#with a house in nebraska blasting in the background

[holyfacehead]

Ily (in the way that if Shauna came outside and apologized Jackie would have forgiven her) (in the way Taissa be defending Shauna)

i luv yew too (in the way shauna ate jackie’s ear as her only way of being close to jackie, allowing her to have a piece of jackie with[in] her always)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Adam Edelman at NBC News:

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz showed up on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last week to blast Donald Trump and JD Vance as “weird” — part of a recent media blitz — the line of attack quickly gained traction among Democrats.

Key among them was de facto presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who days later started using the same word in her campaign messaging against the GOP ticket, including at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Saturday. The simple phrase quickly highlighted why Walz — a popular two-term Midwestern governor, former congressman, military veteran and former public school teacher — had suddenly landed on Harris’ short list of prospective running mates. But Walz’s allies, friends and current and former colleagues note that his canny folksiness is just one of the attributes that make him uniquely suited to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. In addition to a relatable personal story, they say, the 60-year-old Walz has a background representing rural communities that is needed in the party, as well as a record of progressive policy accomplishments.

These Democrats argue that Walz’s background and resume would translate to broad appeal across the critical nearby “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — something few other VP contenders can offer. “If you’re looking for balance on the ticket in terms of life experience, and who’s going to bring that life experience to the administration with a whole series of credentials in solving problems for middle class and American families, Tim Walz has a pretty damn good resume,” said former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., who became close friends with Walz during the time they overlapped in Washington, D.C. She added that Walz prompts voters, particularly across the upper Midwest, to think, “Hey, I know that guy,” and to feel “a comfort level you have with a shared human experience, a shared lived experience.”

A veteran, teacher and red-district Democrat

Walz, a Nebraska native, enlisted in the Army National Guard when he was 17, and served for more than two decades with both domestic and overseas deployments. He later worked as a high school social studies teacher and football coach in Mankato, about 80 miles south of Minneapolis, before shifting to politics. In 2006, he successfully ran for a congressional seat in a largely rural and agricultural district in southern Minnesota. He represented the 1st Congressional District for 12 years, and has been the only Democrat to represent what has typically been a red-leaning district — which spans the entire southern chunk of the state — in nearly 30 years. “He’s highly capable of reaching out to and connecting with the voters in small towns and rural places in the Midwest — that’s where he’s from, that’s where he was [representing] as a member of Congress,” said Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. “Those are the voters that Democrats need to do better with, voters where we have to demonstrate that we understand what’s going on in their lives, and that we understand that we should be working to make their lives work better.”

[...] Harris’ current VP short list is filled with governors as she seeks to potentially balance the ticket with a voice outside Washington. Walz has built a robust network of influence across several states in his role as chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a job he took on last year. But he also has 12 years of congressional experience that could be put to use in the White House. “Think about what Joe Biden brought to Obama. In essence, all those relationships in Washington,” said Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., who is openly advocating for Harris to select Walz. “He’s got all those relationships with members of Congress, including on the other side.” [...]

Progressive and working-class appeal

Minnesota has been consistently Democratic at the statewide level in recent elections, but it’s a place where Republicans are competitive. Still, Walz has overseen the enactment of a bevy of progressive priorities as governor, particularly during his second term, with Democrats controlling both chambers of the Legislature. He signed laws protecting abortion rights, legalizing recreational marijuana, restricting gun access and providing legal refuge to transgender youths whose access to gender-affirming and other medical care has been restricted elsewhere. “He’s got the progressive receipts to bring it home to a more broad appeal across the Democratic base,” Craig said. Walz also enacted several laws geared toward farmers and the working class, including bills that expanded paid family leave, banned most noncompete agreements, provided universal school meals for students, expanded public child care support programs and capped the price of insulin in Minnesota (three years before Biden did so nationally).

[...]

Reinforcing the ‘blue wall’

Of course, the prospect of putting Walz on the ticket with Harris presents some downsides. He’s not well known nationally and may not bring the same youth or energy as other potential running mates. He’s also not from a battleground state, like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, that could tip the presidential election. But Walz’s allies say he could still help the Democratic ticket in other critical states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that are home to many of the same types of voters he’s won over in Minnesota. “He speaks farm, suburban and urban,” joked Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., who has publicly urged Harris to select Walz.

She and others noted that Walz is not reluctant to go on Fox News — a recent appearance even drew a complaint from Trump — to reach more conservative voters. Some Democrats said Walz could also counter Trump’s efforts to make further inroads in the Rust Belt with his selection of Vance as his running mate.

NBC News reports on how Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) can be an asset for Kamala Harris’s VP pick, as he could help lock down the 3 Upper Midwest/Great Lakes swing states.

[nicklloydnow]

“Anhedönia has been getting more acquainted with Ethel Cain, the character whose story she’s been tracing across multiple projects since 2018, and whose background she plans to explore further on an EP planned for later this year. Listeners first got to know the full, tragic arc she had in mind on her 2022 debut album, Preacher’s Daughter — a stunning release that showed Anhedönia’s atmospheric production and her knack for Southern Gothic imagery and intense themes, like religious indoctrination, sexual violence, isolation, and family trauma.

Ethel Cain is a work of fiction, one that first came to Anhedönia on “A House in Nebraska,” a spine-tingling song she wrote at age 19. Ethel and her creator share a lot in common. Both are women who took off on their own, leaving their oppressive Christian communities: Ethel grew up in Alabama, while Anhedönia herself came from a rural town in Florida called Perry, where she was home-schooled and brought up Baptist. But Anhedönia takes Ethel into much darker terrain from there on Preacher’s Daughter, having the character grapple with abuse at the hands of her father as she treks out west, where she encounters drugs, sex work, and dangerous men — until eventually she’s kidnapped, killed, and cannibalized.

It’s a violent, fatalist plot told over dazed pianos and dramatic blasts of distortion, Anhedönia’s voice often steady and dreamlike even at cruel turns. She’d long looked up to artists like Lana Del Rey, Marina, and Florence + the Machine, and her debut album feels like a twisted collage of those references playing over a feverish Donald Ray Pollock novel — he’s one of her favorite writers, along with others in the Southern Gothic canon. The EP she’s working on now covers Ethel’s high school years. Anhedönia says she envisions it as another chapter to a longer story she’s been telling: “I feel like this is truly laying Ethel Cain to rest.”

(…)

There was one part of secular culture that Anhedönia recalls being allowed to explore: horror movies, which she watched at her grandparents’ house. “I was really anxious and scared of everything. And so my pop, in all his wisdom, decided I should come spend the night and watch every R-rated horror movie that he had.” They’d go to Walmart and buy a Betty Crocker cake with strawberry icing to eat while they watched The Blair Witch Project, The Ring, or the Final Destination series. “He was like, ‘Watch this, you won’t be scared anymore,’ ” Anhedönia says.

But slowly, real-world uncertainties began to set in. Anhedönia says she’d always understood, somewhere deep inside of her, that she felt an attraction to both sexes. “I had crushes on girls, I had crushes on boys,” she says. “And I didn’t even really know what that meant.” Her neighborhood was small and full of old ladies, as she describes it, and she’d noticed that people treated one of her neighbors, a gay man who lived in town, differently. “I started to get this inkling in my head at some point as I was approaching adolescence, like, ‘Is that not allowed?’ ” So when she was about 11 years old, she turned to her parents with an innocent query. “I thought I was just going to be like, ‘Hey … I have a question.’ ” This is often painted as Anhedönia’s coming-out story, but the truth is, she was just a kid asking about something she didn’t fully understand. “I was like, ‘I think I like boys.’ ”

In a community obsessed with upholding puritanical ideals they believed would keep the devil at bay, all hell broke loose, she says. Families from her church would tell her mom that Anhedönia couldn’t play with their kids. Her parents sent her to therapy. Her life grew even lonelier and darker, cascading into several years that she now says she hardly remembers — in between home-school lessons, she spent most of her time in bed with the curtains drawn. “Living in that environment, you just want to get out of it,” she says. “I remember just kind of locking away parts of myself and thinking, ‘You’re going to wake up, you’re going to eat, you’re going to deal with whatever happens today, you’re going to go to sleep, and then you’re going to keep doing that until this is over.’ ”

(…)

At 16, she started taking classes at a community college, then went to school to become a nail technician at 18. By then, she’d flown out the door and started living on her own in Tallahassee, indulging in her new freedom. She experimented with acid, opioids, Xanax, meth once. “When you come from such an oppressive upbringing, you tend to spiral for a moment,” she admits. It was right around then that the idea of Ethel Cain began blossoming in her mind.

She found other answers, too. “It wasn’t until I was nearing adulthood when I discovered what being trans was, through Tumblr of all places,” she recalls. “I didn’t even know you could do that. I didn’t know that was a thing.” Up until then, her church had told her she was gay. The actual identity she came to understand for herself “wasn’t even in the conversation in any way,” she continues. “Wrong letter.”

Anhedönia is careful when she talks about being trans, emphasizing that her gender identity is only one fact in a complex personality. “When you are trans, you are living a very specific experience that not many other people in the world have,” she says. “I wanted to not be known as a trans artist, I think, not because I didn’t want people to know I was trans, or because I didn’t want to be proud of that fact, but.… It has shaped the way that I am in certain ways, but it’s not everything.”

(…)

There’s a sense in which it’s hard to imagine Anhedönia being contained by any music-business paperwork, because of just how expansive her imagination is, and just how much she wants to do. Before Ethel Cain came to her, she’d been sketching out three characters: Teddy, an androgynous altar boy with a vigilante streak; Salem, a woodsy witch with long white hair; and Carter, a time-traveler with a portal in his basement. Then Ethel Cain came along. “I knew it was going to be music, but I was like, ‘Can I write a story? Can I make a film? I want to draw this,’ ” she says. “I’m so obsessed with this story. I want to tell it in a million different ways.”

Later this year, she plans to leave Pittsburgh. She’s chasing brutal winters to match the tone of her next full-length album, which she describes as dark and cold. It’ll focus on the story behind Ethel’s mother, and see her grappling with her daughter’s death. The one after that will dive into Ethel’s grandmother.

There are other characters lurking in her head, waiting to come out — but she still thinks she has a lot of time to spend with the Cain women, and a long time before she reaches the end of the story. “This is going to be 15, 20 years from now,” she says. “I work very slow. That’s how I like it.””

[jessconrad]

Fine Line by Harry Styles: The Sunshine We Needed Through A Very Dreary Year

Or An Album Review (One Year Later)

On December 13, 2019, Harry Styles graced the world with his second studio album, Fine Line, and I don’t think it has ever left my Recently Played section on my Spotify account since its release.

I honestly don’t know how I would have survived 2020 without this album. As I reflect on everything this year had to offer, I realized this record will always shine through as it is tied to my best memories of the year.

I listened to this album a lot, with three of my five top songs from my Spotify Wrapped coming from Fine Line. (They were “Sunflower, Vol. 6″, “Golden”, and “To Be So Lonely”, respectively, if you were curious!)

I spent dull afternoons in January walking around the freshly snow covered ground on my college campus blasting “Lights Up” in my headphones. This single was released in October 2019, two months prior to the release of Fine Line, and had been a top favorite of mine with its 70s soulful style. Not to mention, the small choir of backup singers and layering synth gave me an almost nostalgic as the Christmas season started to come to an end. This song was all about finding who you are- and I was starting to figure out who I am with it.

The next month I visited Denver for a conference and I began noticing how this record was starting to become the soundtrack to my year. February’s track was “Sunflower, Vol. 6″ where I started to feel my attachment to this song. I am not sure if it was the mesmerizing lyrics, the drums, or even the Indian instrument known as a sitar that made me really hooked to this song... But as I walked through the streets of rainy Denver (which would normally make me feel very gloomy), I couldn’t help grinning from ear-to-ear as I listened to this song. It’s the feel-good musical track you listen to, in whatever mood you’re in.

Sometimes I can’t fathom how apocalyptic March felt. The beginning of March was completely normal, and I was at my peak. Looking back now, I can’t wrap my head around that I attended five live shows within one week during that month. But all good things come to an end, right? And of course suddenly, it all came crashing down. I was sent packing up my college freshman dorm and moved back home with my parents while juggling all my courses remotely. There was a song that I was always replaying though, and that was “Golden.” Arguably one of the most upbeat tracks on Fine Line, next to “Sunflower, Vol. 6,″ but the lyrics say otherwise. As the opening track, it has a very chill pop vibe, but listen closely to the lyrics. The contrast pulls at my heartstrings every. single. time.

“Cherry” and April go hand-in-hand for me. As I continued to navigate my thoughts and feelings with the pandemic, struggling with the course load of online courses, and overall the anxiousness of all the unknowns- “Cherry” was the comfort I needed. With its soft acoustic guitar, it is the perfect song for any in-your-feels playlist. And trust me when I say that the fragility of “Cherry” really helped me when I was in my feels. 

Arguably the biggest summer hit of this year was “Watermelon Sugar,” and my go-to anthem of wanting to feel any normalcy of a summer that I stayed mostly indoors for. I remember when the music video dropped in May, I was grabbing coffee with a friend and begged her to watch the video with me. We sat in her car in the middle of a park, watching the YouTube video count down to the premiere of “Watermelon Sugar”. That “this video is dedicated to touching” opening message made me laugh and realized how truly brilliant Harry’s mind is. The warm, very enjoyable tune made this the perfect summer anthem with its really good electric guitar and slide guitar mixed with the horn. It’s the one song that will stay in your head for weeks.

Another song that feels like summer to me is “Canyon Moon.” In the end of June, I went ‘glamping’ (otherwise known as glamorous camping, we stayed in a very nice tiny house in the middle of the most wooded area that Nebraska could get) with my family. It’s a very upbeat song with a nostalgic feel, and the fun instrument rhythms can’t help but make you beam. The song also experiments with a dulcimer; a musical instrument with a long rounded body and a fretted fingerboard played by bowing, plucking, and strumming. I think this is what makes the song more upbeat and happy, especially the beginning as well as the slide guitar giving it unique sounds throughout. It personally is one of my least favorites on the album, but it does make me think of warm summer days and spending time with family every time I do listen to it.

July was starting to feel a little rough for me again. I was really getting tired of staying indoors and barely seeing any of my friends. I was really longing to go back to school and being around my people again. “To Be So Lonely” was a song that felt like it really understood me. Harry revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that the song was composed on a guitalele, which resembles the sound of guitar, for that light and upbeat tone that the chords give off, backing the lyrics. It’s the perfect song you listen to when you’re sad, and you’re ready to push past it. And I knew that I was ready to push past my sadness because I had one more month until I was surrounded in community.

“Adore You” was the second single of Fine Line that was released. This song is filled with so much love and passion- and it was the same immense feelings I had in August when I got ready to move back to my college town and see all my friends again. As I packed my bags and moved into my sorority house, I constantly played this song. What can I say? This was a really great song to vibe with, especially with the opening keyboard and the consistent bass that you cannot help but groove to!

Out of all the months of this year, surprisingly September was one of my darkest. With only two weeks living into my sorority house, I made the decision to move out for the safety of mine and my family’s health. I moved back in with my parents again during this month, and I felt completely lost. “Falling” had the same underlying message of being lost. This love ballad displays a theme of brokenness and creates a tone of unhappiness- the perfect song for a post-breakup or an in-your-feels playlist. I had this song on repeat more times than I can count- the soft piano setting a broken and lonely tone. 

The beginning of October began to really turn around for me. I moved into an apartment with one of my best friends and I was back in my college town. I was starting to find community again and “Treat People With Kindness” became this month’s anthem. Coined after Harry’s Treat People With Kindness (TPWK) campaign, this song has a 1970s sound and makes you want to dance along with the catchy choir lyrics such as “Maybe we can/Find a place to feel good/And we can treat people with kindness”. The lyrics were very prevalent in my life, especially with the amping news of the presidential election and the continuation of the pandemic. This song was the best reminder to be kind to myself, and those around me. And let’s not forget the conga sound throughout! I believe Queen would have been very proud of this underrated track.

The timeless mature sound of “She” could have not fit November anymore. I celebrated my twentieth birthday this month (which of course included a Harry Styles themed birthday party with my roommate and some close friends). The guitar kicking in at the chorus giving so much emotion to Harry’s voice, and that’s exactly how I felt around my birthday. Lots of emotions. Not to mention, the guitar solo played by Mitch Rowland sounds like it could have been something that was released years ago, with a little modern touch. It’s growing to be one of my personal favorites on the album.

Lastly, we get to December and I felt as if this year was the longest year of my life (but also flown by way too quick). The song that resonated with me most this month was “Fine Line,” the last track of the album (and the longest at 6 minutes and 16 seconds). My favorite memories in December consist of driving around with my friend, looking at all the Christmas lights as we drink hot cocoa and blast “Fine Line”- singing our hearts out to the repetitive lyrics of “we’ll be fine line” and “we’ll be alright.” Harry discussed in an interview with Capital FM that this song would always be the last on the album, and how fitting that I resonated with this song most in the last month of the year. “Fine Line” represents the ups and downs of life, and the thin line that separates the two. This song that includes an orchestra, drums, horn, acoustic guitar, and melodies building in the background, it could not be the most perfect finale to the album- and to the year 2020.

Today is December 13, 2020- exactly one year after Fine Line has been released. Since then, Harry Styles has made headlines from petty to political. He has shown up for Black Lives Matter, cared for our sleeping habits by releasing an audio bedtime story, made us feel confident in wearing whatever we want as he appeared as the first solo male on American Vogue- all while accomplishing some of his greatest achievements with this album: releasing five music videos, being nominated for three Grammys, and climbing the music charts and catching the hearts of critics. 

But Harry accomplished something even greater- he made an album that made us feel good when it was nearly impossible to. To put it frankly- Fine Line was my comfort album, and I know that it was a lot of other people’s too. And as we step into the new year, with the help of this album, it does in fact feel like... we’ll be alright.

[danmacrae]

Silly 90s Intro Blab: A Thing To Skim Through On The Toilet

Hello! I’m semi-tolerable nuisance Dan MacRae! Why am I shouting at you? Not sure! Sorry, I’ll take it down a notch.

Instead of learning how to pleasure a woman or how to unlock the mysteries of grooming, I have devoted my life to TV nonsense. Blessed YouTube presence RwDt09 has been collecting these amazing compilations of era (and sometimes season) specific TV intros and they are my everything. Imagine having a child that didn’t suck? That’s the feeling RwDt09′s videos put in my heart.

I've been obsessively rewatching this collection of mostly forgotten early '90s TV intros. The bulk of these shows died a quick death and feel like the product of whatever drugs TV execs take. (Probably something snorted from one of those awesome McDonalds coffee straws they ditched in like 2002.) Because I'm a handsome pin-up hunk of the year, I wrote some dumb blurbs about the first few shows and have some stray thoughts on the rest. This appeals to no one but me AND I APOLOGIZE TO NO ONE!

In the immortal words of John Lennon, let’s get biz-zay!

DINOSAURS: I’m at a point in my life where I can acknowledge that Dinosaurs sucked. It’s incredibly freeing. Christ, this is like that stupid-ass Norman Lear show where dogs did social commentary BUT WITH HENSON PUPPETS! I hope Baby Sinclair was stomped to death and eaten as pudding before the extinction series finale. (Yes, that happened.) The intro isn’t bad, mind you. You get the lumbering theme song and Earl gets stuck in a door CUZ LAFFS! TIMES SURE HAVEN’T CHANGED HO HO HO! God I hate these fucking dinosaurs.

Intro MVP: It’s not a stellar pack, but we get a bit of Robbie Sinclair who census data has shown led to a variety of surprising sexual awakenings for youths at the time.

SCORCH: A 1300-year-old dragon named Scorch visits the 1990s on a budget that looks not far removed from Skank on The Ben Stiller Show. The song will make you want to barricade your sex organs from a world where you can bring children into a world with THAT CAWAZZZY SCORCH! The theme song really is a special brand of irritating and Scorch looks like a malformed Deviant Art dildo with a vaguely religious bent.

Intro MVP: Probably John O’Hurley for not actually appearing in the intro. (Even with O’Hurley’s weird résumé.)

FISH POLICE: Not to be confused with the (ARF! ARF! ARF!) Dog Police, Fish Police and Family Dog are shows I know almost exclusively from being mentioned as examples of the crappy post-Simpsons primetime animation gold rush. Fish Police actually looks good animation-wise, but it’s pretty clear you’re gonna be sledgehammered with endless “COULD YOU IMAGINE FISH DOING THESE OLD TROPES? DO WE NEED TO CALL A SEARCH PARTY FOR YOUR SIDES? ARE THEY SPLITTING ALREADY?” jokes. Congrats dipshits, you made a cinema-touched precursor to Frankie & George. You dummies. Also there’s the tone of casual racism UNDER THE SEA so do with that what you will. DID YOU SEE CHINATOWN? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT SHIT?

Intro MVP: Thank goodness they specified who John Ritter voices so we could all bask in Inspector Gil as a character name. Fuck you, Fish Police.

CAPITOL CRITTERS: Christ, this looks UNWATCHABLE. Like walk into oncoming traffic as an alternative unwatchable. Capitol Critters centers around an animated mouse named Max (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris) witnesses his family being murdered in Nebraska and moves to D.C. and wait what the fuck is going on with those roaches? (Racism, mostly.) Who thought this was a good idea to invest time, money and animator joint damage in? Stephen Bochco, baby! I have a perverse curiosity to see an episode but after 90 seconds I know I'd be dying to eat a fucking gun instead of suffering through any more of Capitol Critters.

Intro MVP: Gotta be Bochco. Also, EAT SHIT BOCHCO!

And now a really tiny blab about the rest. Watch this clip package, ya goofs!

FAMILY DOG: Folks were fucking horny for Spielberg TV shit in the 90s, ditto Tim Burton too and that's how an Amazing Stories, uh, story was morphed into a shitball TV series that Brad Bird wanted no part of. Also, I have no idea how to explain things like the CBS StereoSound chyron to anyone born after Clinton left office.

THE CRITIC: Nice to see you, Jay Sherman! This is a lovely intro and you likely know that already. I've done a few rewatches of The Critic (not the web series season, though) and I say the show definitely holds up and is far from a duketastrophe. That said, some of the parody film clips that got raves at the time are kinda creaky in hindsight.

CHARLIE HOOVER: Can I say something? Fuck Sam Kinison. Hmm... That's a bit harsh. I guess I just don't get him on any level. The only thing he's done that I've ever found all that funny was when he said he wished Andrew Dice Clay die of stomach cancer from the inside out, like Bette Davis. Kinison's not my cup of tea is what I'm getting at. In Charlie Hoover (GET IT HURF HURF), Kinison is a foot high loudmouth in a long coat that's getting 40-year-old square Tim Matheson where he needs to be in life.

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: Or... "Betty Spaghetti's Here Which Is All The Star Power You Need!"

HARDBALL: A League Of Their Own had a fun, feel good intro with all the corny touches of ol' timey baseball. Hardball tries to sell you on Joe Rogan: Baseball Fella and the vague scent of urinal troughs.

GOOD GRIEF: Howie Mandel golfs in a cemetery and it's not particularly clear if he's just fucking around on strangers graves for fun. (Alternate Theory: Those graves belong to the family from Bobby's World. All the Generics!)

THE FANELLI BOYS: If enjoy broad Italian-American stereotypes to the point of falling down laughing at the sight of a pizza box, you'll love The Fanelli Boys! Joe Pantoliano and Christopher Meloni both star.

SOMETHING WILDER: Something Wilder was the sort of show where I wished Gene Wilder well and still kept 5000 miles away from watching it. Also, Wilder's face on that house is CHILLING.

DUDLEY: Embrace the luxury hotel elevator elegance of Dudley! Does it feature Dudley Moore make a series of faces where he seems surprised by everything? You better believe it. This was also where Max Wright got work in-between taking abuse from a cat eating alien and Norm Macdonald.

CAROL & COMPANY: It's a bit Carol Takes On in the intro with Carol Burnett in assorted costumes and that's alright because everyone does the assorted costumes intro thing. Tickets to the show are blown across America and get in the hands of whatever Orphan Black Carol happens to be in the area.

THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW: This is an extremely 90s sort of intro that feels like something more upscale soft rock stations did in TV ads at the time too. Richard Kind directs a bit of paper at someone midway through.

DREXELL'S CLASS: One of more storied entries in the Dabney Coleman being an asshole catalogue. The first intro features Dabney, ol' Drex himself, just hanging around in class being hot shit and occasionally mimicking a flying dinosaur. The second intro is a more traditional clip collection highlighted by a young Brittany Murphy (WHO WAS MURDERED! FACT! REMINDER!) and Coleman in a wild 8 ball jacket. Rembrandt off Sliders also makes an appearance.

TEECH: If this intro looks exactly like a sitcom where a Cool Black Music Instructor™ teaches Prep School bad boys in Bush Sr era America that's because it is exactly that sort of sitcom. Maggie Han deserves better.

THE ROYAL FAMILY: It seems extra cruel to take Redd Foxx's popcorn away considering he'd be dead before the fifth episode even aired. Della Reese is in this, die-hard Della fans.

ROC: This intro works perfectly. We get Charles S. Dutton, Ella Joyce and an easy to digest Jerry Lawson theme song. (En Vogue would do the theme later.) It’d be nice if they could get Edgar Allan Poe wagging a finger at seafood or something else in the background to push that Baltimore thing even more, but I still wish this intro from 25+ year old Fox comedy all the best in its future endeavours.

BREWSTER PLACE: Speaking of good intros, Brewster Place is a first rate brand of TV welcome. Brenda Pressley is the MVP of the intro over Oprah Winfrey which might explain why Brenda Pressley has been missing since 1992. (I know she’s on The Path. Just play along.)

SUNDAY BEST: The intro equivalent of getting someone to throw shit at a wall, we get an early 90s NBC grab bag of fuck it whatever shots of TVs and TV dinners with poor Carl Reiner trotted out partway through.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES: Mark Frost and David Lynch paired for a documentary series in the early ‘90s on Fox because Fox was like fucking UHF at the time. The industrial strength creepy opening doesn’t include any shots of narrator Richard Dreyfuss turning towards the camera and that’s a damn shame.

AMERICAN DETECTIVES: If you get horny for stressed out real-life detectives, this will send your undergarments to Mars! Lots of mustaches here. A whole Safeway bag’s worth. Some real rural gas station rock going on with that theme tune.

FBI: THE UNTOLD STORIES: The tone of this entire intro is: “Hey kid, wanna see a dead body? Or twenty?” Creepy music blasting over Jackie Kennedy on the back of JFK’s death limo and Wayne Williams heading to trial equals primetime party fun!

ENCOUNTERS: THE HIDDEN TRUTH: Suck it, Sightings! Encounters is leading a new dawn for crackpot horseshit to eat Bugles to! I appreciate the shameless X-Files knockoff intro thing Fox is doing (cuz it’s their show) that comes complete with head shop blanket alien head popping up midway through.

STEPHEN KING’S GOLDEN YEARS: Essentially Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with one hell of a music rights win tacked on.

TRIBECA: This opening reminds me an awful lot of terrible movies I was bullied into watching on VHS at a friend’s house.

WIOU: One thing I like in a TV intro is when something fun happens with the title onscreen. It’s a minor thing, but the way those WIOU letters turn into view? HOOCHIE MAMA! Eight is Enough’s Dick Van Patten does a fantastic job of conveying that being a weatherfellow is tough work.

GABRIEL’S FIRE: I will never for the life of me understand how the early ‘90s could not sustain a James Earl Jones fronted program titled Gabriel’s Fire. Those worlds are supposed to meld beautifully.

PROS & CONS: Gabriel’s Fire would morph into the more lighthearted Pros & Cons which symbolized its new form by laying it on thick with the Video Toaster touches. Instead of James Earl Jones peering at you from the darkness, this go-around it’s a lot of smiles and silly moments with Richard Crenna.

BURKE’S LAW: Hearing “it’s Burke’s Law” at the start of that intro is like when “Do you smell what The Rock’s cooking?” would play before Dwayne Johnson would wander down a ramp to kick Triple H in the stomach. In this case, it’s to get you fired up that Gene Barry’s back on television. This particular episode promises Dom DeLuise and Tawny Kitaen together at last!

MAX MONROE: LOOSE CANNON: If you only see one intro for a Shadoe Stevens vehicle that transitions from a Donut Hole shot to an extended leer at a lady’s bum, make it this one!

TEQUILA AND BONETTI: The creators of Tequila and Bonetti know that if you want folks to get on board for an L.A. dramedy about a New York cop and streetwise police partner dog, you should kick things off by trying to make you feel sorry for this asshole who “accidentally” murdered a kid. Seriously, that’s the route Tequila and Bonetti goes with this fucking insane opening that begins with newspaper headlines screaming “COP KILLS 12 YR OLD” while he cradles a black girl in her arms and then BOOM! we’re spun around to JACK SCALIA GRINNING AROUND WACKY LOS ANGELES AND ALL ITS CRAZY CHARACTERS LIKE A DOG THAT JUMPS THROUGH A FUCKING WINDOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? THIS IS LIKE IF SOMEONE STROKED OFF THE HANNITY VIEWING AND KEPT WHAT WAS SPURTED OUT ONSCREEN! It’s just a really, really, really bad intro.

[pcwpolwrestling]

The Gimmick Infringement Is Bad Edition of PCW Extreme Political TV

THIS WEEK ON EXTREME POLITICAL TV -The fur flies when PCW Owner Dawn McGill bans MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, and the networks for not being in a position to cover PCW in a fair and neutral manner. -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-Progressive Alliance) stands outside an entrance to the Hartman Arena and puts people’s names down on her ‘list.’ -Jerrold Nadler (NY-Progressive Alliance) sends an intern to oversee PCW. -‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson of the SEC vs. Millennial Mark –PCW TELEVISION TITLE MATCH: SNAFU w/Coach P.J. Flack vs. Jack Fraiser -PCW WOMEN’S TITLE MATCH: Yosemite Samantha vs. ‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot

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[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Blue background. The top of the Capitol Building occupies the left hand side of the television screen.

Centered in the middle of the screen: “P-SPAN. THE POLITICAL CHANNEL.”]

P-SPAN Announcer (off screen): The P-SPAN Network bring you long-form public affairs programming from the nation’s capital and are a public service of…

[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Logos of twenty three different cable and satellite television companies replace the Capitol Building and P-SPAN graphic.]

P-SPAN Announcer (v/o): …your television provider.

[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Returns to the blue background with the top of the Capitol Building occupying the left hand side of the television screen with “P-SPAN. THE POLITICAL CHANNEL.” centered in the middle of the screen.]

P-SPAN Announcer (v/o): P-SPAN. The Political Channel.

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OUTSIDE THE ARENA Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-Progressive Alliance) stands outside one of the entrances into the Hartman Arena with a clipboard and pen. She asks people as they enter the arena if they support her. When they say yes, she smiles and thanks them.

When they say no? She writes their name down on the ‘list.’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Hi, I’m Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I’m sure you know who I am.

A fresh faced young man, probably just out of college, dressed in a nice suit smiles as he approaches her.

Some Guy: I certainly do!

He shakes her hand.

Some Guy: I’m Nicholas Tarkowski. Mr. Nadler’s office sent me here to oversight the PCW show. Who should I talk to?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Her name is Dawn McGill. She’s inside.

Ocasio-Cortez points to inside the arena.

Nicholas Tarkowski: Okay. Great!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Just watch it. She’s kind of mean. She keeps all the money for herself and won’t give anyone free groceries.

Nicholas Tarkowski: Oh. Okay!

Tarkowski goes inside. A woman comes out to Ocasio-Cortez next.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Hi, I’m Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I’m sure you know who I am.

Random Woman: Who?

Nervous laughter.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You know who I am. Everyone know who I am now. Right?

Random woman shrugs. Ocasio-Cortez tries to project a smile.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Do you support me and my views?

The woman puts on a bright red ‘Make American Great Again’ baseball cap. Then she opens up her jacket and reveals a Sarah Palin t-shirt underneath.

Random Woman: Um…probably not.

Ocasio-Cortez’s smiles turns to a stern glare. She scribbles down something on her clipboard.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Well. You just made the list!

Random Woman: Oh. Okay.

Random woman shrugs again and leaves.

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PCW Extreme Political TV on P-SPAN Sunday March 10th, 2019 Hartman Arena Park City, Kansas

Announcer: ‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave ‘Low Level Reporter at the New York Times Trying to Make a Name for Herself’ Colleen Crowder

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The camera pans all over the Hartman Arena as PCW is on the air!

Fireworks go off. Spotlights move back and forth through the crowd.

Cut to ringside where ‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave stands at the broadcast table next to Colleen Crowder.

Johnny Suave: Hello everyone! This is Political Championship Wrestling!

Crowd: PCW!…PCW!…PCW!…

Johnny Suave: I am Johnny Suave. She is ‘Low Level Reporter at the New York Times Trying to Make a Name for Herself’ Colleen Crowder. Tonight we are broadcasting tonight from the Hartman Arena in Park City, Kansas with an exciting evening of political wrestling!

Colleen Crowder: It’s good to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside making people think.

Johnny Suave: I’m not sure accosting people coming to the show to forget about real life for a couple hours makes people think. It might make people think that you’re annoying and over the top.

Colleen Crowder: If you keep that up, you’ll be on the list soon enough.

Johnny Suave: I already am.

Suave reminds everyone that Loose Cannons Unleashed is just three weeks away and the PCW title scene has been turned completely upside down. Why?

-‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott became the number one contender for the PCW title after defeating Jack Fraiser via DQ last week when Professor McCarthy’s Flock attacked him during the match. But debuting on the show last week was a new tag team Weapons of Mass Destruction II (Frank Bomb and Newt Tron Bomb with Ensen DeAirey-Bomb) and they made the save for Scott…

VIDEO: End of Kevin Scott-Jack Fraiser Match

…Newt Tron Bomb then climbs onto the apron and up on the turnbuckle. He turns and faces the crowd. Then he crouches and points his butt towards Professor McCarthy, AOC, PeaceNick, and Peta.

Colleen Crowder: What is he doing?

People in the front rows frantically put gas masks over their faces.

Frank Bomb and Ensen DeAirey-Bomb put on gas masks.

Colleen Crowder: Okay, why is everyone putting gas masks on?

Johnny Suave: Think Halitosis’s breath with a larger blast radius.

Colleen Crowder: Huh? What?

Too late. Suddenly, Professor McCarthy clutches his throat and tries to cover his nose.

Colleen Crowder: That was gross and a complete rip-off. If anything, the referee should have thrown the match completely out and let someone else be the number one contender.

Johnny Suave: That’s not how it’s done. As I was saying, Scott is your new number one contender for the PCW title. The SEC roared back to life with ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson leading the way and he’s gunning for the PCW belt. But the big surprise of the night…

VIDEO: The Big Return of the Night

…Suave is shocked at who he sees.

Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP! HE’S BACK!

William Daniels Bryan– ‘The Prairie Populist’ -3 time PCW Champion. Former PCW Television Champion HT: 5’10″ WT: 180, HOME: Platte, Nebraska FIN: Cattle Mutilation/Crane Kick

On the stage, Bryan looks tanned and rested.

Johnny Suave: That’s former THREE-TIME PCW Champion William Daniels Bryan thank you very much who’s been out since mid-October of 2018. That’s when the Antifa broke his leg at a house show in Rolla, Missouri to put him out of commission.

Colleen Crowder: Oh great…the Prairie Populist is back. Hopefully he’s at least learned his lesson and won’t go around pissing off Professor McCarthy and his Flock any more.

Johnny Suave: Also last week, Jerrold Nogler…

Colleen Crowder: Nadler.

Johnny Suave: …Nobler…

Colleen Crowder: It’s Nadler. Jerrold Nadler, Johnny.

Johnny Suave: Whatever.

-Jerrold Nadler (NY-Progressive Alliance) stopped in to warn PCW Owner Dawn McGill that his oversight committee will hold her and PCW accountable if they don’t allow families to attend shows even if they don’t have tickets. How does McGill respond?

VIDEO: Last week’s Extreme Political TV

McGill drives her spiked heels into Nadler’s…er…nads. He bends over to a ninety degree angle.

…

Dawn takes a side headlock and DDT’s Nadler to the mat.

Colleen Crowder: Complete overreaction…again…by Dawn McGill and a complete lack of respect towards a respected member of the Executive Committee.

Johnny Suave: The lack of respect goes both ways, Colleen.

Suave moves on…Mitch Thomas-American Taxpayer debuts but loses to Andrew ‘The Bureaucrat’ Riley- who was also debuting.

VIDEO: Mitch Thomas w/Harvey Wilson-American Taxpayers vs. Andrew Riley

…Melissa jumps on the ring apron and gets the referee’s attention. Riley reaches into his trunks and discreetly pulls out a foreign object. He walks over to Thomas and flattens him with the loaded right hand.

Riley tosses the foreign object away and pulls Thomas back up. Melissa jumps down. The referee turns in time to see Riley drop Thomas with the Code Red Tape. Cover…One…Two…THREE.

Colleen Crowder: Again, a good bureaucrat knows how to take care of business. That’s what Andrew Riley did.

Johnny Suave: He cheated.

Colleen Crowder: Whatever gets the job done.

Harvey Wilson snatches the foreign object off the floor and shows it to the referee.   The referee is unmoved and raises Riley’s arm in victory. So Wilson wraps his fist around the foreign object and pops Riley in the schnozz.

Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP!

Riley collapses to the mat. Wilson shrugs and drops the foreign object

Colleen Crowder: Again, a total and complete lack of respect shown towards a hard-working public servant.

Johnny Suave: No different than the total and complete lack of respect shown towards the American Taxpayer.

-‘Mr. Hollywood’ Kevin Daniels stops in to vow he’ll never set foot in PCW again…after tonight…as a result of PCW Champion Stone Chism assaulting him the week before.

-McGill makes a big announcement…

VIDEO: Dawn McGill’s Big Announcement

Dawn McGill: I am pleased to announce to all you…the PCW faithful here in Terre Haute, Indiana…that we are bringing back the PCW Television Title and the PCW Women’s Title.

The crowd applauds.

McGill further explains that the Television and Women’s champions will be determined at next weekend’s shows with the finals to be held Sunday March 10th in Park City, Kansas.

Suave quickly runs down tonight’s show.

-The SEC’s ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson makes his PCW debut tonight.

-The PCW Television Champion will be crowned tonight with SNAFU with Coach E.J. Flack facing Jack Fraiser with his Oootlander Blaire Rendell for the TV belt.

-Main Event for the PCW Women’s Title: Yosemite Samantha versus ‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot

Johnny Suave: Oh…and Dawn McGill banned the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and all the networks from covering the show tonight.

Crowder’s go super wide and big.

Colleen Crowder: WHAT!

Johnny Suave: We’ll be back right after these messages.

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**COMMERCIAL BREAK**

JETFUEL EXTREME DO IT YOURSELF TAX COMMERCIAL [SCENE: the back yard.

A man holds a garden hose in his right hand and is filling up his above ground pool with water. In his other hand, he holds his cell phone and looks down at it- seemingly confused and perplexed.]

Announcer: This is Tim. He thinks you have to be a mastermind to figure out how to do his own taxes.

[A large brown wooden fence encloses the yard. The right wooden gate opens up and ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido, enters Tim’s back yard. (GRAPHIC: “’No Frills’ Chris Escondido, professional wrestling manager)]

Announcer: So we flew in pro wrestling mastermind ‘No Frill’s’ Chris Escondido to help him.

[Escondido peers over Tim’s shoulder to look at his cell phone.]

Chris Escondido: Dude. What does it say there?

[Close up of Tim’s phone. ‘Did you buy a home?’ Press here.]

Tim: It says…did you buy a home?

Chris Escondido: Did you buy a home?

Tim: Ummm…

[Out of nowhere, ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay runs in and whacks Tim in the back with a Singapore cane.]

Tim: YES! YES! I BOUGHT A HOUSE!

Chris Escondido: Then I’d press there.

Tim: There?

*WHACK*

Tim: AARGGHH! THERE! OKAY, OKAY…I’M PRESSING THE BUTTON!

[Tim, in immense pain and anguish, presses the button. The display turns to a green check mark to indicate that he was successful and a message appears that reads: ‘Congrats, you get a big tax break…and a trip to the emergency room.]

Tim: Huh?

*THWACK*

Tim: AAARGHHHHH!

[Escondido nods down at Tim who’s fallen to his knees in excruciating pain.]

Chris Escondido: Okay then. My work is done here.

[He then turns and walks away.]

[Graphic on screen: ‘It doesn’t take a f@#$ing genius to do your taxes.’ Tim looks down at his phone and winces in pain from the Singapore caneshots.]

Announcer: Jetfuel Extreme Do It Yourself Tax. Taxes done to the extreme.

*THWACK*

Tim’s voice: ARGGHHHH! OKAY! STOP! PLEASE!

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PCW ON THE ROAD March 16th – Jamestown Civic Center / Jamestown, SD March 22nd – Silverstein Eye Centers Arena / Independence, MO March 23rd – Qwest Center Omaha / Omaha, NE March 24th – Sanford Pentagon / Sioux Falls, SD March 30th – Taft Coliseum / Columbus, OH March 31st – Mayo Civic Center / Rochester, MN April 6th – Loose Cannons Unleashed PPV @ the D.C. Armory / Washington, D.C. April 12th – Buccaneer Arena / Urbandale, IA April 13th – McLeod Center / Cedar Rapids, IA April 14th – McElroy Auditorium / Waterloo, IA

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DAWN McGILL’S OFFICE The owner of PCW expected Nicholas Tarkowski’s arrival. She didn’t expect him to be a fresh-faced kid just out of college.

Dawn McGill: I’m not sure if I should be surprised or offended.

Nicholas Tarkowski: I was given strict orders by Mr. Nadler to oversee and observe everything that goes on here.

Dawn waves him off.

Dawn McGill: Yeah, yeah. Listen, if you’re going to be backstage then you need to find something to do.

Nicholas Tarkowski: Find something to do. I have something to-

Dawn McGill: Everybody works here. Everyone pitches in.

Tarkowski just stands there, not sure what he’s expected to do.   That is, until McGill comes over with a large box containing official PCW Ray McAvay ‘Show Up…Punch In…Shut Up…Get to Work’ baseball jerseys and plops it in his hands.

Dawn McGill: Take this over to Ray McAvay. He’s signing and posing for pictures in the foyer and they’re doing gangbusters business tonight. Just look for the hot tub.

McGill takes off to take care of something else. Tarkowski looks lost.

Cut to Suave and Crowder at the broadcast desk.

WHO’S BANNING WHO? Colleen Crowder (going full indignant): First she bans the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the networks from covering the show. Then this? What is Dawn McGill trying to hide?

Johnny Suave: Yes. She’s making the poor boy work. Oh the humanity.

Colleen Crowder: That’s not what I mean. You know what I’m talking about.

Suave addresses the fact that the Progressive Alliance/Blue Brand Show have banned Fox News from covering their events because ‘Fox News is not in a position to cover the Progressive Alliance in a fair and neutral manner.’ He says McGill is making a point using the same criteria the Progressive Alliance used towards Fox News to the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the networks.

Colleen Crowder (Irate): This is unacceptable! This is a chilling affront to the First Amendment! Freedom of speech!

Johnny Suave: But it’s okay to do it to Fox News.

Colleen Crowder: The New Yorker says Fox was colluding with CEO Trump during 2016’s Extreme Election Night.

Johnny Suave: Oh? Just like the time CNN’s Donna Brazile colluded with Hillary Clinton…during Extreme Election Night 2016. Has CNN been banned from the Progressive Alliance/Blue Brand shows and events?

Silence.

Oh…and evil dagger eyes directed at Suave.

MATCH #1 ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson of the SEC vs. Millennial Mark Johnny Suave: Well. We’re about to see the debut of the SEC’s big new signing…in more ways than one…’Redneck’ Bill Dickinson.

Suave sends it to PCW’s ring announcer- Kimber Marshall.

Marshall introduces Millennial Mark- who’s already in the ring with his significant other Snowflake Suzie.

Millennial Mark: HT: 6’-1” WT: 200 / HOME: Beachwood, OH FIN: Parent’s Basement Slam MGR: Snowflake Suzie

He takes a selfie of himself with the PCW crowd behind him in the background. Of course, he doesn’t notice several PCW fans flipping him off as he takes the picture on his cell phone.

Mark rips the microphone away from an annoyed Kimber.

Millennial Mark: You know, I’ve been training for this moment all my life. X-Box has a kick ass WWE wrestling game and I spent countless hours wrestling online. Now, bring on my opponent!

Kimber rips the microphone back.

Kimber Marshall: ANNDDDDD, HIS OPPONENT!

*“White Trash” – Chris Janson*

‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson “The 330 Pound Southern Brawler” AGE: 37 / HT: 6′ 1″  WT: 330 / HOME: Troy, AL FIN: High Crossbody into a Powerbomb

Dickinson walks out with the rest of the new SEC- ‘Dastardly’ Dave Miller, ‘Dangerous’ Dan Williams, ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann, and SEC Spokesman Phil Finebaum.

Phil Finebaum: My faction is better than your faction. The SEC is the best of the best. We only recruit five star talent. That’s why Dickinson, Miller, and Williams were brought in. We only bring in the best of the best. That’s why soon, the SEC will control the two biggest belts in PCW.

Suddenly, Millennial Mark doesn’t look so brave.

Crowder is aghast at the man in the ring.

Colleen Crowder: Who…the hell…is that?

Johnny Suave: That’s right. You were unconscious when Mr. McMann revealed the new SEC last week.

REPLAY: End of Last Week’s Show

…out of nowhere, three men hit the ring and blow up Jack from State Barn Insurance.

Confused, Chism stops in his tracks and looks around.

Johnny Suave: What the hell? Who are those three men?

Suave realizes who they’re wrestling for when Phil Finebaum and then ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann come out.

McMann takes the microphone.

Mr. McMann: Ladies and gentlemen of PCW. The house has been swept. New blood has been brought in. Please welcome the new and improved Sports Entertainment Coalition.

Sports Entertainment Coalition ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson “The 330 Pound Southern Brawler” AGE: 37 / HT: 6′ 1″  WT: 330 / HOME: Troy, AL FIN: High Crossbody into a Powerbomb ‘Dastardly’ Dave Miller AGE: 28 / HT: 6’ 0” WT: 240 / HOME: Columbus, GA FIN: Southern Cross ‘Dangerous’ Dan Williams AGE: 42 / HT: 6’ 2” WT: 252 / HOME: Wemberly, TX FIN: Devil’s Triangle (Triangle Choke)

McMann states Dickinson is gunning for the PCW title. Miller and Williams have their eye on the tag belts.

Colleen Crowder: What the hell is Mr. McMann doing? These people are deplorable!

*DING-DING*

Dickinson slowly walks towards the center of the ring. Millennial Mark sticks on foot in the ropes to stall for time. That time runs out as Dickinson walks right over and pulls him into the ring. Right hand decks Mark. The Millennial rolls out of the ring. Dickinson right behind him. Chop by Dickinson sends Mark into the barricade. Dickinson whips him into the barricade. And again…and again. Mark’s busted open and Snowflake Suzie is shouting at Dickinson to stop. The referee has started his count. Dickinson lifts Mark up and drops him chest first onto the barricade.

Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP!

Snowflake Suzie charges up to ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann and shoves what appears to be a script in his face. McMann looks at the script…grabs the script…and rips the script up.

Johnny Suave: I’ll be damned.

Colleen Crowder: What is he doing? He’s going off script.

Note: Why is this a big deal?

VIDEO: PCW Loose Cannons Unleashed 9 – May 4th, 2014

While the PWWF announcers mocked Bryan as he rolled out of the ring, he marched over to their desk and wiped off the expensive monitors and other equipment.  Then he threw Boles out of his chair, picked it up…  *CLANG* … Boles to the ground.  Lollar up… *CLANG* …Lollar to the floor.  Triple R reached over the top rope to grab Bryan… *CLANG* …he draped himself over the top rope.  *CLANG* Triple R slid down and landed face first on the canvas.

Bryan climbed through the ropes and confronted PMC Banks.  Banks tried to beg off… *CLANG* …Bryan wasn’t having any of it.  He ejected Triple R out of the ring and then rolled Banks out. Blackwell climbed in and handed Bryan a microphone.  But before he can say a word…

Mr. McMann: “What the hell is going on here!”

McMann, followed by his executive producer Devin Done and his cue-card carrying lackey, stormed into the ring with PWWF CEO Barack Obama (D-NV),  Harry Reid, (D-IL), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and John Boehner (R-OH) and confronts ‘Prairie Populist’ William Daniels Bryan.

Mr. McMann: “You’ve gone completely off the script!”

McMann shook the thick script at Bryan.

Mr. McMann: “This is SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT! Everything is timed out to the second and everything said has to be corporately approved by either myself or Devin Done.  You’ve ruined the main event that millions of people paid good money to see-”

Mr. McMann winks at Suave…and shrugs.

Dickinson eventually drags Millennial Mark back to the ring. He stands him up in a corner. Steps back…rushes forward and throws himself into the Millennial. Millennial Mark takes two steps forward and collapses. Dickinson then pulls him back up. Lift…powerbomb. Cover…one…two…THREE.

*DING-DING-DING*

WINNER: ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson @ 3:24

Johnny Suave: We-ellll…a dominant win for ’Redneck’ Bill Dickinson over Millennial Mark.

Crowder calls Dickinson’s arrival to PCW ‘horrible’ and ‘deplorable.’   She questions why Mr. McMann has lowered himself by bringing Dickinson’s extreme style to PCW?

Johnny Suave: We’re about to find out.

Mr. McMANN SPEAKS Mr. McMann, flanked by Dickinson, Williams, Miller, and the Mouth of the SEC Phil Finebaum, is interviewed in ring by the Corporate Sports(Entertainment) Programming Nation aka..CSPN.

CSPN’s Reese Anderson asks McMann why Dickinson? Why Williams? Why Miller?

Mr. McMann: It comes down to this. Wins and losses. Bill Dickinson has a proven track record of success. Dan Williams and Dave Miller are an established tag team who are focuses on one thing- winning the PCW Tag Team titles.

CSPN’s Rebecca Morris asks McMann about the Political Universal titles.

McMann says the SEC hasn’t forgotten them.

Mr. McMann: Charlie Blackwell walked out on the SEC. Kirk Walstreit and P.M.C. Banks were poached by Jill Berg Enterprises…the SEC hasn’t forgotten that. There will be a reckoning. But first things first.

McMann wants to rebuild the brand first. He goes to elaborate but ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson interrupts.

Bill Dickinson: You don’t need a ‘brand.’ What you need is…

Dickinson balls his right fist and shows it off.

Bill Dickinson: …a good right hand. A nasty disposition. And the ability to put your opponents shoulders on the mat and have the referee count…one…two…three. I can do it.

Dickinson points over to Miller and Williams.

Bill Dickinson: They can do it.

Cut back to Suave and Crowder.

Crowder looks horrified.

Colleen Crowder: This is awful! So much…toxic masculinity. I don’t think I can take much more.

Before things get more dramatic, Suave sends it backstage to Paige McGillicutty.

ANOTHER ARRIVAL Returning backstage interviewer Paige McGillicutty has two more new PCW wrestlers- actually a new tag team.

The man on the left is dressed in a bright blue t-shirt with a big ‘D’ in the middle. The man on the right is dressed in red with ‘RINO’ emblazoned across the front.

The Bi-Partisan Dream Team RINO-The Wonk Machine HT: 6′ 0″ WT: 275, HOME: Detroit, MI / FIN: Spear! Blue Dog D HT: 6’ 0” WT: 195 / HOME: Chattanooga, TN

Paige asks them why they’ve returned to PCW?

Blue Dog D says what happened last week on the Blue Brand’s Political Shakedown show was the final straw.

Blue Dog D: I’ve always tried to think that I’m fair minded. But the Progressive Alliance has shifted so far left that now it’s affecting the outcomes of matches.

Blue Dog D refers to the Californian Ninth Circuit of Appeals Rules that he wrestled the Ultimate Social Justice Warrior with on Tuesday Night’s Political Shakedown.

REPLAY: Tuesday Night Political Shakedown

Blue Dog D pins the Ultimate Social Justice Warrior. The referee’s ruling is appealed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the result and orders the match restarted.

Blue Dog D pins him again. The referee’s ruling is appealed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the result and orders the match restarted.

Blue Dog D pins him yet again. The referee’s ruling is appealed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the result and orders the match restarted.

Professor McCarthy’s Flock attacks Blue Dog D. The Ultimate Social Justice Warrior then pins him. The Ninth Circuit affirms the ruling.

Blue Dog D calls it wrong. He’d rather come to PCW where he knows he’ll get a fair shake.

RINO agrees. He’s proud to bring back the Bi-Partisan Dream Team and bring back balance to PCW.

TARKOWSKI ARRIVES AT THE HOT TUB Nicholas Tarkowski finally arrives at the souvenir stand for Champion of the Political Universe ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay.

Nicholas Tarkowski (talking on the phone): I know…I know Mr. Nadler. I’m supposed to be overseeing PCW’s operations. But the second I arrived here, Miss McGill…er..sorry…MS. McGill put me to work…….yes…put me to work!

Tarkowski sees the hot tub. It’s empty and covered up. He drops the box of shirts.

Nicholas Tarkowski: All right. I will get right on it.

Tarkowski ends the call and drops the box on the floor.

Random Worker: They’re not here.

Nicholas Tarkowski: But I’m supposed to-

Random Worker: They went back to the Les Miserables section. Ray said to bring him a few jerseys and leave the rest here.

Nicholas Tarkowski: But?

The random worker shakes his head and leaves.

Tarkowski sighs.

JACK FRAISER PROMO Jack paces back and forth. He’s pissed off at the Green World Order and Professor McCarthy’s Flock because they cost him a shot at the PCW title.

Jack Fraiser: Last week, I was engaged in a battle with Kevin Scott…I had a chance to win a title shot against Stone Chism. And then this happened…

REPLAY: End of Kevin Scott-Jack Fraiser Match

Fraiser sneaks a glance at Blaire Rendell at ringside, grits his teeth, and pushes forward. Scott hits a drop toehold and drops the leg across Fraiser’s back.   Scott sits down on his back to bend Fraiser’s head back but a wave of green hits the ring and dive on him.

Johnny Suave: IT’S THE GREEN WORLD ORDER!

Green World Order Valet: Peta from PETA HT: 5’ 8” WT: 123 / HOME: Los Angeles, CA GreenPete HT: 5′ 11″ WT: 195 / HOME: Los Angeles, CA FIN: Harpoon (modified spear or gore) ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee HT: 6′ 3″ WT: 192 / HOME: New York City, NY FIN: The Juicer PeaceNick– HT: 5′ 10″ WT: 180 / HOME: Bremerton, WA FIN: Choroform

Peta, GreenPete and Lee triple up on Scott. PeaceNick does not take part in the violence- he actually walks around the ring with a sign decrying the inherent violence in PCW.

Also at ringside, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s cheering on the GWO’s attack on Scott.

Colleen Crowder: Kevin Scott had it coming.   The message here? Don’t mess with AOC!

The referee calls for the bell.

WINNER BY DISQUALIFICATION/NEW #1 CONTENDER FOR THE PCW TITLE: ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott @ 4:57

Colleen Crowder (shocked): WHAT?

Close up on Jack Fraiser. He can’t believe he’s just been disqualified.

Fraiser says Johnny Suave had it right. The GWO cost him a shot at the title.

Jack Fraiser: I make sacrifices to become a better man and a better wrestler. The GWO had no right to take away my opportunity to wrestle for the PCW title.

…Professor McCarthy comes out to the stage directs the rest of his Flock to attack Jack Fraiser and his Oootlander. Professor McCarthy’s Flock (GWO, The Young Jerks: Zenk Cryger, James Idahola, and their screechy, profane valet Anna, Codee Pink, Emily S. List) jump Fraiser and Rendell.

Johnny Suave: IT’S NOW NINE AGAINST THREE!

Colleen Crowder: That’ll teach them a valuable lesson.

Professor McCarthy climbs into the ring. Fraiser and Rendell are laid out on the floor. Codee Pink glitter bombs Scott and he’s blinded. The Flock are now pummeling the living hell out of Scott.

Jack Fraiser: No, the valuable lesson that will be taught is not to mess with another man’s livelihood. GWO? I’m coming for you. Professor McCarthy’s Flock? I don’t care how long it takes, there will be payback for what happened.

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**COMMERCIAL BREAK**

“Remember. If something bad happens to you- we’ll find someone to blame so you can get paid!”

Extreme Attorneys Felcher and Felcher ‘Seriously Bad Lawyers with Seriously Bad Combovers’

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PCW RANKINGS

PCW Title Champion: The One Man Anti-Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism #1 Contender: ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott #2 Contender: ‘Prairie Populist’ William Daniels Bryan (Les Miserables) #3 Contender: ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson (SEC) #4 Contender: Average Joe (Truckin’ Average Company)

PCW Women’s Title Champion: TBD #1 Contender: Yosemite Samantha #2 Contender: ‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot #3 Contender: Ninja Kitty #4 Contender: ‘Former Hooter’s Waitress’ C.J. Lewis

PCW Tag Team Title Champion: Island of Misfit Wrestlers: Rah and Halitosis #1 Contender: The Dork Dynasty: Leonard and Sheldon Robertson #2 Contender: Truckin’ Average Company: Ken Worth-American Trucker and Brad Company #3 Contender: Rough Justice: D.B. Ruff and Connor Justice #4 Contender: The Beer Bellied Softball Playing Ninja: Hank and Tiny

PCW Television Title Champion: TBD #1 Contender: Jack Fraiser #2 Contender: SNAFU #3 Contender: Big Oil (Jill Berg Enterprises) #4 Contender: Ken Worth-American Trucker (Truckin’ Average Company)

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OUTSIDE THE ARENA/FILMED EARLIER Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to query people about whether or not they agree with her views and writes up those who don’t on her list.

Then, former PCW wrestler and member of the infamous ‘Axis of Evil’ tag team who competed in PCW a decade ago Fernando Venezuela comes up to AOC.

Fernando Venezuela HT: 6′ 9″ WT: 355, HOME: Caracas, Venezuela FIN: Venezuelian Vice Grip

She recognizes Venezuela and raises her right fist in the air.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Solidarity my Venezuelan brother! I support Nicolas Maduro one hundred percent and oppose any effort to remove him from power!

Venezuela points to a button on his shirt.

Fernando Venezuela: I support Juan Guaido. I’ve changed my stance on socialism.

Ocasio-Cortez’s smile vanishes.

Fernando Venezuela: Socialism does not work for Venezuelans. Socialism has left our country in a mess.

Now frowning, Ocasio-Cortez is not pleased.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Hmmph.

She angrily scribbles Venezuela’s name down on the clipboard.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You just made the list!

Cut back to Suave and Crowder.

Johnny Suave: That’s right. Former Axis of Evil wrestler Fernando Venezuela is here tonight at the show. He’s sitting as a special guest in the Les Miserables section of the arena.

Cut to the Les Miserables section.

LIVE FROM THE LES MISERABLES SECTION Venezuela waves from the Les Miserables section. Behind Venezuela, the Les Miserables stand up and start cheering when they realize the camera has been turned on.

Venezuela sits next to Champion of the Political Universe ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay and his pals: -General DeBauchery, a weird mash up of the AWA’s Colonel DeBeers and Lt. Aldo from Inglorious Basterds, sporting an authentic captain’s hat right out of World War II, grinning obnoxiously and smoking a cigar while collecting every beer and liquor label he can get his hands on. -Al Cahall, who does curls with a six pack of beer to tone his six pack abs. -Nic Koteen, smoking a cigarette and blatantly violating several city anti-smoking ordinances.

Also there, Dark and Stormy, legends of the West Texas Adult Entertainment industry, also wave wearing their standard official PCW Ray McAvay “Show Up. Punch In. Shut Up. Get to Work” baseball jerseys.

Oh…and Nicholas Tarkowski arrives with a few more shirts. He’s also on the phone- presumably with Jerrold Nadler dishing the dirt on PCW.

The camera pans and shows many more people in the section, ordinary folks from different backgrounds.

Cut back to Suave and Crowder.

Colleen Crowder: Who are those nobodies sitting with McAvay and his rabble?

Johnny Suave: McAvay gives tickets to middle class, ordinary people to come to the show and fill up the Les Miserables section. He feels ticket prices for many events price out ordinary folks so this is his way of giving back to them.

Crowder’s eyes light up.

Colleen Crowder: Wait a minute. These people are getting ‘comped’ tickets? They’re not paying to get into the show.

Johnny Suave: Um…I guess not.

Crowder is up out of her chair and running to the back before Suave finishes his statement.

Johnny Suave: I’m used to her getting up and running out. But usually, she’s in a real pissed off mood when she does it.

Suave notes that located next to the Les Miserables section are the American Patriots/Never Trumpers country club set. Bill Kristol. Jonah Goldberg. David French. Tom Nichols. David Reaboi. Mitt Romney (UT-American Patriots). They sit next to the markedly rowdier Les Miserables sipping their cognac and looking down at their neighbors.

Kristol gets up and complains to one of the usher about the ‘unseemly’ behavior going on in the next section.

Bill Kristol: These ‘people’ simply do not belong.

Johnny Suave: Since when did Bill Kristol become Judge Smails?

Bill Kristol: And look at my shoes. There’s wax build-up on those shoes! This is fine leather! I need someone to come out here and strip the wax off, cream them, and buff them with a fine chamois!

Johnny Suave: I’m sorry, is he talking dirty there?

Kristol berates the poor usher and demands he does something about the Les Miserables.

Johnny Suave: Funny. Kristol and his ilk see people who are apparently beneath him. I see people doing the best they can to get from one day to another. Just like the two men who are going wrestle for the PCW Television title tonight. One of them is backstage right now with Paige McGillicutty. Paige?

Cut to backstage.

SNAFU AND COACH E.J. FLACK Paige brings SNAFU and Coach Flack in.

Paige McGillicutty: Coach Flack, SNAFU has had opportunities at the PCW Title. Tonight, he gets a crack at the TV belt.

E.J. Flack: Paige.

The crowd cheers.

E.J. Flack: Ladies and gentlemen. My name is E.J. Flack. I am not here to change traditions. I am not here to pursue an agenda. I am here in PCW because I eat challenges for breakfast. That’s why I’m here. And that’s why this man is here.

Flack points towards SNAFU.

E.J. Flack: Sometimes in life, you have to face the big monster thingy.

Paige McGillicutty: The big monster thingy?

E.J. Flack: Sometimes in life, you have to take on something that’s bigger than you even if its huge tusks can shred you to bits in seconds…even if its jagged teeth can tear through you like a hot knife through warm butter. Sometimes when you’re climbing life’s mountain and come up against insurmountable odds, you have to…

Flack pauses for dramatic effect.

E.J. Flack: …‘Narfle the Garthok!

Crowd: NARFLE THE GARTHOK!

Flack continues with his spiel and says forget about ‘rowing the boat.’ He explains an oar is nothing more than a mere snack for a Garthok. A Garthok uses an oar as a frickin’ toothpick. And a boat becomes dilapidated in time.

E.J. Flack: When you’re climbing life’s mountain and come up against insurmountable odds, you don’t row something, you…

Flack raises his arm and the PCW fans respond.

Crowd: NARFLE THE GARTHOK!

And with that, Flack and SNAFU depart.

Cut back to Suave and Crowder at the broadcast desk.

Suave notes Colleen Crowder has returned and seems in a really good mood.

Johnny Suave: We are ready to find out who will be the new PCW Television champion.

Colleen Crowder: I’m happy Jack Fraiser gets his title shot after all.

Johnny Suave: You are?

Colleen Crowder: Yes. Maybe now he’ll stop whining about what happened last week.

Suave sends it to Kimber Marshall in the ring.

Cut to the ring.

MATCH #2-PCW TELEVISION TITLE: SNAFU w/Coach P.J. Flack vs. Jack Fraiser Kimber Marshall is there and ready for the introductions.

Kimber Marshall: This match is a one fall…

Crowd: ONE FALL!

Kimber Marshall: …and is for the PCW Television Title! Introducing first…

’Feel Invincible’- Skillet

Kimber Marshall: HE’S LEARNED EVERYTHING HE KNOWS ABOUT WRESTLING FROM WATCHING SABU IN ECW VIDEOS!

SNAFU AGE: 33 / HT: 5′ 10″  WT: 200 / HOME: Parts Unknown FIN: Philadelphia Facebuster MGR: Coach E.J. Flack

The fans chant ‘SNAFU!…SNAFU! as he and Flack make their way to the ring.

Kimber Marshall: And his opponent…

The video screen comes to life:

It’s 1946 in the Scottish Highlands.

On the hill of Irish na Dun, British nurse Blaire Rendell hears the tell-tale buzzing sound as she approaches the standing stones. This makes her very happy.]

Blaire Rendell (Scottish accent): Soon, I’ll be back with my true love Jamie and I will be truly happy once again in eighteenth century Scotland.

Blaire goes to the standing stones where the buzzing sound gets louder and louder. Soon she faints and falls to the ground. When she wakes up…

Blaire nearly jumps in the air when she encounters a man dressed in heavy plaid lumberjack shirt, a warm coat, and a tuque.

Blaire Rendell: Wh-who the hell are you?   And where the hell am I?

Jack Fraiser: My name is Jack Fraiser. You are in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.

Blaire Rendell: Saskatoon…Saskatchewan Canada? That can’t be true. I’m supposed to be in Scotland.

[A hockey puck comes flying by just barely missing both of them.]

Blaire Rendell: What the *BLEEP*!

Jack Fraiser: Nope. This is definitely Canada.

Kimber continues with the introduction.

Jack Fraiser AGE: 24 / HT: 6”3” WT: 205 / HOME: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan FIN: Canadian National Railaway VALET: ‘Oootlander’ Blaire Rendell

Fraiser and Rendell make their way to the ring.

Johnny Suave: These two have spent a lot of time in the same ring of late. They know each other’s moves…they know each other’s tendencies. This will be a fascinating match.

Colleen Crowder: And the winner becomes the trailer park champion.

*DING-DING*

Flack gets up on the ring apron and shouts ‘NARFLE THE GARTHOK!’ The crowd responds in kind. Fraiser shrugs it off and ties up with SNAFU. Fraiser pushes SNAFU to a corner but backs off. He waits for SNAFU and they circle. SNAFU and Fraiser tie up again and jockey for position. Fraiser takes a waistlock. Fraiser rolls SNAFU back and shifts to a facelock. SNAFU scoots back to get the ropebreak with a foot. Fraiser lets go at 3 and he grins as they circle again. Flack claps his hands on the outside and fires the crowd up. They tie up, and Fraiser gets a takedown. Fraiser goes for the early pin. One…two…SNAFU kicks out. Fraiser goes for the mount but SNAFU pushes away with his legs. SNAFU tries to go to the air but Blaire Rendell smacks him in the back with a steel chair and SNAFU staggers into another takedown. Fraiser covers again…one…two…SNAFU kicks out and gets back to his feet.

Johnny Suave: Jack Fraiser controlling the action early on. He’s not letting SNAFU use any of the moves he’s learned from the SABU ECW DVD.

Colleen Crowder: Yeah whatever. The news I have is far better than this match between two no name wrestlers.

Fraiser charges forward. SNAFU throat chops! He clubs and chops Fraiser. Irish whip coming but Fraiser blocks, then reverses to run SNAFU over! Fraiser throws forearms and European Uppercuts. He whips SNAFU and dropkicks him! Fraiser even standing moonsaults! Cover…one…two…SNAFU kicks out and survives again. Fraiser whips SNAFU but SNAFU holds the ropes. Fraiser runs into a stungun and a flapjack hotshot! He decides to take five and rolls out of the ring. SNAFU pursues Fraiser on the outside. Blaire tries to get in his way…SNAFU knocks her aside and throws Fraiser into the barricade. Fans applaud while SNAFU scrambles back to the ring. Fraiser takes a few seconds to gather himself and confer with Blaire. He’s headed back to the ring when we go to break.

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**COMMERCIAL BREAK**

Regressive Insurance Commercial

[Shot in black and white, the commercial starts out in an old fashioned kitchen right out of the 1950’s. Dawn McGill, wearing an arch-typical 1950’s red dress with white ruffles and sporting a 1950’s bouffant hair style, sits at the kitchen table with an antique adding machine to her right. She looks the part of the stereotypical happy suburban housewife, complete with big, pearly smile, as she sifts through the monthly bills.]

Announcer: The secret to a happy home in these modern times is a housewife who’s in control of the finances.

[McGill glances up and looks straight at the camera.]

Dawn McGill (in an extremely pleasant voice): Actually, any wife, husband, or human person could use Regressive Insurance’s ‘Set Your Own Price’ magic marker…

[Dawn holds up the giant, prop-like magic marker aka the ‘Set Your Own Price’ tool.]

Dawn McGill: …to take control of their budget.

[Dawn slightly tilts her face and smiles.]

Announcer: And while the men do the hard work of making money…

[Close up on McGill as her facial expression changes. She looks slightly annoyed now.]

Announcer: …she can get all the car insurance options her little heart desires.

[No check that. She looks a little pissed off.]

Dawn McGill: Men do the hard work of making money? Really?

[Cut to the announcer guy- a walking, talking relic from the 1950’s.]

Announcer (smiling and scoffing): Women don’t have jobs making money.

[Cut back to Dawn. She looks at the ‘Set Your Own Price’ tool. Then she looks at the announcer guy like a tiger eyeing its prey.

[Cut to the announcer guy.]

Announcer: Modernizing car insurance the-*WHACK*

[McGill cracks the announcer guy with the ‘Set Your Own Price’ tool.]

Announcer: Owww. You hit me.

[Then Dawn takes a headlock and gauges the announcer’s forehead with the ‘Set Your Own Price’ tool. Blood begins to flow from over his right eye.]

Announcer: Where’s your husband?”

Dawn McGill: Where’s my husband? I’ll show you where my husband is.

[Dawn takes announcer guy by the arm and flings him into the kitchen table. Then she goes to the cupboard and pulls out a skillet. No, not the newfangled skillets but the old fashioned iron skillet. McGill lifts the skillet and…]

[*BONK*]

[…brains the hell out of announcer guy with it.]

[The director of the commercial runs out.]

Director: Hey! You can’t-

[*BONK*]

[Fade to black.]

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PCW ON THE ROAD March 16th – Jamestown Civic Center / Jamestown, SD March 22nd – Silverstein Eye Centers Arena / Independence, MO March 23rd – Qwest Center Omaha / Omaha, NE March 24th – Sanford Pentagon / Sioux Falls, SD March 30th – Taft Coliseum / Columbus, OH March 31st – Mayo Civic Center / Rochester, MN April 6th – Loose Cannons Unleashed PPV @ the D.C. Armory / Washington, D.C. April 12th – Buccaneer Arena / Urbandale, IA April 13th �� McLeod Center / Cedar Rapids, IA April 14th – McElroy Auditorium / Waterloo, IA

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OUTSIDE THE ARENA/MINUTES AGO Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wraps up a ‘spirited’…okay…heated conversation with a passer-by.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Yeah, buddy. You just make the list.

She scribbles the name down on her clipboard.

Finally, two policemen come up to her.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Yes? Can I help you?

Policeman: Ma’am. We’re going to have to take you in.

Ocasio-Cortez becomes a little concerned.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: This isn’t about the FEC complaint, is it?

The policemen shake their heads no.

Policeman: Gimmick infringement.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Gimmick infringement?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (slightly confused): Oh……um……wait a minute

AOC tries to wrap her head around this.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (really confused): ……what?

Policeman: Come along with us.

They lead her towards a waiting car.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: No…wait!

Cut back to the match.

PCW TELEVISION TITLE MATCH (continued) …SNAFU tries to fight out of a sleeper hold and body scissors.

Johnny Suave: SNAFU’S in trouble! He needs to find a way out of the sleeper hold.

E.J. Flack whips the fans into rallying up. Blaire tries to do the same for her man. SNAFU finally fights his way up and out. SNAFU has a chair. *CLANG* Fraiser drops to a knee. SNAFU sets up the chair. Runs the ropes. Leaps off the chair and cannonballs into Fraiser.

Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP!

Cover…one…two…NO! Fraiser just got the shoulder up. SNAFU with the chair. He tosses it to Fraiser. Basement dropkick-NO. Fraiser wallops SNAFU with the chair. Fraiser whips SNAFU into a corner. Blaire slaps SNAFU. Fraiser runs in…SNAFU ducks out. Fraiser misses and takes out his Oootlander- she goes tumbling off the ring apron. SNAFU manages a fireman’s carry…Rolling Death Valley! Cover…one…two…NO!

Johnny Suave: HOW IN THE HELL DID HE KICK OUT OF THAT?

Suave waits for Crowder to say something…anything.

Colleen Crowder: What!

Suave tries to prompt her along. Crowder says she’ll do her talking after the match is over.

Out of nowhere, Fraiser suplexes SNAFU! That gets the fans fired up. Fraiser stalks SNAFU. He scoops slams SNAFU and goes for a cover but SNAFU slips right out. SNAFU pokes the eyes. Fraiser manages a right hand that drives SNAFU into the ropes and then drags SNAFU up again. But SNAFU grabs ropes and won’t let go! SNAFU elbows out but Fraiser’s on him again, German Suplex! Fraiser holds on and drags SNAFU up again, German number two. Fraiser brings SNAFU up again, for the hat trick! But Fraiser’s not done yet. Lift…a fourth German Suplex to SNAFU. Fraiser for the title…one…two…th-NO! Fraiser can’t believe it. Blaire can’t believe it. Somewhere deep down, even SNAFU probably can’t believe it. Blaire pulls out a table and tosses it into the ring while Fraiser pulls SNAFU up and leans him in the corner. Fraiser sets the table up against SNAFU and retreats to the opposite corner. He takes off and sprints across and whams into the table at full speed driving it into SNAFU.

Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP! CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILAWAY!

Fraiser avoids the table as it falls backward. SNAFU takes a step and pitches down to the mat. Fraiser covers. One…two…THREE!

*DING-DING-DING*

Johnny Suave: JACK FRAISER IS THE NEW PCW TELEVISION CHAMPION!

Kimber Marshall makes the official announcement.

WINNER AND NEW PCW TELEVISION CHAMPION: Jack Fraiser @ 17:52 (9:00 on TV)

Fraiser and Blaire embrace. But their celebration is cut short.

Colleen Crowder is in the ring and she’s joined by ‘Low Level Reporter at CNN Trying to Make a Name for Herself’ Sharon Johns and ‘Low Level Reporter at the Washington Post Trying to Make a Name for Himself’ Dan Miller- both who were supposedly banned from reporting on PCW by Dawn McGill.

Crowder says she hates to step on Jack Fraiser’s ‘big win’ tonight but no one cares…she gets booed mightily for that one.

Colleen Crowder: We are breaking news here tonight and that takes precedence. Last week on Extreme Political TV, Dawn McGill said this to Jerrold Nadler…

REPLAY: Last Week’s Extreme Political TV

PCW Owner Dawn McGill and Jerrold Nadler (NY-Progressive Alliance) are in the midst of a heated conversation about ‘oversight.’

Dawn McGill: That’s a bad argument Mr. Nadler. I signed a contract with the venue and paid a fee for us to be here tonight. I make money by charging a price for people to come here to watch the show. I don’t comp tickets to ANYONE. Including you. Including people who just think they can show up at the door and walk right in. It’s not fair to those who spent their hard earned money in order to come here tonight. It’s not fair to those who do the right thing but keep getting penalized by people like you for doing the right thing.

Crowder says McGill has been caught in a lie…a BIG LIE.

Colleen Crowder: Earlier tonight, I found out that alleged, ordinary, schmucks are given free tickets to sit in the Les Miserables section…

REPLAY: Earlier Tonight

Colleen Crowder: Who are those nobodies sitting with McAvay and his rabble?

Johnny Suave: McAvay gives tickets to middle class, ordinary people to come to the show and fill up the Les Miserables section. He feels ticket prices for many events price out ordinary folks so this is his way of giving back to them.

Crowder’s eyes light up.

Colleen Crowder: Wait a minute. These people are getting ‘comped’ tickets? They’re not paying to get into the show.

Johnny Suave: Um…I guess not.

Crowder is up out of her chair and running to the back before Suave finishes his statement.

Jerrold Nadler appears on the video screen.

Jerrold Nadler (video screen): First off, I want to thank Colleen Crowder for personally calling me with this new information. I am very interested in hearing McGill’s explanation for this.

And that brings the PCW owner out. She does not look happy.

Dawn McGill: Colleen, I thought you were a lot of things but I never dreamed for a second that you were a nark. You went and narked me out to Jerrold Nadler. You’ve made my point about bias and validated the reason why I barred your Washington Post and CNN pals from the arena tonight.

McGill then gets to her point. She pulls out what appears to be four checks and asks the camera person to zoom in on them.

The cameraman zooms in- it is indeed four checks.

Dawn McGill: One check is from Ray McAvay. One check is from William Daniels Bryan. One check is from Charlie Blackwell. And guess who wrote out the fourth check?

The camera shows Dawn McGill wrote the fourth check.

Crowder’s jaw drops. Miller’s jaw drops. Hall’s jaw drops.

Dawn McGill: What does that mean? It means between the four of us, we paid for EVERY…SINGLE…TICKET…in the Les Miserables section.

Nadler disappears from the video screen and it goes black.

McGill eyes Crowder.

Dawn McGill: Ray McAvay, William Daniels Bryan, and myself spent two full days driving all over the Wichita metropolitan area giving away free tickets. We stopped at a couple Waffle Houses and handed out tickets. We stopped at warehouses, distribution centers, factories, restaurants, shops, the mall, strip malls, strip clubs, firehouses, outhouses, you name it, we stopped in every conceivable place possible and gave away tickets to tonight’s show.

McGill pauses and smiles.

Dawn McGill: We’ve spent more time handing out tickets and giving back to ordinary, middle class people who’ve been disrespected and disregarded for the past twenty-five years than Adam Schiff (CA-Progressive Alliance) did prepping Michael Cohen for his testimony.

Mic drop.

McGill turns and leaves.

Suave sends it backstage.

KEVIN SCOTT SPEAKS Paige McGillicutty has ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott backstage and asks him about his match last week against PCW Champion ‘The One Man Anti Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism.

Kevin Scott: Stone Chism. My road back to the PCW Title is in the home stretch and I know what it takes to get to the end. I’m a three time PCW Champion and I know that to win the belt you have to go to another level.

Paige asks Scott about the Green World Order attack on him last week.

Kevin Scott: The GWO did Jack Fraiser wrong. I’m happy he won the PCW Television title earlier tonight but…hey…that doesn’t make up for the fact that he could be in my situation right now and wrestling for the top belt in PCW.

Scott says he’s happy that he ended up with the title shot.

Paige asks if he believe he’s earned his shot.

Kevin Scott: That’s not for me to say. I feel bad for Jack Fraiser but I’m not going to refuse to take this opportunity. And I’m fed up with the Green World Order and Professor McCarthy’s Flock talking down to the PCW fans. The fans want someone to punch them in the nose…hell…I want to punch them in the nose. Hopefully I’ll get my chance to do that…soon!

Paige thanks Scott and sends it back to Suave and Crowder.

SUAVE REVIEWS THE SHOW -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-Progressive Alliance) stands outside an entrance to the Hartman Arena and asks people if they support her. If they do, she gets a smile. If they don’t, they make her ‘list.’ -Jerrold Nadler (NY-Progressive Alliance) sends an intern to oversee PCW. The intern gets put to work and doesn’t do a lot of overseeing. -‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson of the SEC defeated Millennial Mark -‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann discussed the ‘new’ SEC. -Jack Fraiser is pissed off at the Green World Order for costing him a shot at the PCW title -Fraiser then defeats SNAFU to win the PCW Television Title -‘Low Level Reporter at the New York Times Trying to Make a Name for Herself’ Colleen Crowder thinks she’s caught PCW Owner Dawn McGill in a lie about ‘comped’ tickets. She was wrong.

It’s main event time for the PCW Women’s Title.

MAIN EVENT/PCW WOMEN’S TITLE MATCH: Yosemite Samantha vs. ‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot Kimber Marshall is in the ring.

Kimber Marshall: Tonight’s main event is one fall…

Crowd: ONE fall!

Kimber Marshall: And it’s for the PCW Women’s title. Introducing first…she is the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest cowgirl who ever crossed the Rio Grande!

Yosemite Samantha, sporting a big ten gallon cowboy hat and a holster complete with gun, walks out onto the stage and gives the audience the ol’ stinkeye.

*“Moth into a Flame” – Metallica*

Yosemite Samantha AGE: 30 / HT: 5’1″ WT: 105 / HOME: Dodge City, KS FIN: Shotgun Knee/Cannonball Combo VALET: Andrea, Melissa, and Charissa Hanson aka…The Hanson Sisters

With an intense look on her face, Yosemite Samantha marches down to the ring followed by all three Hanson Sister- each one dressed in the class Charlestown Chiefs hockey sweaters from the movie ‘Slapshot.’

Yosemite Samantha leaps onto the ring apron and takes aim at her opponent in the back. She removes her cowboy hat and gun holster and leaves them in the corner.

Kimber Marshall: And her opponent…

*“Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer”- Sammy Kershaw*

‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot struts out with her White Trash Posse (Shayne and Jaxson).

‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot AGE: 33 / HT: 5′ 10″ WT: 118 / HOME: Magnolia, AR FIN: White Trash Compactor VALET: The White Trash Posse-Shayne and Jaxson

Harlot and company come to the ring.

Colleen Crowder: You’ve got to be kidding me. It’s freakin’ 2019 and THESE are the two women who are wrestling to become the PCW Women’s champion. What the *BLEEP*?

Johnny Suave: Well Colleen. Lani and Samantha survived two nights of matches this weekend to make it to this point. They are the best of the best in the PCW Women’s-

Colleen Crowder: Save it. Neither of these women qualify to be in this position. These women aren’t the role models that our young girls should look up to.

Johnny Suave: Sorry. You earn titles by doing the work. These two women have done the work.

Crowder starts to say something but Suave notes Referee Davey Keels is calling for the bell.

*DING-DING*

Johnny Suave: And we’re off.

1st MINUTE Harlot and Yosemite Samantha start slowly. Circling. The White Trash Posse scowl watching the action. The Hanson Sisters keep a close watch on the proceedings. Collar and elbow tie. Harlot goes wristlock. Yosemite Samantha reverses into a hammerlock. Harlot reverses back. Irish whip. Yosemite Samantha ducks going through. Harlot blocks the hip toss. Yosemite Samantha blocks a hip toss. Both release and there’s a stand off. The crowd applauds.

Johnny Suave: Okay. No one got the better of that exchange.

Colleen Crowder: No one cares about that Johnny.

2nd MINUTE Tie up. Harlot pushes Yosemite Samantha into a neutral corner. Right hand. Right hand. Yosemite Samantha takes the easy way and punts Harlot in the groin. Harlot doubles over.

Colleen Crowder: Awwww…really? We’re doing that?

Yosemite Samantha grabs her by the back of the head and drives her to the mat with a running bulldog. Roll over and cover…one…Harlot powers out.

Johnny Suave: She wasn’t going to get it done that easy.

Drop toehold by Harlot but Yosemite Samantha pushes herself right back up. She misses a wild right hand as Harlot ducks under. Harlot hiptosses her opponent to the mat.

3rd MINUTE Yosemite Samantha back on her feet and getting her dander up. She goes to run the ropes but Shayne snags a leg and knocks her off balance. Harlot runs through with a clothesline. She goes top rope and hits an elbow. Hooks the legs. One…two- Yosemite Samantha kicks out with authority. Yosemite Samantha clubs Harlot on the back and stares down her White Trash Posse. Shayne shrugs and plays innocent. Yosemite Samantha turns around to get run over by Harlot.

Johnny Suave: Neither woman really getting a foothold on this match. The best thing you can say is that they’re being patient and not forcing the issue.

Colleen Crowder: You are trying really hard to put bright red lipstick on the pig, aren’t you?

4th MINUTE Harlot stalks Yosemite Samantha along the ropes. Forearms to the back. YS falls over. Cover by Harlot…one…two…Yosemite Samantha kicks out. More forearms by Harlot. Yosemite Samantha hits back. Harlot clubs her down again. Harlot stands Yosemite Samantha up and whips her into the ropes. YS comes back and gets big back dropped…bails out…and falls to the floor. Keels starts a ring count and it passes 6 before Yosemite Samantha really moves.

Johnny Suave: Yosemite Samantha needs to find another idea. What she’s doing is not working and hasn’t worked for most of the match.

Colleen Crowder: This is terrible. It’s setting back the women’s movement by fifty years.

…

14th MINUTE The Hanson Sisters confer with Yosemite Samantha on the outside. They break off when the count reaches 15 and YS returns to the ring. Harlot drags Yosemite Samantha up. YS hits back with forearms! Harlot swings but Samantha dodges and manages a scoop, but Harlot’s weight brings her down! Cover…one…two…Yosemite Samantha kicks out. Harlot drops an elbow on her back and then pauses to catch her breath.

Johnny Suave: Both women are exhausted. Just exhausted. A lot of energy was expended in the first few minutes of the match.

15th MINUTE Action slows way down. Yosemite Samantha grabs Harlot’s arm and goes walking on the top rope. She leaps and hits a headscissors takedown on Yosemite Samantha. Cover…one…two…Harlot kicks out at 2. Armdrag takedown by Yosemite Samantha. Slingshot Springboard Crossbody by Yosemite Samantha. She hooks the legs…Harlot kicks out at two and hits a desperate Superkick that drops Yosemite Samantha. Harlot follows with a Super Back Suplex and covers. One…Two…kick out by Samantha.

Johnny Suave: How can you not say that this is a great match between two great female wrestlers. I thought this was right in your wheel house?

Colleen Crowder: These two are NOT the positive, uplifting role models who should be filling these type of positions. PERIOD!

16th MINUTE Harlot with another back suplex and cover. One…two…Andrea Hanson of the Hanson Sisters came off the top rope with another missile dropkick to make the last second save. Yosemite Samantha rolls out of the ring to the floor. Harlot goes for it and leaps over the ropes to hit an awkward Headscissors Takedown.  Yosemite Samantha gets dragged back into the ring. Cover by Harlot…one…two…Yosemite Samantha kicks out at two.

Johnny Suave: That was close!

Colleen Crowder: Whatever…

Crowder gets up and leaves…again…

17th MINUTE Yosemite Samantha on the top rope. She flies. Harlot ducks and YS clocks Jaxson from the White Trash Posses with a double ax handle to the head. Jaxson is knocked out and falls to the mat. Harlot spins Yosemite Samantha around. Small package roll up by Samantha! Cover. One. Two. Three.

*DING-DING-DING*

Kimber Marshall right in the ring for the announcement.

WINNER AND NEW PCW WOMEN’S CHAMPION: Yosemite Samantha @ 16:29 (7:00 for TV)

Johnny Suave: Un-freakin’ believable. Yosemite Samantha outlasts the ‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot and she is your new PCW Women’s Champion!

The new champ celebrates with the Hanson Sisters in the ring.

Johnny Suave: That’s going to do it. For Colleen Crowder, I’m Johnny Suave. We’ll see you all next week.

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Madelyne Pryor was a cargo pilot in Anchorage, Alaska working for Scott Summers' grandparents when she and Scott meet during a Summers family reunion.[15] A romantic relationship quickly begins between them; however, Scott is disturbed at her striking resemblance to his dead lover, Jean Grey/Phoenix.[16] Also, she was the sole survivor of an airplane crash that occurred the same day Phoenix died on the moon.[17] In addition, Professor X is unable to scan her mind (which, he notes, is occasionally the case with normal humans). Scott, still recovering from Jean's death, becomes obsessed with the idea that Madelyne is her reincarnation, eventually confronting her with his suspicions. Madelyne, furious and hurt, punches Scott and runs from him.[4] As soon as she is alone, she is abducted by Mastermind, who had been manipulating the X-Men for months — as revenge for being driven temporarily insane by Phoenix due to his involvement in her corruption. To defeat him, Storm summons a violent storm which nearly kills Madelyne, but Scott resuscitates her. After the conflict, Scott comes to terms with the fact that Jean Grey is dead and that Madelyne is not her, and that he loves her all the same. The two are married, and Scott retires from active duty with the X-Men.[5]

AnodyneEdit

Giving up the life of an adventurer proves harder for Scott than imagined. Early in Madelyne and Scott's marriage, they (along with Alpha Flight and the rest of the X-Men) are taken to an abandoned city by the Asgardian trickster-god Loki. Entirely for his own purposes, Loki bestows mystical powers on a small group of non-powered humans, including Madelyne, transforming her into a healer of virtually any injury, illness, psychological issue, or physical defect. She adopts the name "Anodyne" and cures Scott's childhood head injury, enabling him to control his optic blasts without the use of ruby-quartz lenses. She also removes Aurora's DID and Wolverine's berserker rage. When it is discovered that Loki's gifts are extremely flawed, and fatal to some, everyone assembled reject the gift. Madelyne and the other beneficiaries are reverted to their original states, as are all those who had been healed by Madelyne. During this adventure Madelyne reveals that she is pregnant.[18]

AbandonmentEdit

Going into premature labor, Madelyne gives birth to a baby boy (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) alone in the X-Mansion.[19] Sensing a reluctance on Scott's part to retire to family life, a powerless Storm challenges him to a duel for leadership of the team, which Storm wins. This in effect forces Scott to accept his new role as a husband and father.[20]

Although Scott tries to live a normal family life in Alaska, he often thinks of Jean Grey, and of his life with the X-Men. Maddie tries her best to make Scott happy, but her efforts seem wasted. Finally Scott receives a call from his former teammate Angel that Jean Grey has been found alive. Without explaining himself, Scott abandons Madelyne and their son to reunite with his lost love, and forms X-Factor with his old friends from the original X-Men.[21] Madelyne and Nathan are then attacked by the Marauders; Nathan is kidnapped and Madelyne left for dead, but survives and is hospitalized as a "Jane Doe".[22] A guilt-wracked and increasingly unstable Scott returned home to find his house empty, and all records of his family's existence erased.[23]

Alone and threatened, Madelyne calls the X-Men for help; they arrive and fight off another attack by the Marauders.[24] Despairing from Scott's absence and of her son's fate, she contemplates suicide. Madelyne's brother-in-law, Alex Summers (Havok), talks her out of it, and the two of them grow closer.[25] With the Marauders still after her, she stays with the X-Men, and they sacrifice their lives to stop the Adversary from remaking the world in Fall of the Mutants. A reporter video-interviews them before their death, and Maddie uses this to deliver a message to Scott, pleading that he find their child.[26] With the world thinking them dead, Madelyne and the X-Men are resurrected by the Omniversal Guardian Roma and begin working secretly out of an abandoned Reavers base in Australia. Madelyne serves as the team's technical support.[27]

Demonic corruption and origins revealedEdit

Monitoring news transmissions, Madelyne learns that Jean Grey is alive and with Scott. She punches the computer monitor's screen, breaking it and causing electrical feedback that renders her unconscious.[28] The Limbo demon S'ym invades Madelyne's mind during her unconscious state, and tempts her to take on the power that would make her the Goblin Queen. Believing to be dreaming, Madelyne accepts.[29]

Madelyne keeps the existence of the original X-Men as X-Factor secret from the others, filtering in only information and news showing X-Factor as an anti-mutant group. Later abducted by the Genoshans and taken to their island-nation,[30] Madelyne is subjected to psychic torture intended to transform her into a docile slave of the state. Madelyne instinctively lashes out with her developing abilities, which cause the deaths of her torturers.[31] In the recorded images of the psychic probe performed on Madelyne, a connection is made to the Phoenix Force and her appearance reflects her eventual change into the Goblin Queen.[32] Shortly after being rescued by the X-Men, Madelyne strikes a bargain with another demon, N'astirh, to find the Marauders and return her son to her. During this time, she and Alex become lovers.[33]



Goblin-Queen Madelyne meets Mr. Sinister. Art by Marc Silvestri.

To keep his end of their bargain, N'astirh takes Madelyne to the orphanage in Nebraska where Scott grew up, actually a front for Mr. Sinister's genetic laboratory. Sinister appears and tells Madelyne about her origins.[34] When he learnt about Jean Grey, he planned to eliminate her parents and take the girl to his orphanage. Fortunately for them, Charles Xavier had already approached them and started to work with the young girl. Sinister only managed to acquire a blood and tissue sample which he then created a clone of her. However, the clone had no life and failed to develop any mutant powers, so Sinister left the clone in her incubation tube as a failed experiment. When Phoenix took her own life, a part of the Phoenix Force entered and awakened the clone, giving her sentience and renewed Sinister's interest. Sinister named her "Madelyne Pryor", and created a false background, implanted memories, and a personality designed to attract Summers and conceived a plan to use the clone to facilitate selective breeding between her and Scott. He then planted her with Scott's grandparents' company, thus ensuring the two would eventually meet.[35] As Jean Grey's return might cause the truth about Madelyne to be uncovered if the two were to meet, Sinister tasked his Marauders with killing Madelyne and bringing him Nathan, the fruits of his scheme.[35][36]

Broken in spirit to insanity by the revelations,[37] when N'astirh gives Nathan back to her, she willingly decides to aid N'astirh in his demonic invasion of Earth.[35] Returning to New York City, where the demonic invasion is already in full swing, she confronts X-Factor with the revelation that she is alive.[38] When the X-Men arrive, Madelyne steers the teams against each other at first, and convinces Alex to join her. X-Factor and the other X-Men work together to defeat N'astirh.[39] Madelyne refuses to stop, forcing the heroes to overwhelm her. Cyclops rescues his son, but Madelyne commits suicide in an attempt to telepathically take Jean with her. The Phoenix Force appears to Jean and offers to save her, but in order to survive Jean has to integrate the essence of both the Phoenix and Madelyne, gaining their memories and personalities.[40] Mr. Sinister attempts to entrap all of the X-Men and X-Factor in Madelyne's dying mind, but forced to choose between having revenge either on the X-Men or Mr. Sinister, Madelyne ejects Mr. Sinister from her mind. With her personality influencing Jean's, she then prompts the X-Men and X-Factor to attempt lethal retribution against him.[41]

Jean, having inherited Madelyne's maternal feelings for Nathan Christopher, becomes his proxy mother and briefly raises him until Apocalypse, seeing the potential threat in the child, infected him with a techno-organic virus. Dying, the child was taken 2,000 years into the future by Askani to be saved.

ReappearanceEdit

Madelyne mysteriously reappears years later as an amnesiac to Nate Grey (X-Man), the "genetic offspring" of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the alternate reality known as the Age of Apocalypse, when he arrives into Earth-616.[10] Under the tutelage of Selene, Madelyne eventually becomes the Hellfire Club's "Black Rook" (even becoming Sebastian Shaw's mistress),[42] has her memories of her previous life restored by Tessa,[43] and meets her aged son Cable in an uneasy truce.[44]

It is revealed that Madelyne is actually a "psionic construct" inadvertently resurrected by a combination of Nate Grey's psionic powers and his desperate need for a mother figure upon his arrival on Earth-616.[45] Antagonistic for a time after this revelation, eventually she and Nate become companions, until an attack by Strikesquad: Gauntlet, a group of operatives wearing psi-shielded armor, Madelyne was buried alive by one of them. She managed to escape by teleporting, yet, as the battle had taken a lot out of X-Man, she looked drained and withered. In no shape to continue whatever plans she had with Nate, she left.[46]

Red QueenEdit

Soon after, Nate Grey is accompanied again by Madelyne alive and well, but she ended up revealing herself as the Red Queen, a Jean Grey from Earth-9575, an alternate reality where she becomes a creature of violence and unquenchable desire. She seems to have taken advantage of Madelyne's fragile state and replaced her in order to worm her way into Nate's head.[3][47] She also claims to be the one who had influenced Nate into latching into Madelyne's psychic energy remnants and gave it form,[48] but she's eventually killed when Nate creates a sun around her that burns her to death,[49] leaving the exact details of how she replaced Madelyne to be revealed, but obviously since the Red Queen showed that she could absorb the life forces of others to enhance her own power, she may had absorbed Madelyne's psionic body Nate Grey had created or at least severed her consciousness’ connection to it, since Cyclops and Cable would eventually encounter Madelyne within the telepathic astral plane, describing herself as now only a "ghost" and unable to return to the physical world.[50]

Some years later, the X-Men investigate an anti-mutant group calling itself the "Hellfire Cult", being led by Empath.[51] Empath is secretly being controlled and taking orders from a mysterious woman also calling herself the "Red Queen", who is particularly interested in learning about Cyclops' new lover Emma Frost. (Scott and Jean's marriage had fallen apart, and Grey then died during a mission soon afterward.) The X-Men take down the Cult and capture Empath, while the Red Queen slips away unseen.[52] She then psionically impersonates Frost and has virtual sex with Scott, without him realizing the deception. Afterward, the Red Queen travels to Madripoor where she recruits Chimera into a new group called the "Sisterhood of Mutants" and reveals herself to be Madelyne Pryor returned to the living somehow. Later during a concert of Dazzler's, Scott is surprised at the sight of Madelyne observing him from a distance before losing her amongst the crowd.[12]

With Martinique Jason (recruited before the Cult's exposure)[11] and Chimera accompanying her, Madelyne recruits Spiral and Lady Deathstrike into the Sisterhood as well.[53] Madelyne then recruits Martinique's half-sister, Lady Mastermind, who accepts membership on Madelyne's peculiar (and ironic) promise to bring back the half-sisters' late father, the original Mastermind. Carrying out Madelyne's orders, the Sisterhood retrieved the corpse of Revanche and performed an elaborate set of procedures on Revanche and a captured Psylocke, fully restoring the body and transferring Psylocke's mind into it.[54] Madelyne's true priority was to restore herself back into flesh-and-blood. In the time since the encounter in the astral plane, Pryor had eventually managed to manifest back in the physical world as an intangible entity of psionic energy and needed to find a body to inhabit that could contain her disembodied form and psionic powers. The experiment on Psylocke served as a test run for Pryor.[55]

The Sisterhood commences a surprise raid on the X-Men's base, quickly neutralizing several of the main X-members. Recovering from the initial attacks, the X-Men force the Sisterhood (now including a brainwashed Psylocke) to retreat. But the battle was only a distraction, as the real purpose was for Madelyne to locate Jean Grey's gravesite.[56] Madelyne's own body had been cremated after her suicide,[57] so Grey's seemed the only option available to her. At Jean's grave, Madelyne attempts to repeat the ritual with her corpse. However, Cyclops had correctly guessed Madelyne's goal and had arranged for Grey's body to be replaced with another, which Madelyne only learned after it was too late. The second she bound herself to the corpse, she discorporated as the decayed body could not contain her vast psionic energies.[13]

Avengers Vs. X-MenEdit

During the 2012 Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Mister Sinister had created a group of six Madelyne Pryor clones in order to take the Phoenix Force energies from the Phoenix Five (consisting of the Phoenix Force-empowered Cyclops, Colossus, Emma Frost, Magik, and Namor). Unlike the original Madelyne, none of the six clones showed indications of having individual personalities or free will, but instead appeared to follow Sinister completely.[58] The Madelyne Pryor clones joined Sinister's other clone creations in fighting the Phoenix Five and managed to defeat each one.[59] They also were able to siphon some of the energy from the Phoenix Force, but they all were immediately killed by the entity itself.[60]

Lady Deathstrike's SisterhoodEdit

Lady Deathstrike, whose consciousness had taken possession of a Colombian girl named Ana Cortes, formed an all new Sisterhood initially composed of her, the mutant Typhoid Mary, and the exiled Asgardian Amora (the Enchantress).[61] The sentient bacteria Arkea possessed Lady Deathstrike's assistant Reiko and joined.[62] As Arkea feared being opposed by the X-Men, she wanted powerhouses with the Sisterhood, so she had Enchantress use her magicks to restore Selene and also planned to resurrect Madelyne Pryor. Ana Cortes managed to turn against Deathstrike, contact the X-Men and alert them of the Sisterhood's location, and then committed suicide in an attempt to prevent Arkea's plans.[63] Arkea was able to place Deathstrike's consciousness into Reiko also, and seeing an opportunity, spliced Jean Grey's DNA to Ana's body, making it a fully compatible host for Madelyne Pryor. Enchantress then used her magicks to retrieve Pryor's consciousness, place it into the body and revive Madelyne (in the process, seemingly reshaping Cortes' physical appearance into Pryor's), making her flesh-and-blood again for the first time since her own suicide. When the X-Men arrived and attacked, Madelyne fought and telepathically defeated the more experienced telepath Rachel Grey. Storm offered Madelyne and Selene a deal, essentially letting them go free as the X-Men were only after Arkea at the moment. As Madelyne and the other members of the Sisterhood didn't particularly care for Arkea, they deserted her, allowing all of the Arkea bacteria to be destroyed. Accompanied by Selene, Madelyne declared that she would create an all new Sisterhood.[14]

Dawn of XEdit

Madelyne is not seen in "the first wave" of villains that accepted Xavier's invitation to join him on Krakoa, however, she is referenced in Mister Sinister's Red Diamond, a gossip sheet which lists very cryptically Sinister's secrets. One of them is about Madelyne Pryor which indicates her legacy as the Goblin Queen is far from complete.[64] The secret reads as follow:

:Years ago, a deceased redheaded pretender made a pact with the devil. When she passed on, most believed that any secrets she had went with her to the grave. Won't everyone be surprised when they find out not only is this not true, but she left behind a whole lot more than secrets.

— Sinister Secret #3

In her Goblin Queen's attire, Madelyne has since reappeared at Mr. Sinister's old orphanage where she had captured and strung up in some sort of ritual the Marauders that were living there, apparently unaware that a team of mutants was sent by Mr. Sinister to destroy the abandoned clone farm that Sinister left under the orphanage.[65]

The team finds the Marauders, who seem a little zombified and eventually Madelyne comes out of the shadows to Havok's surprise. She seems a little too angry that no one cared about her return and commands the clones to attack Kwannon's team. In the fight, Havok's powers are being neutered by Prism until Madelyne, in her own words, decides it's time to reunite with her former lover and destroys the clone. She then uses her magic spells to remove his mouth and silence him, then takes off with him to somewhere else.[66] She then recaps her history up to Inferno to Alex. After cutting his own mouth so he could talk, Alex ask about the affair between himself and Madelyne and the impression he had that Madelyne was using him as a stand-in for his brother to try and recreate an imitation of her marriage. Madelyne eventually announces her great plan. Basically, she's so determined to be noticed and prove that she exists that she's going to unleash all of the cloned Marauders as an army of mutants who will invade Krakoa and kill everyone there. She also reveals to Alex she intends to kill him and send his head to Cyclops.[67] The team was able to ultimately thwart her plans and save Havok, but it came at a cost. The Marauders that Madelyne had turned into zombie-like creatures were killed by John Greycrow, but Madelyne herself was shot as well. As she seemingly dies, Madelyne restores Havok to his true appearance and tells him that she only wanted them to know that she was a real girl. Havok lashes out, using his powers to destroy the clone farm. When the team returned to Krakoa, the Quiet Council had to decide about resurrections. Cyclops himself tells Havok that while the Council decided to approve resurrection for the original Marauders, they decided not to resurrect Madelyne on the grounds that Madelyne being a clone goes against their protocols, simple as that. The decision infuriates and devastates Havok further, who screams at his brother that she was a real person, one who did in fact exist. What Havok doesn't known is that the Quiet Council could not decided whether Madelyne is a clone or her own person, so her resurrection remains undecided.[68]

[xaviersnotas]

As of today, December 19, 2019, the fall semester of my junior at Kansas State University has come to an end. So much happened in such a short amount of time. 

Let's begin at the beginning of the semester...

August

I got to travel up to Lincoln, Nebraska to meet the newest interest group of my Fraternity, Omega Delta Phi Fraternity, Inc. These guys were in the exact same shoes I was just a few semesters before. It was great to able to see that there are guys just like me at other universities that want to do something bigger and bring about a change on their campus. 

Just before the semester began I made the crazy decision of dyeing my hair. I actually bleached it first and it came out incredibly disgusting. Luckily, my barber, Alan, lived right across the street and hooked it up with a sick fade. That same night, my roommates and I threw a party at the house that would mark the very first house party by ODPhi at K-State. The party was popping to say the least and I also got to meet two individuals that would later become my children (ODPhi).  

The trunk of my car also received a beautiful upgrade. I acquired through the Facebook marketplace a Skar Audio SDR-10 subwoofer and a subwoofer box by Skar Audio that would change the bass in my life forever. 

September

My homeboy Israel from Wichita invited me to perform at a birthday party. I brought Edwin along and we put on a pretty good show with the help of the homie Diamante. I also met this girl that was pretty cute. One of my previous blogs is about her lol! 

The McNair conference was held in KCMO and I presented my summer research alongside other Animal Science Majors from around the midwest. It was a great experience to be around individuals who strive for high education and come from similar backgrounds. 

Interview #1 for the Research and Development internship for Elanco Animal health took place in the Student Union of my university. I blew that interview out of the water. They were extremely impressed with what I had to offer. I got a call that same day that informed me that my 2nd interview would take place in Indianapolis and I would be flown out in late October.

October

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was the location for the 2019 MANRRS Region IV Cluster. I competed in the Impromptu Speaking contest and was awarded 3rd place out of 10 competitors. Nightlife included the Beer Gartens in OKC and Ednas, a bar where my Brother, Hector and I took our traditional Jaeger Bomb shots.

I flew out to Indianapolis on the morning of Oct. 24. My first stop was The Rathskeller, a German restaurant in the heart of the city. That night I also ate at the Taxman with the other internship candidates and employees of Elanco. The following day was my legit interview with 3 Elanco Employees. I was very unsure about the outcome because they were all different personalities. After interviewing, Elanco offered us the opportunity to do community service and pack meals that would be sent to food banks. This was an experience that I don’t believe any other company could offer their candidate interns.

November 

Pig Roast 2019 took place at the one and only Kansas State University. It was a delightful time with over 100 brothers from the region just playing football, eating burgers and having a good time. That same night, we held the first-ever venue party by KSU Colony of ODPhi. The outcome wasn’t pleasant but I definitely had a good time. 

I played in my very first Disc Golf Tournament, The Big Blue Monster in Blue Valley, Missouri. 30 Holes and 5+ hours.

November 10 at exactly midnight, I was on my way to Power and Light in Kansas City, Missouri to celebrate my 21st birthday. It was a great time spent with my cousins and fraternity brothers.

December

As the educator of the Alpha Class of the KSU Colony of ODPhi, I was extremely proud of all the hard work and effort my children put in to make their Neophyte Presentation a success. We had a great turn out. That night the Osage Boiz threw the 2nd house party that was extremely popping due to the high amount of sorority women in attendance. Sadly, it all ended at 1:30am due to a noise complaint that landed my Roommate a court date in January of 2020.

The gammas threw a great party that same weekend too. That party brought me a special girl that I’d like to keep around for a long time. 

Hector graduated with his Bachelor's degree. We celebrated that night at Tate’s Latin Night and my special Washburn Gamma came up to Manhattan that night. Turns out, she stayed a bit longer than expected. 

Conclusion

Overall, the fall semester was a blast. GPA wise, not the best but it was still decent. I also got my sub stolen in early December. I drank a lot, made tremendous amounts of memories, slept in a lot, worked out and gained a good amount of muscle and landed an internship with Elanco Animal Health for the Summer of 2020!!! It was a great semester.

[avaliveradio]

Indie/Rock/Metal/Alternative Compilation - April 2019

Artist: The Refusers New Release: Disobey Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock

Nine parts rock and roll—one part punk. A controlled burn. Rage on a tap. The Refusers rock rebellion anthem Disobey, bitches and moans for the sake of the people, but does it with classic rock guitar riffs, sharp on-point percussion and bass, tasteful organ backdrops, and, of course, Belkin’s vocal timber—which could be described as some twisted hybrid of Ozzy and Bon Scott.

The blasé pop music status quo should shatter like an ice sculpture blasted by a sledgehammer. Blasting through the establishment’s twisted goals, The Refusers perform songs of musical defiance. The Refusers speak today’s spirit of rage and simmering revolution against the establishment.

LINKS: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1uPy0mh1YV1yePz9kP4QoA Streaming: https://www.reverbnation.com/therefusers/song/29921834-disobey Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/TheRefusers

Artist: Ivan Beecroft

New Release: BAD COMPANY

Genre: Rock, 90's rock, retrorock

Located in: Melbourne, Australia

This song is... off my next album called "Liars, Freaks & Fools" and is paying homage to all those great rock bands from the 70’s such as deep purple, rainbow, free and many others. The song was written in response to a period of life when I was struggling to find work and both my parents lost their jobs in a recession and the bank callously foreclosed on my parents mortgage right down to taking a small amount of money that was to be used as a deposit to rent another place, during this period I was constantly pulled over by the police whilst driving a $400 piece of junk, I received numerous fines that I was unable to afford to pay so the amount of money I owed inadvertently quadrupled and eventually I was threatened with incarceration it also led to having my license cancelled without my knowledge which in turn led to more hefty fines the next time the police pulled me over, with all that weighing heavily on my shoulders I ended up making some very poor decisions and eventually started to self medicate on drugs to relieve some of the misery and sadness that I was experiencing until one night at a house that I used to frequent I was set upon by a group of guys and beaten up to the point where I couldn't recognise myself in the mirror, the experience still haunts me years later.

LINKS:  Instagram: @ivanbeecroft

Soundoud:https://soundcloud.com/grapesofwrath-720450260/bad-company

Music glue: https://www.musicglue.com/ivanbeecroft/shop

Website: https://ivanbeecroft.wordpress.com/liarsfreaks-fools-album/

Artist: The Soul Exchange

New Release: Stealing My Mind

Genre: Heavy Metal / Melodic Metal

Located in: Stockholm, Sweden

Right now we are... The band is currently working on new songs for an upcoming 3rd album, with a tentative release late in 2019, combined with playing live gigs as they come.

LINKS:  https://open.spotify.com/album/2qc0gMUWLoLntd8yh9CbXG?si=iEFfONOkR4SR54lcPteanQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulexchangeofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/soulexchange1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesoulexchangeofficial Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/TIneAcUk8Qs

Artist: Cwiredband

New Release: Angel Circuit Engaged

Genre: Resurrection Rock

Located in: : Berkeley Springs, WV - Nashville, TN

This song is... Angel Circuit Engaged was one of the first songs C Wired wrote. It’s a call to all to engage our Higher Selves our Angelic Circuitry. It’s very much needed now as we find ourselves challenged by lower energy forces that are in control of and are making our planet uninhabitable. We can change our world together by holding a shared vision of Peace and Abundance for ALL. Warm feedback slithers through our speakers and takes hold of our attention as we enter the title track of Cwiredband’s new record Angel Circuit Engaged, their follow up to their much-buzzed Omega EP also released last year. Before long, that feedback is harnessed and transformed into a scorcher of a melody produced by a feverish lead guitar and punctuated with the pummeling of a massive drum kit” – Don McCloskey – Gas House Radio

The music we are creating is... Resurrection Rock. The term came from one of the reviewers of our music. When something is resurrected it still retains common themes from the previous form but has morphed into something different. C Wired’s Spiritual advisor implanted a seed idea inside him to create “Genre less music”. What Cwiredband is all  My musical influences include Alanis Morrisette, Dire Straits, Doobie Brothers, The Doors, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Radiohead, Santana, Yes Angel Circuit Engaged is the formation of the Cwiredband. Addison Smith is C Wired’s wingman who produces records and smokes the guitars. He is very much responsible for the sound. It’s a joint effort. C write the lyrics, melodies, licks, and grooves and Addison just takes them and runs with it. Daniel Kelly the band’s drummer comes from a highly accomplished jazz background. His different percussive approach applied to C’s writing is also what gives us our unique flavor. He’s a little like Keith Moon with his off-center approach to what would be considered traditional pocket rockers.

Andrew Renner on Bass is very tasteful. He is an amazing progressive jazz guitarist who fortunately decided he wanted to play bass with Cwiredband. Gary Pigg is the consummate Nashville professional who has worked with Neil Young among others. He arranges all the back-up vocals. Cwiredband uses the same vocal personnel on all its tracks. They are Angelic and are the icing on the cake to many of the songs.

LINKS:  https://open.spotify.com/track/7rOlHR2PjA6FoeoJoZGzUQ?si=OW_38dP8QNSjTFV89C-pwQ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cwiredband/1395435754 https://www.instagram.com/c_wired

Artist: Homerik

New Release: A Song of the Night: Part I

Genre: Symphonic Progressive Death Metal

Located in: Bronx, NY

“Homerik” is a derivative of the word “Homeric”; a word that stands for something extremely grand and epic. This is the first chapter of a much bigger story. Much like Alice in Wonderland, A Song of the Night: Part I takes you on a journey down the rabbit hole of a sad and neglected child’s life experience. On the other side, she wakes to another moment in time. One that does not include her beloved sister, rather, a memory. As she looks into the eyes of her plush teddy bear she remembers that she is more powerful than the darkness. That she can light the candle and watch it burn through the night.

Streaming link: http://song.link/homerik

Social: https://instagram.com/homerikofficial

YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/homerikofficial

Artist: VOVKULAKA

New Release: Darkness Calling

Genre: Metal

Located in: Odessa, Ukraine

This song is... A grinding dose of groove Metal with throbbing Dubstep passages.

The music we are creating is... Dark, Angry, Evil Metal...

Right now we are...Releasing new Singles, working on our CD, and plotting our Live Shows.

LINKS:  Twitter.com/VovkulakaMusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0i42lhpf_u2A99NbCyzLXw Facebook.com/VovkulakaFanPage

Artist: Cabela and Schmitt

New Release: Messin' With My Mind

Genre: Rock

Located in: Colorado and Nebraska USA

This song is... We are a trio of song makers who are attempting to provide as much music as we can for our current fans and the new to come. We've been writing songs for a long, long, but a couple of years ago we decided we should share our inspirations with other ears besides our own. Since then we have shared 7 releases with over 170 songs. Messin' With My Mind is a 70's/80's sounding rock song about a relationship that has emotional questions about it’s course. LINKS:  https://open.spotify.com/track/6nrQmpsN5hSXNb0P8P7EII?si=pgExLWz5TuGRf0BrIC1c4w https://www.facebook.com/cabelaschmittmusic http://www.cabelaandschmitt.com

Artist: Thomas Thunder

New Release: Lily

Genre: Progressive Rock Pop

Located in: Fairhaven, Ma

This song is... "Lily" is an Instrumental Progressive Rock Pop song with strong percussive elements. It has an uplifting tempo that's fun to dance to. The music Thomas creates continues to be in the Progressive genre, primarily with strong rock overtones. This song is a little different in that it has a pop feel to it with the dance tempo and the varying percussion throughout. There are genre changes within the song, which gives it a Progressive label, so to speak, and there are rock elements as well. Not being restricted to a certain genre is what inspires Thomas to gravitate towards the Progressive genre.

LINKS:  https://www.instagram.com/thomasthunder11 https://soundcloud.com/user-930498945

ARTIST: MICK J. CLARK

NEW RELEASE: ME MY BODY AND I

Genre: Rock

Located in: United Kingdom

This song is... Screw my music, I want Kids to stop Self Harming, and hopefully being 'Empowered' by listening to this song I wrote for them.

Right now we are... Now children are Self Harming with Suicides at nearly 200 children a year. An 'Empowering' song, with the right lyrical message can 'Empower' children when they are ‘down’, and help them deal with their problems. Me My Body And I, by Mick J. Clark https://youtu.be/XKWPGgV-FaU But more than just listening to this song, we should get schools to sing this song in assembly, ( linking arms in a show of Solidarity for one another ), because singing is empowering, and our children are being targeted by so much today that some children cannot handle the pressure. We must give every child the 'tools' they need to cope with today's life, like. confidence, acceptance, knowledge and understanding of why some children act like they do, ( maybe against them ), and also tell children that they are targeted by Big Business, ( adults ), which is why they need to ‘help each other be as ‘smart and clever’ as 'Big Business'. This song has been well received by Radio Stations.

LINKS: 

https://twitter.com/MickjclarkJ https://www.reverbnation.com/control_room/artist/3437780/songs https://open.spotify.com/album/0qg64Qc6oSgZg7z8kA3XV3?si=DSHTr4AwQca7Wqx7OP1kPw https://soundcloud.com/mickjclark/me-my-body-and-i

ARTIST: STUDIO FIRE BAND NEW RELEASE: SO ENTICING GENRE: INDIE POP / SINGER SONG WRITER EDMONTON, ALBERTA

The best way to describe our Band is that we are a high energy Indie Band and very passionate about playing for people. We love to see people dancing and having a good time at the gigs. This song that Tony Denney wrote is about a guy who meets a girl and is interested in her. Even though he has strong feelings and is tempted by her, he has second thoughts as she turns out not to be the kind of person he thought she was. Take a listen for yourself. 

LINKS:  Website : https//www.studiofireband.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bob.nedved.188  Studio Fire Band Station : http://www.jango.com/stations/388564602/tunein 

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Kansas State Wildcats University Football Group Background and Information

The Kansas Wildcats play for the Kansas State College. It stands for the college in the North Department of the huge 12 Conference and is classified under Division I of the NCAA. The team is also extensively called Kansas State, KSU or K-State. The Wildcats started playing football in 1893 throughout a Thanksgiving Day video game against St. Mary's Academy which they won 18-10. The house arena of the wildcats is the Bill Snyder Family Members Arena in Manhattan, Kansas which has an ability of 52,200. Expense Snyder was among the instructors of the KSU. During his time, the Wildcats had 11 seasons won consisting of an eleven consecutive NCAA college football appearances. Its existing coach is Ron Prince. Nevertheless, he revealed in November 2008 that he will not instructor the Wildcats next period. The groups significant competitor is the Kansas Jaywalks. KSU's main mascot is Willie the Wildcat. Their perpetuity record is 452-596-41 (.431 ).

Championships and also Vital Minutes:.

Kansas State won its very first meeting football championship in 1934. The New York Times called KSU "an established Center Western leader" also in 1934. The Kansas State Wildcats completed in 13 bowl games. They had an 11 bowl appearance touch that lasted from 1993 to 2003. Wildcats players as well as instructor won different honors such as the Lou Groza Award in 1997, the Jim Thrope Award in 2002, the Boddy Dodd Train of the Year Honors in 1998, the Davey O'Brien Honor in 1998, three Heisman Trophies in 1970, 1998 and 2003. Twenty 2 previous Wildcats are now NFL gamers.

Quarterbacks in the present Roster:.

-- Josh Freeman - Tysyn Hartman - Bobby Hauver - Joseph Kassanavoid - Collin Klein - Carson Coffman - Trey Scott-- Milton McPeek--.

Kansas State Wildcats Recent News:.

The group is presently on the look-out for a new coach. Ron Prince's three-year regime upright November 22. Lots of followers are blaming him for Wildcats' losing streak. The coaching task is thought to visit Expense Snyder if he wants it. Kansas is stated to want a train with Bowl experience and intends to work with asap. However, loan might be a problem. There is still the matter of settling Prince $1.3 to get him from the raise and extension given to him simply last summer.

On the positive side, the November 15 loss versus Nebraska latest big 12 football news showed the capabilities of the specials groups and also the defense to score touchdowns off returns. They want to maintain it by following period. On the gamers, Josh Freeman endured a light blast during the Nebraska game. No additional info nevertheless, was revealed by coach Prince. Inquiries on the future of some players, especially Brandon Banks are being asked. Would certainly he remain with the team since Royal prince, that authorized him, is leaving. Financial institutions claimed that his keep will rely on the brand-new train that will certainly be employed by the Kansas State.