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Hiromu Takahashi and Edge & Christian reunion on the same show?!

Okay, I really, really regret not getting tickets to that Dynamite. Even if Cincinnati is like seven hours away.

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Wheeler Yuta's slow but steady transformation into Cousin Itt.

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Discworld designs - The Truth

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Today is Paul Frees birthday! Born June 22, 1920, he would have been 105 years old today. Paul was the voice of the "Ghost Host" in the Haunted Mansion attraction at the Magic Kingdom. He also did several of the voices in the Pirates of the Caribbean. He voiced Disney's Professor Ludwig Von Drake and did many narrations for Disney shorts, films and attractions. Mr Frees also did many other well known characters in his career including the Pillsbury Doughboy and Boris from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. In the 2003 Disney movie the Haunted Mansion there is an animated singing bust in Frees' likeness as a tribute and he was posthumously honored as a Disney Legend in 2006 for the many contributions to the Disney Legacy! His will be a talent loved and missed by many and never to be duplicated or replaced.

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Best Of Super Juniors 32 Finale thoughts

Well, I don't hate Fujita winning. He's a talented kid, and you can tell he's learned a lot from Zack, Robbie, and the rest of the TMDK guys. Hell of a match, very worthy of the finale. And god knows TMDK needed something good to happen. They've been kinda snakebitten of late.

YOH seems to have another gear he kicks into once in a while, doesn't he? Going from "solid, but not super spectacular" to "damn, this guy's pretty f'n good!" and all. Maybe next year, bro (although I'd still rather see Ishimori, Eagles, or MAO win. And of course, my dude Hiromu, although he has nothing to prove at this point).

If we can't get HiroMAO, we at least got El PhantasMAO, which is still pretty cool. And it looks as if that crazy dude may be making more NJPW appearaces. The people have spoken, and they said mo' MAO, please!

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Hiromu-chan vs the Dinosaur

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That time Teams got stuck on "Minister handing out the Communion wafers" mode.

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Thought on Best Of The Super Juniors 32, going into the final...

As much as I wanted a Hiromu vs. MAO final, I don't really hate YOH vs. Fujita. Kinda leaning towards YOH just on a "paid his dues more" basis, but I'm good either way. Never a bad thing when a TMDK guy wins, so Fujita winning wouldn't upset me at all.

Did NOT expect Taguchi to do near as well as he did. I was thinking maybe six points. Probably the guy who earned the most extra respect points from me during the tournament, other than the visitors. I'm relatively new to the NJPW scene, so I wasn't aware of his more serious tag run with Prince Devitt back in the day. Got some throwbacks to that here...that MAO match aside.

Dragon Dia can go, and has a catchy J-Pop type theme. Wouldn't mind seeing him get more NJPW time.

Considering Nick Wayne's hot start and Kevin Knight's cold one, it's interesting they finished with the same point total.

Ninja Mack didn't get very far, but that crazy-ass somersault move...

Ishimori and Eagles deserve more love. It's a crime that they have zero BOSJ titles between them.

SHO finally got his just desserts, thanks to MAO and the DDT crew. Like Narita, he plays an annoying little prick so well, so almost have to admire it.

Shocked to learn that YOH is older than Hiromu. I had him figured for early 30's.

I really want NJPW to bring in Strange Love Connection as a stable and have Hiromu join. Maybe Tsuji too, and somebody like ELP, just to throw in a couple Heavyweights...

...and have MAO be Hiromu's tag partner for the Jr. Tag title match. Make HiroMAO happen!

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Did not expect this babyface turn from SHO.

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Totally agreed on the absolute greatness of those movies, especially the original. I think the reason that Tumblr hasn't embraced them more, despite the subject matter, has mostly to do with the director, John Landis. Just look up what happened when he directed the Twilight Zone movie, and...yeah. He also has a son who is more than a little problematic himself.

Dan Aykroyd has also uttered a few questionable statements on occasion, and is a thoroughly odd guy. However, his love of the blues is genuine, and you have to love the earnestness he plays the Elwood character with to this day.

A little Aykroyd aside that might blow your mind: Before Belushi's death, Ghostbusters was planned to be another buddy comedy film with those two as the stars. Gotta wonder how many Ecto 1s they would have wrecked...

I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It's a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It's got it all!