News and Notes

I thought last night's confrontation between Ric Flair and Mick Foley was kinda sad and pointless, but I'll be glued to the set tonight when these two legends face-off on Impact. Glad to see this company is going with a youth movement. In other bouts, there will be a battle royal and a tag match to see who gets the name "The Beautiful People".

In other notes from the week, they got my hopes up that Bristol Palin was leaving Dancing with the Stars this week but it turned out to be Margaret Cho, who I thought gave a good effort. Probably Mrs. Brady and Palin will be next, although you can never count out the random black person ousting that inevitably occurs at some point in the season. Also, I'm glad we no longer have to deal with the annoying Jimmy T. on Survivor after this week. Looks like we might get new teams next week, which is for the best because the old people tribe was getting steamrolled.

The Spin Cycle

Here's a new edition of my favorite internet show, the Spin Cycle. This week's special guest is the one and only Angelina Love of the Beautiful People (oh, and a couple of other wrestlers). Enjoy:

News and Notes

I'm back! Here are my thoughts on some of the things I've missed the past couple of weeks:

Dancing with the Stars: I really love this season's cast but they've already ruined it in week two with atrocious judging (what else is new?), Team Palin's country asses, and saying that Bruno went too far in cracking on Michael Bolton. My favorite this season is Kyle, who seemingly came out of nowhere (at least in my household) to capture America's heart. It's about time someone represented for the chubby black guys. My shitfit when he gets voted out before Bristol Palin should be monumental.

Wake Up!: The Roots and John Legend together on one CD. Album. Of. The. Year. Get it.

Survivor: I'm sorry to see the Jimmy Johnson gimmick end in week three, but it hadn't really panned out to be all that great anyway. Some of the most vile contestants in history. I don't have a favorite yet.

Wrestling: Raw ratings continue to sink and PPV buyrates are in a steep decline. They're in no danger of going under but if ratings and buyrates continue to erode, it will be difficult to get those lost fans back. I don't even see a way to turn things around. TNA is still hopeless, but I'm intrigued by whatever "special announcement" they have planned for next week. They're probably getting rid of the wrestling ring altogether.

Kim Kardashian: Still hot.

2010 MTV Video Music Awards

I thought the MTV VMA's were a decent show. Sure I missed about an hour of it, but what I saw was good. Chelsea Handler was hit and miss as host. I liked the skit at the start with all of the rappers and Lindsay Lohan (who looked respectable for once) slapping her on the behind. Gaga was the big winner of the night and I loved her big dresses where she had to be helped on the stage. Loved the Kanye West performance at the end, toasting the douchebags and the assholes. That's my new theme song. I'm glad they kept this thing to two hours. Other awards shows need to take heed.

NXT Season Three

OMG. Last night's season three premiere of WWE's rookie-in-training show, NXT, was Trainwreck TV at its finest. Take six barely trained wrestlers, er, sports entertainers fresh out of the WWE Florida development system, put them on national TV to participate in skits and have horrible wrestling matches and hijinx galore ensue. It was fascinating to watch between the dreadful interviews, announcers making fools of themselves, and more botched moves than a

Candice Michelle vs. Lacey Von Erich blindfold match. For the record, I'm going with Naomi to win this thing (hardly going out on a limb seeing as how she won three competitions already). With only six contestants, I have no idea how they are going to drag this thing out for three months. Hell, they barely made it an hour. But if they can make it through the season and create one new star and go without some poor broad getting injured on live TV, the season will be a success.

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Keeping Up With The Kardashians

I seem to watch this show every other season, so I decided to catch last night's season premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. As usual, this show is best watched with the sound down, but in the best interest of this review, I decided to listen in. This episode's main plot was that Kim was moving into her new mansion. MANSION! This broad done built an empire off of having a big ass! You have to give her credit though for working this thing to this level. Anyway, although she didn't want people touching anything in the house, her increasingly annoying mother decided to hold a housewarming party there. It ended in an embarrassing food fight. There was frosting all over the floor and her mother, who apparantly has never cleaned before, said that everyone should grab a broom.

The subplot involved Khloe not letting Kourtney's tool of a babydaddy in her house. I don't blame her; you can't help but hate this guy. At the end, Kourtney moved out of Khloe's house and into Kim's. This show raised three questions: 1) Why can't she get her own place?, 2) why on earth is she still with this guy with zero redeeming qualities?, and 3) how is this thing still on the air? I'll try to watch this again next week. Hopefully more ass and less talk.

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The Expendables Movie Review

I went and saw The Expendables yesterday, which is projected to be the number one movie in the country this weekend. I mostly went to support Stone Cold. Here's what I can tell you about it:

1) Being black, I missed the first five minutes
2) There was a lot of shooting

If you're an action fan, you'll love it.

R.I.P. Lance Cade