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Reading Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King.

It's a collection of short stories and I've just finished the best one, "Bad Little Kid".

Very creepy; one that stays with you.. At 40 odd pages long, that one is worth checking out.

A thing I think that always holds King back is the corny, folksy colloquialisms that frequently pepper his dialogue. He's a great storyteller, but people don't fucking talk like Kathy Bates in Misery, like most of his characters are apt to do.

Eh, I have a right to comment without being harangued and bullied incessantly by someone online.

If you don't like it, just ignore me ffs.

Anyone else see the clip where Rocco is having anal sex with a ginger chick, and when he takes it out, he has poo all over the head of his dick, and the ginger chick looks at it guiltily, like a dog whose vomited on the rug, before sucking it off him.

Porn girls!

58 minutes ago, CTXRussomark said:

I know he benefits from the bald head but Austin never seems to age. He looks no different than he did 15 years ago. 

I watched Kurt Angle v Jeff Hardy from Victory Road 2012 tonight and Angle looked like he could pass for a thirty something back then.

Batista and Undertaker are a couple of others who looked the same age for about ten years.

Considering the rough and tumble nature of the business, there aren't many who age that badly, though some (Batista, Undertaker, Austin) looked ancient when they were coming into the business.

It's crazy that a supposedly serious movie in which Sam Rockwell seemed to model his character on Roger from American Dad's cop alter-ego and "the can't talk, batin" guy from Idiocracy was nominated for best picture.

It's really amazing how undercooked the movie was.

No idea from the first what they're doing with Harrelson's character, his role in the (improper?) investigation of the girl's death, and how to resolve it - so cliched cancer revelation and cop out suicide scene to simultaneously write him out and earn him sympathy.

Flashback scene so cliched and tone deaf it ends with McDormand's daughter saying "I hope I get raped and killed" before she gets raped and killed; something so absurdly on the nose and stupid I almost expected it to be punctuated by the Seinfeld slap bass music.

Rockwell, when not uttering something like "I lost muh badge", or strutting around like the school jock overacting in the school play to make the girls laugh, commits an act of prolonged, attempted murder (later forgotten about, sans another "I lost muh badge" scene), which if it wasn't so uncomfortable, you'd think was played up for laughs, then struts back into the police station while the camera cuts to clumsily written black guy revealing badge for the camera to show he's about to be cleaning up the "rednecks" mess.

Speaking of which, the movie wants to have its cake and it eat it too, by making the black characters the conduit for the viewer, the only characters with any kind of normality and nobility in this crazy movie; yet, not go as far as to give any of them a leading role. No, can't be doing that! So trite characters written lazily as a form of mea culpa it is.

Lest I go on all day, perhaps the winner in terms of ridiculousness is the rapist/murderer loudly discussing his rape/murder for no logical reason in a pub in the hamlet where the rape/murder happened, while Rockwell sits in the booth directly behind him; this after rapist/murderer intimidated McDormand's character in her workplace for no logical reason. Yet, despite the brazeness and carefree nature of the latter act, he completely loses all sense of composure when confronted by Rockwell.

Consistent writing again. And not hackneyed in the slightest.

And that cop out ending... and the offensively written little person... and the trophy girlfriend who felt like she was transplanted from one of the straight to DVD American Pie's... and Woody Harrelson having a wife who looked even younger than the aforementioned "trophy girlfriend"... re: ending Maybe they'll do a road trip comedy next, where Rockwell says offensive things to black people and McDormand runs around kicking people in the nads.

My guess is that this movie will be looked at for what it is, the same as Crash in a few years.

It's a gimmick, built on an interesting premise (perfect for the viral era we live in), but sadly doesn't go anywhere with it.

We're both uncircumcised.

CM Punk v Mike Jackson exhibition is confirmed for UFC 225.

6 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

At this rate, it looks like this will be the first Wrestlemania I’m not going to bother with since being able to regularly access Satellite TV in 1993. 

In fairness, the card doesn’t look too bad on paper at all, its just that I have absoloutely no interest in the current roster whatsoever.

Is anyone else feeling the same?

(Disclaimer: My ramblings could turn out to be complete bollocks and I end up watching it sometime next week.)

Exact same as you. I just can't relate to any of them. They might as well be Dean Rollins, Seth Ambrose, Kevin Ziggler, Sami Owens and Dolph Zayn.

The only contemporary guy I half like is Roman Reigns, and that's in an ironic way because everyone else hates him.

Even the big guys like Braun or Rusev, I can't take seriously because they're always acting like doofuses on social media.

I know the problem is probably mine. 

There just used to be a bit of mystery to it, you only had a glimpse behind the curtain, you didn't know beyond what you saw on TV.

Social media and YouTube has just changed things irrevocably for me.

I feel the same about most these wrestlers as I do people who spam my Facebook feed with inane ramblings about every thing that crosses their mind.

Watched new Family Guy for the first time in years. It still hasn't declined. It's as good (or bad) as it's ever been.

American Dad, too, after over a dozen seasons is as good as it's ever been.

Got to hand it to Seth MacFarlane. While both shows were never as good as South Park or The Simpsons at their peak, they've maintained their quality.

The Simpsons has more awful episodes than good ones now. 

South Park has become way too topical. It used to be very intelligently written, but the writing nosedived around the time they wrote shows about Britney Spears blowing her head off and Oprah Winfrey's vagina talking with cockney accents.

CM Punk called a fan a "homo" once.

https://411mania.com/wrestling/corey-graves-embracing-commentary-role-calling-first-wrestlemania/

I wouldn't compare him to Ventura or Heenan. 

I'd compare him to JBL circa 2007, though. In fact I used to think it was JBL when I first heard him on commentary.

To be compared to the greats maybe he should start carving his own niche instead of sounding like a mixtape of heel commentators of the past.

Speaking of Ventura, man, he was ahead of his time. Imagine him commentating during the NWO/Attitude era.

Anyone remember this hidden gem? One of the most addictive games I've ever played, with a good humour and a decent story.

The "loco moves" feature gave this endless playability. 

Best racing game I ever played. The "crash" and "road rage" modes, again, gave this endless playability. The driving was so smooth and accessible, too, unlike more technical games like Toca, Ridge Racer or Gran Turismo.

It lost the magic by this stage. I didn't get nearly as much replay value out of this game.

Anyone ever watch this? It's class.

"Ronda Rowdy".

Kurt used to be so good on the mic.

I haven't been watching much. Has Kurt been made to look anywhere near HHH's level at any point since HHH made him look like a bitch at Survivor Series?

Anyone else think Ronda will pin HHH on Sunday? 

Documentary about the Philadelphia Mafia

The mob war between Joey Merlino's young Turks and boss John Stanfa in the mid-nineties was the stuff of Hollywood.

It features in the second half of the video.

The first half features the rise and fall of Stanfa's predecessor, the bloodthirsty Nicky Scarfo, overseer of one of, if not the most, bloodthirsty mob reigns in U.S. history.

"Manhattan Mob Rampage"

Documentary about Vic Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, boss and underboss of New York's Lucchese Family; the latter a psychopath who makes Joe Pesci in Goodfellas look like a choirboy.

The Lucchese Family was in rude health before Amuso and Casso took the reigns. Within five years, both were sentenced to life in prison, ending a bloodthirsty and paranoid reign, which saw many hits ordered and even more mobsters defect to the government - scared of falling under Amuso and Casso's suspicions.

Anthony Casso interview

Casso later cooperated with the goverment, "ratting" on Amuso and his former underlings in order to get a lighter sentence, but the government would eventually renege on the agreement after discovering just how much of a lunatic he was/is. 

You can probably figure out why in the last video I posted.

All of these are very watchable.

https://411mania.com/wrestling/cody-rhodes-responds-disco-infernos-recent-criticism/

Cody Rhodes and Disco Inferno have been going at it.

I think Disco had a point in fairness. And it's not like Cody, and Ted (where is he now), haven't benefited from nepotism.

I think Cody also fails to appreciate just how much Disco got a goofy gimmick over.

Christian Bale circa The Machinist would be a more imposing main eventer than Punk.

Is it any wonder he has to resort to insider terms all the time to maintain any degree of relevance.

Fair point but it's a little different. Hogan and Rock adapted to the crowd because they were on Hogan's side and were for turning against The Rock; it could gave turned into a Lesnar/Goldberg shitstorm with two cloudier heads.

What I meant re: Bryan is that so many of his moves (repeated kicks) were engineered in order to pop a chant from the crowd.

I dislike how contrived it is.

I watched the WM 2014 main event. It held my attention throughout and never lagged at any point, which is all you can ask for.

Randy Orton tazplexed Daniel Bryan on his injured shoulder at one point to ward off one of Bryan's incessant kick attacks. That's something wrestlers should do more often, bust out moves they don't usually perform, like HHH's Indian Death Lock at WM 2003. I feel wrestlers can become too regimented - Brock Lesnar an extreme example. In Orton's case it made extra sense within the context of the match to do that move.

Orton really held that match together IMO. You can see why he's so highly regarded. It was an excellent performance, technically and psychologically.

A teensy bit underwhelmed by Daniel Bryan's performance. It was basically 85% kicks and indulging the morons chanting "yes". I think you should wrestle your own style and not let the audience dictate the direction of the match.

"Morons" may be harsh, but, come on, they had their backs turned on the action at a crucial point while chanting na na goodbye at Steph and Trips.

Why can't people just watch something instead of living through a camera lens or chanting Holy Shit with a blank look on their face?

12 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

I thought John Goodman died in Roseanne, did he just fuck off somewhere or have they just ignored that?

"Dream", wasn't it?

On Cheers, Frasier said his father was dead and that he was an only child.

The rest, as they say, is history.

So Triple H is a legit 6 ft. 1 at best these days. Hogan is an inch or so taller than him in that pic.

Wasn't Hogan billed as 6 ft. 8 at his peak?

I know they exaggerate, but bloody hell.

 https://411mania.com/wrestling/roman-reigns-says-match-undertaker-didnt-meet-expectations-talks-stalled-shield-reunion/

Interesting interview with Reigns. I have to agree with a lot of what he says.

9 hours ago, BomberPat said:

Nope. If you're a racist, you're not intelligent. It's an inherently idiotic world-view/character trait. Presenting it as such isn't part of some imagined liberal Hollywood agenda to avoid giving sympathetic portrayals of bigotry.

I already explained my problems with the movie, and it didn't have anything to do with portraying bigotry in a negative way; it had more to do with portraying it in a simplistic and haphazard way, like making Sam Rockwell's character a punchline for half the movie etc. etc.

And being a racist may make you many things but it doesn't automatically presume you to be stupid.

Look at all the awards Darkest Hour won with its portrayal of a racist, and one of the great leaders of contemporary history.

The two things aren't mutually exclusive. It's a more complex issue and it deserves to be treated as one.