hits an X-Factor off the top and through the table. Waltman puts on a pin. Raven gets his foot on the rope and Larry sees it, but ignores it and still counts the three. Larry screwed Raven out of a title shot and thus ends Raven’s career. Whatever. This is stupid. Larry rubs it into Raven’s face. Larry calls for NWA security. Raven is frustrated, and the crowd is chanting for him. Cassidy Reilly comes out and is pissed. Raven puts up his hand to tell him not to help. Raven waves to the crowd. Don West tells him he got robbed as he walks by. Blah, I’m 3 for 4.
Cut to Shane Douglas talking to the Truth Ron Killings. Stupid BS about the 3 Live Kru situation and the Bobby Roode thing. Konnan comes in and asks why he won’t call him back. Truth says he doesn’t know how he can trust Konnan after everything. Konnan wants Truth to know that he will always have his back and what he did to the James Boys won’t happen to him. He says that the LAX will back him against Team Canada.
Cut to the announcers putting over Raven’s time in TNA. Tenay says that TNA is what keeps him from killing himself and when he won the title.
They cut to Larry tossing Raven’s bag at him. Jackie Gayda walks in and says she and Raven have a lot in common, that they both know what it’s like to be screwed. Gayda says it’s bigger than they all think. Very confusing video.
Team Canada’s Bobby Roode makes his way to ringside as TNA shows a video package showing Truth owning him on Impact in a series of matches before Roode beat him in the third match with help. They says that this match will settle the score, even though Truth is up two matches to one. Truth is out. Truth almost beats Roode with a school boy in the first few seconds (like the first two matches they had). Truth flips over Roode and tries a back roll up pin but only gets two this time. OK, we’ve had the two moves that beat Roode last time not work, so now what. Roode with a hammer lock on Truth. standing switch. Head lock take down. roll up. back slide attempt by Roode. Side headlock . Sunset flip. The standard Rob Van Damn/Jerry Lynn series of pins. Roode gets out of the ring. Roode walking away. Coach D’amore yells at him to get back in. Truth with a flip dive on Roode. Truth chants by the crowd. Truth with rights on Roode. Truth chases D’amore off. Roode picks up Truth when he turns around and then backs him unto the post. Roode gets into the ring and distracts the ref while D’amore lays some kicks into Truth. Roode working Truth over in the corner. Stomps on Truth when he falls down. D’amore chokes Truth in the corner when Roode distracts the ref. Truth up and hits some rights. Roode with a high knee lift. Roode with a front suplex to drape Truth on the ropes, but Truth bounces off the ropes on down. Abdominal stretch buy Roode, who gets extra help by grabbing the hockey stick that D’amore extends out. Ref tries to catch him, nada. Repeat, nada. Repeat and catches him. Ref kicks the stick and D’amore falls into the steel railing. Truth is slammed down. Roode with a knee drop off the top for the two count. Roode with a sitting bear hug on Truth. Both men up, Truth with back elbows to get out, but Roode grabs his pants and pulls him into a back smash. Roode runs into an elbow in the corner. Tries again and Roode runs into his boots. Truth on top and connects with a missile drop kick. Roode punches and Truth blocks and punches him. Again, and Truth gets in more punches. Lots of punches by Truth. Truth with his flipping flying forearm smash gets two. Truth tries to float over but gets caught by Roode. Falls out and splits to avoid a lariat, hits the flipping leg lariat for two. Truth puts Roode on the top turnbuckle. Truth tries a middle rope superplex, but Roode punches him and connects with a front suplex. Roode with a splash but Truth rolls with him to get on top for the two. Konnan comes out. Roode misses the northern lariat when Killings splits. Truth kicks Roode and doubles him over. Truth sees Konnan and asks what’s up. Roode hits the northern lariat for the three right in front of Konnan. Konnan tries to hug Truth and get him to his side. Truth is upset. Truth doesn’t seem to be buying into it. BG James coming out and says they have a family reunion, but this time he is going to kick Konnan’s ass. Homicide comes out and the LAX beat on BG. Truth leaves the ring as Kip James comes out to make the save. Killings walks off. I’m 4 for 5.
Shane Douglas interviewing James Mitchell and Abyss. Asks about Sting, whatever. They hype the match against Rhino. Mitchell tells Rhino that he is a mammal and is supposed to reproduce, so stop acting like having a daughter is a big deal. Mitchell calls Abyss a weapon of mass destruction and his him set to put Rhino on the way to extinction. This is followed with a video package hyping the little history between these guys that set up this match. Whatever.
Abyss comes out, followed by Rhino. Rhino takes it to Abyss right away and starts to beat on Abyss. Abyss punches on Rhino when he tries a back body drop. Abyss can’t overpower Rhino and hit a hip toss, so Rhino lariats him down. Rhino lariats Abyss over the top. Rhino connects with a pescado! Since when does Rhino use aerial moves? Rhino slams Abyss on the railing. Abyss slams Rhino’s face on the ring apron. Abyss goes under the ring and gets out three chairs, but leaves one on the ground. Abyss hits Rhino with the chair three times. Abyss throws the chairs into the ring. Both men in. Rhino with a snap mare and follows it up with a running drop kick to the back, and then a running leg drop for 2. Rhino falls down when he is thrown into the corner. Abyss wedges a chair between the top and middle rope. Rhino is sent to the corner, but he puts his foot up and stops himself from going into it. Rhino gets kicked and then thrown into the chair. Abyss chokes Rhino over the middle ropes. Open hand slap on Rhino’s chest. Snap mare by Abyss, who follows it up with a head vice. Rhino standing up and hits elbows and punches. Rhino runs into the big boot of Abyss. Abyss with another head vice. Crowd is chanting Rhino. Rhino with punches to the body. Rhino puts Abyss on his shoulders and connects with a TKO! Holy shit! Both men are down and we have a rest spot. Both men up and Rhino connects with a shoulder block. Rhino with an elbow and then a shoulder block to the cut. Rhino hits two chair shots on Abyss. the crowd is chanting “One more time”. Rhino does it again. Rhino works the crowd. Rhino sets up the gore. Mitchell grabs his leg. Rhino turns around and yells at him. Abyss hits Rhino with the chain when Rhino turns around. Abyss poses and then pins him. Mitchell signals the detonator. Abyss tries an irish whip but Rhino turns it into a spine buster for two. Rhino shouts “Rhino driver”. tries it. Mitchell grabs Abyss’ leg. Rhino is mad and yells at him. Rhino misses a punch and Abyss signals for a choke slam. Rhino kicks him in the nuts and tries a gore, but Abyss turns it into a black hole slam onto the chairs for the three. I’m 5 for 6.
Shane Douglas interviewing Team 3D. Douglas says they were forged in the fires of WCW, forged in the fires of ECW, and yes forged in the fires of WWE. Nice way to put over your competition there. Heck, they won the WCW titles during the invasion angle in WWE, they weren’t in WCW. How can they have been forged in the fires of WCW? Bubba brings up a ton of famous tag teams, such as the Andersons, Road Warriors, etc. They put over wanting the NWA tag team titles, like all of those teams. Nice promo. This is followed by a video package to hype the match. I get a bear.
Team 3D comes out first, followed by the current, reigning and defending champions America’s Most Wanted (with Gail Kim). Heh, Borash puts over that Team 3D is trying to win the grand slam of tag team championships in North America. Don West’s mic is no longer working. Woo hoo! James Storm and Devon start the match. Collar and elbow tie up. They break. They try again. go behind by Storm, standing switch, front facelock, both up with Storm holding Devon in a side headlock. Shoulder bump and Devon down. Storm tries to hip toes Devon but gets hip tossed himself. Both men try elbow drops but neither hit it. Harris hits Devon when the ref wasn’t looking. Rights by Storm. Harris is tagged in. Devon with a double clothesline on both men. Bubba is tagged in. Hip toss on Harris. Scoop slam and an elbow on Bubba, which leads to a two. Harris with a go behind on Bubba, Bubba goes to the ropes and has Harris roll back. Bubba tell shim to bring it on. Harris with a left arm lariat for two. Crowd chants “pussy cat” to piss off The Wildcat Chris Harris. Bubba with an open hand slap on Harris. Bubba misses a senton splash on the downed Harris. Harris tags in Storm, who chokes Bubba with his boot. Then he chokes Bubba with some rope. Harris in an they try a double team back body drop but Bubba kicks them and throws Harris out. Devon is in and he begins to work Storm. Spinebuster on Storm for two. The fans chant they want tables. Devon stops in the corner and waves at Storm who is confused, turns around for a scoop slam by Bubba. The old wazzup drop spot ensues. They get the table, but when doing so they tricked Storm into trying a baseball slide. They lift the table up and then slam the table into Storm. They aren’t paying attention as Harris then connects with a baseball slide to hit them. Storm sets up the table. Devon and Harris are in the ring, and Devon is choked with Harris’ tape. Storm is tagged in and works Devon with a headlock. Storm connects with a knee lift on Devon. Harris is tagged in. Devon is sent into the corner. Storm sends Harris in after him and he tries a spear but Devon moves and thus he hits the corner post. Bubba is in and clears house on both members of AMW. Sidewalk slam on Harris for the two. Storm hits Bubba’s back and then holds him. Harris ends up hitting his own partner when Bubba moves. Storm with a suplex on Devon. Bubba is slammed down for two,. AMW with a double suplex on Devon. Storm sets Bubba up for the Death Sentence, but Devon knocks Harris off. Devon slams Storm onto the apron. Harris catches Devon and punches him and tries a superplex, but Bubba goes under him and puts him on his shoulders. DOOMSDAY DEVICE! Only gets a two. Harris in. Storm hits his own partner when there is some communication problem. The Dudleys hit their double team backdrop and neck breaker for two. Superkick by Storm on Devon. Bubba runs into Storm’s boot. Storm goes to the top, but Bubba pushes him off and through the table. Kim comes in the ring and gives him powder right in front of the ref. Bubba kicks the powder into the ref’s face. 3D on Harris! Devon puts the ref in position, and counts three. Ref still can’t see. Team Canada comes out and beats on Team 3D and then puts Harris on top of Bubba. Ref awards the match to AMW. WTF? Uhm. I ignore this for counting my predictions because it makes so little sense. That said, 3D should have been disqualified for Bubba shoving Storm off the top and through the table.
JJ and Monty cut a promo. JJ says no one should trust Christian because he turned on his brother and Jericho. WTF? Blah, this whole promo was lame.
Video package hyping up the X-division title match.
The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels is the first man out, followed by the X-Division champion Samoa Joe. They start with Joe missing a punch or two. “Fallen Angel” vs. “Let’s go Joe” chants. Daniels with forearms in the corner. Again. Daniels with a high running knee. Joe with a knee to Daniels when the tried a back body drop. Daniels with a head scissors. Daniels with a hurrican rana. Daniels misses a drop kick which lets Joe connect with a series of kicks. Joe with chop after chop in the corner. Daniels with a funky roll through pin for two. Joe somehow gets a surfboard variation on Daniels. Rope break. Daniels with elbows on Joe. Chop. Daniels with a forearm. Daniels misses a lionsault as Joe just walks away. Soccer kick to the bent over Daniels. Snap mare on Daniels, followed by a smack to the back of the head. Joe with a knee drop on Daniels. Soccer kick on Daniels. Chop on Daniels. Joe runs into the elbow of Joe. Lariat doesn’t send Joe down. Neither does a drop kick. Powerslam by Joe for two. Chop on Daniels. Daniels uses both knees as a jawbreaker on Joe. The mixed reaction from the start of the match starts again. Daniels with an STO followed by a split legged moonsault by Daniels. Joe put on the top turnbuckle. Daniels punches but Joe blocks. Daniels puts Joe on his shoulder and hits a kryptonite krunch for two! Daniels tries a rana but gets powerbombed for two. Joe connects with a triangle! Joe releases, and then puts an STF on Daniels. Joe adds a knuckle to the temple but Daniels gets a rope break. Daniels is put on the top. Joe follows. Daniels slides under him and tries a power bomb, but Joe hits a hurrican rana! Lariat for two. THIS IS AWSEOME chant from the crowd. Urnage by Daniels sets up the BME, but only gets two. Joe rolls to the outside. Daniels challenges him. Joe pulls him off the apron. Joe tries to kick Daniels’ legs out from under him when he gets on the apron, but Daniels jumps over it and then kicks Joe in the head. Daniels then slingshots from inside the ring to the outside to connect with an elbow drop! The chants from the start begin again. Daniels rolls Joe into the ring. Joe drop kicks Daniels as he is getting in the ring. Joe connects with a running drop kick to knock Daniels off the apron. Joe on the outside and sets up a chair. He sits Daniels on it, and then runs and kicks Daniels. He completely missed, but Daniels and the announcers still sold it. Wow, somehow that busted Daniels over. Joe tastes Daniels’ blood. I hope Daniels. I hope he doesn’t have an STD. Joe rolls Daniels in and begins to kick Joe. AJ Styles comes out to watch the match. Joe working Daniels over with punches. Daniels starts to fight back with his own punches. Joe misses an enzurigi. Daniels kicks him. Tries an Angel’s Wings but can’t get him up. Joe with a jumping kick connects with Daniels. Joe with a high knee in the corner. Joe puts him on top and connects with the Muscle Buster! Joe tries to lock in the clutch, but Daniels gets a rope break. Joe is pissed and gets a chair. Joe connects with a Muscle Buster on the chair. crowd chants one more time. Joe looking at AJ as he kicks Daniels a few times. knees to the head of Daniels. AJ is holding the towel that Joe brought out. AJ throws in the towel. It’s over and I’m 6 for 7 from what I’m counting. Still, what the Hell kind of finish was that? Joe should have been disqualified for the muscle buster on the chair. An intentional DQ results in a title change in TNA. What is up with that? Quite lame.
Video package to hype the main event.
Douglas with Christian and says if you can’t trust me, ask his brother or Chris Jericho. He says forget that, ask the members of the Christian Coalition. Tells Sting that he is glad that they are on the same side. Blah. Ooh, Christian questions what Sting will show up tonight. Christian jokes about being a mid carder, but says he will save the fans of TNA and will dethrone Jarrett one day for the title, because that is how we roll.
Monty Brown comes out first. Jeff Jarrett joins him with the lovely Gail Kim. Why is the team with the champions coming out first? Oh right, the almighty Sting is on the other side. Blow me. “Captain Charisma” Christian Cage comes out next, followed by … the man they (they who?) call Sting. What the heck? Why does he have nu metal as his entrance music. Blah. Welcome back chants. Fun fact: This is Sting’s fifth match ever in TNA, and they all have involved Jeff Jarrett. The match starts with Brown vs Christian. Brown takes Christian down with a shoulder bump. Christian is slammed into the corner. JJ is tagged in. The world champ misses a clothesline and a back elbow on Christian. Christian does the old Jeff Jarrett strut. He tries to tag Sting after an arm wringer, but JJ pulls him away. Christina then goes for it again and tags Sting in. Sting knocks JJ down with a hip toss. Sting with a drop kick and JJ is out to the floor. “YOU’VE STILL GOT IT” chants. JJ with a knee to the mid section and a series of rights. JJ working Sting over. JJ tries to slam Sting’s face into the corner but Sting stops it. Sting with a boot to JJ and a face jam on him. Brown in and receives the same spot. Christian is tagged in and Christian hits a Stinger Splash on Brown. Christian with a corner mounted punch spot on JJ. Kim up distracts him and JJ pushes him to the floor. Christian walking around and Kim connects with a flying head scissors. Brown throws Christian into the ring. JJ connects with a drop kick. JJ follows this up with his old strut. Monty Brown is tagged in. Christian connects with punches. Brown with a backbreaker and then a t-bone suplex on Christian for two. Another pin attempt for two. Front facelock on Christian and JJ is tagged in. Alpha Female chant. JJ working over Christian. JJ goes for a leg lariat type spot when Christian is draped over the ropes. JJ with a front face lock on Christian as Christian tries to get to Sting. Monty comes in to distract the ref as Christian gets the tag, ref turns around and doesn’t let Sting in, yet doesn’t notice that Brown is now working over Christian. Monty connects with a suplex and floats over for a two count. Monty sends Christian into the corner, Christian tries a head scissors to get out of it but ends up being put on the apron. Both men fighting on the middle turnbuckle. Christian bites Monty who then falls into the ring. Christian connects with a frog splash which results in the crowd chanting EDDIE. Two count. Christian tries to tag Sting. Monty pulling Christian away, as JJ pulls Jarrett off the apron. Sting chasing JJ as JJ puts Kim in front of him. Christian is in the corner looking for a pin but Sting isn’t there. Sting gets there and the ref is yelling at him. Month and Jarrett have chairs and try a conchairto, but Christian ducks. Christian tags Sting. Sting cleans house with chops and punches and such. Stinger Splash on Jarrett. Tries for one on Monty but Monty moves and lariats the ref on accident. Sting throws Brown out of the ring. Sting drops Jarrett, and locks in a Scorpion Deathlock. Rope break but the ref is down. JJ tapping. Monty and Christian in. Christen with a fall away slam throwing Christian into Sting. Sting upset with him. Christian pulls Sting down to avoid Monty hitting him with the title belt. Brown is thrown down. JJ is crotched by Sting. Monty in but gets thrown into Jarrett. Brown is thrown out again. Team Canada out as Sting hits the Scorpion Death Drop and Christian his reverse ddt drop. Christian dives to the outside to take the rest out. Kim distracts Sting as Jarrett hits him with the belt for two. Monty and Christian are in as everyone is fighting. they are told to change and both faces go for the splash and miss. Monty holds Christian as Jarrett gets the guitar. Sting gets the bat and uses the bat to break the guitar. Christian backdrops Monty out of the ring when Monty lets him go out of confusion. Sting hits Jarrett and then hits the Scorpion Death Drop. The ref wakes up and counts the three. Blah. I’m 7 for 8. Woo hoo. Sting jokingly plays the broken guitar. Crowd chanting for Sting. Christian points at Sting with the bat, and hands it to him. Christian gets out of the ring as Sting points at him.
OK. I am sick of Sting. Too many lame match endings hurt the show, but great wrestling did help. OK show, but not the best out of TNA.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 1:41 am.
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Filed under Comics.
In preparation for Marvel’s upcoming Civil War storyline, the fall out from The Other storyline (currently going to in the three monthly Spider-Man books) will result in Iron Man designing a new costume for Spider-Man.
My reaction? YUCK! That costume is ugly! If I was Spider-Man, and saw my friend making decisions like that for me … I would feel weirded out by it. I mean, deciding that Spider-Man should be wearing his colors is kinda creepy.
For the heck of it, I changed the colors to Spider-Man’s traditional color scheme:
Also, Newsarama has an article up reviewing the first issue of Robert Kirkman’s Battle Pope Color. This book is a reprint of Kirkman’s first work, now printed in color. In the first story arc/origin issue, Saint Michael was captured by Lucifer and is in need of rescue. God needed a force of good to battle the evil demons. Deeming Jesus Christ too inept to fight, he enlists the Pope to do it. Bestowing super strength and invulnerability upon him, this cursing, crude, beer swilling, skirt chasing Pope is up for the job! Also, he must teach the halo kid himself, Jesus, to <Titus>stop being such a wussy</Titus>! This really is a fun read for your average joe, and is meant to be christilicious, not blaspherific.
Update
Here is a new, cleaner image of the Spider-Man in his new armor.
Published on 11 Jan 2006 at 11:42 pm.
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Filed under Life,Politics,Rants,Wrestling.
How is that for a title?
A bit has happened within the last few days, and I felt it easier to talk about them all in this post rather than a series of rapid blog entries.
I spent most of Monday with my good friend Christine. She came over, saw the Christmas decorations that are now being taken down, we watched the DVD (Remember the Titans) I purchased for her as a “your Christmas present hasn’t come in yet so I have to get you something” present, and finally gave her said present (the three Anne of Green Gable movies on DVD). Twas a fun to see her, as I imagine I won’t be seeing much of her soon as she is helping getting things ready for her best friend’s wedding, has classes starting soon, a life of her own, etc. Later we hit Media Play to see if they had anything left at good deals (which there isn’t), and following that we hit Javas.
Later that night on WWE Raw, following Edge’s win of the WWE Heavyweight title from New Year’s Revolution and his proclamation of “hot, torid sex” to celebrate they ended the show by having Edge and his skank Lita undress in a bed set up in the ring. During this Lita’s breast was exposed for a few seconds. The America’s USA and Canada’s TSN networks cut to black within a half second of the nipple being exposed, but Britain’s SkyOne never cut away because they aren’t prudes.
Yesterday was uneventful for me, but Rochester’s new mayor announced that he will not approve the continuation of the fast ferry. This is great news! Quite frankly, I have not heard of a single person that is for it that actually looks into the subject. People who don’t are either disinterested on it as a whole or favor it.
OK, a little background history may be in order. For one reason or another, the old mayor’s office pushed heavily for the city of Rochester to bring in a fast ferry to ride from here to Canada (which does not save you any time compared to driving to the same location). We hooked up with a company that brought in a very large, impressive looking boat. The city heavily supported said boat — many highway roads have signs posted for exits that will in some way get you to the ferry, spent money building up the roads around the boat (but cut the street from four lanes to two for some odd reason). For publicity, we first showed off the boat at New York City, where the thing was damaged and needed to be repaired. Upon repair, the boat finally made it to Rochester where it had an OK launch, but after that sales tanked (with only a minor blip during the time that they discounted the price during the summer). The company encountered huge loses (they needed something like 500 riders a day to cover costs, in which they got 25), and went out of business.
Not willing to let this highly publicized distraction from the other problems in the city go (bad economy — caused by the recent string of bad ideas like the ferry — high crime/murder rate and loss of jobs), the city itself purchased the damn thing to try and keep it going. Guess what happens? The thing keeps tanking. They cut the number of trips per day from three to one, the boat gets damaged again. Being part of the city, numbers have to be released, to which it turns out that it is losing at least (they found more money they “forgot” to factor into the original equation, but did not disclose the amount) an average of 1.5 million per month &mdash and that is if you take out the price of the repair. There is no business plan set that will draw in the necessary money to sustain it. Suggestions have been made such as using the ferry as means to import/export goods, but the net gain from such suggestions has been nominal compared to the operating costs. Because of this, to keep the ferry in operation would require 3% of the annual budget for the year. Cutting this thing now will stop the drain on the economy and free up resources.
Today, a nut job was arrested in the parking lot of my local comic book shop. This guy had come into my local comic book shop yesterday trying to sell DVDs to the owner and then to customers in his store. He threw the customer out from his store. He showed up in the parking lot again today, where he tried to break into the pizza shop next door to the comic shop and demanded money when he was caught by the employees in the store. They beat him up and threw him out. He then started to try and sell DVDs in front of the Wilson Farms next door. The cops are called. Because of the vast intelligence of the previous mayor and his cutting down of the police force to two locations (because, as we all know, it’s the evil crooked cops and the “white suburb kids coming into the city to buy drugs” (his words), that are the problem), it takes 45 minutes for some one to show up (the same amount of time it took when there was a shooting here a few months back). Evidentially this person was deemed to have mental health problems and was hauled off.
After finding this out, I asked my local comic shop’s owner (Chuck) about his time in court over refusing to obtain a certificate of use (a little bit of background: the certificate is a $100 fee that was added by the last mayor. Business owners are to give up their social security number, home phone number (even if it isn’t in their name), the names and other contact information of all employees to be kept by the city. It becomes the business owner’s job to protect their business from any crimes that might occur in it or the surrounding area. An appointed city official will oversee the whole organization. The NET office (the people running this dealie) is given the authority to conduct inspections of the business at any time, and if there is anything that they do not like or find offensive then they have the authority to shut the business down. The business owner gives up the right to bring the office to court to challenge the claim. This does not apply to businesses whose are 20 thousand square feet in size (because it’s impossible for large business such as Wegmans to have any problems, right?). Business owners must pass a background check before they are approved. This background check will deny any individual with any problems on their record. Legally, they can deny you for unpaid parking tickets If it is deemed you cannot have a certificate, your business is shut down. The NET office requires 12-13 of the remaining police force to sit at desk jobs to handle things. Essentially, this makes business owners police officers that give up their rights to privacy and due process and is being done on a selective basis. All of this has reportedly resulted in the closing of 8 businesses out of thousands, but has generated a good deal of revenue from fines such as one of the local Wilson Farms staying open 5 minutes past their posted hours because their were still customers in the store). Chuck told me that he had gotten a letter from the city on Tuesday and a phone call today saying that he did not have to appear in court, that the NET office is suspended, and the whole office is under review. Based off the “off the record” comments that has been spread around from local businesses that got together to fight it, it appears that this new mayor is living up to his promise to them to shut the whole damn thing down.
Wow, in under two weeks this guy has cut government waste, returned rights to citizens, and put more cops on the streets to fight crime — and this guy is a Democrat?
Oh yea, and today I figured out that my Sirius receiver can broadcast on a FM frequency and can get it to play on my boom box that way. Only played with it for a bit, but haven’t found an alternative station on there I like. Still, I like what I heard. Next up, getting the car part installed ….
Published on 9 Jan 2006 at 4:23 am.
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Filed under Life,Rants.
So I just spent the last god knows how many minutes trying to open the home docking kit for Sirius so I could listen to it at home and would install the car kit later (after looking at the instructions and wondering how in the hell am I going to get this thing on the roof of my car). Low and behold it seems that my boom box does not have anything I can plug it into, and I am either a moron, or non of these stupid connections on my PC are an audio-in to allow me to plug it in there so that it will come out my PC’s speakers. Because “Able to hear audio” was the last step in the registration process I didn’t sign up for service and need to find some speakers to use. Blah.
Anywho, friday night my friend Alica invited me to join her and her friend Christy to play volleyball later in the night. It seems that Alicia has given up on the belief that Christine and I will get back together, because she was trying to introduce me to this girl. So she has me meet the two of them at a Korean restaurant I keep driving past, but eventually fine. First time I have had Korean food, and I must say… the few things I was able to try once I managed to figure out chop sticks was pretty good. If we had more time, I might have actually tried more. Oh well. On to describing the girl.
This girl is pretty (+5), and smart (+5), ultimately wants to live in New York City (-7). So far, she is still a head a few points. She is my age and already has her bachelors in biology and spanish, has spent a year in Spain, and is now back in college at Brockport because she needs a degree in English in order to pursue her chosen career — an editor for a science journal. We talk, a bit, then have to head volleyball at what turns out to be a baptist church.
The three of us are each split onto a different one of the four teams. I have no idea how the heck they came up with a series of games, as it seemed to have no logic to who was playing when. My team won a lot, so we ended up being out there a lot… or my the schedule was just that damned messed up. As it stood, I did not get to talk with Alicia or Christy, but talked with some of the nice people on my team.
Afterwards, we decided to go to the home of one of my team mates. It was to be a group of four cars, with myself following Alicia as the last two cars. At some point, another car got in front of Alicia and she was following it for god knows how long. It took us at least a half hour to get from Goodman to what turned out to be an apartment complex a street or two north of my friend Christine.
Once we are there, all there is to do is play video games, card games that I (nor Christy) don’t know the rules for, or sit around. Alicia, Christy, myself and one or more (people eventually left the group) were the card games group. Christy and I were the “just going along with whatever was going on” newbies. Eventually the video game group decides to change from some version of Tetris to a shooter game, so two people join our group and it becomes obvious that they would rather play than have to explain playing. I back out of playing and try to learn on my own by watching them. Christy sits next to Alicia and still tries. Sigh.
Eventually the owner (who was in the shooter group) takes the rest of the gamers home, and questions if I would like to play or something (basically he was confused why I wasn’t doing anything… or so it looked). Shortly after they left, I realize that it’s 2 am and I’m not really picking up anything so why don’t I head out.
Oye. I had a good time, but I would say that I don’t see anything more come of this. While the people there were nice, I do not feel right joining a group of baptists. While Christy is a nice girl, she has one of my biggest flaws — too damn indecisive and doesn’t have an opinion on anything either way. Get two people like that together and we’ll find out 40 years and 3 kids later that we both actually hate each other. Plus, I was probably came off as too much of an idiot by trying to go back and forth between talking to her and Alicia at dinner, expecting to get to somehow get to talk with her more at another time (which didn’t exactly happen). Oh well. Nice to get out for a change.
Published on 8 Jan 2006 at 10:41 pm.
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Filed under Wrestling.
This show takes place in Albany, New York and only has a total of six matches on the card. None of which look too great. Why did I even order this show? Anyways, I started doing this during the second match, so I’m sorry my description for the show is so short.
Show starts with a long ass promo trying to fill time. Great…
Curtain jerker is “The rated R superstar, Mr. Money in the bank who got harpies from a skank” Edge (with his skank Lita) vs “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair. Pretty good opening match for 10-15 minutes. Match ends with a disqualification after Edge hits Flair with the briefcase when he has Lita in a figure four. Flair blades, and they kill another 5 minutes having him get out. Short match because Edge is still hurt with his peck injury.
Next is a long promo showing everything in the build up to Mickie James vs Trish Stratus. I go to get beer to finish off what I had from New Years.
Oh lord, Mickie James has her kissing Trish in her Titan Tron video. This match was pretty damn good for the most part. Mickie mixes caring for Trish and has power of her own. Trish looks horrible in this match, botching the selling of Mickie’s hurrican rana, and sloppier kicks then Lita’s vagina. Mickie James is wearing a super short skirt that is showing off her nice ass, so that’s a plus. Crowd loves her character (and her body), and begins chanting “Let’s go Mickie”. Mickie James hits Trish’s finisher and we see once again how horrible Trish’s move set is. Trish tried her own but missed it. Mick-kick misses, but the Trish kick lands for 3. Damn good match. I expect that Trish will lose the belt in a rematch tomorrow night, which is the 1 year anniversary of her holding the title.
Maria interviews herself for the Diva gauntlet match, hoping back and forth from too spots. Gregory Helms walks into the promo and asks why they are wasting time on her. He points out that Lawler won’t be there to pull his dirty old man bit cheering for her puppies. Helms walks off and Shelton Benjamin and his momma show up. She yells at him for not eating right. What is this a Campbell’s soup commercial? The NFL should sue.
Cut to Edge and Lita pimping WWE Instant Access. Edge says he’s not ready for it so she should handle it and walks off. Lita is confused. Rumor has it that Edge will finally use the Money in the Bank stipulation tonight after the Elimination Chamber. I don’t care. I look at the clock and notice we’re 1/3 done with the Pay Per View and we’re only a half hour in.
Jerry Lawler comes out for his match with Helms in the battle of the men who have had their signature moves banned from the WWE. Helms has new music. Joey Styles brings up Lawler’s feud with the legendary comedic star Andy Kaufman and how Jim Carey’s career hasn’t been the same since. Was that a shot against Man on the Moon? Helms’ tights look like a cross between the late Crash Holly and TNA’s AJ Styles tights. Your classic young heel wrestling the legendary wrestler bit here. Helms should call up Smackdown’s Kid Kash how to do this, because Kash did a better job in TNA. Helms sells how tiring suplexing the Lawler makes him (because Lawler is so out of shape). Helms dominates the start of the match. Helms is at the announcer’s booth and starts talking. He says that he isn’t even breathing hard and will do Lawler’s job after the match is over. Helms shoots Lawler in the corner and goes to follow, Lawler moves and now it’s time for the legend to dominate the young kid. Lawler says “how about a pile driver” and then kicks Helms. Coach points out we haven’t seen a pile driver in a long time and Helms back body drops Lawler. Helms gets crotched on the top, and of course the King hits his middle rope fist drop to finish the match. Wow, they didn’t even let Lawler use his old finisher for a PPV. We’re now half done and less than an hour into the show.
Mickie James is in the Instant Access room to congratulate Trish. Mickie says that their match was electric, and enjoyed having their hot sweaty body’s in the ring.
Shelton’s mom is finding him some food and doesn’t like what she sees. The World’s Largest Love Machine Viscera shows up and tells her she has some junk in the trunk and that he wants a piece of her chocolate pie. Shelton’s mom is pissed. She says she is his momma, Viscera says Shelton is his hommie and says he wants to be her daddy. She says if he wants action he’ll find her one. Viscera goes to eat something and Shelton’s momma comes back and takes it and walks away. Oh god, please don’t say we have an impromptu Shelton vs Viscera match.
Big Show/Triple H promo. WWE.com just announced that Triple H and Stephanie are expecting their first child. I wonder if Stephanie inherited her mother’s demon infested womb? Either way, we all know that he will beat Randy Orton’s record as the youngest champion by winning the title at age 18.
Big Show comes out with the Bob Orton gimmick and has his arm taped up. Lord is that over done. Next comes the soon to be poppa. HHH is bitching that Big Show shouldn’t be able to wrestle with a cast. No shit, but this is wrestling. Why should logic apply here? Big Show’s first move is a wild swing with the cast and hits the turnbuckle pad and doesn’t sell it like it hurts. God damn, that has to be some good padding. Big Show is wrestling left handed for moves like chops and open hand slaps. I wonder what he’ll do when it comes time for the choke slam. I’m told to turn it to Family Guy, and it turns out they’re making fun of The Rock’s ethnicity “there has to be some black in there. One of his parents was probably white.” Horrible…. the match that I was watching, not the Family Guy bit. That was merely a rare miss for Family Guy. Back to the show. HHH is attacking the cast, which has been split. Slams the cast into the steel post in the corner. HHH rips off the cast and starts to work the Big Show’s hand. Big Show actually sells for a minute. HOLY SHIT! The Big show just flopped over the ropes. More working of the hand. Triple H starts pulling at the Big Show’s fingers. OH NOES! NOT PULLING HIS FINGERS YOU EVIL SON OF A BITCH! Big Show powers HHH over, but HHH no sells and continues the hand. We’re less than 70 minutes into this show and I want this match over. This is dull as all hell. Big Show tries to run across the ring to slam Triple H and is winded. goes for the choke slam but his hand is to hurt. Ref bump, and of course HHH gets the sledge hammer out. Show catches the sledge hammer mid swing with his left hand and breaks it with his hurt hand. HHH goes to swing it with the remaining portion of the hammer, but Big Show hits a kick. HHH gets a chair on the outside, but Show kicks him again. HHH is thrown into the steps. Show tries to lift the 500 lbs. steel steps. HHH kicks Show in the nuts, and then grabs a chair and hits the remaining steps, which Big Show sells like it hit his hand. HHH then hits a GORE! GORE! GORE! when HHH comes at him with a chair again. Show rolls HHH in. Show signals for a left handed choke slam. HHH has the broken sledge hammer and hits him. pedigree. Rolls the fat man over for the pin. Best work from the Big Show in a while, but christ that was a waste. I am so sick of every match having to be in The WWE Style ™. HHH won a match? Who would have thought it.
Carlito and the birthday boy Chris Masters in the back. Carlito puts over how well steroids have worked for Masters. Carlito says that everyone else in the match has been WWE champ except them. He says that no one has any faith in them. He says that the elimination chamber match is every man for themselves. He says it doesn’t have to be. He says that they can work together so that it will come down to just them, and then they can have some new blood.
Royal Rumble video with the McMahon family in roman gear. Not nearly as cool as last year.
Back to live action we see Lawler is back, and then Shelton’s music hits and he comes out with his momma. He challenges Viscera to giver her a public apology. She says don’t no man disrespect a Benjamin woman. She challenges him to come out and take an ass woppin’. Shelton is scared because WWE writing is retarded. Shelton is a legit NCAA amateur wrestling star, and a proven ass kicker. Viscera is a fat ass who only has a job because the McMahons like big men. Impromptu match, and Shelton’s mom is shouting her ass off. Despite Shelton’s awesomeness, Viscera does not deserve to have his match called. This match was way too long, and its only purpose was to get over Shelton’s momma. Viscera pointed to Shelton’s mom and started to hump his ass. Yeah, that’s what wrestling needs, more homo-eroticism. Shelton’s mom hits Viscera with her purse, and then Shelton hits the dragon lash or whatever his spinning heel kick is called. Yeaaa, Shelton won a match!
Cut to HBK putting his boots on and Vince wishing him good luck, since no one has ever ever been the first man to entered the elimination chamber and won the match. HBK points off that he was the first man to enter the RR and then won the match, he was the first guy in WWE ladder match or a hell in a cell match. Vince says if he wins it’ll be like the first time Hell froze over, and then wishes him good luck.
Wrestlemania 22 promo.
Bra and panties gauntlet match time: Maria is the first woman to come out. I like the pants. 😉 Candice comes out as the second woman. Looks like Maria got a boob job. Not too long in and Candice does her stupid dance from the GoDaddy.com commercial last year at the Super Bowl. Maria has her shirt ripped off, and then Maria loses hers. Candice hits her over the top rope figure four headlock. Maria counters and rips off Candice’s shorts to eliminate her. Torrie in the match, missing her dog Chloe. Sunset flip almost causes Maria to lose her pants, but then a victory roll almost causes Torrie to lose hers. No woman actually loses it. Shades of Tajiri with Torrie hitting a hand spring elbow? WTF Work rate? Torrie thrown out, Maria brings her in. Maria takes off her shirt, and then Torrie hits the ugliest spear in the history of ever. Generic women rolling over the ref spot. Torrie gets mad at the ref and tries to slap him, Maria disrobes her. Next woman out is Victoria. Maria is tired as heck…. ends up losing her pants to Victoria… Oh lord, the Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young…. oh god, they’re getting in the ring… oh lord, not a strip show song… Mae takes off her shirt. Victoria is scared…. tries to take off her skirt. She has… what the fuck? Victoria starts to beat her…. Moolah makes the save. Victoria has her shirt and nearly bra removed when Mae screws up ripping the top off. Ashley comes out and then counters a widow’s peak and rips off Victoria’s shorts to win the match. Of course being a face, Ashley removes her top and skirt.
Cut to Shelton and his momma at the Instant Access room. Shelton is happy because he won… and then his momma pulls out a brick from her purse. He is a bit sullen to learn he didn’t win on his own.
Elimination Chamber descends from the top of the arena. They call it 10 tons and begin to hype the match. Blah. STOP KILLING TIME.
They slowly introduce every person. They bring up that Kane is the last person to join the match, and that today is Masters’ birthday. The match starts with Shawn Michaels and John Cena. Match started with Cena Sucks chants. And this guy is a face? Blah Blah killing time. Carlito enters the match and starts beating on Cena and gets cheered for it! The crowd is literally cheering when Cena is getting beat on, and booing when Cena is winning. Angle comes in, and this is crazy. Shawn is thrown head first into the chamber, which doesn’t break. Ankle lock! Masters is in and saves Carlito. Masters is on fire! Yadda Yadda. Sweet Chin Music and Kurt Angle has been eliminated! Kane enters the match and clears house. That said, Masters and Carlito working together eventually takes Kane out. This match is a train wreck. HBK is bloody. The crowd is hot because he is signaling for sweet chin music on Cena. He hits it! Carlito tries to hit his finisher, Masters… blah. Last Rites by Carlito and HBK is gone. Masters pins Cena and… no. 🙁 Styles points out that he doesn’t have “all of the chain gang” as the crowd is booing the hell out of him. Five knuckle shuffle. FU stopped by Masters! Masterlock on Cena. Carlito with a low blow on masters and then a school boy eliminates him! Cena with a quick roll up and Cena gets the pin! Cena wins. 🙁
Vince’s music hits and Vince tells us that this night is not over. Raise the cage. Edge is cashing in his money in the bank!
Edge hits the spear and does NOT get the pin! He is in disbelief! Goes for another spear and… THREE! NEW CHAMPION! THE HOME WRECKER IS CHAMP! I swear I don’t know what is worse… Cena or Edge.
Published on 5 Jan 2006 at 10:06 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized.
I am a fan of the tv show The Office. Unfortunately, like My Name is Earl I never remember that this show is on. Tonight I caught half of Earl and all of The Office, and at the end the character Jim admits to the boss that he has a thing for one of the girls in the office. This girl is engaged, and on this episode her boyfriend gave her a date for the wedding. To paraphrase the boss’ reply, BFD. Engaged isn’t married.
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Wow, the word ‘fucking’ made it onto tv in acronym form! <sarcasm>Oh noes! Alert the FCC! </sarcasm>
Published on 5 Jan 2006 at 3:10 am.
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I still have some things to add (an About page, a section for works that I have done, more), but I have finally hit a point where I am comfortable rolling out the new template. Anyone likey?
Published on 5 Jan 2006 at 3:09 am.
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It seems that IE requires that the href attribute of the <base> tag be a full URL starting from the http part, or else it will not load any of your CSS files and possibly your JavaScript files. This was the last bug I had to overcome before I officially rolled out the new look.
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