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So I really shouldn’t be watching the Heartbreakers on Soundstage for the 50th time near 2am, huh? Getting no sleep on Sunday night is a tradition. I need to steal a birthday present back so I can have the MP3s again.

Not that I really have a reason; not only was Velocity up here on Saturday (shockingly), but I did Heat more or less live so I wasn’t hurrying to beat a sleeptime deadline for once. CMLL waits for Tuesday but you expect that by now. This is all of product of being otherwise lazy for the second weekend in a row and barely leaving the house; my seeming agraphobia is promptness’ gain.

That was a good Monk episode too.

After Gateway being really really annoying, it seems as though everything is straightened out and in a mighty swerve, my laptop should show up on my door step, fixed, tommorow. Though I’ll believe when I see it. It may mean that I’ll update more, or it may mean the computer I’m using won’t crash three times in a hour. You’ll just have to wait and see!

That was the worst Orlando Jordan match since the early days of Orlando Jordan, and it wasn’t nearly all his fault. I think local guys try to make an impression with wacky expressions or gimmicks or reactions, knowing that wacky moves don’t impress the right people but not knowing how to wrestle the style they’re looking to see. Or maybe I’m wrong and Longtime gets a developmental deal on Monday, what do I know.

You know what I’m having a hard time with, spot wise? Is the “person gets crotched, other person tries to superplex them off, but no in reality they’re shoved off and something else happens.” A little because the reversal is so much more common than the actual move, and a lot because the supposed superplex victim’s feet are often on the outside of the ropes. You can only take a superplex (without something wacky or blown happening) with your feet on the inside of the ropes, so it’s a total give. It’d be just as awkward for them to get crotched and for some reason their legs land inside with them falling at the same time, and I know it’s a suspenion of disblief thing, but they could break it out a little less to compensate for it.

That said, I bet Victoria/Molly gets shown in the RAW Wrestler Meeting Where Things Are Said That Should Never Get Passed On (but somehow always do!) as part of the good video clips. They worked the style just as they wanted it worked. I think people are into cheering Victoria – she got a bigger positive reaction at the finish than the Dave made it sound – but they’ve got to do more to establish her as a face than have Test leer in her general direction and have her get wins over Molly on shows most of the audience did not see or remember.

Or at least do a backstage bit where Trish and Victoria remember they hate each other but agree to hate Molly and Jazz more. And I guess Lita fades away.

I need some new tapes. I thinking at least one big CMLL show – maybe the Shocker/Bucanero mask/mask match? – one good tape of older lucha TV – no idea there – and then something non-lucha where I’d know some of the guys and wouldn’t be completely loss. And isn’t a handheld. Maybe something with AmDragon? I dunno.

Scott hasn’t said so, but I assume a Rumble recap will turn up in my mailbox before or after RAW. I’ll post it when I get it.

The new favicon.ico, assuming it’s up when you see this (and the last one I tried didn’t take, so who knows) is courtesy CRZ. Thanks!

Getting around to feedback. I’m gonna tinker around till I find the best way to do this – well, the best color, at least.

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.

I heard to watch it two times, and it makes sense the second time. Or maybe it doesn’t, and that’s why it’s so great.

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.

From the sounds of it, they would’ve done Spanky/London vs Kyo Dai (don’t look at me – that’s what the website says in Akio and Sakoda bios – note Sakoda’s name is spelled different on the profile and they’re not consisnent whether Kyo Dai is the goon tag team or the three person unit) which would’ve been equally fun. They haven’t seemed to want to use Haas and Benjamin at all in singles matches of late unless one guy is hurt or they’re doing the “teams feuding over the tag titles face off in singles matches” bit, so I don’t like the chances there.

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.

I haven’t seen ROH (yet?) but I don’t recall seeing London use a move like that. But he’s only had a couple singles matches since he’s come in; I suspect that he’ll try to break out more moves (in the hopes that one catches someone’s eye) if he’s back to singles now.

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So what’s the over/under on Morgan’s finisher getting renamed the Blueprint Thunder Bomb?

Someone getting the name to Josh. That’s just goofy enough for him to use.

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Spanky’s the new Van Gogh [underappreciated, yet great] so he’s taking his paintbrush and easel elsewhere. Good for him.

Yep. He’s got a ton of options, so he might as well try a few different ones.

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.
I’d be good, if he’d stick that way. Probably not worth to invest in evil hair dye if you might be good next week.

I never noticed it being a tattoo. I’ve read an interview where Shannon says he’s considering getting more tattoos.
Josh likes pointing it out for whatever reason. I think the joke started “Shannon has a very large…….dragon (tattoo)” and spiraled out of control from there.

“Asai DDT one two three”
Arrgh, another really fake looking finisher. Is it really a DDT? I thought it was an inverted DDT.
Asai DDT is the “Offical Name” of it, though truly he’s only used on Velocity so it may be one of those pseudo-authetnic Josh names. It looked sharper a while ago but now the whole pose thing he’s doing is making it look even less-believable. He completely and totally should’ve just used the Dragon Sleeper.

“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.
I think they decided it was a tiger. He’s actually better than when he started around here, in that he can get through a token 4-5 minute match without totally embarassing himself.

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.
That’s about normal. You’ve got to agree with me that it’s not quite a painful looking hold itself. I think they want to do push the hanging action more; maybe Morgan should find someway of holding the leg above his shoulder rather than below the shoulder? I don’t know if that’s even anatomically correct.

Maybe he should try to maybe wrestle a good match instead of trying to get over his character…
He should, but it’s what Arch does every time he’s on – figure out the zaniest thing he can do to get a reaction from the crowd or the announcers.

I believe he said “two and NINE TENTHS”
Ahhhh.

“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.
I heard the explanation, but thought for some reason it might be an old ECW/Sandman reference. Which was about the drink too, sure.

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.
They need to make a tag team of guys with killer Fujiwara armbar and cross armbreaker finishers.

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.
I think Bradshaw is growing dumber in his old age; that would’ve been cooler Or if there’s a near fall based off the left handed clothesline

Or if the body part injury actually cost a match. I’m almost willing to start charting that…

I’m tired now and my left hand is killing me for whatever reason and would like to write but it’s just not going to happen. I do read when I don’t get around to posting. I’ll get around to responding tommorow

On the other hand, if someone wants to do times & finishes (and whatever else they’d like) for SmackDown!, I’d be tempted to hand the gig away, just because looking at the three shows I’ve got sitting on TiVo, I don’t know if I’ll get around to that.

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.

Okay – I think I’ve got everything working again (except the update bar isn’t updating, but you wouldn’t have noticed that if I didn’t just tell you – ooops_. Yell at me if that’s not the case.

Guess I should test commenting to see if THAT works. There’s a much better error log here that I promise to check to see what I screwed up.

Okay, so I didn’t realize a cause and effect relationship and this site has been in some state of non-upness since, uh, 10:30 pm yesterday, I think? That’s when it was pointed out to me and the error log is too long for me to see the beginning.

I have to rebuild the site, and because the mirror I had on my laptop isn’t accesible, I pretty much had to start from scratch. So it’s taking longer, and there’s some directories that aren’t yet working. Heck, I’m just happy this script is working.

I think I’m going to head to bed soon and assume my FTP will upload all it’s supposed to. It hasn’t been doing that yet, so expect some holes that I’ll try to fill in tommorow. Everything else is postponed till then.

Read This Line And Then Get On With Your Life: The best thing I can say about the new 100 from Flea is that, these days, it’s a far better thing to be ahead of Sunny than behind.

Scott went from N/A? (or was he on? I don’t care enough to check!) to 44, which, no offense to Scott, shows how random and meaningless most of the ratings everything from like 25 on down. These people’s work have value, but you’re comparing really tiny apples to really tiny apples. Order them any way you want, they’re still tiny apples in the scheme of things. There are maybe 15 people (and that’s pushing it) on the list who matter to the 2% of readers who really mean anything in the grand scheme of things; the rest are here just to entertain ourselves and each other, but there’s no real impact to what they say. It’s nice, but it don’t mean a thing.

(“Spoken like a guy who’s been doing this for six years and knows what they meant?” “Spoken like a guy who’s occasionally bordeline insane with jealousy over baseball web fandom”)

Wait, wait, let me obscure that comments with a cheap shots so I don’t have to actually intelluctally debate that on any level: Hey, 4 411 guys in the top 11, in a thing written by a 411 guy. Wow. GUTSY

I think that’s better than last time anyway?

Not that I care either way: if the whole inspiration for 411 to add blogs to their site is because Mr. Keith wanted to do a blog…why isn’t Scott blog on 411 now?

Did someone not give Flea the link the Punk’s blog?

Since I have Flea reading this: When you said “the WMXIX match wasn’t as good because Angle didn’t want to mat wrestle”, you really should’ve said “the Iron Man wasn’t as good because Angle didn’t want to mat wrestle.”

Did I ever actually say my “When you’re doing long matches, why don’t you try to sell the commerical time for long matches soccer-style, with ad graphics during the match to avoid commericals?” or did I just keep talking about it to myself? Back in the day, they used to shrink down the action to a little box and just run the commericals in smaller box than usual, and if you timed it right with rest holds, that could work too. The problem probably comes down to a “This segment of the match is being brought to you by-” “A kick to the groin! That’ll leave a mark!” “Subway.”

I always say too much when I’m going on 2 hours of sleep.

Although I have a feeling comments will be added later, I was glad not to see something like “Best lucha recapper” attached to my name. People would’ve died if that happened, again. (If nothing else, the last few weeks has proved that’s not a correct line.)

For lines that aren’t as cheap but perhaps as pointless, feel free to check my AWARDS on OO – writing anything column like stresses me to heck, and I believe I was up to my fourth different deadline by the time I sent it in. What I’m looking forward most to is not getting any feedback, thus validating my urge not to write anything long and/or focused for another six months. WOO HOO

Rick’s nice for putting up with me. You’re nice for putting up with me.

I think in a parallel universe, I may get some CMLL done tommorow. I’ll at least update that page.

My box? Has yet to arrive. ARGH.

Here’s links to things you’ve already seen, presented in an order more useful for certian tasks. My recent speciality of late.

My big plan was to include links to recaps on other a variety of sites (or at the very least Shaprio’s Heat stuff and I guess maybe some RAW stuff) but my interest in this wanes near randomly. I’ll probably go back and add colors or something.

While doing the inital links for SD!/Velocity/Heat was easy (just something I cooked up with Cut and Paste in Excel when really bored), adding more isn’t nearly as fun and outside of the obvious omissions of 50 or so RAWs (wait, did I do some of those? Hmmm), the work to do find/add other links isn’t worth the benefit it’d provide.

(AKA: If no besides me is going to use this, and I don’t think I’m going need the other links, why do ’em? Right.)

Hey Scott, James, Joe, whoever: Anyone want to go back and do the ’03 Rumble? It’s the only show no one did, unless I forgot about something.

When tOA’s history section goes and dies on you, you’ve gotta do something, I guess.

In case you didn’t notice but cared, I filled in the recent gaps in my SmackDown stuff with time/finish/important details with recaps from 08/28, 09/04, 10/02, 10/09, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04 and 12/11. Thanks to file sharing, I also did the 11/08 Velocity (in full) that I missed because over zealous deleting (which I’m still doing.)

I should plug thesmartmarks.com for being a resource for some of this data. I completely endorse them as a place to find match times. In the future, I think I can manage the 15 minutes to time/finish things myself, but it was a lot easier than digging through tapes I didn’t have much desire to look through; mostly, the data is more useful as info to use in the title histories (Cruiser, SD! Tag and US Title updated (tag will be added to the side bar soon) – I may have time tommorow to look at how much work doing the SD! part of the WWE title, but I dunno if I want to do it.)

I may update the Cruiser ladder or the info pages or catching up on CMLL, but I hope to get my new hard drive in and I impluse bought a copy of Final Fantasy…IX (swerve) and I could just play that instead of doing stuff here. Eh.

Q: If you lost your hard drive right now, how much would you pay to salvage it, not knowing how much you’d get back?

A good portion of the stuff on that hard drive I spent the most time on this site is on this website. A lot of the rest of the stuff is either still avalible on my old computer (I only stopped using this in August) or stuff I got from Kazaa/BT or I could get from Kazaa/BT. That’s probably actually most of the GBs – I never got around to talking about my strange fascination with making Winter reading material out of reading every single X-Men comic ever* despite having read like 3 previously – so it’s not like I lost huge bytes of personal stuff.

But STILL. E-mails. Job stuff. Personal stuff. A Sim City or two. MY STUFF. I want it back.

Or at least I did till I was quoted $500 to fix (-$50 for being a Gateway customer.) You are not missing a decimal point up there.

So there I am. If I had this computer for 4 years+ with no back up, like the one I’m typing on right now, this is a no question – don’t spend money on other junk for a while and see what they can do. If it was 2 years, probably still.

But $450? For something that wasn’t too far from a new car smell? Compared to what else I could do with that money? Eh.

I’ve lost hard drives before and moved on with my life without getting anything back. It always does suck. I’m thinking that’s what I may end up doing here, unless they suddenly decide to give me a 80% discount or something. It’s not easy to put a price on stuff like that, but I’d say more in the $100 range.

I have this lingering feeling that – despite it giving every sign of a hard drive failure – it may not really be the problem here. I’ll find out in a day or three.

I also do know that most sane people would have just said “$450? Get real. Moving on now.”

Hope they’ve actually put an OS and the Microsoft stuff I had on the comptuer before, or it’s gonna be a long slow annoying rebuild.

* (remind me to digress about this later when I shouldn’t already be deep asleep.

At 3:30pm CST, December 14th, 2003, my hard drive was declared dead on the operating table. 2003-2003.

Gateway’s sending me a new one. They won’t answer my “can I get any of my data off the old hard drive” question, which can only mean bad things.

This SUCKS. I don’t know if I’m gonna try and do Heat on my old computer now. I’d say “I’ll update less till the new one gets here” but c’mon, can I really? No.