Sunday, June 12th, 2005 was a great night to be a wrestling fan once again. I often talk way too much about wrestling and with good reason with my former background as a wrestling journalist/news reporter but last Sunday brought out some emotions I haven’t felt about wrestling in a long time. While the WWE and NWA-TNA have both been adequate lately, the emotions that I felt while watching the ECW PPV last Sunday were emotions that I had been waiting to feel for a long time. For the first time in a long time, I was actually anticipating this PPV as were other faithful ECW fans.

To recap a bit of wrestling history, ECW was a small, independent wrestling federation from Philadelphia that started out as Eastern Championship Wrestling and later quit the NWA Alliance and changed its name to Extreme Championship Wrestling. It was an innovative wrestling federation that had little to do with story lines like the soap opera WWE of today and more to do with blood,sweat and hard work ethic from the wrestlers that wrestled in that very ring every night. It was the first American wrestling fed. to bring the Mexican ‘extreme lucha-libre- style into the United States as well as to feature matches that other federations wouldn’t dare to touch like the barbed wire wrestling match.ECW didn’t have the production values of a WCW or WWE so they had to settle on smaller venues with lower production values and poor lighting. What set ECW apart from the rest though was its connection with its fans. ECW had some of the craziest,most loyal fans that you could ever ask for and if they didn’t like you than they would tell you about it right to your face. The fans would often start chants up during the match that I wouldn’t dare to repeat in this blog due to their choice of language and they would also bring weapons to the shows to give to the wrestlers to use on each other.

Because ECW couldn’t afford to travel very often ; they would often hold their shows at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia which is now known as The Viking Arena. The fans would come from different areas of the North-Eastern United States to Philadelphia just to show their dedication to the product.ECW learned to create brand new characters and gimmicks and during their prime had some of the brightest wrestlers to come to the United States from all over the world. ECW was a victim of the Monday Night Ratings War between WCW/WWE at the time with both companies competing with one another and snatching up any rising star from ECW when the opportunity arose. (more…)

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It seems that every successful Hollywood franchise from both Film and Television is making the transition to the world of Adult Entertainment these days with some sort of porn spinoff. Whether these remakes of original films are actually entertaining or even mildly successful can be anybody’s guess but what ‘is’ entertaining is displaying some of our favourites right here for you to read and enjoy. So here’s a list in no particular order of some of our favourite porn remakes of original titles.

#1 BEVERLY HILLS 9021-HO!

Somehow I don’t remember a lot of black dudes roaming around in Beverly Hills in real life or in the TV show but in this film it’s all about the black guys getting it on with white rich bitches. What it has in common with the actual tv show is less to be desired but on the bright side you get to see some cool interracial relations.

#2 EDWARD PENISHANDS

The thought of seeing Edward Scissorhands try his luck in porn makes me cringe not only for the fact that the guy is ugly but what could possibly happen when his clawed fingers come in contact with somebody else’s flesh,ouch!. The film surprisingly tries to tackle some of the original film with humour and love displayed throughout it but the real treat of this film is how the production team managed to capture the special effects of Edward much in the same way that Tim Burton did for the original.

You also know when a porn remake is good when the actor himself comments positively about it. It’s nice to know that Johnny Depp has a sense of humor about his porn alter ego: “It was low budget and cheesy, but it was hilarious to watch. Those hands…they served him well.”

#3 DUDE, WHERE’S MY DILDO ?

Shay and her friend wake up in a strange house where they partied hardy the night before. Neither girl can find Shay’s prized dildo. The girls can’t leave until they find the pieces to the puzzle that will lead them to the dildo. Surprisingly, this film made more sense to me than the original. It follows the same plot as the original and replaces Ashton and Sean with a bunch of hot chicks. I’ll take the hot chicks over those 2 dudes on any day and recommend this flick rather than the original.

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Jeremy Hotz is a Gemini award winning stand up comedian who used to write for the John Stewart show and has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on several occasions. He can currently be seen on the hit Canadian series ‘The Newsroom’ and has a new project with Comedy Central coming out soon. In this quote, Jeremy discusses what it would be like to freak everybody out at the bowling alley.

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Athletes are a weird bunch. They get paid very well but in order to receive these big salaries they must push their bodies to the limit. In order to reach their maximum potential they are often pushed to the limits by their coaches,scouts and the fans.This can cause an increased level of stress in an athlete and from this stress comes anger.In recent years the number of incidents involving fans and athletes seems to have increased and if I’m wrong than the media sure is exposing it more often on television and other media outlets.

The gap between the salary of a sports figure and that of a regular joe has widened significantly during recent years and perhaps the disconnection between the athlete and the players has grown because of it. With the higher ticket prices, fans feel as though they can do or say whatever they want to athletes because they earned the right to do so by buying such a high priced ticket. The athletes, under an extreme amount of pressure, feel that due to their higher standing in society they are entitled to whatever they want. Because of their wealth and exposure, they seem to believe that their morals and standards don’t apply in the real world. This causes contrasting elements between the fans and the athlete and has helped to cause these recent incidents in sports:

-On Sept. 19, 2002.Two men, a father and a son, jump from the stands at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, and attack Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa.

-On Mar. 9,2001.he Maple Leafs’ Tie Domi wrestled with a fan in the penalty box during a game against the Flyers. Domi, who was serving a penalty, twice poured water over taunting fans in the front row. The attacking fan, Chris Falcone, was sitting in the second row. Falcone lunged against the glass and threw a punch at Domi that did not connect. A glass panel separating the two collapsed, and Falcone was pulled into the penalty box by Domi. A linesman already in the box broke up the fight. Falcone was then escorted from the arena and given a citation.

-On Dec. 23, 1995. An abundance of snow and thousands of bored Giants fans made for a dangerous combination. The crowd started throwing snowballs in the fourth quarter of a Chargers-Giants game, striking Chargers equipment manager Sid Brooks in the face and knocking him unconscious for 30 seconds. The final tally: 14 arrests, 175 ejections and 15 injuries. (more…)

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E3 has come and gone once again and while typically the games are the highlight of the event; this year they were overshadowed by the next generation of systems. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all showcased their next generation systems and all 3 systems seemed to have their highs and their lows. Let’s run down each system and see which one was the clear winner.

Sony’s Playstation 3

Sony began E3 with their press conference and had little marketing campaigns to speak of before the event. It didn’t seem to matter though, as Sony by far had the best press conference for their system at E3. The hardware specs. for the playstation 3 were unbelievable and the addition of the new Blu-Ray technology for dvds and games will change the way that consumers buy movies just like the dvd helped to move technology away from vhs movies in the past. The playstation will also play all previous movie formats from dvd disks to cd roms as well as the complete playstation game library going all the way back to playstation 1 games.

Here’s a brief look at some of the hardware specs:

CPUCell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS (more…)

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