You don’t have to side with Seth.

If Paul Heyman can restore some of the logic, competitive illusion, and melodrama that he can invest in a single headlock, then we may be on to someting.

“He would look at us and yawn,” Sargent added. “Never did anything aggressive toward us.”

Good thing he never realized you were filming in portrait mode.

Aapparently cold beans with crackers is a backroads staple.

Edit: misread comment

I do remember John being sucked into a Kafka-esque nightmare of law enforcement and strange shadowy courts of absurd law because he tried to buy a garbage can with cash instead of credit.

Shudder put out “Video Palace” and that was a lot of fun. Nothing overly ambitious and they leave a lot unexplained, but that’s kind of what keeps it feel scary in the end. They don't try to tie it to the larger world or weave in templar style intrigue (the fatal flaw of "The Black Tapes") but instead keep it a…

He and, to a slightly lesser extent, Daniel Bryan both have that Mick Foley thing. Don’t try to define it, don’t try to control it, just stand back and let a delightful weirdo be a delightful weirdo.

All the worst of monarchical opulence and all the worst of nouveau riche overcompensation slammed together in a partical accelerator.

From Brandon Stroud’s write up of Raw last night:

Im not sure why the Cody/Dustin thing is inconsistent. They have a love/hate relationship. They did the hate thing with their match, then there’s them making up because they’re brothers and that’s what brothers in wrestling do.

I have to disagree with you on the Librarian segment. I found that awkward and very amateurish.

Open Ice! I loved that. The way the puck would hit off the twine and explode back down the ice after you scored a goal.

Self. High. Five.

We’re still doing this?

The article never refers to the hand signal explicitly as a white power hand signal. The video involves two people employing the hand sign and shouting “white power” (which raises the question of how one separates ironic racism from for real racism) but the article only refers to it as “a meme, dog whistle, and racist…

This is what I find funny about all the Pepe memes and the trolls to trigger the libs; like if it starts out being ironic dog whistling, but you keep doing it....maybe it isn’t ironic?

I definitely agree on the 15-20 min match thing. I'm as much of a workrate mark as the next guy, but you are giving away matchup after matchup for free. Even if PPV isn't a thing, you still need build, build, build, payoff.

I love not seeing everybody every week. I love that if Dream has a killer segment one week, he’s not going to show up next week with a segment that is more of the same, but not as funny or surprising.

Part of that is that Raw is the flagship show that has only changed its timeslot to add extra hours. They promote it as the A show, they save all the big storylines for it, and they have consistently built the Raw brand for years.