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Hey! It's Dave! The Guy Who Writes Here!

I'm going to start writing again. Here, I guess, since there's really no point in coming up with a new blog name. I spend most of my time being unemployed and depressed so I think I need to type more words since I have the free time. I would prefer to delete all the older posts off the blog and start fresh but I figure why bother? Hopefully I'll be able to bully myself into type-vomiting my thoughts out on a daily basis. We'll see.

If you have any potential topics or questions you want answered, you can comment here, find me on Twitter, or if you know me IRL just send a Facebook message. I will mostly be writing about media-related things. I wish that meant in-depth media literacy theory and similarly-intelligent-sounding things, but it will probably just be posts about video games or Honey Boo Boo or a video of me crying and talking to all the empty soda cans in my room.

The Best & Worst of The Best & Worst of WWE Raw 10/8/12

Preface and preamble to all words within:

This is an article born of free time, a triple-dog-dare, and a serious bout of I-Should-Be-Writingism. This blog post, whatever it ends up being, is just me judging the pop culture references made by Brandon Stroud, Editor of With Leather (my favorite sports blog) in his weekly column, The Best & Worst of WWE Raw 10/8/12.This is only for non-direct reference. If he says "This is like that time on Doogie Howser, M.D. when..." then it doesn't get included.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I love professional wrestling. I have watched it for about 25 years and I'm probably going to watch it forever. I really enjoy it. What's that you say? It's fake? Thanks. Thanks for that. I was unaware. Do you want me to blow your mind right now? Everything on TV is fake. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is for real the most 'real' reality show on TV. So eat it.

Anyway, the guy who writes these is a pal of mine (inasmuch as someone you've known only online for over a decade and whose writing career you've followed can be a pal) and so none of this is written with anything approaching maliciousness. This is probably a long intro to a blog post but I'm only writing it once so whateverrrrrrrrrr.

New podcast is up

We did a show. Come peer into the minds of our two guests as they talk us through the processes of running for student government. We ask the hard-hitting questions. Like "who cares dude" and "god this is boring". After the jump.

Wednesday Whoopty-Doo

Awesome.

So first off thanks to @MrBrandonStroud over at With Leather for putting that thing I wrote a couple days ago into the Tuesday Morning Links. If you click on that then me and that site are TOTALLY EVEN STEVENS. Anyway here's this week's Best and Worst of WWE RAW from them, as well as Drew's Funbag from over at Deadspin. I read those two articles every Tuesday like clockwork. Still wondering when some pro wrestling dongshots are gonna show up in one or the other. THE WINNER SHALL HAVE A STRAWBERRY!

New Shit On Netflix Instant Watch Today Watch It Or Don't

Blame It On Rio -- Starring Demi Moore's boobs and some other people.
Blue Mountain State: Season 3 -- I love this show. If you haven't seen it, I know it looks dumb, and almost everyone I know at college watches it because it's "wooo college football/drinking/sex/wooo" but it gets pretty satirical on the subculture surrounding college athletics and honestly, it's not that far-fetched.
Cashback -- Hooooooly crap watch this British movie. If you like boobs, there are boobs. This is a really fun, quirky movie.
Duck Soup -- I've watched this movie every week for six months. It is the best.

Take everything shitty you want to say about this movie or Hollywood's obsession with existing properties or whatever I DON'T GIVE A FART(told mom I'd clean up the site). The original show this movie is based on had a pre-Tim Burton Johnny Depp and it was RAD AS SHIT.

If I had readers I would like to attempt a mailbag column. I know lots of other sites do it, and far better, but whatever. THIS IS THE INTERNET, AND I WILL STEAL ALL THE GOOD IDEAS OF SUCCESSFUL BLOGS OR I WILL DIE TRYING. Well, die is a strong word. I will stay unmotivated and play Skyrim trying? That works.

Follow me on Twitter @Killprint Warning: a lot of foul language and otherwise offensive wording.

Have a day.

Caring is easy. Apathy is work.

A lot of work.

Someone admired by thousands...tens? hundreds? of thousands of people dies. Someone whose career you might have followed for decades, depending on how old you were when he passed. For me, it was 12 years. A dozen years I spent cheering the successes and lamenting the losses. In life he was someone to be admired. Someone whose work ethic was, if not the peak in his sport, then at least the first one out of base camp when it's time to climb.

Someone whose life went to absolute shit in the time before his passing.

Today I'm going to bitch about not smoking.

Right after I wake up.

NCAA WWE National RAW Championship is War D-D-D-DOUBLE LIVEBLOG

I have no idea why I'm doing this. Last February I liveblogged the entire NBA All-Star Weekend and it was the most exhausting things I've ever done. Writing words is hard, you don't know. So I'm bored and like a lot of people, I have to flip back and forth between two things I want to watch.

Now you might be saying "hey go get a DVR what are you one of them poors or somethin" and to you I say: go eat a D. This is America and if I want to watch two things at the same time I will do it. So I'm just gonna update this as the night goes on. Stick around and refresh now and then, I hit the update button every couple of paragraphs.

Blogging Champion

Hahaha yeah so I took a few days off. I pulled off a 6-player trade in my fantasy NBA league a couple days ago that saw me give up Derrick Rose (throwing in Brandon Bass and Jared Dudley) for Tyreke Evans, Ty Lawson, Serge Ibaka and a new copy of Skyrim. Now if you're saying "Dave it looks like you just traded the league MVP for a video game" then you are correct.

You think that's bad? Back in September I traded Megatron to a guy for Miles Austin so that he wouldn't play any country music for the two hours I had to spend running the GSA booth at Club Day.Anyway that's where the inspired bout of laziness came from. Skyrim. I know I'm two months late to the party so I'll just echo pretty much every good thing you've heard about it. I've only had it freeze up a couple times.

Here's some links:

The 5 Reasons Marriage Scares Men (Cracked) This list only applies to non-douchebags. If you're still all YO CAN'T BE TIED DOWN GOTTA GET MAD PUSSY BRO by 25 then you deserve acid-based lubricant.

WWE RAW Best & Worst 1/2/12 (With Leather) I always link this but this time I'm linking it with love since my comment made the top ten list on the last page. BIG TIME.

My last point I want to make before I go take a dump and play more Skyrim is this: Where we are today as a society, with our current level of technology/social media outlets/texting/etc the act of communicating has become mind-bogglingly easy. Easy, but terrible. Just awful. I'm going to put the point of my rant behind the jump.

SHIVAKAMINI SOMAKANDARKRAM

The irony here being that this league is like, me and 11 people who work for my hometown city's newspaper. I think I legally own the newspaper now. I also won a discman and something called a palm pilot.

Wednesday Links and such

I skipped a day. I also bought Star Wars: The Old Republic. Yeah. It's been installing/patching for 7 hours now and only another 5.94GB to go. I only had one semester until graduation, too. I gave my WoW account to my girlfriend. I even handed over the authenticator. She has a bunch of people at work she can play with and I happened to have a few hundred gold on that server so what the heck. In case you're still reading here's some links:

Best/Worst of WWE RAW 12/26 (With Leather) I used to write for a mid-sized "Wrestling Opinion Board" (we'd call those blogs now) with this guy Brandon back like a decade ago. After being part of that Funhouse sports creation he's now the editor at a site I had already been reading, while I am a 32-year-old college senior. The moral here is that if you want to be a writer, keep writing.

11 Overlooked Deaths of 2011 (Cracked) I love to read this list every year. Also, my homepage is Wikipedia's Recent Deaths, so, maybe I'm weird. Or...MAYBE I just like to be on the cutting edge of important obituaries? Eh? Ehhhh? #imweird

The Year In Swag (A/V Club) I had not seen this article when I decided to start this pop culture+sports+asshole opinions blog but now I at least have something to strive for. Oh hey if you're under 25 this is what swag means so stop using it in every fucking sentence and hashtag because you're starting to sound like Smurfs.

We're at 5.66GB left on the download. I'm so pumped for this game. I love Star Wars. I was checking out the action figures at Wal-Mart earlier and holy shit. $8.96 for a regular Star Wars toy. No, really. That's a WAL-MART PRICE. And it's the same basic 3.75" figure they've ALWAYS SOLD. One person, one or two accessories like a lightsaber or gun, the end. They also had General Grievous masks and spinning lightsabers. Forget arthritis, this is the worst part of getting older.

Have a day.

Adjective Monday

Hey idiots I'm back in the land of internet.

If there's gonna be Black Friday and Cyber Monday, then it's only fair that the month of Consumeristmas ends with Materialistic Monday(We'll have to work on the name next year). Today is the day you ungrateful fucks take back all the stuff someone who cares about you took the time to pick out and trade it in for what you'd rather have. Because that's what the holiday is about.

Goodbye Internet

I'm gonna head to my mom's house for the holiday. The Christmas one. My internet usage is going to be cut by about 95% so I'll mostly just be hanging out with my dog and playing Saint's Row 3 and Dead Island. I wish I had Skyrim but whatever.

Best of 2011

I'm a sharer. I tend to think my opinion is better than everyone else's and so I put together a list of my favorite things on the internet from the past year. And maybe some things not on the internet. Whatever. I don't work for you.

Tuesday Links

I hate these Tacky Christmas Sweater Parties. Okay, I get it asshole. You're wearing those awful Christmas sweaters ironically. Congrats you're doing what a hipster does, only fatter. If you needed an excuse to drink I could take a look at you and give you three or four before you had to resort to "look how ugly these sweaters are lol ok let's do a SHOT!!!"

the Funbag (Deadspin)  Drew's weekly mailbag column, one of the absolute highlights of my week, every week. Drew and I have the same opinions on a lot of topics. Most of the time when I'm reading this column I'll say to myself "wow that was a good joke for that topic, I woulda thought of that, now he beat me to it and I can never use that joke. FUCK YOU DREW MAGARY" or whatever.

Best/Worst WWE Raw (With Leather) Justin is filling in for Brandon this week so you'll get to read all about last night's (pretty good) episode of RAW with 14% less references to Indy Wrestlers and roughly 400% less references to Brandon's Girlfriend Brandon Has A Girlfriend You Guys Did You Know That. I think Brandon is afraid all his Virginia relatives are going to drag him behind a truck or something. I don't blame him, that state is right next to West Virginia and those people...*shudder*

Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies.  No shit I don't know where to start with this one. My friend Alex summed it up best with "Your move, Florida."

NEW ON NETFLIX INSTANT TODAY

Some WWE docs like Dusty Rhodes, Piper, and Ric Flair among others. Also the one about the AWA.If you don't like old wrasslin' or would prefer indie artsy-fartsy things there's also Tiny Furniture and Broken Flowers. Also added was The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks. That has got to be better than the KISS concert they put on here.

Here is a dog.

Have a day.

Rosterbating

7th pick in an eight team league. Yes I know eight teams sucks. It's seven guys from college and they're godawful at NFL too.

Podcasting

I started podcasting as an independent study this semester. If you're wondering if that means I got three 400-level college credits and an A for being a shithead...yes.

Monday Links

When I am not lazy I'm going to link to specific articles I've read and enjoyed that are current. I will try to do this every day but like I said...effort. I will also only be updating this site in the evenings and overnight. That's the hours I'm awake. What do you care I haven't even launched the site yet. I didn't even give Jon the address and I bug the shit out of him about everything.

Best & Worst: WWE TLC (With Leather)  With Leather is my new favorite Uproxx site again, now that I don't like the new direction of Warming Glow (cool white people problems Dave). This guy does a great fill-in for Brandon.

9 Most Likely Reasons You've Been Unfollowed (Cracked) I fucking hate following people on Twitter. I mean real people. I like following famous people, especially comedians. Real people are the drizzling shits.

NYU Professor Fired For Giving James Franco a D (FilmDrunk) Just take your stupid D and your stupid degree idiot. You bought the exact same degree you coulda gotten at any anonymous liberal arts college in the country. Might as well put University of Phoenix-Online on your resume. Right next to Pacific Blue.

Usually I'll do five links but this is all I read so far today. Who cares. I have a Fantasy NBA draft in half an hour. It's way more important.

@KillPrint on Twitter

I felt the same way.

i just saw this on Facebook so if you made it and want credit or a link or something just say so sheesh

All the season 1 episodes of the podcast I bothered to put on Youtube

Are all right here on the show page

Obey

Welcome to what I hope is a multimedia platform for me and the dumb words I want to say. Blogging, podcasting, other...media...something. ALL OF IT. I would love it if you were reading/experiencing this site on a tablet while in the shitter. That would really make my day.

I'll post a lot of suggestions for Netflix's Instant Watch titles. They don't pay me I just like the service and I try to keep up with new streaming titles, and pass those on. I also get asked a lot for documentary suggestions (if you haven't seen The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, stop everything until you have), so there will be plenty of those.

If there's a reason you're wondering why the site looks like garbage, it's because I did it all myself. It adds charm. My vanity only extends so far.

Dave
@KillPrint on Twitter

p.s. f you Bioware for releasing Star Wars: The Old Republic when you know I only have one semester of college left