If you’ve just stumbled across Notes on the Spectacle of Excess, welcome! I’ve been swamped lately so I’m taking a hiatus from blogging about wrestling until mid-November, when I’ll have a few major projects and events out of the way. Maybe Randy Orton will turn face by then? A girl can hope. Until then, here are a few older posts for you to check out: On Mankind vs. The Undertaker On Bray Wyatt On Thinking…
Month: October 2014
This Week’s Notes: Regular readers of this blog will know that I am generally more sympathetic than not toward John Cena’s plight. But nights like tonight he just strikes me as smarmy. I find myself wanting him to learn his lesson, get his ass handed to him for his hubris, which becomes more and more apparent every show. It is very interesting that he is resisting ceding the alpha role to crowd darling Dean Ambrose.…
It is a curious state of affairs and a reflection on the liminal nature of kayfabe that WWE feels it must apologize to the people of Russia about Big Show’s satirical disrespect to their flag on RAW this week. Recall that WWE readily apologized about Lana’s mention of the Malaysian Airlines plane in Eastern Ukraine, while Lana herself dismissed the kerfuffle about what she said as “blah, blah, blah… propaganda.” These apologies are calculated —…