April 2, 20169 yr Author comment_5736849 But what difference does it make who is doing the pimping? It's only a guiding principle to get to the matches and then you draw conclusions. My conclusion was that Dory had a very good career worthy of a top 100.
April 2, 20169 yr Author comment_5736852 In fairness, I never thought Brody was worthy of the deep-dive. And that is probably down to the fact that I really do value the fact that it wasn't easy to be the NWA champion and usually it took a special talent. Don't forget that the NWA champ needed the majority of promoters to vote for him, it wasn't like one booker sticking the belt on someone. And so that takes a guy who can go into any town and work with any opponent. There's no way you ever get someone who can't work as NWA champ for that reason. And that's why Dory got a deep-dive treatment whereas someone like Brody didn't. Like canon isn't some nappy-headed thing. There's a reason why Dory is listed in so many places as one of the all-time greats and Tor Kamata or The Barbarian aren't. If you reject that entirely, you are basically rejecting the views of the rest of humanity, everyone who came before you. I've never been that arrogant to do that.
April 12, 20169 yr comment_5741155 I am almost through the two podcasts where you go down your list and after hearing your list and hearing you talk about it, I came away much more impressed with how this worked than I thought I might. I think everyone probably tries to implement some sort of system of watching, thinking, vetting ideas, or whatever to check their own biases and favorites against something that resonates more broadly While I am not sure I would use it myself, this system seemed to really accomplish that. The idea of numbers being used for this always gave me the willies and I always thought of it as a way of more or less quantifying ones own opinions, but I gotta tip my hat to it.
April 12, 20169 yr comment_5741258 Like canon isn't some nappy-headed thing. Say what, now? Nappy means diaper to British people, Parv definitely didn't mean anything racial and possibly doesn't even know nappy headed could mean anything racial.
April 12, 20169 yr comment_5741305 We don't have an expression in British English that means diaper-headed. Parv probably means textured.
April 12, 20169 yr Author comment_5741320 It looks like an unfortunate typo, which are increasingly common since I transitioned mainly to typing from an iPad. I almost certain meant to type "sappy headed" Being a rap fan, "nappy heads" immediately makes me think of The Fugees' first album.
April 12, 20169 yr comment_5741416 Like canon isn't some nappy-headed thing. Say what, now? Nappy means diaper to British people, Parv definitely didn't mean anything racial and possibly doesn't even know nappy headed could mean anything racial. Whoa you're just digging the hole deeper diaper-head? seems dangerously close to towel-head
April 12, 20169 yr comment_5741545 Gotta love the PC police. Jerry's lucky he only comes here for trips
April 18, 20169 yr Author comment_5745008 Was just chatting on Twitter with some of the British dudes, and it occurred to me after someone pointed it out that the little parody of academic conventions I was doing with the acronym probably went missing. See, in the British parlance, a toilet or "rest room" for some of you polite Americans, is also known as a lavatory. So BIGLAV was a little joke see. Admittedly not a terribly funny one, but it didn't occur to me until today that some people might not see or get it. I lose track of which words are and are not used in the US. Apologies also if you did get the joke and just thought it was so lame it didn't bear commenting on.
April 18, 20169 yr comment_5745010 Was just chatting on Twitter with some of the British dudes, and it occurred to me after someone pointed it out that the little parody of academic conventions I was doing with the acronym probably went missing. See, in the British parlance, a toilet or "rest room" for some of you polite Americans, is also known as a lavatory. So BIGLAV was a little joke see. Admittedly not a terribly funny one, but it didn't occur to me until today that some people might not see or get it. I lose track of which words are and are not used in the US. Apologies also if you did get the joke and just thought it was so lame it didn't bear commenting on. I thought it was a play on the words big love.
April 18, 20169 yr comment_5745103 Glad you pointed this out before we signed a deal with the book publisher Parv!
April 20, 20169 yr comment_5746134 Shitters are called lavatories here, too. Usually in school by teachers, though.
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