Happy ALIENS 40th Anniversary

Not every wrestler needs to be “for everyone.” The problem starts when fans act like you’re wrong for simply saying someone doesn’t connect with you. It’s okay to disagree without pretending taste is objective.

Freddy Krueger at the Texxas Jam '87 concert event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas

Finished all 3 Dark Side of the Ring episodes on Jeff Jarrett & the battle for TNA. Still a Jeff Jarrett fan. It was compelling, but it definitely felt like a puff piece at times. That said, it somehow made me dislike Hulk Hogan even more and appreciate Awesome Kong even more than I already did.

Ernest Saves Christmas Movie Commercial CBS/WJW 8 1988-11-22 : 11s

golden nugget casino, atlantic city, new jersey, 1985

Mise en place

Protect your peace. Not everything deserves a response.

Terry Funk vs. Bruiser Brody

Maybe someone can explain it because I’m clearly missing something. What’s the appeal of Mason Rook (Will Kroos)? I genuinely don’t understand how he got signed, why he’s so well liked, or what people see in him. I’ve tried to get it. I just don’t.

A thousand people in a small building could feel louder than fifty thousand today. Territory wrestling had atmosphere you could feel through the screen.

The beauty of territory wrestling was that every town felt like its own universe.

Oh yeah, happy Project Zomboid day!

I don’t want wrestling to go backward. I just want it to remember what made it special.

$5 ticket. A local arena. A main event people had been talking about all week. Sometimes that was all you needed.

Give me a hot crowd, a simple story, a great entrance, and two wrestlers who look like they genuinely hate each other.

I hope something unexpectedly good happens to you today.

Rich Swann re-signs with TNA!

I appreciate quiet mornings, good music, and people who feel like home.

There are so many wrestling promotions I’ll probably never watch, but I still like reading about them.

AJ Styles in early TNA moved like he was trying to prove physics wrong.

PLACES/JAN.GIF

Let's go ahead and shock a flat line and then quit.

R.I.P. LORD HUMUNGUS the "Ayatollah of Rock 'N' Rolla"

This is so funny

The internet keeps getting bigger while simultaneously making it harder to find anything interesting.

WITI TV-6 News at Six(11/28/1990)(Incomplete) : 144s

MAMMALS/GORILLA1.GIF

Amazing Red is finally going into the TNA Hall of Fame. About damn time. One of the most influential wrestlers of his generation and a cornerstone of the X Division. Couldn’t be happier for him. Beyond deserved.

ECW crowds made everything feel like it mattered, even when it didn’t. And let’s be honest, a lot of the times it didn’t.

I’ll always have a soft spot for the early 2000s import scene.

Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Ultimo Dragon

There’s a lot of cool stuff hiding just outside the mainstream if you’re willing to look for it.

Tommy Dreamer is out here looking like a straight goof. I really hope TNA’s booking and backstage culture improve now that he’s gone.

My watch later list has basically become a digital attic.

My kid discovered something completely ordinary today like it was the greatest invention ever. Kind of refreshing to see the world that way.

I respect any game that punishes overconfidence without warning.

If you know what Option magazine is, we’re probably going to get along.

The first 90% of a project takes 10% of the time. The last 10% takes approximately 14 years.

I could listen to stories about territory wrestling for hours.

Some of my favorite conversations have started with, “Have you ever heard of…?”

Every now and then I come across an old magazine scan and end up reading the whole thing.

I still don’t think people understand how unhinged some of those territory crowds were. What it must have felt like to be there.

Taiwan's Taroko Gorge is one of only three marble gorges in the world. Historically, its indigenous people battled colonial Japanese forces in 1914 in a long conflict, the Taroko War. #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #gorge #taroko #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography

AJ Styles & Tanahashi vs. Kurt Angle & Nakamura

I like finding things that were important once, even if most people have forgotten them.

Car people will spend $3,000 making a car faster and then drive 5 mph under the speed limit because there’s a weird noise somewhere. I love it.