Scott's Blog of Doom

So we're moving to the new place TONIGHT, but stupid Sasktel (who BARELY escaped with my business this week after screwing up our original move date by virtue of being the only ones with WWE 24/7) won't be coming by to install cable and internet until the 24th, so you're gonna have to survive without any new content until then. 

Thank god for rabbit ears, because otherwise I'd go nuts without being able to watch 24 on Monday.

See you on Wednesday!

So in keeping with the theme of getting rid of extraneous stuff for the move, last night was the final epic push to narrow my wrestling tapes down to a manageable number (ie, less than one box).  Even after all my dubbing for the past few months, I was still down to five boxes of about 50 tapes each, and at this point my feeling was that enough was enough.  So I took the Bryan Alvarez route and just started tossing anything that was either a Coliseum original tape, a vital WCW show, or something I'd be likely to watch in the next few months.  Given those parameters, it was actually easier than I expected to toss 20 years of tapes into the dumpster outside, given that I was never going to watch anything ECW again or Heroes of Wrestling or my million shoot interviews and random compilation tapes.  So essentially it came down to Summerslams, Royal Rumbles, a few original Coliseum compilation tapes (like Best of SNME, which I forgot I had in the original case!), all the WWF Home Video stuff from the turn of the century (No Way Out 2001 and Judgment Day 2000, baby!) and some other essential stuff.   Wrestlemanias went into the garbage, because they were home video versions and not PPV originals, and this now gives me the leverage to buy the Anthology sets without getting yelled at. 

So if you need any ECW or Rock N Roll Express compilations, feel free to root through my dumpster, and you'll probably find some good stuff. 

Sorry for the sporadic updates lately, but we've been getting ready to move into a bigger apartment and dealing with all the fun stuff that accompanies it.  However, on the upside, having a 3 bedroom apartment means that instead of having the computer in the bedroom where I'm bugging Jodi with my typing at night, I'll have a dedicated office with a TV and all the accoutrements, and thus I can stay up until all hours reviewing wrestling like I used to do back before getting married and being crammed into a one-bedroom sardine can. 

So fear not, loyal readers, my output will increase again very soon. 

Also, while I'm at it, I'm going to be taping an appearance on the Monday Night Mayhem wrestling show for airing in January, where we'll be previewing 2007 and plugging my book and stuff.  Check them out at www.mondaynightmayhem.com and I'll let you know when I'm up.  Also, don't forget my upcoming preview of 2007 in the January issue of Fighting Spirit magazine, where I boldly predict that Bryan Danielson will retain the ROH title for much of the year and other predictions that will probably make me look like a moron.  But hey, that's life in the funny pages. 

A couple of people have asked why I redid Spring Stampede 97 seemingly out of nowhere, and it was actually a case of mistaken identity.  People have bitched in the past, rightly so, that my Slamboree 97 rant sucks ass, and I've long been meaning to do it.  So while going through and continuing my mammoth tape -> DVD conversion, I came across Spring Stampede and forgot that it was Slamboree I needed to redo and thus you get an extra rant that probably didn't need a redo. 

I have a redone version of Summerslam 95 ready to be typed up as well, so be on the lookout for that soon.  I'm gonna get a couple of re-rants "in the can" so to speak so I can stagger some new content over the next couple of weeks while I dub stuff.  Most of the stuff I've got in the queue is 95-98 era, so I hope you've been waiting for some of that to get redone. 

Also, I'm not going to be selling any more tapes, because it turned into a lot of work for not a lot of payoff, so I'm just trashing them as I dub them now. 

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