WCW Monday Nitro (April 1st, 1996) – Certainly Feels Like April Fools

So the show begins with Giant and Sting going at it… apparently, they were supposed to team up against Harlem Heat, but Jimmy Hart paid the Heat to take a hike and now the two partners has a fight. Match lasts a couple minutes before Lex Luger comes in for the DQ finish and that’s it… April Fools, I guess.

The Steiners beat the Road Warriors and the Nasty Boys in a Triangle match (a.k.a. the Triple Threat or 3-way match – apparently, the first time in WCW) in a dubious finish that saw one of the Public Enemy guys knock out a Nasty Boy while the other Public Enemy guy dressed as a Nasty Boy plays dead so that one of the Steiners can pin him for the win and… yeah, stupid fuck finish aside, this was an entertaining enough piece of tag team business. Could have done without the dumb swap finish, but considering how many worse finishes I’ve seen over the years, I suppose it’s inoffensive enough… meh.

Bobby Heenan announces that he is retiring from WCW… only to stick around and say April Fools. In hindsight, maybe he’d had been better off leaving, but whatever. There’s a Hogan/Booty Man match against Kevin Sullivan and Arn Anderson that I refuse to watch… so I skip ahead to the main event where Ric Flair retains his WCW World title over Lex Luger via a schoolboy, hand full of tights, and BOTH feet on the ropes for extra leverage. I’m guessing that’s supposed to show off the lengths Flair has to go to cheat a win out of Luger, but that seems a tad excessive. Regardless, a fine main event to an otherwise meh show.

Well, okay, the 3-way tag was pretty good until the finish, so it’s not all bad.

There’s no Nitro next week, which means a free slot for something else to fill its space and we’re going to fill it with [REDACTED.]

On The 31st Day… CONFOUNDED! I Still Haven’t Watched Section 31!

It is the 31st of March in the year of our lord 2026… and it’s the time-honoured tradition of my declaration of not having watched the Section 31 streaming motion picture starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh.

Yep, we’re still doing this… and really, I haven’t had the urge to subscribe to any streaming channels. I’ve got a TV box to watch some local news and channels… and the rest I watch on Youtube and the occasional Prime because I have Prime to save on shipping.

Don’t even have an active Netflix subscription… but I do watch Plex. Plex is a good time. And it’s free.

How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?

You know… there are a number of announcements that can get me to drop everything, subscribe to Netflix, and dedicate a whole weekend to watching what could very well be the most underwhelming Wrestlemania showcase in WWE history… at least, until next year.

Announcing that John Cena is going to host the thing… is not one of them.

Can he just fuck off and do movies now? What is he going to do now? More MEMES on Twitter?

Gah…

Five Years To Learn

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-ceo-michael-rousseau-retires-9.7146886

On a more serious note, Air Canada CEO Michael Rosseau has announced plans to retire at the end of the year.

I’m assuming you’ve heard about the tragedy in LaGardia Airport with the Air Canada plane that crashed into a fire truck and cost the lives to its two pilots. Air Canada is a Canadian company based out of Montreal, which is in the province of Quebec. Canada has two official languages; English and French. When the CEO came out to express his condolences, he did so in English only. One of the pilots was Quebecois. The French speaking community, naturally, threw a fit and asked for his head. He delivered a written apology. Not good enough. Off with his head… and so he plans to step down later this year.

Naturally, prayers and wishes to the families of Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther in this trying time.

I honestly wish that more effort was made in celebrating the lives of two pilots who went above and beyond the call of duty to keep their passengers safe… only to be overshadowed by what I feel are somewhat petty language issues. Every time I hear OLEF giving a notice to someone’s Instagram or a bad with Irish decorations, I roll my eyes and grimace. The morons running this government have no time to fix their potholes or fund their medical sectors to procure more top of the line equipment to deal with their sick, but they’ve no problems spending money on spies to see who’s speaking acceptable levels of French at their places of work.

With that said, Michael Rosseau had a previous language-related controversy back in 2021 that also involved him speaking no lick of French in his statement and people cried foul. He said he’d do better and stuck around, but now five years later and despite taking French immersion classes, he still couldn’t muster a few quick words in French… and he runs a major airline based out of a province whose only official language is French and anyone who doesn’t speak French deserves to die or something. Someone in that position, who’s getting paid loads of money to run that expansive business in Canada and can’t speak a lick of French… I’m sorry, but why is this guy allowed to be CEO?

It’s one thing if you’re a lowly worker down the food chain and you only speak a little of one or the other. It’s another thing when you’re the head of a national corporation and fluency in both official languages of Canada is not only required, but should be expected, especially if you have to issue a statement regarding prevailing circumstances. I’ve got nothing against the man personally; I’m sure he’s a swell guy, but him being piefaced over not speaking French five years ago and then doing so again despite claims to have taken courses… yeah, I can say that I’m more francophone that this guy is, and my French is just good enough to get by, but not enough for me to run Air Canada.

Moral of the story; if you’re gonna apply for a job and it requires fluency in both English and French, you’d better be fluent in both English and French.

I’ll post something happier later.

Whatever Happened To “The Secret Spider-Man Movie?”

This is a deep cut from way back when… but a long, long time ago, a bunch of comic book geeks who were disenchanted with the Spider-Man movies at the time, were seeking funding to create their own version of Spider-Man 3, which was upcoming. They had a trailer that featured comments from Richard Donner (he of Superman: The Movie and Lethal Weapon fame) as well as other comic book geeks talking about how Hollywood is a soulless machine that mines intellectual properties for the sake of money.

Riveting stuff. Meanwhile, the sky is blue and water is wet. Grr…

So this was a thing that existed for a few years and there was an active forum and all that. I’ve wrote about this thing on the old DTM Blog (of which you can read here and here if you want more timely comments on the matter) and even left a couple comments on the message board. After a few years, the website shut its doors; citing a need to keep the production and website off limits for the foreseeable future. A year or so later, the website would disappear and replaced with a generic service page. I mentioned that much on the old blog fifteen years ago.

Whatever happened to the folks behind the project? Did they drop everything and move on with their lives? Did they end up making their secret Spidey movie that’s so secret nobody knows of its existence? Who can say for sure? I do know one thing; Spider-Man 3 came and went without a hitch, the Studi-HOS (their words, not mine) made their money, and we got more Spider-Man movies of different types. Maybe these guys made one of those… who knows? But really, who cares? You probably didn’t even know this was a thing until I mentioned it just now.

However, I can tell you this much. At some point, a Japanese car service website assumed control of the domain name and used it to provide some information on car servicing. That site would cease updates in 2014, but would stay active until at most 2019, which is the last update that Wayback Machine has in archive. And if you try to access the site today… you get nothing… because the site is long dead.

Oh well… so much for that. I’m glad that I resolved that mystery that I clearly didn’t think about until fifteen minutes ago when I had a brain fart of a realization that I need to post something today since there are no videos this week save for the one on Wednesday. What fun.

Later.

DTM House Show – Artificial Idiocy (March 28th, 2026)

For those wonder, Chef Gordo will not be sampling tribble delights or wall meat dishes. Actually, Chef Gordo probably had a hand in the absolute shambolic mess of a stream that took place here where a dog couldn’t stop crying because of some neighbor’s noise and also the stream decides to fuck off and cut off because the world hates the world or something.

Anyway… this show is a mess and I recorded none of it, which makes it even worse.