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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 16:04:14 GMT -5
I do now. It broke right as the lockdown started here and the complex went to "emergencies only" for maintenance. Finally showed up a few days ago to fix it. I've been following your stove adventures on Twitter Stalker. But seriously, yeah, this month has been...trying. Got fired on the 2nd, the stove thing happening within a day of me accidentally dropping my phone off a balcony and destroying it (and my provider's stores in the area are closed) and then that troll over there going on a rampage. Some other bits and pieces that just compounded it all. I'm just glad I can cook again.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 15:47:01 GMT -5
Just a note - the report is out now, but the conference call is in 15-ish minutes.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 15:42:20 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 15:39:27 GMT -5
December 19, 1985 - Dean's phrasing is slightly misleading here. He *was* a ref at those tapings, reffing both a Savage/Steele match and a Volkoff/Kirchner match, but those two matches were taped for the syndicated Championship Wrestling program and not aired as part of the actual SNME TV show. Here's the Volkoff/Kirchner match: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccFb3sc1qgHere's the Savage/Steele match: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlyn2Iw7DJ8
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 15:05:23 GMT -5
Back in 2000-2001 or so, there was an indy promotion in the Dallas region called PCW. At one point, it had one of the most talented rosters in the entire country. Jared Steele, Kevin Douglas, Iron Eagle, Jeromy Sage, Chris Chronic, Kris Germany, Gabe Roach, Martin Styles, Zane Morris, Mike Foxx. Just an insane amount of talented workers (several of them graduates of HBK's school) that deserved to be on a national platform. Hell, even Scott Putski went there and reinvented himself into something that worked better for him and was primed to re-emerge as someone to take notice of.
At the same time, PCW had a Ministry-ripoff stable called the Dark Circle, comprised of two serviceable but unmemorable journeymen (Tim Storm, Apocalypse) and two really, really green guys who just weren't very good (Shadow, Damien). There was no reason to see any of the four as really having a future.
No one in the first part above ever really made it out of the local scene. Jared got an ROH dark match, Foxx got a few local jobber gigs with WWE (he's the one Raven makes kiss his foot during the 7 Sins angle). None of them made it.
Tim Storm and Shadow, two of the never-going-to-make-its, became - respectively - the NWA Heavyweight Champion and Lance Archer.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 14:55:32 GMT -5
Which Hyperion? There's literally ten of them now. Squadron Supreme of America I've always wanted to see something done to clean up the Hyperion deal. I said ten, but really, there's eight different Hyperions that are either in 616 or have strong ties to it. - the first to show up way back when was supposedly aka Zhib-Ran from the Microverse. Fought the Avengers as part of the Squadron Sinister. Eventually revealed to be a construct of the Grandmaster and dies battling the next Hyperion on the list - a few years later, the "real" Hyperion (and Squadron Supreme) show up in comics, belonging to Earth-S and are the ones in the '80s mini. Spent years on 616 during the 90s/2000s after being stranded there. Revealed at one point to be the last Eternal of his reality. - 30+ years after his clone showed up, the real Zhib-Ran from the Microverse shows up in the pages of Fabian Nicieza's Thunderbolts. - Around the same time, King Hyperion is recruited into the Exiles stuff. He eventually gets stuck on 616 and recruited into Cage's Thunderbolts, believing he's the previously-listed one. - Then there's the "Supreme Power" Hyperion - while he never went to 616 that I'm aware of, several of his reality's inhabitants are stuck there now, so he has strong ties to it. - There's the Project: PEGASUS clone based on cells of the Earth-S version (who stayed at PP while stranded in 616). This one died in the Marvel Zombies Supreme mini, but his body is still on 616 - Hickman's Hyperion that showed up as part of his Avengers relaunch. Not from 616, he was rescued from his dying reality by AIM and brought to 616. - The Hyperion of Squadron Supreme America, who turns out to be a Mephisto construct. Whole things just a mess.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 14:39:50 GMT -5
I have neither a panda, energy nor money. But you have a working stove I do now. It broke right as the lockdown started here and the complex went to "emergencies only" for maintenance. Finally showed up a few days ago to fix it.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 14:04:43 GMT -5
I liked his original mini series but yeah, he got really over used after that. He's a worse superman than Hyperion Which Hyperion? There's literally ten of them now.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 13:49:31 GMT -5
Starting this and pinning it for the time being. The conference call will be starting at 5pm EST.
Putting this here so you can see the numbers and such in an easy Twitter thread - Your local neighborhood eJm.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 13:38:48 GMT -5
I can't speak to one independent trainer with a school whether it was someone famous or not famous but a big time company like WCW or WWF needed to have invested more into the men or women who were trainers. And by invest I mean not have a bitter, life long jobber in charge of the training process. Couldn't WCW or WWE find anyone more qualified mentally and professionally than DeWayne Bruce or Bill Demott? They couldn't get ANYONE better? Like mentally capable of being fine with their place on the card as a lower card talent. I can't and won't excuse WCW's use of Bruce, but one has to keep in mind that up until the ugliness with DeMott came out at the end, Bill was almost universally loved and revered within the business. No one had any reason to see trouble signs until things actually started getting weird. He would have been one of the first guys I would have put in that role, and I obviously would have egg on my face for doing so now.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 13:20:27 GMT -5
Well, not quite the medical crisis anyone was envisioning, but here we are. When we get a chance, I need to talk to you about lottery numbers.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 12:29:15 GMT -5
It was nice that Del Wilkes and Sean Waltman posted about Joe getting their careers. Jerry Lynn, too. I'm sure others did, but that's the only other one I've come across. History kind of left Pedicino behind, but he really was so very much more important to the business than he'll ever get credit for.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 12:25:06 GMT -5
DeMatteis had a plan for him but left halfway through, leaving DeFalco - who didn't care for the character at all - to wrap things up. Next up: Keith Giffen's Supreme > Alan Moore's Supreme I like Giffen's Supreme but love Moore's. That 12 issue Squadron Supreme mini series>Watchmen. I just feel Giffen "got" Supreme better than Moore. Alan's Supreme is fine work, great stuff. But it's not Supreme, it's just Superman. Even if Giffen never had the opportunity to get an actual run on the character beyond minis and using him in other books Keith was writing, *that* character was becoming something extremely (no pun intended) interesting. And agree on the Squadron/Watchmen thing for the greater part. I think Moore's dialogue flowed better, but otherwise, it's Gru all the way on that one.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 6:38:49 GMT -5
I remember one from Mick Foley’s first book where he, Regal and Austin were all with WCW at the time, and they all decided to go to the beach before the show. Mick slowly starts looking around and says “Hey guys, have you noticed there are no women on this beach?” That’s right - Austin and Regal had taken Mick to a gay beach. Mick even said himself it must’ve been quite the sight on that beach with Austin and Regal, two handsome young guys with great bodies and then him hanging out with them. Better than the time Dick Murdoch took JYD to a KKK meeting. Not joking.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 6:29:00 GMT -5
I welcome any and all new additions to the Looney Tunes, always have, and love even the not-so-great ones.
That said, I have quibbles:
Some of that animation looks almost Flash-level (the software not the hero).
The characters, at least in these clips, rarely seem "grounded" in their environment and float above it, which is distracting.
I'm not looking forward to retreads of Clampett and Avery. I have zero issue with going back to those basic designs and characterizations, but bring a fresh voice to them and don't just ape them.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 5:51:08 GMT -5
Basically, immediately bringing back Drake and Logan - even in whatever roles they're working in right now - has exposed the narrative that the cuts were a necessary move to reduce costs.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 5:47:26 GMT -5
I was wrong. From this thread: officialfan.proboards.com/thread/585787/vince-fires-writer-speech-quits?page=7I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. A year and two weeks later, I have to admit, I was wrong. That said, I'm readjusting that projection. Vince will not be running the company by the end of 2020. Sidenote: the first post after that one was this: I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. It'll honestly depend on how much additional stress an inevitable second failure of the XFL puts on him. His voting power is still overwhelming, but it'll take nothing short of a medical crisis to pry that power away from him at this point (not wishing that on him of course). Well, not quite the medical crisis anyone was envisioning, but here we are.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 5:38:42 GMT -5
I'm honestly not aware of any stories where Joker was trying to ID Bats (but I'm woefully out of step with everything since just before New 52). Whenever it's come up that I've seen, Joker shows complete disinterest in knowing, and even in one story raged at a minion for trying to unmask him, which would "ruin the fun" The first season finale of Harley Quinn made a great point about this. (language) That's a (nearly-)direct adaptation of the minion scene I mentioned. It was just some goon instead of Scarecrow, though.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 5:33:22 GMT -5
I haven't been keeping up with the shows but since this has been on my Twitter feed the last couple of hours, I feel it's not really a spoiler anymore? It is a spoiler because Ten did not appear yet on tv,the scebe of the photo did not air yet.So I guess it is a very minor spoiler,still better safe Absolutely. Still, once they let the cat out, and all..
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 5:29:07 GMT -5
I'm honestly not aware of any stories where Joker was trying to ID Bats (but I'm woefully out of step with everything since just before New 52). Whenever it's come up that I've seen, Joker shows complete disinterest in knowing, and even in one story raged at a minion for trying to unmask him, which would "ruin the fun"
But that said? Any story that does go in the direction of Joker trying to ID him would be dumb.
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