Category: digressing

Jim won. Though we all kinda figured this is the way it’d end after Lex got the boot. And the shows haven’t sucked since then, which is a nice thing. The people, not so much.

Amber might have won a million dollars, but her best political move was making sure she hugged her mother-in-law-to-be in short order.

Shii Ann is/was a total Survivor Smark put on the show. Sad thing to watch. AND SHE GOT A CAR. What the heck.

If the first segment of Heat is weird, it’s because I was sucking on a Tootsie Pop throughout and trying hard not to bite (which I should do more often when I’m writing). I lasted till there was little left and Kane was on my screen. I already read TNM’s and there’s about a billion things I realized I did wrong on mine but it’s already up and out of my hands.

Lucha tomorrow.

Hey FLEA, when you write “I’m going to do something interesting real soon!” and then you disappear two weeks, a reader might think you’re just screwing around with them, and that you’re really not going to be any interesting at all!

Any minute now, I’m going to stop checking 1whatever to see if you’ve done whatever it is you were that (and miss out on my opportunity to probably be disappointed but I’m willing to take the chance.)

It’s not that I need you to tell me what’s good and bad (that’s Justin and Scott) because I don’t agree with you at least half the time, but you have this strange ability to make me disagree with you but aren’t so out there that I don’t just roll my eyes and click to something else*. Except, this year, you’re disagreeable and disappearable, a devastating combo.

It’s not working out for me. Although whatever kept you from writing before might be what’s up now and I should probably just shut up, but I can’t let it go when I have to visit sites I don’t like just to find out what’s up. It’s a minefield; one wrong click and you’re questioning the need for human existence.

* – kinda like a couple COMPLETE LUDICROUS COLUMNS at my double vowel home today, though I still may yell about them rather than write about matches this weekend

Completely different: If you are a sabermetric internet fan who knows where the worthwhile sites are (or, like me, stalk those sites), you probably knew what I meant when I was talking about a sub site called Clutch Hits.

Sooooo, if you had Clutch Hits, why would change the name? WHY. That’s sillier than 3 days of downtime.

My personal theory is BaseballPrimer took the theory of “there’s no such thing as clutch hitting” far past it’s logical bounds

T: They’re semi-main eventing Shane Douglas in a show around here. I could not believe someone thinks Shane Douglas is a draw. If you’re going to see a show because Shane Douglas is on it in 2004, you’re probably going to the show no matter who’s on it, or you’ll give anyone your money if you’re just kindly asked.

Most indy promoters are in it to meet ex-famous wrestlers and pseudo-famous wrestlers not to actually make money, I figure. Unless they’re wrestling too, because there’s that.

You’d think it’d be a Big Dick Hardcore Tournament? Or if it has to be a tag team tournament, it’s one where only where only big & tall “stand outside the ring and look impressive” types can participant. Otherwise, what kinda tribute can it really be?

Other Black Indy Wrestlers I Can Think Of: Donovan Morgan of IRON and NOAH! Wildside’s Onyx! Quebec’s Onyx! Lots of Chicago based guys who work or used to work for UAPW that no one outside of Chicago know, so I don’t think they really count. Although I’m told Acid Jaz is really good and he looked fine the five minutes I got to see of him. There was someone else who’s name is slipping my mind and I’m gonna – whoever the Black Nature Boy was, if he still wrestles.

I think this is the “what happened to the Black Starting Pitcher” where people have lots of ideas but no one’s totally sure; I’m not sure if the lack of wrestling in the inner city makes as much sense here.

I need to just watch the OMLL tape. I’m wound up today. I need to do a page of Best of CMLL anyway, so I’ll get on that.

New DVDVR, by the way. I was gonna print it out and read through some during lunch today, but then found out I wasn’t going to have a lunch. I was overjoyed.

I was going to say something interesting and thought provoking, surely, but they cut Shannon Moore’s (link – wait, no, try this one) hair and now I don’t know if I can go on. It’s so very sad, worst hair cut this weekend.

(Lucha Defense: Magica’s hair always looked off and probably was going to fall out at some point soon with all the hair coloring he put into it, and Super Crazy just has a greasy mess.)

I wonder if they’ll ever update his entrance video? I guess the production people could get bored before his hair grows out.

Really, with the unlimited power the Heat recaps on Whoa.com provide, I’m surprised Justin doesn’t use it as more for an evil gain, but then that can be annoying to read. I like to think that they read the information they were sending out weekly to listing services and realized that it was show #300 and that someone inside remembered that they were COUSINS but that’s less faith in them and more faith in my non-ability to reach anyone ever at all.

You think I’m being self depreciating but you should see all the stupid John Cena hits. I need to set up one of ’em robots.txt files to hide a few things from that nosy google.

Random: If anyone needs the TonyK stuff, get it this week, because I’ll probably remember to take it down Friday. Affirmation, Baby needs to be added to the sidelinks.

Maybe when I’m paid to sit around and do nothing tomorrow I’ll write more. Or better. Or something. I’ll listen to the Cubs game and maybe type, probably.

oh my god. PTI is spending Five Good Minutes with Kenny Mayne. This is as good as the guy who combined chocolate chips with cookie dough.

Even the fact that I couldn’t possibly care about horse racing except for the three minutes when the horses are running can’t ruin this. Him forgetting who won the Super Bowl slightly does, but I can get over that if you can get over that.

What a wonderful 100th post. I needed to get past that mental block anyway.

This morning, I start up Radio@Netscape, and they want me to upgrade to a new version, and this version is going to expire if I don’t. So I do.

The new version, looks bad (far less professional looking), the sound quality’s dropped (I don’t have normally have an ear for these things, so that’s how stunning the change was) and the buttons you click don’t actually respond the first time you click them. But it has more room for ad banner space, so mission accomplished.

It’s still music, and free music, and I still get the stations I want so I go along with it. I take off my headphones for a while to do other stuff, and when I come back, the music stops. Which isn’t unexpected, because the old version would prompt you ever 31 or 51 songs to check if you were still there and perhaps looking at their ad banner.

Except that’s not the prompt. According to the new prompt, I’ve reached my limit of free music for the day (at two hours?) and if I want more, I have to pay for AOL Broadband to listen for any more than that per day.

What a rip – from “really good, as long as you want (to click)” to “eh, for two hours” with no warning. Need new music again. Time to bebop around on http://www.radio-locator.com/ and listen to music from Alaska.

A list: Things that happened to me on Wednesday

the alarm went off, but the radio people were annoying so I turned it off.

so I overslept.

because I overslept, someone else had to move my car (as I was hurriedly getting ready) so a painter could get into my garage

while moving my care, that person snapped off my passenger side mirror on the way out of the garage, screwing up the garage door track as well

I had to drive 2h45m, all highway, lots of passing cars, and one less mirror

and it was raining off and on

After listening to crappy sports radio (to wake me up some more via anger), I decide to listen to my reburned CD. All goes well for about 40 minutes – and then the CD Player won’t play my CD for more than 5 seconds without a 30 second pause. (I endorse Milwaukee’s 102.1, by the way)

and then I realize my wallet is sitting on the couch at home, and I’m far far away from there now

And then I get to where I’m going, where I’m supposed to install a hard drive. This computer where I sit will keep beeping till it’s installed, and maybe it’ll lose all the data if we don’t get it in there soon. Dell sent it. to me. I open the box it came in. Packing list says “HD, 19GB”. It’s not a hard drive. It’s a tape drive. Dell thinks this is kinda funny.

I have nothing else to do at this location that I couldn’t have done from places lots closer to home. I fool around and kill time and take care of little issues no one would even bother to care about, before checking out at 4

It’s rained some more.

2h45m back the other way! CD Player still hates me.

and the tape covering the busted plastic starts to loosen, and bits of plastic are falling off my car. So I have to stop in the middle of nowhere to fix that

I get to downtown Milwaukee just in time for the downtown evening Downtown Milwaukee Traffic Jam For No Obvious Reason

I get near O’Haire just in time for a “we’ll all slow down to look at the car on the shoulder there” jam.

O’Haire’s toll is 40 cents. I throw in a quarter, a dime, and a nickel. Somehow, this does prompt the gate to go up. Free bonus quarter for IDOT!

The tape starts coming off again, but I’m ten minutes from home and don’t care any more

and my garage is so full of ladders and paint supplies, I can’t park and get to the stairs to the house without some creative climbing. (I think I couldn’t have actually made it that far if my mirror hadn’t been clipped off, so there’s an upside there.)

So. Good day. Cubs were awesome. Try again tomorrow.

There’s a rumor I may watch wrestling live in person on Saturday with Internet-type people. I can not confirm nor deny this at the moment.

Yes! I fixed the problem with the disappearing text – apparently one should not trust the line height tag. If you’re still getting text that seems to disappear and reappear depending on when you scroll, let me know.

I forgot to mention Joe’s blog. Visit! I think my top Tiger Woods scores are 52, 53, 53, 56 but my game is in the possession of an evil doer who does not respond to my text messages right now, so I’m not sure. St. Andrews is such the low scoring place once you juice your golfer up to the 110% – unless the wind is going against you, so many of the Par 4s become easy to reach on one, and the greens are always easy.

The courses that still gave me trouble were the Predator (too much jungle and too desiring to cut corners when that’s really not going to work), the Aussie Open course (small fairways and a couple holes where I just have a mental block and hit it into out of play gorges) and the British coastal created one whose name I’m blanking on in the moment (weird situations, trick shots – the hole where you shoot through an aqueduct is near impossible to par). Maybe I never got far enough, but I’ve never figured out why the Antarctic course isn’t part of the World Tour or the PGA Tour – seems odd. That’s a tough one too. I love Black Rock Cove; I think that course sold me on the game.

This does remind me to ask Seadawg when he wants to play NCAA again. Or maybe we need to compare game lists again and see what else we can do. I should post my when they’re in front of me and I’m not writing and Poker playing and Game 7 watching.

You know I marked out at Matt making the save. Ooooh, a chokeslam, what a sacrifice. Hope for fun followup.

Ugh. Hit a straight on the flop. Went all in. Two guys went with me. Big pot. One had two pair. The other had a flush. Welcome to #284.

I almost forgot to mention: Toryumon is going to run one of their semi-annual shows in Mexico City’s Arena Coliseo on 5/16. What’s the main event?
Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Super Crazy vs Vampiro, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromi Horiguchi and Ultimo Dragon
My booking powers have gone international, Scott.

oh wow game 7 overtime

I said When I Wake Up but I forget to say And Then Thirteen Hours After That, give or take. Don’t look at me like that. I had stuff to do!

Get a new cell phone (which is the sucky non flip top kinda, but it was either that or pay an extra $150 to be able to flip and I don’t want to flip that bad – I did get insurance on the phone this time), clean out a room that’s being painted tomorrow maybe, deposit my one dollar check, go to the dealership to get an oil change, figure out what to do when the dealership is closed on Sundays, that sorta stuff.

And watch a lot of TV. So so important.

I just watched the Ripping Friends for the first time. You’re waiting for the funny part to come, and then you’re waiting, and then you’re waiting and then you’re just kinda bored with the whole thing. The Yogi Bear take off thing the same guy did was a lot the same, where it was really strange but not funny or even that entertaining. Maybe it gets better after the pilot? Maybe I don’t stick around to find out? I dunno. Between that and the Oblongs, there’s an hour there I can skip if I’m willing to miss out on the commercial shorts.

Seriously, though, they couldn’t have just thrown on two Space Ghost episodes tonight? The mini horse deals were fun but not enough.

Okay, now I’m watching the Popeye show instead of doing anything. This is getting sorta sad.

CD Update – my Big Brat mp3 was messed up so I need to reborn that CD. And make another one for this week, so I’m already looking for song and not finding anything good. Kazaa is a worthless pile of faked and corrupted MP3s incredibly frustrating, so I’m using other stuff now. I mean, bad MP3s are the cost of doing business at this point, but they’re still really annoying.

I need to see Chris Hero. I also need to find a good book to read and time to do it. Perhaps instead of watching random cartoons.

I didn’t mention the end of Home Movies – outside of when I complained about the choices Cartoon Network was making – because, well, I didn’t really dig it. Brandon made a comment along the lines of hating to writing endings, and it felt like real life Brandon was living that out. It was like they were trying to hard to say something, or even just find something to say, instead of being funny, at least as funny as they were in other episodes.

It’s one of the rare times where you don’t want the writers to be conscious that This Is (Probably) It and adjust accordingly; I think I would’ve enjoyed just another edition of Mellisa, Jason and Brandon making their movies instead of expounding on endings and the camera getting broke.

It’s still on my TiVo, in the “stuff I can’t bear to delete because I risk never seeing them again” section, so maybe I’ll watch it again and change my mind.

The Peanuts dancing gag, that was pretty funny.

I got MVP Baseball Tuesday on the way home, and I’ve played it like twice. Since all my friends and me do is play multi-player franchise mode on Madden, it’s a tremendous disappointment that MVP doesn’t have the same abilities. Why wouldn’t they do that by now in all games? I wasn’t expecting them to just be that far along, I was expecting them to be able to do that sort of thing on-line by now, seeing as I have/had PC games ten years ago that could do that.

Top 4 Ultimo matches ranked without having rewatched any of them or having put a rating on them at the time

Ultimo/Funaki vs Matt/Shannon (6:18), 09/06/03
Rey/Kidman/Ultimo vs the FBI (10:20), 10/25/03
Ultimo/Funaki vs WGTT (7:45), 02/07/04
Ultimo vs Chavo (8:39), 03/20/04

Best Ultimo vs Shannon: Ultimo vs Shannon (6:16), 01/31/04

Somedays I think it’s best if I don’t watch the Cubs games. But then Ron and Pat can drive you insane.

So the rumor is that we’ve (I’m speaking of us here who watch Velocity, because c’mon) seen the last of Ultimo Dragon in WWE for at least now, as he’s taking a leave of absence after this taping, and possibly for good, because the paycheck’s the only thing left to come back for and how good can that be these days?

Ultimo Dragon WWE TV Matches

1. Ultimo vs Shannon (4:55), 06/26/03
2. Ultimo vs Eddie (3:34), 07/10/03
3. Ultimo vs Noble (2:14), 07/17/03
4. Ultimo vs Kanyon (4:07), 07/27/03
5. Ultimo vs Nunzio (5:18), 08/02/03
6. Ultimo vs Shannon (5:03), 08/09/03
7. Ultimo/Funaki vs Matt/Shannon (6:18), 09/06/03
8. Ultimo/Funaki vs WGTT (7:44), 09/13/03
9. Ultimo/Funaki vs Joey Matthews and Jasoc Picaro (6:00), 09/27/03
10. Ultimo vs Tajiri (3:11), 10/09/03
11. Ultimo vs Joey Mathews (5:10), 10/18/03
12. Rey/Kidman/Ultimo vs the FBI (10:20), 10/25/03 
13. Ultimo vs Rey Mysterio (2:40), 10/30/03
14. Ultimo/Noble vs Tajiri/Nunzio (6:57), 11/06/03
15. Ultimo/Funaki vs WGTT (5:05), 11/15/03
16. Ultimo vs O’Haire (4:48), 11/22/03
17. #1 Contenders Battle Royal (2nd out), 11/27/03
18. Ultimo vs Tony Salantri (3:22), 12/13/03
19. Ultimo/Kidman vs Akio/Sakoda (5:36), 12/20/03
20. Ultimo vs Shannon (5:54), 01/17/04
21. Ultimo/Funaki vs Bashams (5:47), 01/24/04
22. Ultimo vs Shannon (6:16), 01/31/04
23. Ultimo/Funaki vs TWGTT (7:45), 02/07/04
24. Ultimo vs Shannon (5:10), 02/14/04
25. Ultimo/London/Kidman vs Tajiri/Sakoda/Akio (5:35), 02/15/04
26. Ultimo/Kidman/Rey vs Akio/Sakoda/Tajiri (4:41), 03/04/04
27. Ultimo/Funaki/Kidman/Rey vs Tajiri/Sakoda/Akio/Noble (7:02), 03/11/04
28. Cruiserweight Open (2:15), 03/14/04
29. Ultimo vs Chavo (8:39), 03/20/04 
30. Ultimo vs Nunzio (6:07), 04/17/04

If this is it, of all the memories I’ll have of the Ultimo Dragon WWE era, the second best one will be how they had the analysts dogged him for not doing enough to connect to the fans in his first few months, then after he started doing what they wanted, started dogging him for doing too much stuff for the crowd.

My top memory will be what’s missing from that list.
– Longest singles match with Mysterio: 2:43
– Longest singles match with Noble: 2:14
– Longest singles match with Tajiri: 3:11
– Longest singles match with Kidman/London/Spanky: N/A, no match

Ultimo wasn’t the same guy he was before the arm injury, but that’s obviously not something that was ever fair to expect. But he was stellar in many of those tags, and certainly wasn’t embarrassing himself in the singles. So the reason they went out of their way not do Ultimo vs the Top Guys for any significant time is…I’ll get back to you after I find out how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop. Maybe Ultimo insisted on having that match against Shannon as many times as possible?

All together, I wish he had somehow stayed in CMLL – he stopped over for a couple dates in Mexico City before heading north – for a few months rather than come to the WWE for six. CMLL is historically cheap, so the concept is sorta ludicrous – but then, so was what happened here.

Velocity seems headed for a 2AM CST appearance.

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.