Yeah, this post purely exists because October 8th was almost a month ago. I hope to get back to "full" posts soon, but, for now, I'll mention one thing that has bothered me since I read it a couple hours ago.
The WWE is in a poor state of affairs right now and it's entirely of their own doing. The details and such I'll go into in a future post, but let me give you a quick insight.
The booking of WWE is now heavily slanted towards Twitter, specifically to "trend" as many times as possible within a single 2 hr program. That concept, and the long-term ramifications of such, are bad enough. But I just read that Vince McMahon and his underlings were pissed that they failed to get any trending on Monday's episode of RAW.
Nevermind the crap quality of the product, which was actually GREAT just last June/July ("Summer of Punk"), but then was overbooked into an unfocused mess that it currently sits in. Nevermind that Monday Night RAW's attendance was so bad even TNA had them beat the last time they were in town. Nevermind PPV buys are dangerously low. Nevermind that, with all this, Vince McMahon borrowed over $250 million against the company, a move never before done not even when he nearly went "out of business" back in 1997, to fund the upcoming WWE Network channel.
It's a scary time for a wrestling fan. Or, should I say, a wrestling fan who actually gives a damn about the business-side of the industry, the current state of the industry as a whole, and its long-term viability.
On the plus side, yeah things are still going with this chick. ..err...lady! Going very well. We managed 4 consecutive dates last Thursday thru Sunday. In fact, we've got a 3 day camping trip planned for her B-Day 2 weekends from now. I've never been camping and the prospects of getting eaten by a bear don't sound very sexy, but, hey, the things we do, right?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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