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I have been procrastinating on doing the blog, I’ve just been lazy. Saturday was HVW’s Night of the Champions! I got there about 7.30, and there was already a standing room only crowd. I was glad to see such a turn out. I want any promoter to do well, and it was good to see Viper getting such a good crowd.

For the first time, the HVW crowd got to see Brad Thomas, the Midnight Express and the Barbarian.

Ken, Ostgard, Team Macktion and the Kardiac Kids had a great tag team triple threat match. Even our favorite announcer, ER got involved and boy, was he swinging potatoes!

Again, the temperatures were high in the building.

I was originally planning on attending the CWA show in Statesville this coming Saturday, but something has come up that is going to keep me close to home, so I will probably be heading back up to Hendersonville to see how HVW follows up from last week.

Got to see Mario Hogg on Sunday in Tryon. His church, Solid Rock Christian had rented Harmon Field in the town all day long. After work, myself and Mr & Mrs Adam Jaxon went down for a visit. Buckshot Carter was also there.

I’m hoping to see X3 this weekend, everyone says it’s good. I finished Anderson Cooper’s book on Sunday.

Wow, what a meaningless blog I have written…

-Everytime I run the spell check on this, and the word “Ostgard” is in it – it recommends replacing it with “histogram”….

I just finished Answered Prayers by Truman Capote. Most of you know that I am a big fan of Truman Capote and this was the one book that I had waited on reading. If you want to read Capote, don’t start with this one. Start with his first book “Other Voices, Other Rooms” and then move onto “In Cold Blood”, then do the short stories and the rest. I am still reading “Elizabeth & Mary”, but it is now the bed book. Today at work, I am starting Anderson Cooper’s “Dispatches from the Edge”.

HVW’s Night o’ Champions is tonight. Looking forward to getting back to HVW. I’ve had a break for two weeks which was just about right. Two friends recently were talking to me about the WWE. They asked “well, isn’t ____ doing ___ at the next PPV?” My response is I honestly do not know. I am so removed from WWE happenings. Now ask me what caused the row at APW last Saturday and I can tell you exactly what it was. I find the local stuff so much more interesting.

I should mention a new site: Carolina Independent Wrestling A great site that our friend, Tim Dixon is doing. He has great coverage of wrestling in the Carolina’s. Plus his buddy Chuck took a great picture of me in my Sith robe….oh yes, I am dark apprentice…be afraid….

Urk!

Fat Six Year Old with picture!

I am off work today and tomorrow, and I realized that I have not posted an update about my weekend. Ostgard called me after we had all returned home frou GOUGE last week and talked about possibly getting together on the weekend. ER was going to Anarchy, Thomas was back on holiday, and neither of us felt like “working”. So the light bulb came on over the heads…APW!

We decided that we would just go and have some fun, and see some folks we haven’t seen in a while. Also in fan tradition, we made some signs. Before I jumped the barrier I used to bring signs to the shows. If any of the APW guys read this, I want to say that I really had a great time. Ostgard brought his girlfriend along, the poor gal – she had to sit and listen to two guys scream their heads off. The fans were happy to see Ostgard, there were several that came up and asked if he was wrestling that night.

I know there has been some talk about our trip to the show, but let me say their was no malice intended, we just wanted to have some fun.

Afterwards I finally got to see the Boomer Payne footage of the Chief Jay Eagle promo, and the totally uncensored footage from the Chester road trip!

Sunday, we met with ER and took a trip to Shogun Japanese Steakhouse, which is my favorite Japanese steakhouse on Hwy 29. Thanks to Ostgard and ER for trying to…ahem, force a set up with our neighbor at the other table.

Went and saw “The DaVinci Code”. The previews were not that great, but the movie was very good. I really wish that I had read the book first, but no big deal. I had read “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” last year so the history cited in the film I was familiar with.

Thanks guys for a great weekend, it was exactly what I needed! The batteries feel a little recharged, my site is up and running again. Ready for HVW’s Night of the Champions on Saturday, should be a really great show – Midnight Express, Valiant Bros, Team Macktion, Ostgard, Thomas, Ken, Law, Barbarian, et al.

Finally got to watch The Sopranos from Sunday last night and my prediction for Vito was wrong….I’m still holding out hope that someone will whack little Anthony….I hate ‘em!

The site has been updated with the GOUGE photos finally….I have had to switch from FrontPage over to Yahoo’s Site Builder…I’m not used to it yet, much slower than the FrontPage…

I am having some major problems with FrontPage, so I don’t know when I will be able to get the GOUGE photos posted.

Ohhhhhhhhh…..where to begin?

Tuesday, I went to WWC in Greenville. Again, fun show. Ostgard came out, Thomas was there etc etc. Fun little show. Found out an interesting fact on Jordan Richards, and then I wowed him with my knowledge of the British Royal Family in the 1500’s.

Went to the IHOP afterwards. Their pink lemonade was so bad, I dumped it onto ER.

Met up with Thomas, Ostgard, and ER on Wednesday afternoon and we took off to Raleigh for GOUGE. We were able to travel in comfort courtesy of the newest addition to the Arledge Motor Pool.

Got to Kings Barcade about 5pm. Neat little place, had a great garage/basement/dusty hole in the wall fell to it. www.kingsbarcade.com

Got to meet Count Grog – nice guy, he was doing a Captain Lou Albano gimmick. Gimmicks is what GOUGE is all about. To give you an idea, he is a blurb from their premiere show flyer:

“GOUGE stands for Gimmicks Only Underground Grappling Entertainment. There are many promotions in North Carolina and throughout the United States that claim to be old school wrestling, they claim to be wrestling like it used to be. They claim to be the real deal. GOUGE says screw that. GOUGE is a fun approach to wrestling with outrageous characters and over the top gimmicks….in the vein of of HUSTLE in Japan, GOUGE is a fresh look at the fun side of pro wrestling.”

And over the top it was – in places. Funny stuff. The commissioner is blind, Stevie Charles. Thankfully his hearing is well enough to reverse decisions if he must. Hilarious stuff, he would put his hand out to get a high five when the guys are the other side of the ring.

What else can I say about the show? Not sure, it was in a bar so there was a lot of booze and some wild stuff. What happens at GOUGE stays at GOUGE, until you see some of the pictures I suppose.

ER and Ostgard quickly left me stranded in a parking lot to go to some bar. Thomas and I went to an upscale steakhouse and chatted with the Hardy’s – who came out for GOUGE, Jimbo Fox and Shannon Moore. Actually I didn’t do too much chatting, I was sipping another pink lemonade.

Thanks again to Matt for letting us crash at his house for the night. While we were waiting for Thomas to get ready to go, I mistakenly brought a CD changer crashing down on my head. Did my friends E & O spring to my assistance? No. My souvenir from the Hardy House – a Warner Bros. cartoon size knot on my head.

Long trip back home. Very tired yesterday afternoon, I think we all took naps once we got in.

Lets see…some random tidbits….

Harold James now has two fans at WWC! – “Hello Gorgeous”

Ostgard literally brought the GOUGE ring crashing down!

ER’s ring intro for Thomas is great, go to his page and read it.

GOUGE has some smart fans.

The restaurant, On the Border serves fish tacos….yeech…

Found this on another site, thought I would pass it along…

Dr. Toht (evil Nazi bent on stealing the Ark of the Covenant who was then dispatched when he tried to use the power of the Almighty for selfish purposes) ….and Karl Rove (Bush II advisor)…..think about it……

Raced to WWC last night after work. I got there about 7.50pm. I then took a rather angry phone call from someone who will remain nameless. It was good to be back in Greenville. I have always enjoyed going to Brodie’s, he and Lace are always accommodating to me when I show up. Thanks guys.

Good show last night. I saw the “Porn Star” Robbie Boyette actually in the the ring for the first time. The drop toe hold was spectacular. Ostgard & Ken had a good match against Jeff Lewis and the Shamrock. Regardless of what Ostgard says it was a good match. They worked as babyfaces, which is different for both but they did great keeping the crowd into it.

I have never seen a rabid human being but came very close last night with Mikki Free – green foam coming out da mouth! Great stuff – I’m hoping the pictures I got do it justice. Good main event Mikal Adryan against Austin Creed. Creed is a good looking kid and I don’t know how long he has been in the ring but he seems like a natural. Ostgard and I both had to work today, so we decided to hit the IHOP in Greenville for something quick along with ER and Mr & Mrs Magnum. Ostgard, ever the gentleman gave away one of his wrist bracelety thingys to a waitress.

I didn’t go to the bathroom as I feared some additive added to my drink. Speaking of the IHOP, I drove past the damn thing like twice. I was disoriented and plus listening to Howard Stern.

Why do people always think I am speaking in innuendo? They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and perhaps that would work for some people. People are cramming themselves down certain folks throats. Honey, lighten up!

I hope the HVW show went well. Thomas, you should have come out to the show. Kirby, ER is lost at the dinner table without you. I got some interesting news this morning, from a very reliable source of mine on the street. Everyone get ready, because one of our own will soon be mingling with the powerful up north, you know what I’m talking about. I am going to start on the pictures tonight after work.

Ostgard pointed out that he and I are probably the only two wrestling related persons that actually have to work this morning. Could be true.

Why does the IHOP in Spartanburg serve Pepsi products (which I prefer) and the one in Greenville serve Coke (don’t worry Boomer, I got the pink lemonade)? Wonder what the IHOP on Cox in Gastonia serves?

Watching “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, waiting on my lunch. I have bombarded a couple of folks on MySpace this morning with Benny Hill clips. Today is my last day at work for an entire week. I already have an invitation to cene en un restaurante mexicano nuevo en la Union tomorrow. Wednesday is the big GOUGE trip to Raleigh.