Rashomon but it's the worst journalists you've ever read in your life discussing how their engagement fell apart

WWE realised a while ago that the first time the women had a gimmick match, like a Rumble or a TLC match, they could put it in the main event and then never bother prioritising it again. AEW didn't even try that for Blood and Guts.

del Toro: don't worry del Toro: i'm going to acknowledge byron with a big quote at the end Shelley: Shelley: why del Toro: because, you know del Toro: he's del Toro: um del Toro: i mean it kinda fits? Shelley: Shelley: put my fuckin quote at the end Shelley: i wrote the fucking thing!

I'm having my bi-weekly crisis of "Do I genuinely talk too much, or am I just falling into the age-old misogynist trap of thinking women shouldn't take up so much oxygen?" The answer may be a bit of both.

Me, asking if I can take my gigantic Chinese leftovers home: "I didn't realise I was ordering food for two people!" The waitress: "Yes. Maybe you come back with your friends..." I think I've just been turned into dust.

After a quieter September for my matches of the month, I had a lot to talk about in October. Among other stuff, we have a foray into sumo, Senka's first title shot and a lot of Meiko Satomura. Give it a read, tell a friend, you all know the deal. ramblingsaboutwrestling.com/2025/11/01/r...

Nice of Arch Enemy to throw up a title card

A hurdy-gurdy, violins, a mandola, whistles, bagpipe AND A HARP? In THIS economy? Eluveitie, you're insane!

New to this app for 2025... Here follows the official Things I Saw at LIFF 2025 Thread.

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

I saw Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night. Imagine watching that on your telly.

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

Thatcher would have been 100-years-old today. But she's not. She's dead. Enjoy yourselves.

Somebody tell me what job I should do next, please. Hearing rumours that the original dream of finding ancient tombs is hard to get into lately, what with the curses and all.

Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Surely somebody who had to prove their competence and their worth again and again like Gail Kim did - and who made their name with matches against bigger opponents - should know better.

Anybody else occasionally sit down to update their CV and suddenly realise that they have no skills or abilities?

By the time I got to the front of the queue the cheapest SOAD tickets left were £142 each at the back of the stadium. I'll take my chances on the general sale or keep my money, ta.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Highest 2 Lowest is a stressful watch, not least because everything and everyone is so carefully choreographed that even people you're meant to trust seem dodgy as fuck at points. I'm glad we've got Spike Lee but he drives me mad sometimes.

The extra attention and smiles you get from the staff when you're having dinner alone confound me sometimes. Mate, I'm ordering a pizza and reading a book about cults. This is my best life.

If ever there was a time for AEW to stoop to WWE's level for counter-programming, it's to outdraw a Saudi WrestleMania. Do a stadium show in a city the fans can actually visit, have the whole indie weekender around. You know Tony's petty enough.

I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again: I love that Hangman insists on always calling his title the MEN’S World Title. It immediately puts the women’s version on the same level. It would be great if the company as a whole followed suit.

I swear. It's important for accessibility anyway, but I personally want a transcript for your video so I don't have to watch the fucking video.

Today was the worst day of my career- so bad that George @puropodcast.bsky.social finally let me show him Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. "Well, I was never bored."

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Hurrah for managing to get the cheap seats for Manchester Dynamite before they all got sold out from under me. I'm too old for this Ticketmaster stress bollocks.

A really interesting conversation, even if I have a different take on Soul Music. What sticks with me is how Pratchett describes the feeling of hearing and making music, the euphoria of a truly great gig, better than anyone - but I think this ep gets to the heart of some issues I readily forgave.

It's new episode time! Dermot Byrne returns to talk about the 16th Discworld novel, Soul Music. We discuss dated references, groanworthy puns, and Pratchett’s takes on education. Spotify bit.ly/4mHrhWh Amazon bit.ly/3UTRTHb Apple bit.ly/3I0vyVs

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

If you can get to Bradford, I highly recommend checking out the Science + Media Museum's cracking new Sound and Vision galleries. From the Lumières to VR via stop-motion and an actual Xenomorph, it's a great primer on cinema history. And then you go downstairs and the cinema is always lovely too.

I needed to get this out of my brain so badly that I resurrected a near-dead website to publish it. Basically, Athena should have beaten Toni. imaintainthedoublefootstompissilly.com/the-art-of-e...

CMLL, AEW, think about it: Wheeler Yuta working a Team Rocket gimmick.

I wrote something tonight. Haven't written anything in ages (like, possibly years)! Thanks for pissing me off, AEW.

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

Last year when I got back from AEW weekend, I dumped my bags and went straight up to Tesco for my grandad's shopping. I never got to give it to him. He passed away the next morning. A year is a long time. A year is nothing. But good friends and good times make the world of difference.

I've been training for two decades and finally, I got to yell the words to Metalingus at The Rated R Superstar, Cope, and his old friend the Father of the Year. Wrestling is mad.

Last night's EVE show was cracking. The right mixture of silly and intense with surprise Bozilla, a hoss fight main event and minimal Ospreay. Rhio is #1 contender to the champion Nyla Rose, and that match will fucking rule.

Clapham *erupted* tonight when Scotty 2 Hotty rocked up to tag with his son at Riot Cabaret. What a gloriously silly, fun show that was- and I am HEAVILY invested in finding out who shot Tate Mayfairs (no, seriously).

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!

Champion of champions.

Two of the best promos of the best five years have been pregnancy announcements. I genuinely hope Naomi turns up and cuts promos with a baby on her back.

All ticketing websites are extended living nightmares, but I am now in possession of a My Chemical Romance ticket. 🏴

The lines between AEW and NJPW are so thin and blurry now that they've weakened the entire concept of the Forbidden Door, which was flimsy to start with. Nobody looking at that Lights Out match would ever think it was a dream match you could only see on this show.

EVE and RevPro being at opposite sides of London on Forbidden Door Saturday probably speaks to a history of sneaky promoter shenanigans, but it makes it a bugger to all get to the same pub.

Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)

the point of this isn't that historians or archivists can be automated, the point is its a shopping list for governments and industries making cuts that will then have to buy AI services to inadequately fill the gap

I can't believe I'm talking about a new Fantastic Four film in 2025, but I actually mostly liked it. The Jetsons-lite aesthetic works, but it also feels like it's been cut to ribbons despite still being 2 hours long. Galactus is just hard to do on screen I guess.

Every woman in town: light summer dress, floating down the street on their way to a cocktail by the riverside Me: black t-shirt, slightly sweaty, trudging up the road to the Funeral for a Friend gig and remembering I haven't done my Duolingo