Johnny 5 vs. Chappie. Ong-bak vs. Hugh Morris. Bullet Club vs. Weird Al

Just two more 14-hour days, and I can get back to abusing knowledge. It's hard to find the time to absorb more. I have just now thought, what's the difference between Chappie and Johnny Five?

Is Hugh Jackman just G.W. Bailey with a voice. If it is not a musical project, he seems to be a one franchise guy, like Bailey as Captain Harris. So whose is Wolverine's Lieutenant Proctor?

And is Dev Patel the new Fisher Stevens? Neither of them are Indian natives.

So, obviously worked has slowed down enough to get some of the creative juices flowing. But again, where is the fuel? I am just looking for some fuel to transition to what I originally planned on writing last week. Too bad when I was looking to spoil myself with a video game for my birthday, I did not require a 3DS copy "Ocarina of Time." Still, that's hardly topical with the release of "Majora's Mask."

There were three items in wrestling that did grab my attention. I have kind of made that the current priority with this blog since I have been appealing to wrestling fans for support of my pro-wrestling zom/com "Main Event of the Dead." For a treatment of the script or ideas on how to promote the concept on a crowd-sourcing website, e-mail me at russthebus07@gmail.com.

Pro wrestling is always timely. Reviewing "Ong-bak," I may have missed that window. Anyhow, I watched that as homework assigned by Tommy Davidson last time he stayed at the hotel. The discussion we will have may make my review more worthwhile.


What? He and his white fiance drove to the Jukebox on their own? So is it about love or did Tommy just want a full-time white chauffeur? And we will leave the reparation humor at that.

I will say "Ong-bak's" Ting could demonstrate the peaceful demeanor that Bill DeMott should have applied to the NXT trainees. Who am I kidding? He would just get a General Rection over the opening "get the sash at the top of the tree, and throw all those who would stop you to awful bumps" scene.

I should have made fun of his tribal tattoos. That way I could have covered the other two issues a little more seamlessly. The first was Xavier Woods "Triforce" tattoo. If I had addressed it, I could have skipped the second issue by saying, "Maybe DeMott could be cast as Gannon in Nintendo's upcoming 'Legend of Zelda' TV series since he has free time."

Of course I could have just compared myself to Woods by talking about my "Bullet Cub" tattoo I finished designing. Why my next tattoo is relevant? Because it addresses the story about Pro Wrestling Tees removing "Bullet Club" parody shirts.

There is not really an issue when it comes to Pro Wrestling Tees removing these shirts at the request of New Japan Pro Wrestling. You cannot afford to lose your biggest seller and why should partners (the other wrestlers of the website) try to take money from each other. My issue comes from Colt Cabana complaining about parody tees on his podcast.

Perhaps I misinterpreted Colt's comments on the Cody Deaner episode of the "Art of Wrestling," about how some people were trying to make money with their own "Club" shirts, but had stopped. My assumption was that it was about the "Brass Ring Club." It just came across to me as sour grapes at WWE which was a first in my opinion from Cabana. Or he refuses to stand idly by as the little guy is stepped on. The little guy being One Hour Tees and their contracts with Austin, Jericho, Punk, the Kliq, etc. Not the second biggest wrestling promotion in the world.

For a fan of ECW, he seems to have forgotten about the Blue World Order. We didn't care if it was better than the nWo, we just liked that someone stuck it to Eric Bischoff, and made a buck off of it. And we found a reason to like the guys in the group. If Stevie Richards would have stuck around for 1998, the parody would have been better than the original (without any argument).

My last statement leads me to this. If you are going to suggest an album to somebody who can't get Iggy Azalea's (whose name first name is Amethyst, middle name Amelia, so I'm extremely upset that she stole from Iggy Pop [or Rhys Ifans in "Formula 51"] instead of using the never fail concept of alliteration) "Fancy," are you telling them to buy "The New Classic" or "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Mandatory Fun" featuring the parody, "Handy?"

Perhaps I could rest my case on that scenario, but I have to address my parenthetical rant about Iggy and Iggy. Azalea is a mainstream product, Pop is everything underground. The mainstream wants to stomp out the underground, the dissenters to their ideal of making money. If this is about the WWE considering to print tees that are more accessible than the Bullet Clubs', it feels like they're spitting on the IWC.

But the shirts weren't about taking money from the NJPW and 1-Hr Tees, it is about three guys trying to generate merchandise sales so they can climb up the card. Three guys (well two at the least [I still Bolieve in the Exotic Express]) who the fans want to see pushed, and would buy the tees to encourage it. A cool T-shirt, that was all the Zack Ryder needed to stay over. Or toys Internet Championship Belts.

Imagine if the NXT kids were all graphic arts grads and could create merch that the WWE had to sell. Maybe that would encourage them from stopping DeMott from creating the next Chris Benoit incident.

Parody exposes people to stuff they may be missing. I wonder if "One Hour Tees" will let me sell my Bullet Cub [(c)2015 Russ Stevens] t-shirts. They would not just help "Main Event of the Dead," they'd help expose the Bullet Club to audiences that don't know how to use a search engine and assume the is only WWE, like Peoria wrestling fans.