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Dr. Mike
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I love the title, though I think with Prince there is a clear line of demarcation, and there should be two mega-box sets created with that in mind – The Warner Bros. Years: The Stuff You Want and The Post-Warner Bros. Years: You Might Want to Think Twice About This.

The act breaks were often based on the edits they made to the films themselves. The films had to be cut for both time and content, and the act breaks tended to be where those edit points are.

I believe the only new remasters on Five Years were David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World, and Pinups, so I suspect that if an album doesn’t need a remaster, they're not going to just do it to do it.

I'm sure it will be whatever they call the Outside / Earthling / Hours / Heathen / Reality era, although there's already a perfectly serviceable (albeit out of print) box set covering those years.

Yeah, he was well aware that the end was near. From what I've heard, he planned this entire box set campaign as his musical legacy. It will be many, many years before it is complete at this rate, unless they just blast through most of the '80s (post-Let's Dance) and early '90s with one big set called The Nerve of Us

By most accounts, it'll be in the era-appropriate box, whenever it ends up being released (likely several years from now).

The first season is kind of rough. Lots of telling and not showing, and a not-so-great villain. The second season is much better.

Sure, but Cena likely sees Flair as an object lesson for what not to do with regards to the end of his career. Cena doesn't want to be a broke, broken-down old man who's living his gimmick and still trying to convince promoters to book him because he needs the money and can't leave the pop behind. He would much rather

That interview Bryan gave last year about how his dream match would be with Shinsuke Nakamura? He was talking about a totally different guy.

Lawler does it without Vince in his ear, though; it's just his style, and it has been since time immemorial. Vince didn't produce Smackdown before last night, but I recall this exchange, of which I accurately predicted every beat after I heard where Mauro was going, during an AJ match on Smackdown a few months ago (I

Kelly is leaving too. She's getting a network job of some kind.

Shane's been awful, but it's not just that. Anytime there's a pause of any kind, she's chiming in with some improvised inanity that a) is not funny or interesting, and b) kills the flow of the segment because everyone's got to stop and acknowledge her, because they all know better than to step on her the way she's

Exactly. If they create a second world title, it immediately devalues four titles – both world titles and both secondary titles. And given the paucity of tag teams and women on both rosters, creating additional titles for those divisions would be preposterous.

The level of wastefulness of the idle rich is truly sad.

Sure, but attempting to assign logic to WWE storylines is a fool's errand, because they don't care about internal consistency at all.

I have a feeling Hunter is going to make it his business to protect the cruiserweights on Raw.

It's not the writing – it's her. She's been vamping like crazy lately trying to convince people she's funny and cool, and she just is not. At all. Meanwhile, she's stepping on everyone's lines – at one point last night, you could see Bryan shoot her a "Would you shut the fuck up?" look when he's trying to read a pick

I feel like having two world titles is just as stupid. I mean, do they not remember the parade of geeks and midcarders who held the WHC last time around? It was essentially on the same level as the secondary title on Raw.

Well, what I was getting at is that if you look up "May/December romance" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Jerry Lawler and whoever he was dating at the time said dictionary was published. They update it with Lawler's current girlfriend in every edition. He gets older, they stay the same age.

Raw getting the cruiserweights makes perfect sense – it's got an extra hour to fill.