Combining the comments and other into posts
– I got the box today. And it’s going back to them tomorrow, with my laptop. Asssuming they remember to pick it up.
They’ve sent me nothing about the hard drive (that I’m supposed to be returning to them, except the shipping label is missing and they won’t give me their address and haven’t sent a new lable), so I’m sure I’m in some violation of warranty but I think I have a chat transcript to prove my innonence. I’m holding it hostage till I get my computer back, I think.
Freaking month. Gateway is not endorsed.
– I take a lot of mini (and some longer) breaks in the middle of recaps, and I’m tending to them around weekday Adult Swim time, so I catch bits and pieces of Futurama and Family Guy – enough to know they’re hit or miss with me, not enough to keep them around on my TiVo.
My TiVo’s 60 hours (thinking about getting one of those upgrades), but I like to get the WWE/CMLL stuff in high quality, so there’s no point for me in wasting space in stuff I’m gonna catch as much as I want anyway.
Last time FLCL was on, I had heard the “it’s a good show but you must pay decent attention to get it” hype and I wasn’t in the mood to pay decent attention. Maybe next time.
I *loved* the original (crispy, featuring 100% future CNN anchor) Mole, despite it being moved around and pretend canceled multiple times. The Celebrity Mole show is still sorta okay for debating who the Mole is (um…Mr. Cooper?) but even more funny for how insane the D-level celeberties get.
– As far as Velocity, there are other guys who can fit his slot, such as it was; I think they can easily slide in Shannon as the bumping half of the tag team while London does the wacky spots, if they wanted to. And they don’t use everyone on the roster ever week as it is, so if this means Kanyon gets to be on TV again before he gets cut (like I think everyone expects, if he hasn’t been already) that’s fine. It’ll probably mean one less good match on Velocity every two weeks, but I don’t think they’re really concerned about that.
It sucks that we never got Spanky/Rey or Spanky/Dragon or dozen other intersting matches, but if he’s going to be fine or better elsewhere, good for him. It won’t be as intersting without him around, but Spanky’s not really the person to blame for that.
Disappionting in the situation but not the decision.
– I’m thinking tommorow I’ll update the CMLL side of things? Lucha Times is already done, so there’s not much work to be do, it’s just that I rather have an extra half hour sleep right now. #110 (they skipped #109)’s first draft is done and after I proofread it, I’ll take care of both things.
– It’s nice to know that I can still trick people into proving their existance.
Having watched most of the FLCL eps, I can safely say it makes little to no sense…your average episode of Family Guy holds together better plotwise. It’s still damn funny, if not very drug-influenced. I’d imagine drugs make it more coherant, too. The South Park scene out of nowhere was…interesting. I’d rather have more of that and less of Inuyasha.
Having successfully avoided most WWE programming (last SD I saw was…Benoit/Brock? That was good though), I have little to say on that, although I’m sad I missed Spank Calling/WGTT last week. Maybe we’ll get London vs. Charlie or Shelton before he gets cut, which I’d go out of my way to watch.
Random question- they ever let London do his neckbreaker variation? Looks vaguely like a Side Effect. Used it in one of his matches vs. Danielson, if you’ve seen any of those.
Feel free to mock away.
So what’s the over/under on Morgan’s finisher getting renamed the Blueprint Thunder Bomb?
Yep…this is another Velocity picking-apart session and I just came back from my cousin’s birthday party at Uno’s. Chicken and broccoli fettucine, if you may ask. Anyways, I wanna start by saying that the intro to your recap was very well-written and pretty much emphasizes the fact that wrestling means more than people think it is nowadays. Guys like Spanky, American Dragon and Loki live and die for the small scraps of TV time they get. A wrestling match can easily be seen as a work of art. Spanky’s the new Van Gogh [underappreciated, yet great] so he’s taking his paintbrush and easel elsewhere. Good for him.
“Of course, Shannon’s evil act currently involves a lot of pointing and smiling cockily.”
The sneer SO needs to be worked on. Maybe he needs the Mandy Moore makeover and to dye his hair brown.
“Josh wasted no time pointing out that Shannon has a dragon (tattoo) on his arm and is wrestling a dragon (irrelevant.) Bill asks if Josh’s observation has a point, and Josh more or less says no.”
ahahaha Tremendous. I never noticed it being a tattoo. I’ve read an interview where Shannon says he’s considering getting more tattoos.
“Asai DDT one two three”
Arrgh, another really fake looking finisher. Is it really a DDT? I thought it was an inverted DDT.
“Orlando Jordan (Miami, FL, 240 pounds)”
Is absolutely horrible and wears horrible yellow tights with a BEAR [???] on his ass. I’ll bring up why I think he’s horrible very soon.
“Bill’s pointing out how Matt needs to sit down. Orlando is trying to sell it and get to the ropes”
Well, Matt had the half-crab for like a good minute. And Orlando did limp around for like a minute and then all of the sudden, he’s kicking and FEELING IT. God damnit, sell.
“Arch: “TWO POINT FIVE” Uh, it’s still just two.”
Yes, that was rather odd. Maybe he should try to maybe wrestle a good match instead of trying to get over his character…
“Nick Patrick: “Two!” Arch: “No no no no – two and a HALF” Ah, Arch has set himself reachable goals.”
I believe he said “two and NINE TENTHS”
“Josh: “White Russian Legsweep!” “I don’t get it.””
I believe he initially called it a russian legsweep, but then said “I probably woulda called it a white russian legsweep.” Then after Bill didn’t get it, Josh went into detail of what’s in a white russian – vodka, milk and a little bit of Kahlua. And Bill was like “yeah, you’d drink something with milk” like he was implying that Josh was not a real man’s drinker. I dunno.
“Bill says that A-Train’s been putting a lot of time in with Fit Finlay and Arn Anderson to get better, and to Bill, it’s showing right now. Bradshaw trying to back away, but A-Train kicks him down. FUJIWARA ARMBAR. Call it Josh! He’ snot calling it.”
Oh that ruled. I started getting visions of those 1-minute match clips of Barry Darsow wrestling and locking in the EVIL FUJIWARA ARMBAR and Tenay would go nuts and say OH MY GOD HIS ARM ISN’T SUPPOSED TO TURN THAT WAY!!! and the guy would have to tap immediately. Lovely stuff.
“Waiting – top rope shoulderblock hits! One two NO. A-Train with a shot to the throat, big charge into a back elbow but Bradshaw’ hurting delivering it. A-Train charges again, but Bradshaw moves, off the ropes, Clothesline From Hell one two three”
I thought if he’d have to hit the clothesline, he’d do it with the other arm because if he did hit it, it would hurt more. I think I recall Bradshaw actually doing that one time…but I dunno. I’m growin’ old.