Doink the Clownrade

01/12/2023

Punk entering his "in it for the money" era.

The money is a blood soaked c**k, from what I understand.

30/11/2023

12/10/2023

I just saw the trailer for The Iron Claw, and I'm pretty stoked to see it.

But I have the feeling that, based on that trailer, there are going to be a number of people going into it unaware of the tragic story lying in wait for them.

18/06/2023

It's about damn time

“As soon as I heard Matt Borne was going to WWE as an evil clown, I thought, ‘He’s going to sink his teeth into this.” It was a gimmick, but he breathed life into this gimmick.” — Mick Foley

“What Happened to Doink the Clown?” premieres Tuesday at 10pm on VICE TV.

16/06/2023

Do you think if the Razor Ramón gimmick had lasted longer, Scott Hall would have become a member of LWO?

05/06/2023

I'm not a Lacey Evans stan, and military cops are like EXTRA cop, and I'm confident this is a work, but I'm in love with the supreme irony of anyone affiliated with Slaughter calling a Marine "poser"

31/05/2023

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28/05/2023

Target is so weak and pathetic that they immediately gave in to right wing threats over their pride merchandise.
BUT the thing about the bigoted right wing grift is that there is no atonement. Target gave in to them, and still had to shut down reviews because they're still being called satanic pedophiles by the people they tried to cater to.
Absolute fu***ng goofballs.

Um.... okay

08/05/2023

I am somehow missing a couple of posts, and they are not in my page's trash, but I have ghost notifications for them.
I'm not ignoring any of you on purpose, I just can't get to some of the conversations.

08/05/2023

Comrade Dusty's Hard Times

03/05/2023

My right to see clussy SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

02/05/2023

US news media has been hostile to labor and labor organization since there has been a US news media.
With the most recent WGA strike coming up, we're about to see articles and op-eds focused on how inconvenient the strike is for the consumer. The the rail strike was approaching, the focus was on how hard it would be to buy goods. During the UPS strike, back when I was still in school, a big talking point was the same, I guarantee we'll see at least one fandom site talk about Battlestar Galactica's disappointing end and a slew of others about the return of the reality TV era (reality TV always gets a boost from a writers strike, because much of the writing is non union work or improvised).
Inconvenience is the whole point of a strike, though. A group of workers are collectively saying, "If you value what we do, our conditions/compensation should reflect that value."
This can be a little tough for some people to wrap their head around when it comes to a strike from a field of creatives. There is often a bias, even among pro-labor people, against jobs they don't consider difficult or skilled. You can see this pop up fairly regularly in online leftist discourse about barristas and SWs.
But work is work, and the WGA members are providing their time, energy, and minds to a company as much as any fry cook or mechanic.
As the reporting cycle on the strike begins, I'd like to bring up a couple of things that have the potential to be lost in the conversation.

- The average pay for a WGA writer is likely to be framed as weekly pay. This is to inflate, in the reader's mind, how much they make. It's weekly because it's per episode, and most seasons of scripted content are now between 8 and 15 episodes per season. If you make 3000 a week, but is only for 10 weeks, that's 30000 a year. That's increasingly hard for a single person to live on, let alone a family. Your down time has to be spent either chasing another writing job, or surviving on a temp job so you have the freedom to take 10 weeks off when the next season rolls around.
- The average pay for a WGA writer is what you will most likely see, but the nature of averages and entertainment industry compensation inflates that. The media would be a much better representation, and is far lower.
- Mainstream entertainment has increasingly moved to a streaming model. Even big four network shows are starting to be produced for apps. The union rates for streaming content were negotiated around a decade ago, when most union written streaming content was short form promotional stuff for places like YouTube. A lot of the digital shorts for the time were reworked bits that didn't comfortably fit into a regular episode, so the rates were minimal. Those streaming rates have not changed, despite the change in streaming format and content. The residuals owed to a writer are largely based on the shows budget, but are specifically lowered for content produced for a streaming service.

I'm sure there are some out there, perhaps reading this, that think a professional writer quibbling of their rates is decadent bourgeois nonsense. But at the core, this is a group of workers making a corporation billions, and wanting their compensation to reflect the changes to their industry.

12/04/2023

When WWE creative finally listens to me

05/04/2023

Sorry I've been so absent. I'm very much not doing OK these past few weeks. I'm struggling to raise a couple months worth of rent and have been throwing all of my spare time into any money making I can.

17/03/2023

Boss at the morning meeting: Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone. Everyone's a little bit Irish today.

My crew and me:

16/03/2023

I fall for another table's food every time.

14/03/2023

We used to be a proper country, before they moved all the dicksucking factories overseas

After the internet celebrity psychologist tweeted a fe**sh p**n clip and called it "CCP hell," the phrase "Chinese dick sucking factory" went viral.

13/03/2023

10/03/2023

Clownarchy

08/03/2023

Facebook had a problem with certain things I said about certain members of the ownership class and certain violent and illegal things that could befall them without me feeling sad.

Happy International Women's Day, though! I'm back and will get back to it tomorrow.

15/02/2023

As explained by Lenin in "Leftist Infighting: The Highest Stage of Leftism"

14/02/2023

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