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April 30th, 2001 I thought it was pretty cool for JERRY LYNN'S WWF television debut to be a title win over Crash Holly. I saw an advertisement during WWF Raw tonight that Jerry Lawler is making a local appearance down here at some store for a signing...I really wasn't paying much attention to the specifics (it was during a commercial break and I was either getting a drink or taking a leak). Maybe details can be found on Lawler's WEBSITE for anyone interested who is local and actually visits this site. Why won't it just GO AWAY?.. 
I thought that I had celebrated the end of my subscription to this piece of garbage publication.
Yet issues keep arriving at my house.
I feel like I'm cursed with an unwanted item you keep throwing away and then mysteriously finding it back inside your house the next morning. I honestly can't rush through the pages fast enough to then start the difficult recovery process by trying to forget what I just saw. Do yourself a favor and avoid the chance of even making eye contact with this cover at the book store. Save whatever time you might actually waste in picking a copy up off of the newsstand to thumb through by doing anything else. And god help you if you even briefly consider paying actual real American dollars to take one home with you... Have I mentioned how much I hate this magazine because of how hard it sucks? You couldn't find a better example of the definition of an assclown is than these two... What ever happened to three strikes and you're out? What about using someone high profile to make a statement to every other potential offender? Why shouldn't these two be forced to serve as an example? Am I supposed to feel sorry for either of these two?...Yeah, they've led tough lives forced to cope with the burdens of both fame and fortune.
Every time I see NEW PICTURES from the movie, I get more and more excited about seeing this stupid thing and its still one year from being out in the theaters. This is one of the best sites I've found for you to visit and see up to the minute daily updates both information and pictures. 
If any of this has you even remotely interested in seeing something now to satisfy your Spider-urges, you might want to visit LOCALORIGINATION.COM and watch a 50 minute short film called Green Goblin's Last Stand. The acting is positively brutal...dead actors rolled collectively in their graves without even knowing why. And they could have thrown a rock and hit someone thinner, prettier, and better at acting than the girl they cast to play Gwen Stacy... She must have been the director/writer/producer/star's girlfriend. The costumes fit the actors like children playing dress-up in their parents' clothing. And the music was tracks stolen mostly (if not entirely) from James Cameron action movies (Abyss, Aliens, etc.). Don't get me wrong, I love cheesy acting when done in this kind of context, but this would have driven poor Darryl and Robert right back to the crack pipes. There were parts to this movie that I would have much rather preferred watching my dog chew on his ass for 5 or 10 minutes instead. I say all this, but it was actually good that the story was taken straight from the books...covering the return of the Goblin, (with the knowledge that Peter Parker is spider-Man) out to get revenge, the Death of Gwen Stacy, and the consequent death of the Green Goblin. The action shots of Spider-Man swinging around city buildings and leaping from rooftop to rooftop with the few acrobatic clips during the fight scenes almost counter all of the bad points... Also with the neat way they shot the goblin on his glider, and used some of his trick weaponry, I found there were a few sporadic good moments to see every now and then to keep me watching through 50 minutes of sheer brutality. If you're a fan of the character and want to see what will probably be the one film true to the books, then you'll enjoy this simply for what it is. April 26th, 2001 I've read a number of sources stating Chyna is signed to star in a Wonder Woman movie... Bad idea. Seriously, who cares if she can act or not when her uber-nasal voice peels the paint off of my walls when I watch her on the WWF. Maybe they'll overdub her with a human voice like one of those old Hercules movies. The last two days the E channel has run the 2 Howard stern episodes featuring Vince McMahon's appearance...days before he purchased WCW. He made some good faces, and it was a good show...even though the original uncut radio appearance covered a lot of good topics that the TV episodes didn't show. 
While channelsurfing the other night, I saw LORRAINE BRACCO was on one of the talk shows.
Since the SOPRANOS is the best show on TV, I stopped long enough to notice that she's really become one big fat nasty freaking pig.
If you're as big of a fan of the show as I am, then you need to own THIS and THIS. If you're interested in checking it out, AICN posted a whole slew of PHOTOS from the set of Spider-Man including shots of Maguire, Dunst, Dafoe, and Sam Raimi. I am still working on getting my hands on some photos of Macho Man during the filming of his scenes for Spider-Man. That, and maybe some storyboards and the script pages from his scenes??? Hopefully by the end of the week I'll know more on this. THIS has been up on Macho's site for-EVER. ESPN ran a 1 hour Sports Century on DAN MARINO...The greatest quarterback to ever play the game of football. What I caught of it was very interesting. Especially his problems with Jimmy Johnson. Dan was the only man Jimmy encountered in this game bigger than he was. Anyone who argues that not winning a super bowl ring during his 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins is a black mark on his accomplishments is so wrong they need to have a finger chopped off. He still owns 30 NFL records including every important passing record in the NFL. April 24th, 2001 Monday's Raw... I always seem to be more into the storylines the 2 weeks after a PPV than the 2 weeks before one... I do hope they keep the HARDYS and E&C at this elevated level contending with the big boys. I also liked that promo by Raven, Brian Christopher, and STEVE BLACKMAN. Do they think this time pushing the Big Show is going to work? Or are they just using him to put Shane way over? Trish wrestled pretty well, I hope Chyna starts losing to some of these women... I'm tired of her and her squash matches... I'd rather see her getting beat senseless and bloody (blood would be great) by some of the boys. Rhyno and SPIKE DUDLEY are getting a good response and I am hoping that Jerry Lynn and Tajiri come in soon. They're 2 awesome workers... With the Rock MIA for a few months its a great time to expose the fans to new talented faces. Bob Ryder mentioned the possibility of the WWF running the WCW as a separate company becoming too much of an undertaking for them to handle and it may end up being a only storyline/angle in the WWF. I find that hard to believe considering they were able to start up a professional football league in one year, and hope it isn't the case. Check my list of AUCTIONS this week, I have several signed 8X10's you might be able to snag at a good price. 
XFL Championship game... Like I thought, I went out to see naked women dance for dollars instead of sitting home on Saturday night (who do they think is home watching sports then?) to watch the XFL Championship...I even forgot to tape it. I almost feel gulilty in that I love watching football and enjoyed what little I saw of the XFL... that, and wanting to support the WWF in this venture. Maybe I'll be more into it next year after moving to LA and being able to attend some games and have a home team to root for. I can be fairly sure that the XFL Million Dollar Game being as big of a blowout as it was (38-6) couldn't have done wonders for the ratings. USA Today reported that possibly as many as 90 players from the league are being seriously scouted to play for the NFL this up coming season... It looks like guys like TOMMY MADDOX and JOHN AVERY (2 draft busts) may have proved themselves as deserving of another chance in the NFL (maybe Dallas should have taken talent solely from the XFL considering the stupidity of their picks). The NFL draft (and the part of it that matters to me)... The Dolphins, while not able to trade up to get SANTANA MOSS, made some really good pics in this year's draft.
But the biggest buzz going around South Florida has to be that Ricky Williams wants to play for us...that could make for some very interesting thunder and lightning for Miami. With New Orleans using their first draft pick to select another runningback maybe things can be worked out with his huge signing bonus. Allowing us to take him off their hands. We could really use him this year with our extremely brutal SCHEDULE. Flipping around the dial tonight I caught the end of BILLY IDOL singing Rebel Yell on Letterman...weird. Cool, but definitely very weird. I didn't catch the scoop, but I am assuming that he's going on tour. 
Listen to this version of Allison Road (electric demo recorded 1988) by the Gin Blossoms.
CONTACT me to get yourself a copy of the entire show. April 20th, 2001 
I really enjoyed this site.
It's obnoxious, and some of these people's opinions on certain topics weren't far off from my own. Go VISIT now. I am still wondering if I'll remember to watch the XFL "Million Dollar Game"...Or at least tape it and go to the Cheetah III. Thank god next year they'll have the games on at 1:00 and 4:00 on Sunday. I can almost guarantee the ratings will be improved just from that change alone. When I move to Santa Monica later this year I'll definitely be looking into buying 2002 LA Extreme season tickets... They're cheap and with a shorter schedule than the NFL, its less games to commit your weekends to. Speaking of NFL football, there were a bunch of Miami Dolphins hanging out at the sports bar where I was tonight including ZACH THOMAS, "Jewish" JAY FIEDLER, and RAY LUCAS. Since this week I have a great puke story posted (below)...in keeping with the theme watch this VIDEO CLIP involving milk. Why not?...I'll be rushing out to see it on opening day. Even though other sites would have to get paid to do this, I may as well help plug it (like it even needs or appreciates my pathetic brand of hype)... 
April 19th, 2001 I've been seeing Rocky Johnson working out at my gym sometimes in the early afternoons with some really big younger guy (a wrestler for UWA I think?). Johnson still looks pretty big for his age...I also noticed that he's gotten his son's same "brahma bull" tattooed on his arm. A face not even a mother would love... 
And you thought people only put thumbtacks in their face on purpose for money.
The second part to the article on local backyard wrestling came out and covered a lot of the same ground that the first part did, attributing a lot of the stupidity and anger possessed by these kids to really shitty parenting. Real big shocker there. You know you're dealing with the rocket scientists of the world when one mother refuses to take her severely injured son for medical treatment as punishment for his involvement with the backyard matches...good logic. I guess if he dies, he won't defy her anymore. Both parts are available for you to read online... PART 1 ... PART 2 G...O...O...F... Monday's WWF show had a few interesting incidents including the Big Show calling Kaientai GOOKS (right to Shane-O-Mac's face too), and the piss-poor camera editing missing the pin in the HHH/Jeff Hardy rematch. Why are we getting Undertaker (anyone else notice he's become quite the fat ass?) and Kane as the babyface push??? Jerry Lawler is done with showing classy decor and has realized he isn't coming back to work for the WWF. He illustrated this by bad mouthing some WWF people in an interview I read at 1WRESTLING.COM. Get those bridges burning king, you're behind schedule. April 17th, 2001 Here are the puke photos that go with yesterday's post... If you haven't read it, these pics make more sense if you take the time to quickly read through the rest of the page.
April 16th, 2001 Mons Venus...Too... 
If you call yourself a man and you've been to Tampa then obviously you've paid the $20.00 cover price and paid a visit to Mons Venus.
I really shouldn't have to explain to anyone what this place is, anyone who has a penis and likes girls should already know its the strip club that all others must be compared to. If any of this is unfamiliar to you, please get yourself a PROPER EDUCATION. Anyway, imagine the excitement we had when we heard a rumor that a place called Mons Venus was opening down here (where the Crazy Horse Too used to be). Then, one of our friends who was hanging out with us on Thursday night and who is moving to North carolina broke out these free passes that his brother had gotten from someone he knew.
I'm thinking holy shit, 8am??? you could hit every other joint in town and still spend a at least 3-4 hours there afterward. The dress code was a little weird, but I assumed they just didn't want people looking like slobs in shorts and tank tops, and the real Mons in Tampa doesn't serve booze either and there's no BYOB allowed. OK great, so the plan's on...Saturday night, we're going...I buy 2 12 packs, someone else ends up getting a bottle of Goldslager, and we rendezvous around 10:00 to get started. We pack into the van I borrowed from my 'rents, and head off. As I'm trying to pull into the place, some ass from Quebec cuts me off and tries to get himself killed, an omen for tonight??? We get there, and there's literally 6 cars parked there. Already we're looking at each other thinking this is the shits. Then, they tell us that the passes are good only for Monday-Wednesday...first fuckjob of the evening.
Sounded like they forgot No fun. Visit their WEBSITE and fill out the promotional special they're running to save 5 bucks on the admission costs. Next, the bad news, they're not affiliated with the holy land in Tampa...UH OH! this is not a good sign. We each pay the 20 bucks to get in and after my ass stops bleeding from being fucked over, I notice its about as dead as you'd expect after seeing the parking lot. So, we give the alcohol to the bartender and have her set us up with a few shots...then we head off to the Cheetah III for a few hours. 
THE CHEETAH III is still my most favorite of the local spots.
The girls don't really hustle you, they're attractive, and the place is always busy.
As a younger guy, my roommates and I could frequent this place as much as 3 or 4 times a week.
Good times, good times.
GLORI ANNE was the feature. So after a lot of drinking and lapdancing, around 1:00 we decide to head back over and see what's doin'. The lot is a little fuller, and on our way back in (luckily they didn't try any bullshit about paying again) they inform us they're open until 10:00. Now I'm thinking, even if there's not a lot of dancers there now, maybe some chicks from the other nearby clubs (and if you're familiar with Pompano at all, there's a bunch) might come and work here for the extra-late hours. After a few more drinks, I notice Howard, who is like 5 foot nothing and 105 pounds is half passed out. A few minutes later, he's gone. Joe tells me a little later that he's passed out in the bathroom. I grab Chris and as soberly as possible, drive to Walgreens to buy a disposable camera (damn Easter and you lazy Christians!!! I couldn't get the pics developed today...they'll be posted tomorrow. Jesus can kiss may ass because as far as this Jew is concerned he needs his photos ASAP!). We took a bunch of him in the stall after he puked all over the place...I throw the bathroom attendant 10 bucks and tell him to come get me if he does something worth getting on film. Yeah its cruel...but I made sure he was still alive, and I put him in the back of the van once he was all puked-out. Less than an hour after putting Howard to sleep on the bench in the back of the van, Chris is the next victim. He can't stay conscious so I take him and put him in the passenger seat. Now its just me and Joe hanging out and having fun. I guess the club is okay, but they need more women working there and I guess that comes as the club gets more popular and busier (cut that door charge in half and that's a good start). What is really obvious about this place was that there were more and more women arriving in groups or with guys (boyfriends??? husbands???) and after awhile there were more chicks there who weren't working than who did...and none of them were taking their clothes off. I was starting to think this was going to turn into a swinger's club in the next hour. Around 6:00 I looked at Joe and I think we were both ready to go...camera in hand, I was eagerly anticipating taking a few photos of the lightweights passed out in the van. What we arrived to was a thing of beauty. Through the passenger side window I saw that Chris had puked all over himself! I looked down at my feet and I realized I was standing at ground zero. We opened the car and the smell hit us like a ton of bricks. My knees buckled and my eyes watered before I even got into the van. From the driver's seat, I saw he had dried puke all down his right arm, on his shirt, and pants...I had to drive the whole way home with my head out the window, fighting the urge to gag every 20 seconds with tears pouring out of my eyes from the pungent smell of Chinese food, diet coke, Goldslager, and Mike's hard lemonade (the concoction resembled diarreah). When we got to his house where everyone was to go their separate ways, we realized he had hit the door and there was massive amounts of regurge all over the carpeted part of the door and in the grill of the speaker. He spent the next 15 minutes doing his best to clean it up while trying to fight a hangover and all of his normal everyday problems that make him who he is...All I kept thinking was you better use that whole bottle of febreeze. YOU WILL BE SEEING ALL OF THESE PHOTOS ASAP, I WILL BE HAVING THEM DEVELOPED TODAY. I was back the next night making him go over it again with the cleaning supplies because the van is still severely funky. I guess I'm going to have to take it somewhere to get it professionally clean. I checked in on him later through AIM: losrudos1 (5:28:29 PM): dude, you have some "unfinished business" the car is rank I almost gagged on the way to albertsons and my eyes were tearing the whole time italicus0 (5:28:42 PM): cool losrudos1 (5:29:06 PM): it was worse than this morning in that hot garage all day italicus0 (5:29:19 PM): yuck italicus0 (5:29:30 PM): bring it by later tonight italicus0 (5:30:43 PM): ok losrudos1 (5:30:50 PM): how's the dog? italicus0 (5:31:00 PM): good, better than me italicus0 (5:31:14 PM): i still feel like shit, this morning was god awfull losrudos1 (5:31:15 PM): you still feeling bad? I thought you puked everything up italicus0 (5:31:32 PM): i guess it got in my blood, that damn gold shloggers losrudos1 (5:31:39 PM): i slept until 2 but i'm feeling run down sick italicus0 (5:32:35 PM): my eyeballs felt hard and my head was slamming this morning i think i was jus dehighdrated.. losrudos1 (5:32:57 PM): you are the alphabet murderer italicus0 (5:33:15 PM): tyes i amm A bunch of new merchandise has been added... 
A little wrestling... Thursday's main event with Jeff Hardy and HHH was better than I expected even though I can always expect these two to perform well and usually deliver. Hopefully, this feud with the Hardys and Lita will last a little while. I don't need a heavyweight babyface when they're using great ideas and stories like theis one. Finally we're seeing Raven cut some of his famous promos. April 10th, 2001 Even better than a Steve Seagal film... 
I saw one of the best movies last Friday.
Its called Memento, and it stars Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano (he's gold in my book), and Carrie-Anne Moss.
Imagine having an accident where you can no longer create short-term memories. You can remember everything up to the point of the incident, but you can't create a single new memory. After 5 or 10 minutes, you may forget why you're somewhere, what you were doing, who you're talking to, what your conversation is about, etc.. Now, with that condition, try and catch the man who raped and murdered your wife. I really can't begin to tell you about it without ruining the story or rambling forever... Read the review at IMDB. Or visit the kick-ass flash WEBSITE and see if that sparks your interest. 
UGO has a LIST of Napster alternate sites complete with reviews. Last night's edition of WWF Raw was very cool. I didn't even have a problem watching that 15 minute replay of the JR/Austin interview from Thursday. Austin and HHH did a great job of making the Hardy Boyz look really good in the ring. Of course you knew in the end, win or lose, the Hardys were going to be wearing their asses as hats. What was phenomenal television though was Austin hitting Lita with a steel chair over 10 times... The shots to her back looked great and I'm sure they put a real hurt on her. They were the perfect choice to use in getting that heel heat they want Austin to have. Everyone will remember that match (both for the way the Hardys looked against Austin and HHH and for the beating Lita took at the hands of Austin) and it should do more for the Hardyz and Lita than having the tag belts would. I still can't figure out who they've decided is going to get the big babyface push while the Rock is gone. Why is the Undertaker getting so fat??? Now this is my kind of cover... 
The New Times is one of those local free weekly newspapers you find everywhere in the area.
This week they ran part 1 (of 2) of a fairly lengthy article on backyard wrestling in Coral Springs, Florida. Lots of gory pictures... It was a pretty good read with an interesting insight into these young high school kids. My feeling is that if they lack the brains or the self respect where they do things that could get themselves killed or permanently disfigured, then they deserve what they get. Shit, in the case of the brothers they're writing about in this article, bad parenting is definitely a contributing, if not major factor. There are lots of stupid people on this planet, its nice when they can organize themselves in a group like this for the purpose of dropping a few bombs.
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