Sometimes it can be Shakespeare

Tonight's tribute to Ric Flair on Raw was one of the best things the WWE has ever put on television.

Very classy and emotional send-off for Flair. Well done, WWE. Well done.

Best. Wrestlemania. Ever.

Quick Wrestlemania 24 thoughts:

That was a thumbs up show if I ever saw one. I'd venture to say that top to bottom, that was the best Wrestlemania show I've ever seen (and I've seen them all). The Citrus Bowl turned out to be a great venue that really magnified the majesty and importance of the event. The guys all had their working shoes on. And with only a couple of exceptions, the matches were all very good to downright great. I watched it at the West Edmonton Mall theatres on the big screen in high def, and the show looked awesome that way. The place was PACKED (sold out earlier today), and the crowd was pretty hot for everything.

• The Belfast Brawl was short, but intense. Good stuff.
• The ladder match was an entertaining spotfest. The Matt Hardy run-in popped the WEM theatre crowd big-time. Having CM Punk win was an interesting twist. I just hope he doesn't cash it in for the ECW title. Really good match.
  
• Batista looked like he tore every muscle in his back on that power bomb. Another good match. Umaga is a very underrated worker.
  
• Kane. Yup. Worst match of the night just by the virtue of it being so short.
  
• "I'm sorry ... I love you." Awesome. Flair-Michaels was the match of the night, and one of the all-time great Mania moments.
  
• The women's match was almost saved by the blackout. Not offensive.
  
• Having Orton retain the title was hardly the worst booking decision ever made. At least Hunter didn't win. Plus, I've turned the corner on Randy. He's a great heel champion. They should keep the belt on him as long as possible. Another very good match.
• The Big Show-Mayweather match was way better than it had any right to be. Very entertaining and well done.
• Edge and Undertaker put on a far better match than I expected. The crowd at WEM erupted when Taker put on the gogoplata, and absolutely exploded when Edge tapped. Maybe Bryan Alvarez will now admit that the move is over. Great match, and very satisfying to see Edge get the headline spot on such an enormous show.

Where to watch Wrestlemania 24 in Edmonton

Click here for the information from Cineplex for the West Edmonton Mall location.

Click here for the South Edmonton Common information.

Ric Flair vs. Rick Martel - NWA/AWA title unification match

In honour of Ric Flair's expected retirement following his Wrestlemania match today, here's some rare footage of a match that took place in Japan. It's NWA World champion Ric Flair versus AWA World champion Rick Martel to unify the titles.

I remember reading about this match in the Apter mags at the time, but it really did not get a lot of coverage - maybe a photo and a blurb in the news roundup section. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, it finally gets a broader audience.

The link below is to part 1 of the match. The remaining three parts are linked off my YouTube channel in the favorites section. Credit Sondog42 on YouTube for uploading this match.

WWE Hall of Fame Liveblogging!

OK, we've got the HOF already lined up in its streaming window, ready to start at 5:30. The desktop computer is ready to go. The laptop is sitting nearby. The festivities begin in about 10 minutes.

5:35 ... Well, things haven't started yet. I guess the WWE means business when they say "Approximately 7:30 ET."

5:45 ... still waiting ...

5:55 ... Are we having fun yet? ...

5:57 ... Apparently, the delay is due to the WWE taping the inductions of Rocky Johnson and Peter Maivia by the Rock for TV first. Then when that's done, the webcast will begin.

6:06 ... At this rate, I'm worried that Mae Young won't live long enough to see her own induction ...

6:17 ... For the last 5 minutes or so, the HOF graphic showing up in Windows Media Player has simply said "Coming Soon." Oh joy.

6:22 ... Still no stream from WWE.com. Now I feel bad for making fun of TNA on Thursday night.

OK, not really.

6:28 ... If there's any good news here, it's that this delay is doing wonders for my hits and page views, as frustrated WWE fans try to find out what's going on with the HOF stream.

6:32 ... YAY! IT'S STARTED!

6:37 ... Jack and Jerry Brisco kick off the webcast portion. Virtually everyone has commented on the ridiculousness of putting the Briscos in together as a tag team, when Jack Brisco is more than worthy of being inducted as a singles wrestler due to being one of the great wrestlers of the 1970s and a former two-time NWA World champion. Jerry Brisco ... not so much. Yes, the tag team was the high point of his career, and he's an entertaining loyal McMahonite, but HOF material? Not quite.

JBL kicks off the Briscos induction by slamming the Rock for talking so long that Ric Flair had sobered up. It was meant to be funny, but came across as mean-spirited. Plus, none of us saw it.

Why, when it comes to tag-team wrestling, does JBL have this weird obsession with the Simpsons? I mean, I've been a big wrestling fan for most of my life, and I barely remember those geeks from Texas.

6:46 ... OK, I've pretty much turned around on JBL's induction speech. He won me over by the sheer force of his charisma, even if there were too many off-color jokes.

6:57 ... Jack gave a nice, understated speech largely thanking other people for his great career. Jerry makes some insider comment to Jericho about having 2 minutes for his match on Sunday night and works in an insider gay joke about Jim Barnett. After that, Jerry also gave a nice - if slightly overly long - speech recapping his career and talking about the importance of giving back to the community. Nicely done, gentlemen.

Miz can take off that goofy hat, please.

7:01 ... While I watch the induction video for Gordon Solie, it reminds me why I love the WWE Hall of Fame show so much: it's because for years the WWE completely erased the history of wrestling unless it was done under the WWWF/WWF/WWE banner. But now that Vince has a virtual monopoly on the industry and owns most of the tape libraries, the HOF serves as the WWE's acknowledgment of the REAL history of wrestling - that there was wrestling - successful wrestling - done outside of the control of Vince McMahon. And that's really cool.

That said, I always thought Solie was over-rated as an announcer.

7:15 ... Jim Ross gave the expected great induction speech for Solie. It is going to be a sad say when Ross is no longer with the WWE. Jim Barnett made another appearance tonight, having been referenced in both induction speeches tonight, despite being dead and not being inducted. Nice of Jim to mention Gary Hart. Maybe the WWE will induct Gary Hart next year, considering Mania is in Texas.

The acceptance speech by Solie's family was quickly interrupted by a moron who yelled "speak up!" about 5 seconds into the speech. And the heckling continued from there. Brutal. OK, the son who accepted wasn't the most charismatic person on the planet but have some class and let him give his speech.

7:20 ... OK, the second son made a terrible US election/wrestling joke that deserved to get booed.

7:21 ... Mae Young. I have such low expectations for this induction. Having Pat Patterson induct her was a MUCH better choice than the rumored original choice, Stephanie McMahon.

7:23 ... I'm sorry, but the highlight of this induction so far was the crowd shot of Victoria.

7:27 ... The most polite thing I can say about Patterson's induction speech is that he reminds me of a terrible lounge act in Vegas - the guy who thinks he's funny but really isn't.

And no sooner did I post that, then Pat broke out into song, and he has a halfway decent singing voice.

7:29 ... Mae Young is either extremely senile or extremely drunk.

7:32 ... I'm a bit worried about this speech going long because Mae is only up to the Bronze Age.

7:34 ... Candice Michelle is decked out in a fashionable shoulder bandage.

7:35 ... OK, Mae Young had her moment. She had her fun. Let's move on.

7:37 ... Eddie Graham is up next. This one could be interesting, as I actually don't know a lot about Eddie, and, of course, growing up in Winnipeg, it wasn't that easy to get Championship Wrestling from Florida on the local cable ...

7:41 ... I can't wait for the unedited DVD of this, as Dusty Rhodes also commented on how long the Rock talked. That must have been either the best speech in history, or a trainwreck of monumental proportions. Given that it was THE ROCK giving the speech, I'd venture on the side of awesomeness.

7:45 ... This is a compliment, albeit in a backhanded way ... but Dusty Rhodes is such a great talker, that you actually have to concentrate closely on what he's saying to realize that his induction speech on Eddie Graham is actually more about how great Dusty Rhodes is.

7:50 ... Mike Graham is trying to honour his dad, and these stupid wrestling fans keep yelling random things at him. Unbelievable.

7:52 ... Mike's donation of the photo of the first NWA meeting was a nice touch.

7:54 ... And that's it for now. Assuming The Score shows the TV portion of the show, I'll be back liveblogging that later. If not, thanks for reading.

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Tonight's WWE Hall of Fame plans

I'm going to try to live blog the Internet and then TV portions of the WWE Hall of Fame ceremonies tonight. Tune in at 7:30 ET for the festivities ... all four of you who regularly read my blog.

It's Wrestlemania weekend!

The biggest wrestling weekend of the year has already started in Orlando, what with the TNA tapings, ROH shows, and tonight, things really kick into gear as the WWE Hall of Fame show is on, with the first portion being broadcast on WWE.com.

I'm willing to bet that the Hall of Fame show does not crash the WWE's servers, unlike, say, the TNA experience from Thursday night.

I know that the Americans get the last hour of the Hall of Fame ceremonies on USA Network. Is it getting any Canadian TV coverage at all? Anyone?

EDIT: Apparently, the TV portion of the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony is going to be on the Score tonight.

Total Nonstop Amateurishness

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So ... TNA Wrestling is doing a rare live Thursday show tonight. And they're promoting two "interactive" matches where fans get to vote on opponents and/or match stipulations.

Six minutes - no kidding, SIX MINUTES - into the two-hour show tonight, the TNA website crashes. Twenty minutes later, this graphic was on the site.

The very definition of Epic Fail.

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Dave Meltzer writes the definitive piece about Floyd Mayweather's participation in Wrestlemania 24.

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Read this before you add your 1,042nd application to your Facebook profile.

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I Know You're There - Casting Crowns (Live!)

I got to see Casting Crowns last year at the BreakForth conference. They didn't do this song (the new album wasn't out yet), but I was very impressed by the fact that this is a band that sounds 100% better live than they do on their albums - and their albums are great.

This is one of my favorite tracks off of their Altar and the Door album.

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Weekend diary

A recap of our weekend ...

• We left as soon as I was done work Thursday for Hinton, where we were staying overnight. The trip got off to an auspicous start as our hotel had lost our reservation. Now, this wasn't one of those things where we made our reservations online or something. My wife had called the hotel and spoke to a, you know, hotel employee and made our reservations that way. Despite that, there was nothing in the system. Good thing they had lots of empty rooms that night.


• Friday's drive through the mountains was largely uneventful, except for some blizzard-like conditions near Blue River, and some dodgy weather on the Coquihalla Highway. I love driving through the mountains - so beautiful and majestic.


• The border. ARGH! THE BORDER! We had a two hour and twenty minute wait at the border in Sumas, which is by far the longest I've ever had to wait for any kind of border crossing. My younger daughter passed the time by watching an entire movie on our little DVD player. When we finally did make it to the checkpoint, the border guard told us we were a part of history: Sumas had the longest waits of any land crossing between Canada and the U.S. on Good Friday. Lucky us. I expect the certificate in the mail.


• Sadly, our border experience was just the beginning of the delays, as I5 was brutally backed up by traffic. It took us more than four hours to get to Tacoma from the border because of the congestion. We used some of that time to play with the radio and found every Christian music station we could.


• As expected, Washington state is green and lush and spring is already in full bloom. My lungs were quickly spoiled by the humidity and freshness.


• One of the weekend highlights was seeing some deer run through the yards near my grandfather's house.





• There was a heron out drying its wings on the dock next to his place.
  
  
  
  And we saw a bald eagle dive-bombing the lake to get fish. Or, perhaps, ducks. He didn't seem to discriminate in what he was wanting to eat.


• In short, our time in Tacoma was great. Good food, lots of family, no complaints. As a bonus, I stocked up on Diet Mountain Dew and the Caramel Pepsi Jazz, neither of which are available in Canada.
  


• The return trip was plagued by the same kind of delays as the trip down. We left Tacoma Sunday night and drove to Hope, which went fine. (And the wait at the border to get back into Canada was a far more reasonable 20 minutes.) But our planned return on the Coquihalla Highway was kiboshed by a Mountie at a Hope gas station at 6 a.m., who warned us against it and told us to take Highway 1 instead. That was not the most fun drive I've ever done, particularly because it was snowing a lot for the first 30 minutes or so of the windy drive on a narrow highway, but we made it home in one piece.


• The video below is my wife playing with my aunt's snake - or, should I say, one of her snakes. The video stars Redrica, her boa. The mere fact this video exists is a testament to my wife's willingness to make a good movie despite her great unease around snakes (Actually, she wanted a kick-butt Facebook profile photo of her with the snake. The video was a bonus). The final clip guest stars my younger daughter, Michelle.
  

We're back!

We're back from our whirlwind trip to Tacoma. Longer report to follow in the next couple of days as I get the pictures off our camera and can find some time to write something up.

Greetings from Tacoma

Just a short update from a lushly green and warm Tacoma, Washington. Gosh, I love the Pacific Northwest.

We interrupt this vacation ...

... to bring you a two-and-a-half hour wait at the border in Sumas.

Wow.

On vacation

We're spending Easter weekend travelling to the American west coast to visit family, so it's unlikely anything will be posted until early next week.

In the meantime, here's a Chris Tomlin song appropriate for Easter.

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This sounds like a social media geek's dream camera. We've owned two Panasonic Lumix cameras (that's what happens when one gets stolen), and I really like them. But having the ability to upload directly from the camera to the web would be fantastic.

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Tonight's geeking-out roundup

Stories courtesy of Wired. Better headlines courtesy the former newspaper editor. (That would be me, by the way.)

Firefox goes on a memory diet.

Facebook gets a facelift.

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Another fun read from Wired magazine.

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Starfield - Son of God

An appropriate video for a Sunday morning. Enjoy!

From bad to worse for Jeff Hardy

First the suspension.

Now his house burns down.

Debut Podcast ... or EPIC FAIL!

I was messing around with my MP3 player and Audacity today in order to come up with a semblance of something vaguely resembling a podcast.

This is either OK for a first try or an EPIC FAIL! I'll let you decide.

You can right-click this link to save to your hard drive.

Pride Fighting Championships returns to DVD

This is the best news I've read all day.

Admittedly, it is only 8:25 a.m.

Seriously, though, my brother Dean has been getting me old Pride FC sets for Christmas for a few years now, and they're great. I'm looking forward to the "new" stuff coming out.

Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos

Via Wired magazine.

Travelling Hawaii Facebook Group

As part of my social media education, I created a Facebook page tonight called Travelling Hawaii.

Feel free to become a fan. It's mostly for experimental purposes so I can figure out how to use Facebook better, but, hey, if it takes off, great!

Taken to the cleaners

This isn't quite Consumerist worthy, but still ...

Last weekend, I took my suit in to the local, neighbourhood dry cleaners for a regular cleaning - plus I had a stain on a silk tie, so I wanted to get that cleaned, too. I told the woman that the suit was just a normal cleaning, and pointed out the stain on the tie.

(Yes, the stain is still there. But I found that out later after writing the rest of this.)

My wife and I went to pick up the suit a few days later, and noticed that in addition to the $23 cleaning bill, I was charged $5 for "re-hemming."

I asked the clerk why I had been charged $5 for having my pant legs re-hemmed when I had made no mention of it when I took the suit in. (Not to mention, I was unaware that my pants needed re-hemming.)

She said very matter of factly that the suit must have been tagged for re-hemming because they don't do that unless there's a tag on it.

Yes, I explained, but I did not ask for my pants to be re-hemmed.

But they wouldn't have done it unless there was a tag on the suit, she said again, adding that I must have asked for it to be done.

But, I protested yet again, if I had asked for it to be done, why was it not on the claim slip I was presenting, which clearly read "one suit, one tie" and nothing about re-hemming. (There is even a spot on the claim slip for "tailoring" and it was blank.)

She repeated again that I must have asked for this or else it would not have been done.

At my wit's end, and with people waiting behind us in line, I paid the bill, including the extra $5 charge.

But I asked that the manager contact me to discuss this further, because I was unhappy about it. (And what I was unhappy about more than anything was the fact she didn't immediately apologize and remove the $5 from my bill. Instead, she implied I was trying to scam them out of $5.)

Two days later, no phone call from the manager.

So today, while I was at work, my wife went down to talk to the manager. The manager said she had phoned the employee who originally served me when I brought in my suit, and she remembered me asking if they re-hem pants.

My wife said that I had asked for no such thing.

The manager asked how would my wife know that, as she was not there when I dropped off my pants!

My wife then said that if I had asked for the re-hemming, why was it not on the claim slip as a requested service.

Oh, well, the manager said, sometimes those things fall between the cracks.

Sigh.

In the end, we got our $5 back. But we're never using that dry cleaner again.

Lest anyone think I'm making a federal case out of $5 - it's not the $5 that bothers me. It's the fact that in a "he said-she said" where the circumstantial evidence certainly favoured my version of events (i.e., nothing being written down on the claim slip about re-hemming), I found it astonishing that this company, for five measly dollars, would basically call me and my wife liars and cheats.

The proper response would have been an immediate apology from the clerk who processed my pick-up about the mix-up and my $5 removed from the bill.

Failing that, the next best response would have been the manager's prompt response apologizing for the mix-up and giving us the $5 back.

But stonewalling us over a $5 charge and calling us liars is ridiculously bad customer service.

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I wonder how many people stole this issue of Wired, justifying it by saying it was free?

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A final thought on Jeff Hardy's suspension

Of course, this 60-day suspension means Jeff's push in the WWE is basically over now. I mean, he's been suspended twice. And who on earth would put the WWE title on a guy who is such a problem?

This is cool

This is a rare convergence of my love for pro-wrestling with my love for Christian rock music:

Rockers Disciple Land Song On New WWE Album; Gain Support From WWE Stars Hawkins And Ryder

My laptop is fixed!

It turns out the AC connector pin was fine. It was the power cord that had gone on the fritz.

A new power cord has made everything OK.

YAY!

The WWE's "Moron of the Month" is ...

Jeff Hardy

As my good friend Scott Keith said, "Way to screw up your big push, Jeff."

Minus one laptop

The update on my pooched laptop is that it's in for a solder job to try and tighten the AC connection pin.

If that works, great. Laptop is as good as new.

If it doesn't work, it cost me minimal money (a whole lot less than replacing the entire motherboard), and I don't have to buy a new laptop quite yet. (In the meantime, I'm stealing time on the desktop computer to pay the bills and check my e-mail.)

Ideally, I'd rather not get a new laptop until next year at the earliest. While the ones out today are infinitely more powerful than my current machine and come with neat gizmos like built-in webcams, I'd rather wait until Blu Ray drives become the norm on laptops so that my machine will be at least high-definition compatible with the winning high-def movie format.

Daylight Saving Time May Waste Energy

Honestly, is anyone really surprised by this?

Stupid #%$%$@#@ time change

In the mad rush today to get two computers in our house in some semblance of working order, I almost forgot that today is the day we switch our clocks ahead an hour, and move to daylight savings time - or "daylight time" as it's officially known in the Canadian Press Stylebook.

I hate daylight time. Particularly the "spring forward" part, as the advantages of spring tend to be mitigated by me being extra tired and grumpy for the following week thanks to losing an hour of sleep.

I hate daylight time even more now that we're on daylight time for approximately 51 of 52 weeks a year and on "standard" time for what seems like a day and a half. How "standard" is "standard time" when it's now the much smaller piece of the time pie?

Not to mention that about 98% of the gizmos I own automatically switch from standard time to daylight time and back - and now they make those changes on the wrong weekends because the U.S. Congress decreed three years ago that in 2007, daylight time would be lengthened in order to save energy.

I guess that energy I'm supposed to be saving is now going into manually adjusting all my digital clocks FOUR times a year instead of just two times a year.

Seriously, folks ... if Saskatchewan is smart enough to stay on standard time all year-round, then the rest of us should be able to figure that out, too. (And when Saskatchewan is held up as the shining example of anything, you know the end is nigh.)

Either that or let's just move to daylight time permanently and leave the clocks set an hour ahead and be done with it.

But enough of this twice-yearly clock switching.

The perils of technology - UPDATE

I'm going to spend the morning on the phone trying to find a repair shop that could solder my power connection back in place. That is the cheaper option to the motherboard replacement solution, but it's not necessarily one that will work. Still, if it can buy me some time - even a few months, that would be better right now.

The perils of technology

I hate these kinds of dilemmas.

My laptop has a cracked power supply. As a result, the AC cord doesn't always connect properly, and so my laptop, despite being plugged in, is draining battery power.

Trying to get the cord to connect to both power the laptop and charge the battery results in the kinds of cord and body contortions that make it difficult to actually operate the machine (as it is difficult to type on a keyboard that is at a 90 degree angle to the ground and being held 3 feet off the ground, as that is the only way the battery will charge. Not to mention, my arm gets pretty sore).

I called a couple of repair places yesterday and the options are paying to get the cracked power unit reconnected - which doesn't always work - or going with the sure-fire motherboard replacement.

The problem is this: replacing the motherboard would cost three-quarters of what it would cost to buy a new laptop that's about 50 times more powerful than my current one. And replacing the motherboard would be about 50% of the cost of a new laptop that is about 80 billion times more powerful than my current one.

So I'd be sinking the money into a unit that's literally not worth the money it would cost to fix it (despite the fact that, despite the major power issues, it works fine. Which, I know, the equivalant of saying beyond the heart attack, he's quite healthy).

Or I could spend twice that money to buy a new, state-of-the-art machine.

Guess I'm going laptop shopping this weekend.

Oh ... and the keyboard on our desktop computer died today. I'm really going shopping this weekend.

Intriguing Google search strings

It's not that unusual to find the string "mike jenkinson edmonton sun" leading to this site.

It is unusual to find that string originating from cbc.ca.

Well, whoever it was from the MotherCorp looking for me, here I am!

FFH - Ready to Fly

This song is very special to me for reasons that not very many people know. I love this song. Utterly love this song.

The video ... well, did I mention how much I love the song?

Petra - Creed

This post serves two purposes:

1) It's an excuse to post a video for Petra's song "Creed," which is awesome.

2) It's a test of YouTube's "post directly to your blog" feature, which was very easy to set up, but the actual mechanics of which are hidden under the "Share" button, which was not the most intuitive thing I've ever seen.

Mike Jenkinson's Newsroom - 10 years and counting

I was doing some research tonight and, apparently, I first registered this domain on May 29, 1997. Which means I'm coming up on 11 years of running this site in its various forms. And I plan to keep it running for 11 more years and then some ...

My site - in German

One of the search links that led to my site today was from Babelfish. This is what a German translation of my Bret Hart book review looks like.

Click the image to see it larger.

Ah, technology. Gotta love it.

And I have to say, "Uber Mich" has a nice ring to it.

Sea Life Park Aquarium, Hawaii

Winter returned overnight, so it's a perfect opportunity to repost our final Hawaii video. This was taken by my older daughter at Sea Life Park Aquarium on Oahu.

UFC 82: I'm wrong again

I predicted Henderson over Silva. Oops.

Where to watch UFC shows in Edmonton

Due to the number of Google searches leading to this site that ask a variation of the title question, I provide as a public service this link.

Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake

This is a repost from my old blog. But it's still very funny.


Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake

UFC 82: TOO MANY EVENTS!

There's another UFC PPV tonight. I'm out at a soccer tournament, so I won't be ordering it. Although even if I was at home, I probably wouldn't get it, as I'm planning to get next month's Montreal debut instead.

As for tonight's show, I really want to see Dan Henderson beat Anderson Silva for the middleweight title. I've been watching some of Hendo's Pride matches of late, and - yes, based on three-, four- and five-year-old fights - he's really impressive. I think he can take Silva.

Thanks to DaveMillicanBelts.com for the picture of the UFC championship belt!