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Coming To Your Town In My Pink Cadillac

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Apr 082019
 

You know, I was just thinking to myself recently that I hadn’t gotten enough snow this year. Looks like ol’ Mother Nature doesn’t know sarcasm when she hears it as we’re getting a little bit of a snow storm today. Gah!

So Wrestlemania 35 weekend is in the books and overall it was good. Friday night was NXT Takeover: New York and that card was stellar. A 3 hour show with five matches that were just fantastic. More on this later.

On Saturday, the Hall of Fame ceremony was…decent. The only speech that really dragged was Brutus Beefcake’s. It might have behooved him to actually prepare something rather than just try to call it on the fly. Torrie Wilson was surprisingly inspirational with her speech. The Honkytonk Man was..alright. Oh and Bret Hart got attacked by a fan. That was WEIRD.

Wrestlemania itself was just too darn long. 16 matches over 7 and a half hours (including the pre-show). Seriously, they have to tone it down a bit. Having a Wrestlemania moment doesn’t mean as much if everybody gets to have one.

They were really hyping that this was the first time that the women were getting to main event. They did them no favors with such a long show. It was near midnight before the match started and the crowd just didn’t have the energy to get into it as much as they could have. And while the desired result happened (Becky Lynch won) they did it in about the least exciting way possible. Most people didn’t even realize the match was over until her music started playing. Very underwhelming.

The highpoint had to be Kofi Kingston winning the title. That match was just so well done and the crowd was really into it. Good stuff.

The next best thing on the card was the Smackdown tag title match. They rocked the house.

AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton, Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre and Kurt Angle vs. Baron Corbin were just matches and nothing to write home about. It’s a shame that THAT’s the match Kurt Angle goes out with.

I know that Triple H vs. Batista was a marquee match, but I just wanted it to be over at the point it went on. The egos were running wild in this match.

Everything else was decent and individually didn’t overstay its welcome. There was just too much of it.

So that’s it for Wrestlemania. Now to watch Raw. Have a good seven and we’ll do this again next Monday.

Sailor Moon – Kunzite

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Apr 052019
 

Ahoy! It be Friday mateys and time for a mash-up! YARRR! Why be I talkin’ like an ol’ shiphand? Why because it’s SAILOR Moon time! Heheh.

The original set of Sailor Moon mash-ups covered the heroes of the series and I covered all the best-known characters from the first couple of seasons. Now, it’s time for the villains to shine! Well two of them anyway. This week, we have Skitter as Kunzite, one of the Four Kings of Heaven. I have to say, I really like how this one turned out. I think it’s the hair. The hair colouring on this set has worked out nicely.

That’s all for this week. Chae closes out the theme next week. Have a good weekend!

I Got More Cheddar Than Some Supersized Nachos

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Apr 012019
 

Hey there! Let’s blog it up!

It didn’t seem like I did a lot of gaming over the weekend, but the games were memorable.

First on Friday night we started Pandemic Legacy. The gimmick behind Legacy games is neat where the game evolves as you play with stickers and new cards and such. We lost early January but won late January so we go into February with the win which is nice. I haven’t played enough regular Pandemic to have “solved” the game, so it’s a good challenge.

On Sunday we continued the campaign for Mechs vs. Minions. I’ve started the campaign over three times now? And I’ve never gotten past game number 4…until now! Yes! We’ll be going on to game number 5 next time!

Later, I got Rune Age to the table. The remarkable part is that the game came out in 2011 and I believe I’ve had it since then. The expansion came out in 2012 and I know I bought that when it came out, so it’s been at least since 2012 that I’ve owned the game and it just never hit the table. I’ve brought it to game night a few times but it didn’t feel like the right fit. Yesterday I just decided to go for it. So Melissa and I played and it was a decent game. I can’t say it was GREAT, but definitely playable. Maybe it won’t take another seven years to get it back to the table.

Next weekend is Wrestlemania! I’ll be sharing my thoughts as usual. Until then, have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

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