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The Pope!

Lacey Von Erich

Eric Bischoff


Christy Hemme

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Ric Flair

Angelina Love

The Beautiful People

Jeff Jarrett

Rob Van Dam

News and Notes

Finally Tim Urban was sent packing from American Idol. He should have left seven weeks ago and the show is only six weeks old. He won't be missed. And over on Dancing with the Stars, Kate Gosselin was booted. I will miss her because I found her awful dancing a highlight of the show. Such a bittersweet week... Survivor continues to be incredible. Old girl pulled out TWO immunity idols. I swear, this show has some great writers. And I was so happy that J.T. got voted out since giving away the immunity idol was his idea in the first place. At the end he said "never trust a woman". No, never trust your own feeble brain, you idiot. Great strategy; see you at the reunion show.

Keith Elam a.k.a. Guru, 1966-2010

Sorry to hear about the passing of The Guru of Gangstarr, who died on Monday from cancer. He was one of my favorite rappers in the 90's as the voice of Gangstarr, then he followed that up with his series of Jazzmatzz albums, which yielded some classic moments. Among my favorite songs of his were "Ex-Girl To Next Girl", "Mass Appeal", "Dwyck", and "Who's Gonna Take The Weight". He will be greatly missed. Here are some classic clips below:

News and Notes

For anyone out there who watches Survivor, can you believe the boneheaded move last night? Why would you give an immunity idol to anyone on the other team? They should have the next season of Survivor as Heroes vs. Villians vs. Dummies. I can't wait to see J.T. and Colby voted out... In anticipation of this weekend's TNA Lockdown pay-per-view, enjoy this interview with Velvet Sky of The Beautiful People:

News and Notes

It was another average week on American Idol. I thought Adam Lambert did a really good job trying to get something out of the hapless contestants. In the end, it was Andrew and Katie who went home, which was long overdue in both cases. Things are finally going my way; with this luck I should buy some lottery tickets and run out to Vegas and roll the felt... The best thing about this week's Monday Night "Wars" was the new TNA show Reaction that came on before Impact. It's amazing that TNA's best work always comes when the so-called writers aren't involved. Does anyone in charge of that company see a pattern?

News and Notes

Celebrity Apprentice continues to be an enjoyable show, with another fun episode tonight. Unfortunately it was model Selita Ebanks (above) who had to go this week (just one week after leading her team to victory). Oh well, at least the wrestlers are still there... Speaking of which, there are now SIX hours of Monday night wrestling between Ring of Honor on HD Net, WWE Raw on USA, TNA Impact on Spike, plus TNA now has a preview show at 6PM CST as a prelude to Impact's new time slot of 7PM to 9PM CST. I saw the first five minutes and it did a better job of promoting the product than any recent Impact segment ever did. Probably a good sign that the "writing" team has nothing to do with this new show. The spoilers didn't look promising but there will be a "Leather and Lace" match between Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. Not sure what a Leather and Lace match is but something tells me I won't be missing it... Shout out to my boy Common who had a role in this weekend's top movie Date Night. As a fan who's been down since the days of "Breaker 1/9", I'm loving this.

News and Notes

Not much to say about Wednesday's American Idol. The show continues its demise with this awful season. It's a complete joke now with one of its best singers finishing last (although the judges used the save to keep him). Vocal talent isn't even a factor anymore. They might as well just have the contestants come out and juggle apples. This show is useless... In brighter news, The fools that run TNA Impact actually made some good decisions yesterday. They signed one of my favorite people in the wrestling business, Christy Hemme (above) to a two-year extension and moved their Monday timeslot to 7PM to 9PM (CST). In addition they brought back the Thursday replay in their old time slot of 8 to 10. Next thing you know, they'll be bringing in a new writing staff... It was reported on perezhilton.com that Kanye West will be returning to his New York hip-hop roots on his next album and has enlisted the help of producers such as No I.D., the RZA, and Pete Rock. Now that's what I'm talking about.

(Photo from tnawrestling.com)

News and Notes

Lennon/McCartney Night on American Idol was about what I expected. Honestly, I was asleep for a great portion of the second hour. The personality profiles did flesh out these people a tad but it got old quick. Katie said she would go to the prom with whoever gave her the most votes; with her low finishes, five votes would probably get you that date. I have no idea why the judges praised her performance. I felt like I was watching another program. Mike was okay, Crystal was good, and Tim made me want to go hide. Same old story. Reportedly, Adam Lambert will be the guest mentor next week. That could be fun... Ratings are in and Impact lost handily yet again (no suprise) but it did a little better and Raw dropped a bit from last week. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter compared Impact to a high school boy who tries to get attention by eating worms. That was spot-on. I didn't see it, but I can't believe these idiots allowed one of their wrestlers to take a chairshot to the head in this day and age. Get a clue... I missed Dancing with the Stars, but caught the highlights. Kate Gosselin somehow escaped again. She was so bad, it was hilarious. I hope she stays for weeks. Glad to see Pam, 85, and Niecy advanced. I felt bad for Buzz Aldrin, but it was time for him to go.

Monday Night Wrestling

Due to the crowded schedule, I didn't get to see much of WWE Raw and I skipped through quite a bit of TNA Impact. Seems like Raw is hitting a bit of the post-WrestleMania letdown. Why on earth would WWE let their new champion Jack Swagger get pinned already? It makes no sense. I missed any David Otunga-Hudson segments that may have run. I did see him turn on John Cena at the end, which may set up a 9:00 squash match some time down the line. Over on Impact, why is Kurt Angle killing himself for a show doing an 0.6? I thought it was funny that TNA is in such dire straits that they actually listened to the ratings patterns and tried to showcase the Knockouts (although putting the title up in a luck of the draw box was stupid). They cut out some of the "comedy" and actually built two matches for next week. Baby steps.

R.I.P. Chris Kanyon. Sorry to hear about his passing. He was always innovative in the ring and I always enjoyed his matches and persona. I always thought one of the leagues could have done much more with him.

(Photo from tnawrestling.com)

News and Notes

This week it was Didi's time to leave the show after an underwhelming performance on Wednesday. Somehow Tim managed to hang on despite the massacre of Anita Baker's "Sweet Love". I can only imagine what he's going to do with the Lennon/McCartney songbook this week (which if I recall correctly, led to disasterous results the last time they trotted these songs out). Oh well, it will be fun coming up with new insults... Monday will be loaded up again with the NCAA title game, five hours of wrestling, Dancing with the Stars AND two hours of 24 (why on this night?). Can't they save some of this stuff for Friday and Saturday when nothing is on?