As a Colorado State alum, I voted for Colorado State because Go Rams.

His Ken Shamrock match is (in)famous for the two of them just beating the everloving shit out of each other. Shamrock was still green as goat shit, with In Your House 15: A Cold Day in Hell being his first pro-wrestling match. Vader was known for being a bit stiff in-ring, and having this fresh new guy meant that the…

Vader’s legacy includes some stuff outside the ring, too. Anime fans might recognize him as Goliath from the (pretty bad) Fist of the North Star live-action movie, while more mainstream folks might remember him from Boy Meets World as Frankie The Enforcer’s father in a few episodes. In video games, he was of course in…

Hey, if you’ve spawned, they have multiple kids albums, too. Electric Car is still super fucking catchy (and should have been used in the Chevy Volt marketing) and it’s some good educational stuff, too. I thoroughly enjoy my Science is Real shirt from the band.

Fairly good. It’s “I can handle criticism.”

As a They Might Be Giants fan (their first album was in 1986, with the latest Grammy in 2009, and a Tony Award nomination this very year), I understand the “quirky” artist that gets dismissed like Weird Al. Hell, it’s a big parallel to Weird Al. TMBG doesn’t have the same live show production as a Weird Al show (their…

Never fucking forget.

I had worked in restaurants for about half my life, before finally giving up the ghost in college when I couldn’t hack it while trying to study. I had finally gotten to the point where I was finding my feet as an adult, and one of the indulgences I got myself was Amazon Prime and a Kindle. Using their lending library,…

My parents love to regale people with four food-adjacent stories from the early childhood of my siblings and cousin.

Forget the late, lamented Tuesday Night Fights. College fights, with or without frat boys, are the wildest-ass fights out there. The combination of hormones, alcohol, drugs, and general douchebaggery creates the perfect storm.

Got into a fight at an outdoor music festival one time, over a box of crawfish that was accidentally knocked onto the ground. Two things stick with me to this day:

Yes.

Pretty much everything and everyone involved with Kick-Ass gives me the willies. The frankly homophobic side plot involving Kick-Ass and the girl he likes, Hit-Girl and by extension CGM’s sexualization, Aaron Johnson later getting his cradle robbed, Mark Millar’s juvenile sexual peccadillos, the violence for…

Remember kids: Mark Millar, writer of Kick Ass, is the same Mark Millar who wrote Civil War where Captain America is beaten by the Heroes of 9/11 (in 2007) and then berated over not knowing what NASCAR and MySpace are. Mark Millar is the guy who actively insulted his readers in Wanted with the infamous “This is my…

Truly, only a true cinematic maven like Matthew Vaughn in his grimy, under-appreciated Kick Ass can translate Mark Millar’s “I hate superheroes and people who like superheroes” from the page to the big screen, just like how Timur Bekmambetov got Mark Millar’s “I hate superheroes and people who like superheroes” comic W…

Ohana has La Familia. La Familia means the rest of the civilized world gets left behind.

I’ve always heard it had clam juice, but I have seen some with beef consomme instead. I think it’s splitting hairs, but Bloody Caesar does sound cooler.

It’s no Capital Carnage, that’s for sure.

I know it sounds like damning with faint praise, but Summerslam 1992 was the best UK PPV. While the quality of the other UK PPVs have been...let’s say spotty at best, Summerslam ‘92 stands the test as an all-around great one, especially with the IC belt match.

Now that’s a damn shame. I feel like he’s being wasted, especially after seeing how over he was with the ICW crowd. Just found an article with the Scottish Express where it sounds like he’s starting to transition out of wrestling and more into acting.