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On Object Permanence In The WWE

April 1, 2019 by Calvin Kasulke 1 Comment

I. Should your roommate (Fig. 1, “Sam”) purchase a projector for your apartment, you may experience a televisual shift away from your traditional solo-Netflix viewership. Through an HDMI attachment to a laptop, beaming the projection across a Bradburian chunk of your living room wall may cause an increase in sharing one another’s company during screen…

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Two-And-A-Half Heels

July 10, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

John Cena and Cesaro had a very long match Monday night. The announcers repeatedly deemed it a classic well before the fight was over, but there was a conspicuously absent element that made Michael Cole’s proclamations ring hollow: the crowd. They weren’t silent — more on that in a moment — but they did not chant…

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Billy Corgan Goes To Nashville

June 12, 2015 by John Reid 1 Comment

Recently, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan — following in the footsteps of fellow alternative rocker Bob Mould — started his new job. At a professional wrestling company. Corgan is the newly appointed “senior producer of creative and talent development” for TNA Wrestling, the second largest wrestling organization — after WWE — in North America. In…

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WWE RAW Recap: On Bo Dallas

April 23, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

Bo Dallas returned from a months-long hiatus on Monday night, and it’s the only part of Monday’s RAW that matters to me at all. Extreme Rules is this Sunday, but with Monday’s show bereft of pre-PPV shake-ups there was plenty of room to focus on the WWE’s most significantly insignificant wrestler. Roman Reigns appeared in…

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WWE RAW RECAP: ‘Like Single White Female, But With Wrestlers’

April 13, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

Though Rollins made off with the Heavyweight title, the real winners of Wrestlemania 31 were the Intercontinental and United States titles. Both titles were won, not incidentally, by former Heavyweight champs Daniel Bryan and John Cena, respectively, ostensibly restoring a certain level of credibility to the both belts while failing to extract either championship from…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: flagging, luke harper, raw, sheamus, wwe

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There Is A Flintstones/WWE Crossover Movie And We Watched It

April 2, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

Early in this 50’s-sitcom inspired, classic children’s cartoon straight-to-DVD WWE crossover movie, The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age Smackdown, Fred and Barney have decided their solution to their problems is animal fighting. Fred’s boss having just carved his paycheck on a stone tablet and smashed it with a hammer in front of him, as it…

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WWE RAW Recap: The One Where We Realize Sting Is 56 Years Old

March 27, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

[Editor’s note: yes, that is Paul Stanley in the background of the picture. Why do you think we used it as the picture?] Look, I should’ve admitted this to you a long time ago: I wasn’t a wrestling fan as a kid. While I did play and enjoy WWE video games my one friend with…

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RAW Recap: Pre-Pre-Wrestlemania

March 25, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

By way of challenging Rollins to a match at Wrestlemania — and accepting the terms that he fight Rollins that night, fully aware that he will likely be attacked by everyone in the Authority — Randy “The Viper” Orton declares “I have enough venom for each and every member of the Authority.” While not the…

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WWE RAW Recap: If Fastlane’s Theme Isn’t The Eagles Song, We Riot

February 24, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke 15 Comments

Hello, and welcome to last week’s RAW recap. It’s the RAW before Fastlane, the last Pay Per View before Wrestlemania and so far only PPV without a clear reason for its title. But never mind that, because John Cena’s already talking.1 If you take last week’s Cena-Rusev promo and subsequent brawl and reverse their roles,…

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RAW Recap: WWE Didn’t Incorporate Seth Rollins’ Nudes Into The Plotline So Skip This Week If You Want

February 18, 2015 by Calvin Kasulke Leave a Comment

This week on Monday Night Raw, the WWE smashes their Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns action figures together like a child unsure if they want their toys to fight or kiss, and eventually settles on both. Reigns opens the show in-ring on the mic, but is mercifully interrupted early by Daniel Bryan’s arrival. Bryan earnestly…

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