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Let’s start this off right: “Whitesnake wine”.  If you’ve ever wondered what a wine created by David Coverdale tasted like, here’s your chance to punish your tastebuds.  Bet it tastes like Tawny Kitaen and Aqua Net.  (whitesnake)

Speaking of alcohol, let’s look at it under a microscope!  Hmm, looks suspiciously like sickle cell.  (telegraph)

Snoop Dogg recorded a fan video/song for True Blood.  I always thought he was a true Crip?  Just wait ’til I tell Tookie about this!  (videogum)

Wrestling’s greatest gimmick changes.  Look, all I care about is Doink and Dink.  Now where are those two green-haired freaks?  (ugo)

15 cruelest deaths in Star Trek history.  The cruelest Star Trek-related death?  Having to watch Star Trek.  (toplessrobot)

If you’ve ever wanted to own Han Solo frozen in carbonite in soap form (and I know you have), you can buy some from these creative people.  More like Hand Solo, if you ask me.  Or Hand Soapo.  Whatever, moving on.  (luxurylanesoap)

7 great movie endings ruined by test audiences.  Like the blackface song and dance number at the end of American History X.  Kidding!  (popcrunch)

The Breakfast Club has a porn parody out, because why shouldn’t it?  If only they could’ve gotten the real Judd Nelson to play Bender one last time.  (filmdrunk)

I can’t read this website because it’s in german, but they do have the first photos of Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson from the much delayed Rum Diary film!  (filmtotaal)

Dr. Dre and Jay-Z are working in the studio on an album together.  Is Dr. Dre a real doctor?  You think he’d look at this sore I have in my mouth?  (nahright)

Cat Rave.  I went to a cat rave once.  Not as cool as it sounds.  Lots of dehydrated cats.  (spatch)

Really, truly — this is just a shed.  (mshed)

Danny McBride is set to play an oafish asshole in his next film.  Yep, everything’s still in order here.  (deadline)

Kelsey Grammer is getting replaced in the new X-Men: First Class.  Oh, absolutely no one cares?  Noted.  (showbiz411)

6 time travel realities Doc Brown didn’t warn us about.  Such as: having sex with your own mother before you were born = kinda cool.  (cracked)

There were numerous games on display and tons of information coming out of E3 this week and with me not being able to attend in person I may have overlooked some things, especially the Xbox side. So today I will start you off with a great video for the Xbox 360s main franchise, Halo. Halo Reach is the next game in the popular Halo franchise that will allow you to do the same thing you’ve always loved about the previous Halo games, kill your opponent in multi-player then tea-bad their corpse. As you may know I’m not a fan of the Halo franchise at all, but you can’t ignore how good this new game looks. Dead Rising 2 is the sequal to the highly popular zombie hack/slash game starring Frank West, but this time around instead of a shopping mall our new hero is running around Vegas and can now use vehicles to take down multiple zombies at once. So enjoy the trailers for these highly anticipated Xbox 360 games while also enjoying a new look at NBA Jam for the Wii and AAA Lucha Libre wrestling for multiple consoles.

One of the cool things that comes out of Royalt1us’s Annual fan character contest (besides his awesome statues) is the way that people share their original ideas with others who might feel inspired to bring them to life. Such was the case with the design for Ink-Shot by He-Man.org member Doompuppet. Another member, Faceless One, took the idea and ran with it.

I’ve always liked this character, and Faceless One did a really great job bringing him to life. The base figure was a wrestling figure, so all of the detailing is hand sculpted.

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Our good buddies @ Chicago wrestling organization UWC are putting on their biggest show yet, “Pandemonium”, this weekend! Including a bout between “The Human Holocaust” Punisher 747 and “Afternoon Delight” Aaron Ryder, this should be a rip-roaring, high-flying, amalgamation of mayhem!

Get tickets @ the door!

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With Wrestlemania 26 coming up this Sunday, WWE has announced their full class of Hall of Fame inductees for 2010. Notable wrestlers such as “Mad Dog” Vachon, Wendi Richter are among the class with the “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, Gorgeous George, Antonio Inoki and wrestling legend Stu Hart. This years inductee into the celebrity wing, and my personal favorite of this years class, is Mr. Baseball himself Bob Uecker. Bob participated at Wrestlemania 3 as an announcer and had a classic interview with Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania 4.

The card for this years Wrestlemaina is pretty decent with highlights including Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker, Bret Hart vs Vince McMahon, CM Punk vs Rey Mysterio, Edge vs Chris Jericho, the annual Money in the Bank ladder match and many others. Check out WWEs official Wrestlemania page for more info on the matches and highlight videos and you can read up on all hall of fame inductees right here.

For some reason I couldn’t find any Major League videos of Uecker, so here is a great bit from Major League 2.

Last week, I got a chance to check out “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity”, the new play about pro-wrestling @ The Victory Gardens Theatre @ The Biograph.

I have to admit, this was a very interesting show. Firstly, even the idea of a major theatre company producing a work dedicated solely to the concept of the backstage workings of wrasslin’ is pretty mindblowing. The play centers around a fictional wrestling company and their stars, including the exceptionally Rock-esque title character, Chad Deity. Two up-and-comers, one Puerto Rican, one Indian, are cast as stereotypical villians to counteract the all-American image of superstar Deity. Heavily satirical, the piece certainly understands this particular world, and the production value and set pieces, as well as the show’s physicality, do an excellent job of recreating the look and feel of televised pro-wrestling.

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When the play works, which is surpringly often, it serves as a biting commentary on this particular microcosm, especially in regards to issues of race, on this and a larger American and world scale.  The writer, Kristoffer Diaz, is obviously well-versed in the world of sports entertainment and some of the terminology and references reward only the most knowledgeable fan. The fact that the piece not only won a major grant, but is currently being shown @ one of the most respected playhouses in Chicago, (as well as the recent success of The Wrestler), suggest perhaps pro wrestling is slowly being accepted as grounds for actual, intelligent character studies. The actors are all well-cast, with the lead role of Deity  played with the panache (and physique) of an actual pro-wrestler, and the show does actually raise some very important points.

It does however, also raise some interesting questions. For one, who is this play actually for? Those who like pro wrestling enough to fully understand every reference probably would not be interested in going to this show, especially when they can just watch actual wrestling. And for those theater buffs, will they really be willing to sit through a show about something as common as wrestling? Perhaps this is another larger commentary on stereotypes raised by the play. Maybe I shouldn’t pigeon hole who would or wouldn’t like this show.

But that raises another question: in a show funded by a grant for diversity, about stereotypes in pro-wrestling, why are there no women cast? Let me repeat that: How can you create a show commenting on stereotypes in pro-wrestling and not have any women in it? And how can you produce a play focusing on diversity when you have an all-male cast? Regardless of these obvious shortcomings, this is a show to see, even though it does occasionally fall into “attention everyone, I am an actor in a play” mode.

It’s worth checking out merely for the fact that something as Nerdy as pro-wrestling has leaked in to mainstream live theatre, and for the moments that really do work. This is also the perfect show to see if you are a student who needs to write a paper about the “theater”, because the subject matter and tone make it a lot easier to sit through then “The Crucible” or some shit like that.

Get your tickets to “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” (which runs until Nov. 1) here

Yesterday on Gamepot.com, the full roster for the upcoming Smackdown Vs Raw game was released. The positive about this roster this year, compared to years past, is that it is pretty much 100% up to date with all the active wreslters. The only ones that I didn’t see on the list were new ECW additions such as Yoshi Tatsu, Zack Ryder, the Hart Dynasty and a few others, but they all debuted a few months back so more than likely we’ll see them as DLC in the future. Among the usual cast of The Undertaker, CM Punk, HHH and John Cena, we are seeing new comers such as Mike Knox and Jack Swagger making their video game debuts this year. Just like all sports games though, this year wont be too much different than last years game but expect new additions such as ambulance matches and the ability to create aerial finishing moves in the create a finisher portion. Also you will be able to share created wrestlers through an official trading zone over the PSN or Xbox live. Smackdown vs Raw 2010 will be available on all systems starting October 20th.  If you pre-order from Gamestop you will receive an code to download Stone Cold Steve Austin for free. The full roster is listed after the jump.

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Although it’s not quite certain yet whether or not Mattel is going to acquire the rights to all of the characters from the original Filmation cartoon that weren’t in the 80’s toy line for their new MOTUC line, MasterEnglish has gone ahead and made a brilliant custom version from one of the most popular of such characters, Icer.  Built from a Man-At-Arms figure body, a wrestling figure head, and modeling clay, this take on Icer is yet another amazing addition to MasterEnglish’s already impressive collection of MOTUC customs.

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I don’t really do many stories on signings or rumors when it pertains to wrestling as nothing really seems to be true. But as of last night The American Dragon Bryan Danielson has officially signed with the WWE (source ROH wrestling. Many of you may not know of The American Dragon, but for the past 6+ years he has been wowing crowds all over the world which included a 15 month long title reign as the Ring Of Honor world champion. Danielson is by far one of the best mat based wrestlers that I have seen in quite a long time, but can still work a strong Japanese style as well. Think of him as a younger Dean Malenko if you will. He will be finishing up his ROH dates next month so if you are in Philly or New York, definitely check him out. No word on when he will begin his WWE work, but hopefully he’ll be treated more like CM Punk and less like Colt Cobana.

Finally, this Tuesday will see the release of The Rise and Fall of WCW, WWE’s new DVD chronicalling the fall of the company they helped put out of business. The previous Rise and Fall of ECW DVD was one of the best put out by the WWE and I have heard nothing but good things about the WCW one as well.

Great news for us wrasslin fans as the Mexico based promotion AAA (Asistencia Asesoría y Administración) will be releasing a video game for the PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, Wii, PSP and DS. Now, you may not recognize a lot of these wrestlers but a few have made appearances for TNA wrestling throughout the years along with a handful wrestling for WCW (La Parka, Psicosis, Konan and Abismo Negro) or ROH (Jack Evans and Teddy Hart) in the past. Hopefully this will be a game that will be able to contend with the annual WWE Smackdown vs Raw game. Of course it won’t financially be able to match up in sales, but a good game play experience is the most important when it comes to wrestling games, and as usual nothing will be able to match up to WWF No Mercy standards. You can find out more about the promotion at their official website.