Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Chris Jericho Suspended For Causing International Incident (No Joke)

Woke up this morning and found this “gem” from WWE.com posted through third-parties.

Chris Jericho as been suspended indefinitely due to an irresponsible act of denigrating the Brazilian flag at a WWE live event in São Paulo on May 24. WWE has apologized to the citizens and the government of Brazil for this incident.

For those who are unaware, Chris Jericho apparently kicked a Brazilian flag during a match with CM Punk and thus was forced to apologize for the incident or risk going to jail… because apparently flag kicking is a crime in Brazil. You would think that Chris Jericho or even WWE would know about stuff like this before venturing into new territory. Oh well, at least Jericho got to keep his job. Committing a national crime is apparently still a lesser violation that choking a ring announcer with a tie or spitting on the franchise player.

So Bradshaw does a mock Nazi salute and goosestep… he gets a WWE Title run…

Jericho kicks a flag… he gets a suspension…

Yeah, that sounds fair.

Weather talk… that sort of thing.

At the moment, it’s that kind of weather around these parts. The kind that is somewhat warm if not humid, but windy if not cool. It’s a near conflict of the senses, but not enough to be considered something terrible or anything. Perfect kind of weather for a student strike…

Fucking hell…
Yeah, so around these parts, students have been on strike due to rising tuition hikes. These strikes have resulted in the usual bullshit that I don’t want to get into, what with the proposed law and resulting riots, but here’s a convenient link to get you up to speed.
Back in my day, we didn’t have student strikes. We had drop-outs… that’s all I’m commenting on.

RAW (May 21st, 2012) – And They Want To Make Three Hours Of This Shit Weakly?

So at the next PPV, it’ll be John Cena against the Big Show… again.

Some observations regarding last night’s RAW

– Once again, it’s Big Show vs. John Cena at the next PPV. I honestly don’t give a shit. Seriously, how many times have I seen this thing? Far too many and the sad part is that every feud comes out to the same thing… OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Everybody knows Cena is winning this one. He always wins this one. What the fuck does it matter?

– Chris Jericho: best in the world… at choking. Maybe he should change his name to Jeri-Choke. Unless it’s his intent to portray a loser deluded as being the best at what he does… if it is, I want my stake in anyone who uses Jeri-Choke.

– Daniel Bryan whines because CM Punk apparently tapped while pinning Bryan. If this means another rematch at the next PPV, then I’m fucking sold. These guys put out a great match at Over The Limit and didn’t put me to sleep.

I’ve got nothing else… this show has nothing… and I will say again: how the fuck do these jokers expect to fill THREE HOURS of this crap? They can barely fill two!

Random Thoughts About… PGSM

Before anyone ask… YES, this is a genuine, honest to goodness post about Sailor Moon. Kindly fuck off if that isn’t your thing.

To tell you the truth, Sailor Moon wasn’t necessarily my thing, either. I’m not sure if I would even call it a thing. My only exposure to the franchise would’ve been ages ago when they aired the original anime on TV… that would be the original dub where they changed the names and made other edits for the sake of the children and made the talking black cat sound like an eldery British woman… which is funny when you consider that Luna is supposed to be around the same age as the other Sailor girls, but I digress.

I remember watching some Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon back when it was airing in 2003; mostly through grabbing as much fandubs as possible before it became a hassle for the bandwidth. I think I was up to the point where they introduced that weird girl with the unhealthy obsession with Usagi/Sailor Moon. And for some reason, I decided to revisit this series recently since there were some YouTube uploads. ‘Cause I figure… why not?

Let’s make one thing clear; I’m not a self-professed Moonie or anything like that. Even though I watched the series and own exactly one Sailor Moon game for the SFC (a puzzle game), I haven’t read the manga (though I should probably give it a shot now that it’s been re-released), have not seen any of the musicals, and my only recollection of the anime was the dubbed version with changed names and a female Zoisite… or something to that extent, it’s been a while.

However, I kinda gave PGSM a shot and I kinda liked it… it’s a bit cheesy and perhaps a bit tacky, but I thought it was a nice, well-told story with some good performances  (Miyuu is almost a perfect Usagi in a way, carefree and clumsy, but not obnoxious like in the dubbed anime) and lots of what they call ballet-fu… oh, they love their ballet-fu. I almost prefer ballet-fu than wire-fu. Fighting evil monsters with ballet is awesome stuff.

Oh yeah, and the girls were easy on the eyes. I mean that in a clean way, pervert.

Interesting change made here; all the girls are dark haired when they’re not in Sailor suits fighting rubber monsters. I actually like this change because it makes some semblance of sense in distinguishing between the Sailor Soldiers and their civilian counterparts. I always found it pretty stupid that, in other Sailor Moon media, people couldn’t tell that Sailor Moon and Usagi, for example, were the same person. The fact that both have the EXACT SAME HAIRSTYLE done in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY should have been a dead giveaway, but I guess Japan is dumber than Angel Grove. Different hair color isn’t much to discern difference between sailor and suit (their face is still pretty exposed), but it IS something… even if it cancelled out by the Sailor Soldiers calling each other out by name. But again…

Yeah, that’s all I got. Go figure.

Que?

From a tumblr post:

Remember how everyone ALWAYS wanted to be the Red Ranger?
…until THIS bad-ass with the flute came along?

My response:
I remember I wanted to be the Red Ranger until that bad-ass with the flute came along…
Then the Red Ranger kicked the flute guy’s ass and I STILL wanted to be the Red Ranger.

Nice artwork, though.

RAW (May 14th, 2012) – Oy Vey…

Some quick notes and observations from last night’s RAW:

– How are we building towards this Brock Lesnar/HHH match that apparently everyone wants to see? By having Lesnar sue HHH… this feud is already starting to suck, isn’t it? Especially with HHH’s opening 20-minute-too-long promo basically belittling Lesnar’s UFC career. I understand Lesnar’s signed for a couple dates per month and I actually would very much like to see Brock and HHH go at it since it’s a relatively new match that nobody’s ever seen before… but if this is how they’re going to be build towards that match, then it’s pretty weak sauce. Which means expectations for the eventual encounter will be quite low.

– Actually, you know what match I would rather be seeing? Paul Heyman vs. Puppet HHH in a No-Holds-Stupid match. I’m totally convince that the combined promo ability of both characters would be far more entertaining television than whatever HHH can pull out of his promo depository of boredom.

– There was a decent tag-match between CM Punk/Santino Marella and Daniel Bryan/Cody Rhodes; I seemed to enjoy that one. I’m actually kinda glad that Punk/Bryan are getting a main event at the PPV and hopefully, the internet geeks that are always singing their praises will put their money where their mouths are and buy this goddamn PPV.

– Big Show is apparently fired and reduced to begging for his job… prelude to a heel turn, maybe? Who knows? I’m not so sure if it’s such a good idea, though. People seem to like his character now; you really want to kill it with an ill-advised heel turn that would benefit jack shit?

– Speaking of which, Johnny Ace is upset that the board has declared that if he loses to Cena at the PPV, he is fired… so I guess Cena’s losing here. Isn’t he? Oh yeah, and Green Bean? Your ex says hi.

This is a pretty shit show, folks. I’ve got nothing…