Edge does it again!!!

On this week's ECW, during a conversation with The Hardyz and C.M. Punk, he said the following:

"Last night was the biggest Cutting Edge ever! EVER!!!"

Dear Edgester (because I know you're listening) - how about sending out some royalties over here, bud?

Yet ANOTHER awesome Office cross-over

Watching season 2 of Entourage tonight, and I had no idea that fucking DWIGHT SCHRUTE (okay, fine - Rainn Wilson) was on an episode as an online journalist! Incredible!

The Office Line Of The Night

(Again, from the only episode *I* hadn't seen yet of the bunch on NBC tonight):

"My company has made it my responsibility to put an end to 100,000 year of people being weirded out by gays."

With honorable mention going to: "It's not cool to call retards retarded. You call your friends who are acting retarded 'retards'." Also the kiss, Creed's "It's possible a man slipped in", and Pam trying to share a laugh with Ryan.

Latest ITR

All Grown Up?

This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the legendary, epic, and much-beloved WrestleMania 3, which was held in Detroit, MI. And I guess, if you want to get technical, it's also WrestleMania 23, which is so far lacking in legend, epic-ness, and love. That's not stopping WWE from busting out all the tricks, and it's not stopping our very own Canadian Bulldog from getting a head start on the wrestling media by previewing the Big Weekend ahead of us. Including the big Hall of Fame ceremonies, where no less a wrestling legend than William Shatner will be headlining the event and reliving his past glories. Bulldog's got the only WM23 preview you'll ever need (EVER~!) in his latest Inside the Ropes.

Latest TWS

The True Wrestling Story Of Hulk Hogan

Out Of Blogffice Alert

On the road again this week.... this time to Montreal, albeit only for about 24 hours in total.

There should be a new TWS coming out today, as well as an ITR later this week, so I feel I've still fulfilled all my columnly duties.

Latest "Breaking News"

Poll Shows 64 % Think Magnum T.A. Was Played By Tom Selleck

Out Of Blogffice Alert

I'm going to be away for the rest of this week in Russoland (aka New Yawk City).... There should be a "Breaking News" out on World Wrestling Insanity later today, but I likely won't have an Inside The Ropes until the week after.

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Better know a dead guy

It's been a tough year for Wrestler Mortality so far in 2007. And now, just in the past week, current and future Hall of Famers are dropping like flies, including Ernie Ladd and Arnold Skaaland. OO promises to euologize each one of them in time, but for today, let's just focus on the recent passing of Allen Coage, who wrestled for years as Bad News Allen in Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States, but is best known for his late 80s run with the WWF as "Bad News Brown." The Canadian Bulldog has once again accessed his "little known facts" file to bring you a retrospective on the late, great Bad News (and has plenty of other news, too) in Inside the Ropes.

Latest "Breaking News"

Kevin Nash Paparazzi Angle Is All "A Big Joke"; Sources

Foley

I've had four people now ask me what I thought of Mick Foley's newest book "Hardcore Diaries", and other than saying "It's pretty damn good", I'm not going to elaborate on that... yet.

My next "Wrestling With Literature" column, which will probably be out after WrestleMania some time, reviews all five of Foley's books (not including his children's books, that is). To do that, I had to track down a copy of "Scooter" (his more recent of the two non-wrestling novels).

I've been the book reading on and off this weekend, and I've been digging his writing style, moreso than I did in "Tietam Brown". But then tonight, I was just polishing off another chapter or two in bed and -- BAM! -- one part of it, literally just a paragraph, made me sit up in awe. It might not be that interesting to everyone, but to me, Foley has once again reinvented himself as an author with this minor development.

Again, I'm saving the full review for when I can collect my thoughts, but so far, Scooter has been MUCH BETTER than I would have imagined.

Programming Notes

After something of a hiatus, both Inside The Ropes and "Breaking News" should be back on their respective websites at some point this week. "Complete and Utter Bulldog" may or may not follow, depending on scheduling conflicts...

The Office Line Of The Night

"Do you really expect us to believe you're two different people?" -- A line from ANGELA, of all people.

I can't believe I missed so much of this season before I got hooked, some really good stuff with the merger of the two offices (they showed two tonight). Andy's banjo solo and Dwight/Andy trying to out-asskiss each other were classic. But the highlights had to be the orientation video and Prison Mike. Just hilarious stuff....

Oh, and I'm not sure what this new Andy Richter show is about debuting next week, but if Buster's on it, I'M THERE!

Bad News All Around

Ugh.... another week and another wrestler passes away. When will it end?

Bad News Brown/Allen had an unusual run in the WWF in the late-1980's, in that he was pushed as a top guy yet never main-evented any sort of PPV. Still, he had some very good brawls in the pre-hardcore era against Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan and even Jake Roberts, and I vividly remember some of his bouts with Bret Hart and Randy Savage (I think I have on tape a streetfight where he fought "Macho Man" from Hamilton's Copps Coliseum that was fantastic). Those are some pretty big names to work with.

I had just read last year's the excellent Stampede biography "Pain & Passion" which features a recent interview with Allen, and the author describes how intimidating he was, even at senior-citizen age.

This reminds me of 1993, where you had Andre The Giant, Kerry Von Erich, Dino Bravo and some others dying in the first few months of the year. So now we have Bad News, Bam Bam and Mike Awesome. Just sad....

For those of you asking....

I have NO IDEA why the slideshow on my website and MySpace page is listed as "empty" right now. Honestly, I wouldn't have even known if someone hadn't pointed it out to me yesterday, so it could have been that way for weeks for all I know.

I went back and checked into my account on the Slide.com site and it still looks as though it should work. It even plays when I test it from that site. Very bizarre. Anyone else have any experience with this Slide site?

Out Of Bloggfice Alert

Not that I've really had a ton of time to write columns lately ANYWAYS, but I can't imagine having anything new over the next week, as I leave Sunday for the east coast. Literally, I'm only there for two days, but between the actual trip and the preparation beforehand, it's just drained me.

I imagine, as we get closer to WrestleMania, I'll have a bit more time to write stuff, which works out quite nicely.

The Office line of the night

"We did it! WE DID IT!!! What did we do, exactly?"

Okay, this wasn't a NEW episode, per se, but new to me. Would have liked to see more on the faxes to Future Dwight -- that had so much comedy potential. Knowing how much extra stuff they packed onto the Season 2 DVD's, I'll bet they filmed some other scenes for that as well. And you have to like Ryan's excuse for dumping Kelly (it almost worked).