Patlabor: The Movie

Every so often I get a post on my feed that says something like "all wrestling these days is the same!" My response is always "watch some @tjpw2013.bsky.social" Wrote an article explaining why, and it's up now on my substack!

Teej Takes makes its unceremonious Monday at 9:58PM EST return to cover Ittenyon '26! open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

Teej Takes makes its unceremonious Monday at 9:58PM EST return to cover Ittenyon '26! open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

Final post of 2025! It’s an annoying one! Who’s surprised?? open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

My match of the year ended up being, rather fittingly, between my two wrestlers of the year. Here's a big old ramble about it. #tjpw ramblingsaboutwrestling.com/2025/12/31/r...

Final post of 2025! It’s an annoying one! Who’s surprised?? open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

Pair of clips from my set last night, featuring footage from In Between

Consensus aside, it’s wild to consider how many Shoko moments I forgot about this year and this was a lovely reminder. Also fuck yes to the floppiest player in the game, Uta Takami, getting her due

I usually like tag match Yuu better than singles Yuu but her last ever match in Ichigaya is different #ChocoPro

Looooool it’s good to have them back, decapitating ppl

Unmanned Local Train’s 2025 End of the Year Superlatives continues with our Match of the Year: Hiyori Yawata v Nonoka Seto open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

I was so happy when I saw the email drop in my inbox and it was this match

Unmanned Local Train’s 2025 End of the Year Superlatives continues with our Match of the Year: Hiyori Yawata v Nonoka Seto open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

Thanks to everyone for the overwhelmingly positive response to this post. Means a lot to me

The correct take, brilliantly put

Just found out Peter Greene died last week. It's definitely emotionally brutal, but If you haven't watched "Clean, Shaven" you should.

Looks like Masa Takanashi has been discharged from hospital and is rehabilitating from home. www.ddtpro.jp/news/691ab73... The GoFundMe seems to be ending at the end of the month www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma... 🤼🏻‍♂️🇯🇵🍶

Unmanned Local Train’s 2025 Wrestler of the Year is Shoko Nakajima. If you disagree, sound off in the nearest toilet open.substack.com/pub/unmanned...

Chiitan and i share a birthday?? 😭

Went to see The Muppets Movie with a friend for their birthday. High percentage of autistic folks above the age of 50 in the crowd (we are both autistic as well). Guy in the front row excitedly conducted along with the studio ident music at the start, then immediately left and didn’t return.

This is so funny

NEW EPISODE! Season 2 of No Scrubs concludes as we try to detract from the recent ramblings of Matt Hardy v9.2 by looking at the wildly entertaining v1.0 run. Do you remember when Crash Holly was an MFer? We just about did! open.spotify.com/episode/00up...

The first installment of Unmanned Local Train's End of the Year Superlatives is now live, covering my 2025 Match of the Year Runner-Up unmannedlocaltrain.substack.com/p/runner-up-...

I saw quite a number of gifs of this moment before I watched the match. I knew it was coming. And yet that did not diminish my delight in the slightest.

I'm obviously way behind on my wrestling, but hey, have I mentioned lately how much I love the peerless Shoko Nakajima?

Wanted to acknowledge some matches that came close or are otherwise worth mentioning: Senka v Aja Kyoraku Kyomei v Daydream Rina v Mei (ChocoPro #472 Game Changer) Chie/Miya v Obihiro/Mei (ChocoPro #443 Fair Fight, which is also my Show of the Year)

The first installment of Unmanned Local Train's End of the Year Superlatives is now live, covering my 2025 Match of the Year Runner-Up unmannedlocaltrain.substack.com/p/runner-up-...

real stuart “correct take haver” iversen hours. THE only person who could make me go “i should probably watch that stardom match…”

Using a dataset of matches in 2025 that women wrestlers participated in, I generated this interactive 3d network graph which shows the strength of the relationships between all the women professional wrestlers in the world (this year). introvert.net/2025/joshinet/

new new new

ok ok NEXT TUESDAY the first of Unmanned Local Train's End of the Year posts goes up! There will be another every Tuesday until the end of the year! Thank you all for your continued support and patience during the hiatus! here is my editor, in case you’ve been wondering.

periodically i get to indoctrinate ppl into the single most beautiful and delicate composition and performance i’ve ever heard and if it’s you this time i’m so happy youtu.be/D5GWRU6HtMg?...

what I want for Christmas: 85" TV what I'm going to get:

i will admit to not appreciating miu/shoko: texas edition nearly as much as i should’ve on first and even second watch, back when i humored myself into thinking i was gonna cover all the stateside shows

someday tjpw will be like “what if limbwork…but in a tag” and the world will fundamentally change forever

relatedly my roommate theo and i have been doing things in crab mode for several days. easy way to enrich daily life. putting the groceries away? crab mode. five stars

raku’s look of “huh didn’t think about this bit oops” as she does the crab mode version of the oyasumi express 🫡 🦀

Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth, 1948

Annual reminder about turkey frying safety:

should also give you a sense of how far behind i am lol

#ChocoPro 488 is one of the best Ichigaya shows of the year. a wide array of heaters. chie and sayaka do not feel like their pinch-hitting at all

someone in this bar just said “this song has big Saw vibes.” he was referring to “Gimme Shelter”.

punishingly bad bald-spot-centric video of billy woods at BAM

he then proceeded to watch 50+ clips of contemporary tv action sequences by opening each of his streaming apps and scrubbing thru random episodes til he found one. he kept each app open afterward. his phone must’ve been 200 degrees by the end

watched an adult man on the train google “best tv scenes” and i think not only is capitalism over, everything is over and we should just go back to being euglenas or w/e. animated gelatinous masses bumping into other slightly different animated gelatinous masses. shut it down

angel’s egg 4k remaster review: