Why do I feel like I've just been screwed over?
So, I'm waiting to see the very late episode from last week's TNA Impact, the one from before the big ppv; and I log into the Spike site, only none of the episodes are working. As in, the little "watch" buttons are missing.
And on the front page of the Spike site, Impact is not listed for full episodes.
This is not good. Not good at all.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Spike?
I used screen capture for this post
Okay, so if you know me, you know I like to rant. And I rant most about the state of the wrestling shows.
Here's the thing, I don't keep up with much in the "real world" because it's depressing. But, with that said, I do once in awhile catch up with a few news related things.
Seems that the big American handler of Spike TV therefore, TNA Wrestling, has dropped well everything.
What does this mean for TNA Wrestling over the next few weeks? I'm not too sure, as I have no idea how this will affect it here in Canada or overseas.
I haven't had cable myself now for over two years, I rely completely on the internet to see the show on the Spike site. For a long while I watched it on iTunes Canada. But sadly, they no longer carry Impact Wrestling on the Canadian iTunes.
From what I understand, it is still being carried on the American iTunes.
If the fans pleas have in fact fallen on deaf ears in the U.S. then Spudguns, it's time to get creative in finding a way to back Spike and TNA.
I'm hoping that it doesn't affect the actual websites like Spike and that they find a way to produce the show and air it online.
In the meantime, rant people rant and maybe someone will get the hint.
Love, your favourite Professionally Outraged Wrestling Fan, Ardeth Blood
Here's the thing, I don't keep up with much in the "real world" because it's depressing. But, with that said, I do once in awhile catch up with a few news related things.
Seems that the big American handler of Spike TV therefore, TNA Wrestling, has dropped well everything.
What does this mean for TNA Wrestling over the next few weeks? I'm not too sure, as I have no idea how this will affect it here in Canada or overseas.
I haven't had cable myself now for over two years, I rely completely on the internet to see the show on the Spike site. For a long while I watched it on iTunes Canada. But sadly, they no longer carry Impact Wrestling on the Canadian iTunes.
From what I understand, it is still being carried on the American iTunes.
If the fans pleas have in fact fallen on deaf ears in the U.S. then Spudguns, it's time to get creative in finding a way to back Spike and TNA.
I'm hoping that it doesn't affect the actual websites like Spike and that they find a way to produce the show and air it online.
In the meantime, rant people rant and maybe someone will get the hint.
Love, your favourite Professionally Outraged Wrestling Fan, Ardeth Blood
Monday, July 9, 2012
Morning after the ppv with coffee art
WHAT PART OF STAY SAFE DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND???? Mr. Styles, Mr. Daniels. I can only guess that you did not read my post the other day.
Picture it, your heroine and heroin sitting here yesterday, waiting for the ppv to start, bored going slightly insane from the sounds of gospel music from the church down the street; when I started to doodle. I don't draw as much as I used to, but I found myself thinking about the ppv of course. So I decided to try my hand at drawing Austin Aries.
Killed time till the ppv started. Did I mention I no longer seem to have any sort of a life? {It's a bit on the blurry side cause of the damned webcam on this pc}
Anyways...
The ppv... My money was on Sonjay Dutt that is until he injured himself middle of the Ultimate X match, then I had to put my money - er okay cheesecake cause I'm broker then broke- on Zema Ion. Yeah, I know we're thinking the same thing here... but Zema Ion had been in an Ultimate X before so he knew what kind of heights - total puns intended- he'd have to go through to win. And he did. For now.
The X-Division is for gods of wrestling... okay in my world it is. But I'm bias.
Come to think of it, it was the Ultimate X match that Zema Ion was in where Chris Sabin got injured last month... this dude is cursed. Ion, I mean. Let's get the belt off him and on to someone who can really handle holding it. I'd like to see Styles come back into the X-Division for awhile and take that title away from Ion.
The last man standing match between A.J. Styles and Daniels. Brutal to say the lest. There were a few times when I was so caught up in the match that my "holy Anne Rice novels Batman" wide-eyed innocent self responded to things. Like the Styles Clash through the table, and this one point when Styles went flying off the ramp-stage area over the announce booth into the crowd. How do family members of wrestlers handle watching them do matches like that?
Dude, if that was my husband/brother/uncle/cousin I would be having a heart attack unable to watch.
Samoa Joe vs Kurt Angle gave great submission. Does that sound dirty enough to have been something I've uttered? I mean come on, you knew from the second this match was announced that it was going to be the start of something sweet. Here is a feud that could never get old simply because it's got roots. Both men are equally able to score big time over each other, and do it cleanly.
And the main event. And it truly was a main event. Austin Aries vs Robert Roode. Oh my god man! Aries... that's all I have to say on this one. Aries.
I know, I should be building my entire post this morning around this match and normally I would. But, I'm seriously thinking this is only the start of the next big feud. Lest I hope there are second helpings of this dish.
There were so many near falls, so many moments when it looked like Roode was going to get the win but Aries kept going. At one point in the match, and this was like a 40minute match people; one point when it looked like Austin Aries was right out of it and simply got his shoulder up without even realizing what he'd done. He's that damned good. You all expected me to make one of my typical comments like he's that damned yummy but I'm trying to behave. Yes you're right, me behave why start now.
Picture it, your heroine and heroin sitting here yesterday, waiting for the ppv to start, bored going slightly insane from the sounds of gospel music from the church down the street; when I started to doodle. I don't draw as much as I used to, but I found myself thinking about the ppv of course. So I decided to try my hand at drawing Austin Aries.
Killed time till the ppv started. Did I mention I no longer seem to have any sort of a life? {It's a bit on the blurry side cause of the damned webcam on this pc}
Anyways...
The ppv... My money was on Sonjay Dutt that is until he injured himself middle of the Ultimate X match, then I had to put my money - er okay cheesecake cause I'm broker then broke- on Zema Ion. Yeah, I know we're thinking the same thing here... but Zema Ion had been in an Ultimate X before so he knew what kind of heights - total puns intended- he'd have to go through to win. And he did. For now.
The X-Division is for gods of wrestling... okay in my world it is. But I'm bias.
Come to think of it, it was the Ultimate X match that Zema Ion was in where Chris Sabin got injured last month... this dude is cursed. Ion, I mean. Let's get the belt off him and on to someone who can really handle holding it. I'd like to see Styles come back into the X-Division for awhile and take that title away from Ion.
The last man standing match between A.J. Styles and Daniels. Brutal to say the lest. There were a few times when I was so caught up in the match that my "holy Anne Rice novels Batman" wide-eyed innocent self responded to things. Like the Styles Clash through the table, and this one point when Styles went flying off the ramp-stage area over the announce booth into the crowd. How do family members of wrestlers handle watching them do matches like that?
Dude, if that was my husband/brother/uncle/cousin I would be having a heart attack unable to watch.
Samoa Joe vs Kurt Angle gave great submission. Does that sound dirty enough to have been something I've uttered? I mean come on, you knew from the second this match was announced that it was going to be the start of something sweet. Here is a feud that could never get old simply because it's got roots. Both men are equally able to score big time over each other, and do it cleanly.
And the main event. And it truly was a main event. Austin Aries vs Robert Roode. Oh my god man! Aries... that's all I have to say on this one. Aries.
I know, I should be building my entire post this morning around this match and normally I would. But, I'm seriously thinking this is only the start of the next big feud. Lest I hope there are second helpings of this dish.
There were so many near falls, so many moments when it looked like Roode was going to get the win but Aries kept going. At one point in the match, and this was like a 40minute match people; one point when it looked like Austin Aries was right out of it and simply got his shoulder up without even realizing what he'd done. He's that damned good. You all expected me to make one of my typical comments like he's that damned yummy but I'm trying to behave. Yes you're right, me behave why start now.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Saturday 7/07/2012 part 2
I still am off time wise with this, too early for the 7pm hit and for some reason, the scheduling function on the Blogger blogs has been busted for like a month.
This would be the NIGHT BEFORE A PPV
And even though this week's episode of TNA Impact has yet to be posted on the Spike site, and therefore I have no clue other then Austin Aries being in the main event; I'm greatly considering getting the ppv tomorrow night.
So with that said, TO ALL THOSE TAKING PART IN THE PPV TOMORROW, STAY SAFE!
I know, it's wrestling. You're there to put on a great show, but still, my TNA Spudguns stay safe!
-love Ardeth Blood
This would be the NIGHT BEFORE A PPV
And even though this week's episode of TNA Impact has yet to be posted on the Spike site, and therefore I have no clue other then Austin Aries being in the main event; I'm greatly considering getting the ppv tomorrow night.
So with that said, TO ALL THOSE TAKING PART IN THE PPV TOMORROW, STAY SAFE!
I know, it's wrestling. You're there to put on a great show, but still, my TNA Spudguns stay safe!
-love Ardeth Blood
Saturday 7/07/2012
But it's 10:13am. I wasn't up early enough to catch the 7am part to make this a full on gimmick.
Hang on, hold your crickets you'll get it in a second when your coffee kicks in. Yesterday was Day 207 on the movie challenge.
get it now...
My timing was a day off, not on purpose. My timing actually should have been more then 207, but as I sort of half explained few days ago on the movie challenge blog, there have been forces unseen taking over.
As in, my health dragging me down and nasty evil power outages that had left me without either computer or electricity for the movies.
In other words, even the best laid plans get frealed sometimes.
So, I'm little more then half way into the movie a day for a year challenge. And as I type this here on this bloggy-blog, I wish I had just done the whole thing on here instead of creating a full on separate blog. But sometimes I am my own worst enemy, and I do see things as chapters. Different chapters for different themes. I need more coffee...
I haven't even really gotten to the casseroles part of the blog. Yeah hold on with me here, it's one of those mornings.
Something I have managed to learn during all this; and it's simple might be a small issue might not be, is that I didn't realize how routine my world was. The big rule I set for myself with this movie a day challenge is to watch one different movie a day for the year. DIFFERENT. Different. That's the key word I have to keep drilling into my zombie eaten brain.
I seriously did not realize how often I watched the same five movies. No wonder I was so bored with my life. Seriously, I had five movies that I would watch pretty much every day, nearly the same time of day too.
Like supper time, I instantly grabbed Julie/Julia. Mornings, I liked to have an episode of Sex and the City - okay not the movie usually but still the same dvds every day. You're getting the idea here.
We are creatures of habit. If we realize it or not. But when do our habits/routines become the thing we need to break away from?
And the other side of the coin is that structure is good. Confused yet?
Okay my lovely Spudguns, that's the candyfloss this morning.
Hang on, hold your crickets you'll get it in a second when your coffee kicks in. Yesterday was Day 207 on the movie challenge.
get it now...
My timing was a day off, not on purpose. My timing actually should have been more then 207, but as I sort of half explained few days ago on the movie challenge blog, there have been forces unseen taking over.
As in, my health dragging me down and nasty evil power outages that had left me without either computer or electricity for the movies.
In other words, even the best laid plans get frealed sometimes.
So, I'm little more then half way into the movie a day for a year challenge. And as I type this here on this bloggy-blog, I wish I had just done the whole thing on here instead of creating a full on separate blog. But sometimes I am my own worst enemy, and I do see things as chapters. Different chapters for different themes. I need more coffee...
I haven't even really gotten to the casseroles part of the blog. Yeah hold on with me here, it's one of those mornings.
Something I have managed to learn during all this; and it's simple might be a small issue might not be, is that I didn't realize how routine my world was. The big rule I set for myself with this movie a day challenge is to watch one different movie a day for the year. DIFFERENT. Different. That's the key word I have to keep drilling into my zombie eaten brain.
I seriously did not realize how often I watched the same five movies. No wonder I was so bored with my life. Seriously, I had five movies that I would watch pretty much every day, nearly the same time of day too.
Like supper time, I instantly grabbed Julie/Julia. Mornings, I liked to have an episode of Sex and the City - okay not the movie usually but still the same dvds every day. You're getting the idea here.
We are creatures of habit. If we realize it or not. But when do our habits/routines become the thing we need to break away from?
And the other side of the coin is that structure is good. Confused yet?
Okay my lovely Spudguns, that's the candyfloss this morning.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Dear TNA...July 2012
I'm trying to watch the latest episode of TNA Impact, the episode from last week of June 28th 2012; and in the middle of the Bully Ray vs Samoa Joe match, the episode just went black. Up pops this line about "sorry this is not available in your region"
What the freal?
I've complained before in the past about the editing crew who post the show on the Spike site, having issues with cutting segments wrong (pieces from the week before) but this is the first time this message has appeared in all this time. And we're talking the last two and a half years of watching Impact online on the Spike site (since not having cable.)
Seems, I'm not the only one having issues watching it online, as there were at the time of this posting, two comments made saying only half the show was able to be seen.
Dude, for those of us who rely completely on the internet for tv shows, that's just not a good thing to be half way through something and it crap out.
And given the fact 87% of people watch stuff online now... I have seen many comments on the spike site for the TNA Impact over the last two years when there have been issues, but I've never seen anyone from Spike or TNA comment on fixing the editing issues.
It would be nice to know that someone is paying attention to the comments fans are leaving.
-love Ardeth Blood
What the freal?
I've complained before in the past about the editing crew who post the show on the Spike site, having issues with cutting segments wrong (pieces from the week before) but this is the first time this message has appeared in all this time. And we're talking the last two and a half years of watching Impact online on the Spike site (since not having cable.)
Seems, I'm not the only one having issues watching it online, as there were at the time of this posting, two comments made saying only half the show was able to be seen.
Dude, for those of us who rely completely on the internet for tv shows, that's just not a good thing to be half way through something and it crap out.
And given the fact 87% of people watch stuff online now... I have seen many comments on the spike site for the TNA Impact over the last two years when there have been issues, but I've never seen anyone from Spike or TNA comment on fixing the editing issues.
It would be nice to know that someone is paying attention to the comments fans are leaving.
-love Ardeth Blood
Sunday, July 1, 2012
July 1st 2012
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day and if you live outside of the country, hope you're having a great weekend.
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