Wednesdaymania 321: Birthdaymania

In Which I Have Gone Around The Sun Again

Every year, many of us celebrate the day we drew our first breath with our own lungs. Today, it is my day of first free air, and I'm rejoicing that I've survived for 31 revolutions of this big blue rock around our big yellow sun.

I watched a fair bit of wrestling this past couple months - mostly it's been WCW Prime and WWF Shotgun Saturday Night, which... definitely look for those on YouTube if you haven't seen them yet! Actually, let me just... list my viewing experiences for ya:

• WCW PRIME
• A WCW C-Show
• Dusty Rhodes Moos a lot
• Great wrestling that just keeps getting better
• A laugh riot and exactly what the doctor ordered
• A+++ 10/10 will continue watching
• Even if the eventual co-host, Chris Cruise got AEW fined 10k...
• WWF SHOTGUN SATURDAY NIGHT
• A WWF C-Show
• Great Wrestling that keeps getting better
• Unfortunately just as racist as WCW at the same time, since no one bothers to learn how to pronounce the Japanese and Mexican names... Except Sunny.
• Sunny is peak hotness at this point
• HOLY CRAP ARE THESE FUN SHOWS
• A++, 9/10 will continue watching
• WWF SUPER ASTROS
• A Spanish-Language C-Show
• BEST WRESTLING
• You will get sick of hearing the name Papi Chulo, though
• But seriously, muy bueno
• BEING THE ELITE
• They are at the top of their game, guys.
• These are seriously some of the best episodes ever
• Now with 100% more actual wrestling!
• And seriously, they may be largely joke-based matches, but they're obviously well-worked and really fun!
• Watch this stuff for your AEW fix :)
• DARK SIDE OF THE RING: COCAINE AND COWBOY BOOTS
• Buckle up buttercup
• This is a biography of the rise and fall of Herb Abrams and the UWF
• Don't be drinking anything during this, some of the lines are crazy funny
• Also, it is so not suitable for children. Look at the title. That's the super tame version of events, though also a very good description of events.
• You will never look at baby oil or baseball bats the same way again

I also watched more Kana-chan TV (Asuka's YouTube channel) and some Wrestling with Wregret!

I'm actually watching Brian Zane's review of the AWA's Wrestle Rock Rumble right now, so I will have to leave you lovely folks for tonight.

Be well, be safe - keep breathing as you hurtle through the universe with me

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Talk About Wednesdaymania 320 lol

In Which Wait... This Isn't The Right Image?!

I can explain.

So... Tuesday. I'm writing this (technically) on Tuesday.

It's Taco Tuesday.

It's also Cinco de Mayo.

I'm not Mexican, but I do love an excuse to load up on beef & cheese in a taco shell...

But that's not the reason it's my Saturday image on a Wednesday while I talk about Tuesday!

Simply put, time lacks meaning right now.

So since it was/is Cinco de Mayo, we watched some AAA matches and some WWF Super Astros. Don't know what Super Astros is? It's the Spanish-language version of Superstars, basically. One of the episodes we saw was right after Over the Edge, so they were discussing Owen Hart and his unfortunate end constantly.

The matches on Super Astros were incredible. Lots of Super Loco, El Merenguero, Papi Chulo, and most fascinating of all: Tons of Minis. I have nothing but admiration and respect for the Minis of WWF. They put on insanely good matches with greater consistency than any of the other talent, and at the end of the day, they worked so much harder than they had to. I wish they'd have put Minis back into the mix, because while Hornswoggle was fun, he wasn't enough. Not when Max Mini and Mini Nova and El Torito were all running around.

Love me some crazy wrestling!

The AAA Matches are on their YouTube channel, so if you want to watch a clown and a dragon totally wreck the Lucha Bros in style, you go find that! There's also an intense, bloody match with Blue Demon Jr involving blading, bleeding, and a ball-peen hammer. It was a bit hard to watch in places, but insanely good. Seriously, go check out the AAA YouTube page!

So that explains the Wednesdaymania, right? And it happened on a Tuesday, so that's Talk About Tuesday... why video games?

Because I set up the N64 in my room today and set up my laptop so that I could have my partner watch me play through Resident Evil 2 on the N64... because I don't have a streaming setup and I don't have any way of streaming a legit N64 game via the internet.

It was a blast, so if you have a loved one who you like to play video games near, definitely set something like that up. We used the Facebook video chat feature, and it took a bit of fiddling with my overhead light, the window shade, and the angle of my laptop's camera to get everything to work. Then we worked on my unfamiliarity with N64 controls.

I used to play N64 games over at my cousins' place in the 90s and early 00s. We played a lot of the original Smash Bros, Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Snap, and... actually, yeah that's it.

I played fifteen seconds of the demo for Ocarina of Time in a store once?

But yeah, I have very very little experience with any other N64 games.  And Resident Evil 2 has Tank Controls. Thank goodness I had put in both the invincibility cheat and the infinite ammo cheat, because I was running in circles constantly in the beginning. See, I couldn't figure out how the Tank Controls worked. I suuuuuuuuucked at first. And then my partner patiently walked me through the panic that was setting in (I was afraid I'd broken either the game or controller) and we made it all the way past the Spade Key! I'm lowkey not looking forward to the dogs...

But yeah, today was spend mostly clearing out space for me to play the game (I should get a chair...) and then playing the game! Then I went downstairs and ate tacos, and then I came back up to watch a bunch of great wrestling.

So that was today/yesterday.

I hope you guys are having a productive and/or safe Corona Season.

Go Enjoy Something!
FC