Scott’s Blog of Doom

The SmarK 24/7 Rant - Shorties and Legends!

- I’m taking a break from doing the “dead wrestler roll call” portion of the new book because it’s getting too damn depressing writing about Johnny Grunge, so as a nice change of pace I thought I’d cover topics that I don’t usually rant on: The Shorties matches and the Legends matches. In this case, there’s a couple of neat Iron Sheik rarities up as of tonight, as well as some quality stuff on the shorties that I haven’t seen, so let’s see what we’ve got.
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http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638594

Even I was tempted to buy a copy of Graduation to do my part towards getting 50 Cent off the music charts, but I figured that being Canadian would render my vote meaningless anyway given our smaller sales numbers.  Still, I made sure to encourage people buying CDs at work today to go with Kanye instead of 50, and he ended up outselling 50 by about 2-to-1 at the end of the day. 

Not that anyone expects 50 to actually follow through on his retirement promise, but I can dream.

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Big request for a plug… Stablewars.com has finally automated our Play Per
View system.  instead of e-mailing picks in, there’s a sign up form now.
http://www.stablewars.com/playperview
Pick the winners of Unforgiven 2007.  And hey, it was six years ago this PPV
that *you* Mr. Keith were the winner.  Maybe you should try your luck again!
-Charlie Reneke”

Well, I guess not watching any of the last few months of TV might be considered an advantage with the current direction.