The headlines all week were "MMA in decline?" & Trump shows up to confirm the answer is yes.

AGHHHHHHH GOD I finally finished this damn thing. It’s been rough on the homefront for a bit but it’s finally up and ready. Please don’t buy Scarlet. It’s not a good movie.

NEW #PodcastONA: a recap of AnimeJapan, the Steel Ball Run/Netflix situation, a legend returns to Ranma 1/2, the Crunchyroll Anime Awards nominations, and more! www.podcastona.surrealresolution.com/2026/04/11/e...

Studio audience... I mean Mission Control applauding the first astronaut out of Integrity.

…so they’re doubling down on this nonsense. Goody. Grade A Wrestlecrap.

7:07 Central, right on time. Mission successful.

Tune in now, folks. It doesn’t matter what channel.

Reminder that Martian Successor Nadessico (and a bunch of other Right Stuf titles like KareKano, Utena, and Captain Tylor) are still streaming in their entirety for free on the Nozomi YouTube channel, presumably because Crunchyroll forgot it exists. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Artemis II splashdown being shown on (most of) the broadcast networks and NatGeo and YouTube and Netflix and HBO Max tells me one thing: The space dream is still alive when it’s for knowledge and ambition, NOT for personal gain. 90 minutes to arrival.

POV: it's April 9, 2005, at 11:30pm.

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Welcome, everyone else.

Bass virtuoso Thundercat returns after 6 years with a brand new album. Make sure not to be "Distracted" while reading @mak2hybridmedia.bsky.social's review here: www.surrealresolution.com/index.php/20...

Back to back shutout wins for a 2-1 series win. Keep that momentum going into Baltimore. youtu.be/Onvr4IWEazk?...

Carlos Silva getting super BIG MAD about Impact doing worse than *COLLISION* every week and on a planned-in-advance Thursday preemption that TNA is putting a “DO NOT WORK” order on any indie show with AEW talent. This is why we say Carlos is in the cuck chair.

Finally, my favorite line lives.

Today I bought a ZUNE. And it works. Hooray for reverse engineered homebrew software (Xune) making sure I didn’t waste $75 on this nugget.

In this era of fractured home video distribution targeted to diehards and collectors, it would be the EASIEST layup to sublicense older movies out to boutique distributors for a wider market appeal. Akira from Criterion, Ghost in the Shell from Arrow, et cetera.

Given how often we see giant NA publishers buy up home video rights and sit on them forever, the industry REALLY needs to start mandating "use it or lose it" clauses for HV rights in negotiations. Like, if CR or Netflix won't put out a BD, fine - let Discotek, Media Blasters, or AnimEigo do it.

NBC is airing a Charlotte Hornets game for the first time since… what, 1998? Amazing what a late surge of momentum can do for a struggling franchise.

…this is a level of unfair advantage only reserved for hardcore gamers. I don’t like this. Nope. Not one bit.

A reminder, Colbert left a "Death Slot" in his wake at Comedy Central. After ending The Colbert Report, nothing, NOTHING survived in the 11:30pm slot. It wasn't being tee'd up after the Daily Show that made Colbert popular. It was Colbert himself.

Probably gonna get some of you mad at me but might as well say it: While I'm glad it's getting a weekly release after all, the collective meltdown the internet was having over that possibly not being the case was really overblown, and anyone thinking it'd be "dead" if it wasn't was being ridiculous

The LU victory pattern: Lead early Choke late Pray for a miracle in ET Pray for a miracle in pens Win Absolutely cardiac.

The Peter DeBoer Experience: only good in game 7s, can never win the cup. SHARKS FANS KNOW THIS ALL TOO WELL.

Man oh man UConn… that was a MAULING. And there was some legit heat brewing.

…THIS was the big creative swerve these people had in mind?

The plan of wholesale purge of the government is now expanded to the entire staff of the New York Times. Use this whenever they ask for the benefit of the doubt, going forward, and deny them it.

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (USA version)

This’ll have to hold all of you for a bit, no show next week since Rob is going to Boston for the weekend. In the meantime… yeah, here’s the new show.

NEW #DecibelBoost: the Lollapalooza lineup (with days!) plus new tracks from President, girl_irl & Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt, Fire-Toolz, and more! decibelboost.surrealresolution.com/2026/04/02/e...

The End of Evangelion Episode 26' Sincerely Yours I Need You

The nervousness of “OH GOD PLEASE DO NOT BLOW UP ON LAUNCH” never leaves you. Thank God it didn’t.

WATCH THIS.

All that was missing was a “BANG” at the end.

ADULT SWIM APRIL FOOLS RANKED: A Thread Yeah, may as well kill some time by going through 2 decades of programming stunts just for the love of the game.

…somehow I always knew these were laced with extra gay in them. No wonder they’re so good.

Last week, everyone remembered the final WCW Nitro airing on TNT. But what we should’ve noted is that early-00’s adult contemporary powerhouses Vertical Horizon played a show in conjunction with the final WCW Nitro.

Deserving of a double bang by Mike Breen.

MARCH MADNESS LIVES UP TO THE NAME

[sportsball mode activated] DID YOU SEE THAT UCONN SHOT

Big ups to the folks at @armigerentertainment.com for delivering such a quality release here for this “unc” fan. 7 year old me would absolutely cherish the Kiyone patch, too.

When you just got a new MacBook and everyone in class wants to try it out too:

The blood. The pose. The delayed reaction. The explosion.

What a heel with the crowd… uh… singing his song… but YEAAAAAAH WHAT A HEEL. These crowds won’t boo him. That certainly wasn’t in the plan.

And that’s an 0-2 Giants season start. Yeeeeeeeeep.

Amazing how they can’t figure out why the numbers are going down. Nobody tell them, it’s funnier that way.

Annihilation has some of the most garbage ugly CG and VFX I’ve ever seen in a major level film in HD, let alone in 4K. So why do I want this?