Category: State Of The Blog

Note to self… need to stop scheduling incomplete posts for the future.

Anyway, after a long, protracted road, we finally hit 1000 reviews. It’s been a fun time, but I’m glad that it’s finally over… now we take a bit of a break this week and we’ll keep going afterwards. In the meantime, we’ve got some minor housekeeping to take care of.

REVIEWS
Reviews will resume next week and should proceed on a Tuesday-Friday upload schedule. Don’t expect anything “big” as far as what’s being reviewed, as I’m mostly finishing up some stuff that’s been on the backburner for a while. I’m also somewhat planning ahead on stuff that I want to prep for 2024 so that things turn out a bit more “smoothly.” On a sidebar, I am considering taking requests for a short while and turning that into a gimmick month of sorts. I’m working out the kinks on how I want to take these requests, but people want me to review stuff for some reason. So I’m working on that.

PPV MUSINGS
PPV Musings have slowed down considerably over the past month. I’ll be honest; I haven’t been keeping up. I’ve seen the All In show, but the musings won’t be ready for another week or so, especially in light of the recent Punk news. I’m not sure if I’m going to be watching All Out, but I made a note to check out last night’s Payback show from WWE. I still have a couple WWF 2000 PPVs to bang out sooner or later. We’ll see how things go.

POWER RANGERS REFLECTIONS
I know this has been largely dormant, but I want to bring this series of lookbacks back. I want to look at Cosmic Fury, but don’t know if I’m going to do it episode by episode or do it all in one shot since it’s going up on Netflix in one-shot. I do know that I’m going to have to catch up on Dino Fury since that’s important. While I’m not sure of it happening soon, it is something I want to bring up for 2024.

On that note…

PREPPING FOR 2024
2023 has been a trying year and while we’ve got some stuff out here and there, there’s also been prevailing circumstances that have derailed entire plans. With that in mind, I’ve been putting together some stuff that I’m hoping we’ll see the light of day in 2024, including a redo of the entire Ramblemania series that will be consistent with the recent Musings format. This may also include the return of other dormant projects.

Anyway, things will be picking up. What that actually entails is another story, but hopefully, the content train won’t totally derail.

Back from hiatus… on the blog front, at least.

Not going to go into any further personal or family details other than things are improving and looking a little better by the day. However, content on the blog – at least for the moment – will be minimal. The most you’re likely to get are weekly classic PPV Musings and the usual video reviews, which will be starting up next Monday, June 19th and will begin the last countdown to #1000 – I’d go with “final”, but Europa might sue. If anything else pops up, that’ll be a bonus, but the focus is getting these reviews up and running before moving on to other things.

In any event, no formal schedule for reviews or musings has been finalized, but classic musings will cover the WWF 2000 Pay-Per-View shows that I didn’t already muse on in the past and if I end up watching any current shows and decide to do a post on those, I’ll do that too. As far as what the reviews will cover… well, I’ve got a couple ideas, but I’m working backwards here, which means the stuff towards the end (a.k.a. the really big and important shit) is on the verge of completion while those set to be released a week away is still in the editing stage. Don’t worry; we don’t get to the major stuff until July.

Anyway, that’s the update. A couple things might pop up this week, but I don’t know what yet.

Later.

Well, the month of May is upon us, which means we’re done with the daily A.I. Paint postings. I may bang out a few more of these every so often, but not in the frequency that we’ve seen last month. This thing could also be useful for some smaller stuff, but struggling artists can rest assured that when it comes to the bigger projects, I won’t be using any A.I. Paint Program to produce

That’s what the Google Search engine is for.

We’ll go into the “finer” details after the break, but to make a long story short, this month is going to be relatively light on material. On the video front, it’ll be your regularly scheduled review fodder to go along with a House Show gimmick and possibly one or two other videos if all the pieces fall in place. Written posts will be even more sporadic this month, but maybe things will pick up in June. We’ll see.

Continue reading “State Of The Blog – May 2023”

You know what day this is being posted on… but I assure you, this is no joke post.

That might come along later…

Continue reading “State Of The Blog – April 2023”

Quick little update for the month and that’s about it.

First off, video reviews will uploaded every Tuesday and Friday for the next month. Nothing major planned on the horizon, though I’m hoping for something special to come up towards the tail end of the month. Won’t say anything until we get there, however.

PPV Musings will be posted every Wednesday, as per usually the case. This month, I’ll be covering the AEW PPVs I missed out on last year before eventually tackling this weekend’s Revolution PPV. If I end up watching an weekly show, I should have some thoughts on it a day or two later.

In case anyone cares, no, I will not be watching Ring Of Honor. Not that there was much interest beforehand, but to stick the show behind the paywall gives me even less incentive to pursue that show.

I want to try and get a Sunday Gimmick Table out this month. This one’s going to be a different beast from the usual format, because it also features archival footage that you probably haven’t seen before unless you’ve been around these parts since the dawn of time. I’d recommend lowering your expectations, otherwise.

Got a couple addition bits in the works. Might not be up this month, but could be up next month. I am hoping to expand the palette so that it goes beyond just gaming and rasslin, which seems to be the rut this thing is stuck with.

There will be a DTM-Cast at the end of the month and it’ll open with the long-awaited (not really) Q&A. I may also continue my thoughts on the Picard series going on now and by the time we reach the halfway point, I might turn that into a post you can read.

Other stuff might pop up… key word being might.

Game Review Notes
The next couple weeks will see three reviews uploaded each, which should bring the count to 950 game reviews done. After that, game reviews will be up every Tuesday and Friday… barring any prevailing circumstances, of course. This week’s batch of reviews will cover a trilogy of games, while the following week’s trifecta reviews will begin the journey through a storied Nintendo franchise. I had a much different plan in motion for the next couple weeks, but I had an epiphany of sorts and shifted gears to something that won’t break my brain.

happy New Year, everyone. Hope your holidays were as safe and festive as they were happy.

Anyway, first couple weeks of January will be nothing but radio silence. In fact, there will be nothing posted during this time up until January 17th, which will feature the first review of 2023. From there, I’m hoping to start building some semblance of regularity with these posts and trying to get some semblance of a functional schedule up and running. Until then, take care.

(2024 Update: Unless you’re reading this from the new blog, in which case, welcome, and enjoy the few AEW Dynamite Musings that were written back then and never published until now because I forgot about them. Oops.)