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Superstars 02/09/91
June 19th, 2009
I had been meaning to post this yesterday but just didn't find the time between coming home late and napping and going to the gym. So I am posting this today. The most recent episode of Superstars (as seen on the WWE.Com website) has now been added to my website. It is the February 9th, 1991 edition of the show and is "headlined" by an Earthquake/Tugboat match.
Other than that I don't have much to talk about. Both New York baseball teams continue to disappoint fans, losing to teams they had no right losing to over the last three days (the Orioles and the Nationals) but I am not a huge baseball fan to begin with so I don't really take those losses to heart like people I know. In my own personal news, I am running another 5K tomorrow, marking two in one week (I ran one on Sunday in Middletown). I think I am crazy. Hopefully this time I can actually beat my wife to the finish line!
McMahon and Millionaires
June 21st, 2009
This was a very good week. The weather sucked (it rained too much) but work was rather easy and my big day came and went, and not too many kids failed. It was a ridiculously easy test that was curved to high heaven and you'd have to be a complete idiot to fail. Since work was pretty light (only 4 days and the 4 days were half-days with no teaching) I got a lot of my reviewing done. I finished off two DVD's, and cleared up all the WWE Legacy stuff I wanted to do. I am also getting a few more DVD's this week that should give me more non-wrestling things to review.
Speaking of wrestling, that is the topic of one of the DVD review posted this week. WWE: McMahon focuses on, who else, Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Check out the DVD review for my thoughts on the billionaire. A billion is a lot of money, but so is a million and that is in the title of the second DVD review this week. Slumdog Millionaire was this year's Best Picture Award Winner and it is an awesome movie. I loved it.
Finally, I'll end with some tennis news. It has been announced by Nadal that he won't be at this year's Wimbeldon, clearing the path for Federer's record-breaking 15th Grand Slam Title. I was thinking about how great a year this could be for men's tennis. If Nadal came back and won the US Open then you would have both Nadal and Federer completing career Grand Slams and Federer becoming the all-time Grand Slam champion. If that happened, it would also be 3 out of the last 4 years that only a person named Nadal or Federer won the Grand Slam titles. They are easily the two most dominant presences in tennis right now, with everyone else beneath them not really coming close to dethroning them.
WWE Superstars 02/16/91
June 24th, 2009
The February 16th, 1991 edition of WWE Superstars has been posted to the website, so check it out, it was quite a good episode.
Also, what's going on with all these celebrity deaths lately? First Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett and then Michael Jackson? That's just crazy. These are three freakin' icons in the business and all gone within a span of 48 hours. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about things like this, everyone has a time and a place and this was their time.
A Tale of Two Dead Promotions
June 28th, 2009
We'll call this DVD review posting a tale of two dead wrestling promotions. Both of these promotions met their ends in totally different ways. One was a man not wanting to let go of the past and literally running the company into the ground while the other was of a man who literally lost everything near and dear in his life to the business. The first man is Vernge Gagne and his promotion was the AWA. Check out the Spectaculat Legacy of the AWA to read all about how that promotion crumbled in the early 90's after all of its stars left him in the 80's for Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation. The second man was Fritz Von Erich and his WCCW set Texas on fire with the Von Erich sons ruling the promotion. The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling details how Fritz managed to lose all but one of his sons in the 80's and 90's.
Those two DVD's were completed a week apart at the end of April and beginning of May so we are really close to getting out all of the backlog of DVD reviews. As of now I have 8 DVD reviews left to be posted.
I don't have much else to write about right now. Wimbledon's manic Monday is tomorrow, with everyone in action, so I eagerly await that. I think that Federer will win his record-breaking 15th Grand Slam there by the end of the week, knocking off fan favorite Andy Murray. The women's field is wide-open right now, but I don't think anyone can stop the Williams Sisters the way they are playing right now.
Well, that's it for now. This week was really bad in terms of celebrity deaths (Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays) but unfortunately everyone has a time and a place to go. Three of those people were way too young despite whatever they did in their lives.
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