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I have begun posting the pictures from SWA this past Saturday night. If I don’t get them completed tonight, it will by lunch tomorrow hopefully. Went to the 2nd Annual Anderson Brothers Classic in Mooresville,NC this past Sunday. Had a great time. Adam and I met Thomas and ER in Spartanburg and we headed down about 3pm. Mooresville takes no time to get to. Met the Mafia (Dick,Mike,Peggy and Clay-great to see yous guys again) at Sonny’s for a meal. Food was pretty good, it was the first time I had ever been there.

The show was at the Armory. Got to talk to Jamie Tucker a bit, bought Jimmy Valiant’s book – which is really good, I have read several chapters since then. The “Highspots Guys” were there, Shawn Williams from the CWA. Of course George South too. I enjoyed the show and had a great time just goofing around. ER got to do commentary with EWA Commish Steve Hall and Shawn. Looking forward to seeing this DVD.

I got to go in the back and shoot some “promo” type photos for Dick while Masked Superstar and George South Jr were doing their interviews. Superstar was telling some stories about his days in Mid Atlantic and on the road – fascinating stuff. It made me think of how lucky I am to be in the position that I am in. A few years ago, I was watching Demolition Axe on TV. “One Take Bill” as Dick called him served up a great promo in no time.

I got some great shots of George South’s bloody face in the main event. “Little George” turned on him, giving the victory to “Texas Lightning” Bobby Houston and Ethan Cage (the original one).

Hit the road and scooted back home. I felt like absolute crap yesterday evening when I got home, went to bed at 9.30!

I am probably going to HVW this Friday and may be going to Southern Championship Wrestling in Lenoir with Thomas on Saturday, not sure yet though.

Also, I have added a “newsletter” to my site. Just click on the “Email Updates” link on the left side of the page. I decided to do it after I receiving several emails from people who want to keep up with my work. So I thought this would be a good way to do it. If you are interested, just check that out.

Plans for AWA-Power Pro Wrestling are coming together and it sounds like a great show! Looking forward to it.

This has to suck…get it?

Fun weekend so far. Friday night was HVW in Hendersonville. Good to see Shannon Moore, Tim, Miss Arlene, that skinny ref and everyone else. This was the largest crowd I have ever seen at HVW. Several people had to stand at the sides to see the show. I finally learned who the elusive photographer “Storm” is. DJ Ray continues to embrace disco, although I did not get to hear “Honeybee” this night. He did play a great track for us though, and I know that “Debbie Does” it. Good show. Had a lot of big men there. Biohazard, Buzz from Damage Inc (he was the guy with a half blue face), and Krono – who is a trainee of Shannon Moore’s. The crowd was calling him “GI Jane”. Thomas was actually able to pull a watchable match out of ST Ryker again. Ryan C and Kaos had the “flippity-floppity” match with the ladder. I enjoyed Law and Buffett’s match, Law is the new HVW champ.

Last night was SWA in Forest City. Again, a great show. Ken and Adam wrestled Kirby and Ashley Walker. Really enjoyed this. To be honest, as far as the Underground are concerned I thought this match was better than the one on Friday night. That’s not a slight to anyone, but Friday night was a four corners tag match, with eight guys. There were a lot of fake babies in the crowd last night. Apparently the local Home Eco. class has assigned them to the students. So, why was there a guy bottle feeding one for 45 minutes at ringside? Chris Hamrick delivered an incredibly loud chop (doesn’t he always) to Shea Shea McGrady last night. Someone needs to get a decibel measurement on his chops because they sound louder everytime I hear them.

I got to love on Gizmo, he’s so little I could just eat ‘em! He has an awesome “street” vibe with his hoody.

The Great Ernie and I are heading to Mooresville this afternoon for the second annual Anderson Brothers Classic. We are crashing a Mid Atlantic Mafia meeting at 5pm there.

The Great ER! And here is his trophy – presented by the Midwestern fast food chain: “Cherrypoppers & Nannerhonkers”…nicknamed the “Twinkee”, for excellence in sports broadcasting.

If you can wait for her to get out?

I finished reading Eddie Guerrero’s book “Cheating Death, Stealing Life” this afternoon. Not a bad read, I think I’m getting close to burn out with these WWE bios. A couple of the best I have ever read was Ole Anderson’s and “Hooker” by Lou Thesz. The Thesz book was one of his self published ones and it’s autographed. Going to bed soon.

Sitting here watching American Idol. Back to work tomorrow. Had supper with the family tonight, very good. Cube steak (Yes, ER and Kirby, food is mentioned in nearly every one of these posts, pricks). Looking forward to the weekend, Friday is HVW, Saturday is SWA in Forest City and then on Sunday trekking down to Mooresville for the second annual Anderson Brothers Classic. I’m going to try and make it in time to have early supper (2nd food reference for the blog) with the Mid Atlantic Mafia. Where? At an undisclosed location of course.

Missed going to WWC tonight, I’m sure ER will provide me with an update soon. I went to see a friend of mine in Sunny View this afternoon. Chris Crissone, who runs a taxidermy business. He does great work by the way if any of you ever need any work. He has several deer heads mounted on the wall, and this huge elk that he is working on. I told him to let me know when he got the skin on the mount because I wanted to come get some pictures of it. He does bear skin rugs too.

Human directional advertising. Ever heard of it? I heard this term on a reality show just today. It is the profession of standing in front of a business advertising for them eg: the guy with the sandwich board over him, the lady dressed up as the Statue of Liberty in front of the tax office. “Human Directional Advertising” – know it.

Ok…my computer has been giving me some problems this morning. I have sat through four different chat sessions with Dell support. Each time repeating my account numbers, and my problem. Fun times.

I am still in the process of loading up the pictures from the HVW show. It is taking me a bit longer than I had anticipated. I thought I would get on here and post one little picture.

Here’s Bryan Austin right before his anchovy pizza started choking him causing major throat irritation. It is suspected he will be out for a 1 – 2 weeks.