The first episode of WWE NXT was on tonight. I had alot of fun posting my thoughts on Ghost Hunters Academy and figured I would do the same for NXT. Slightly different since it is a weekly show instead of essentially a mini series, but should still be fun. And like GHA, I will be typing this up as I watch the show. If nothing else, it gets me posting at least once a week.

So far, I'm liking it. Of course that might have to do with the fact that the first person in the ring was Bryan Danielson. Opps. Daniel Bryan. That's going to take some getting use to. He's definitely the most boring looking and laid-back of the 8 rookies, but who cares. It's Daniel-Freaking-Bryan! He even came out wearing his American Dragon robe! The "Tap Or Snap" catch phrase he was forced to come up with is stolen from Kurt Angle, but it works. Looking forward to seeing how things play out between Bryan and The Miz.

During the break, Matt Stryker said that the WWE was all about respect. That is kind of true. Unless you are talking about a wrestler's past with companies not owned by WWE.

Michael Tarver was up next. the video they showed about him made him look pretty impressive. He teamed with his mentor Carlito to take on Heath Slater and his mentor Christian.

Not sure if it is his look or because he acts overly confidant and cocky, but I am have a feeling I won't be able to stand Slater.

Overall, I'm not impressed. Slater showed slightly above basic wrestling skills, and Tarver didn't really show any. The best part of the match was when Carlito and Christian were the legal men! Tarver not having much skill (or at least not showing much) isn't a bad thing in wrestling though, because he did look like he would be a good brawler. Hopefully they will do better next week. Christan and Slater won

Darren Young took on David Otunga in the next match. Young apparently is a partier and was having a blast. The Straight Edge Society looked pissed. That should be almost as interesting a pair as Miz and Danielson. I mean Bryan. Despite what Cole said, the match wasn't that impressive. Otunga won.

Got to admit, I marked out a bit when they announced the main event. Chris Jericho VS Bryan Danielson.

DAMN IT!

Daniel Bryan.

Bryan pushed Miz out of the way during his entrance and it looked like Bryan wanted to sing Final Countdown when he was on the top rope. Maybe next time.

BTW. According to the RAW ad they showed right after the ring intros, Bret Hart's accident a couple weeks ago was "Shocking and controversial." Apparently there is a new meaning to controversial. Pointless and kind of stupid. Just thought I would let anyone who actually reads this know.

liked the fact that Bryan wanted to follow the Code Of Honor at the start of the match and shake hands. Apparently Cole is going to be the heel announcer for the show. Not sure how that will work. I liked the Danielson chant during the match too. At least that is what it sounded like they were chanting.

Even though I knew there was no chance that Bryan would win, I thought Jericho might actually tap for a while there. But not that big of a shock that Y2J won.

Time for the final thoughts

Over all, not a bad start. Aside from Bryan we didn't really get to see or hear much from the rookies, but the first show was about introducing the new guys, and they did a decent job.

Can't really say anything about Justin Gabriel or whoever the hell Regal is mentoring, since they weren't there.Kind of sucks that all they got was an appearance at the beginning.

Wade Barrett looks like he is trying for some sort of Godfather gimmick. and I'm talking the Corleone Godfather, not the Ho-Train Godfather from the WWE in the 90's.

I'm not to impressed with Darren Young or Heath Slater. Hopefully they will change that in the future.

Not to impressed with David Ortunga or Micheal Tarver either, but they have the most potential over all. Tarver could be a monster type gimmick, where he goes in, beats people up, and walks away. Think most monsters, like Umaga. Not a big guy like most monsters, but still a butt kicking monster. Ortunga I can see having some sort of "i'm better then you because of my past" type gimmick. and the best part is it wouldn't be a gimmick for him!

And of course Daniel Bryan. Could have been better, but he rocked!

Now if you will excuse me, I have to go watch some of his matches. Thinking either his match against Jamie Nobel for the ROH title at Glory By Honor 4 or his Best of 3 Falls match against CM Punk at FIP's Bring The Pain event.

Or maybe both.

I'm a little worried

Tonight NXT debuts. That i'm not worried about. not much anyways. I am a little bummed because ECW was the best hour of wrestling each week, but not worried. What I am worried about is that Bryan Danielson is on it.

this is Danielson...Sorry. Daniel Bryon's chance to show the world why the fans have declared him the greatest wrestler in the world. The reason I'm worried? Because WWE has a history of not letting wrestlers do what they do best.

For proof, look at Matt Sydal and Cm Punk. Sydal, who wrestles in WWE as Evan Bourne, Has a ton of talent and did great on the Indy circuit, but has mostly been buried since signing with WWE. CM Punk hasn't been buried, but he, like Bourne, has been forced to adapt to the "WWE style."

One of the things that has been talked about since it was announced last week that Bryon would be working with The Miz. Lots of people are upset about this because Miz can't hold a candle to Bryon skill wise. But he made a good point on his blog.

Bryon, through out his career, hasn't really shown much in the way of a personality. They have said that he is the most skilled and experienced of the rookies. but he is known for his skill, not his personality. So teaming him with a man who's entire career has been about personality, should be good. but I'm worried that they will change him in more then name. sticking him with a gimmick could be good, if part of a future story line is throwing it away because you don't need it. Telling him to wrestle the WWE style, however, could be disastrous. As less of a high flier then Bourne and Punk, that shouldn't be too big of a problem, but it very well might be.

Also, I doubt his entrance music will be Final Countdown.

lol. I would say this sounds like something I would do, but I did it. Because this is the kind of stuff Nerds get excited about. Why do things the easy way when you can do them the difficult, more scientific and nerdy way?

Lol.

ok. this is stupid. After clicking publish for the last post, I see this off to the side on the "Post successfully published" page

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You would think this is something that would be of interest to me. After all, most of my stories are posted on a blog somewhere. But then I checked out the page. that $14.95 doesn't count shipping, is for a softcover book, is for 20 pages (more pages cost 35 cents each) and had no profit going to the author! Basically these guys are profiting off the work of others. And Blogger is helping them! Thanks a lot Google.

why do I seem to keep making people mad around me? It seems that either I'm pissing people off or I'm getting them mad at others, with out even trying! For example, my parents are now pissed at each other because I made a comment about there being no point in putting off calling in to work any longer. We have some drifts that are waist deep or deeper. Unless the plow shows up, we are stuck here for at least another day.In my defense I didn't know that they had talked about calling someone with a plow to dig us out. And dad is right in thinking that as soon as we did, by the time they finished, or we dug it all out, the plow would show up.

This and other times I've made those around me pissed points to 3 possible reasons. 1.) I can and "Pissing off those around me" to my list of super powers. 2.) Moving back home was the worst choice I've ever made. or 3.) both.

I'm reading the Wikipedia article on Depression, because this is something I struggle with and I like to know about stuff that I have to deal with. While reading the symptoms, I saw some stuff that was kind of funny. For me any ways.

1. Frequent thoughts of suicide or death
For the record, if my corpse is ever found next to a note saying "Good Bye Cruel World", call Grissom Because something isn't quite kosher. Or Monk. Or Spencer. Or Batman. Actually, call all of them. Can't have too many super-detectives.

With that out of the way, this is a hard one for me to use as a symptom. After all, I do think about death a lot, but if you have read a lot of the stuff I write you know that I kill a lot of characters. Writing horror and mystery stories involves thinking about death. It kind of comes with the territory.

2. Concentration problems
I can't really use this one as a symptom. At least not for myself. After all, it would be hard to tell if I am having problem concentrating or focusing because of depression or ADD (I'm not hyper enough to have the H in there.

3. Unexplained aches and pains
Can't really use this one either, because it is rare that I have an ache and pain that doesn't have an explanation. Mostly they are due to injuries that I didn't let heal properly. They may be due to not not stretching enough before pushing myself too far while exorcising. They may be due to spending the last 6or so years working in an industry where everything is designed for people about a foot shorter then me. Long story short, aches and pains, some times unexplained, are a daily part of life for me. and aspirin is my friend

Ghostbusters in on Comedy Central right now. Edited of course, but I don't care about that since I have it on DVD. The cool thing is the description when I hit the Info button on my remote

Parapsychologists with nuclear guns go into business ridding New York of poltergeists.

Is there a better summary of the movie then that? It makes it sound like a B-Movie (or worse, a SyFy Original) but takes nothing away from the fact that it is quite possibly the most Awesetaculer movies of all time!

Because it's Ghostbusters.

'Nuff Said