I went through a closet I have been neglecting for many years now. A good amount of the stuff was clearly stacks of papers and other junk that I must have said, “I’ll get to this later.” Literally, stacks of stuff, stuffed into stuff, and then stuffed into even more stuff. I did find quite a lot of stuff I had long forgotten I had or presumed I had thrown out over the years.
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- This was a stack of magazines, probably from 2004. I have no idea how I had car magazines or a Heavy Metal comic.
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- Picture day in 3rd grade (1991). Who else loves that background?
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- This is a Mortal Kombat II reference poster. It has all the moves for every home console (of the time).
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- I was beyond happy when I bought this R-zone when I was 13 or so. I was beyond disappointed when I played it. I’m beyond happy I have it to look back on and mock.
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- Two friends of mine, Alex and Danny, and I stuffed all of our garbage from a Wendy’s into this 20 oz bottle. We were so proud of this that we saved it. Now, years later, it turns out that I saved it.
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- I wish this watch still worked .Go Green Ranger, Go!
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- Found a lunchbox full of cassette tapes.
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- I am super excited to transfer this tape to the computer. The embarrassing gold on here is gonna be great to have.
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- I had an I-zone Polaroid camera. I had it for years and never used, then bought three rolls of film for it and maybe used one roll. No idea where the camera or the film are now, but a few pictures survived. This is a pic of my beloved cat, Fifi.
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- This is the top half of a Michael Jackson doll, I have the bottom half, but have yet to rejoin them. (he says, 20 years later).
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- I saved some club flyers. I think I went to neither of these clubs.
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- This Mickey Mouse is the devil and sworn enemy of Michael Watkins and me.
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- Cybiko, Gameboy Advance, a bunch of games, Gameboy Game Genie, and
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- An SNL script and a vintage Playboy.
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- I have this old picture cube featuring this shot of me.
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- TV Guides from 1977 and 1967 (from left to right).
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- Alex, Mikey, and I used to keep this in Mikey’s car and hold it in the window if we saw a cute girl drive by.
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- This is a Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) action figure. It came with pieces to upgrade him to Batman, but those are long gone.
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- This is the original Sailor Moon doll (in the US), from 1995, before they bothered to watch an episode of the show and learn what it should actually look like. I remember the commercial made the show look so generic and used She-ra sound effects.
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- Burger King had Lion King toys 20 years ago and had these little finger puppets in a box things. I also have an Eddie. I had Mufasa, but that was lost to time.
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- My first Koosh. Kooshes dry out, as I now know.
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- What do Robin Williams , Harold Ramis, and Dennis Hopper have in common?
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- Back when I was a wee tot, Nintendo figurines were fairly infrequent to come by. Luckily I found these somewhere and bought them with no hesitation.
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- Alf HA
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- A Captain EO cap, Mario cap, an old baseball hat with fire on it that I wore for the entire year of 2001, a Hulk Hogan dog, Ernie, and a Glowworm.
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- The 1985 WWF championship belt buckle.
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- Love notes from Alex Gubanov.
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- Michael Jackson stuff, on top is a Moonwalker storybook and calendar. Underneath iit’s various magazines and posters.
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- I was unaware that I had so many Hulk Hogan LJN figures.
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- I wonder if these still work. Unopened virgin Cybikos.
I’ve been watching wrestling for almost 19 years. I have seen a lot of faces come and go. One face, however, that should have gone a long time ago, but managed to stick around, is that of Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett is not enjoyable to watch at all. I never was excited about him, either for or against him. I just didn’t like the guy, not in the “I boo the bad guy” way either. Disliking a bad guy in wrestling (for you non-wrestling fans) is known in the business as “heat.” A wrestler gains “heat” by appealing negatively to the fans. Jeff Jarrett has simply bored the life out of me whenever he is taking up precious TV time. As a heel (wresting jargon for “bad guy”) he generates no heat, the fans just want him to go away. As a good guy, he’s just boring. Both sides of that coin see him doing the same thing, breaking a guitar over someone’s head. Unlike the Honky Tonk Man who predates him, nobody cares when he does it, partially because he did it way too much.
Barry Horowitz was what is known as a “jobber.” This means that he basically lost every match to major superstars who were being made to look good. He collected a paycheck and moved on with his life. Horowitz, however, shocked the world once, by winning a match against a then-superstar known as “Skip.” Skip claimed this was a fluke and the two tangled again, only to see another victory for Horowitz. The feud came to a head at Summer Slam 1995, so you have this jobber appearing on a major pay per view event. For only a minute, the entire world rallied behind Barry Horowitz hoping he would overcome the evil Skip. To those of us who remember this, I ask you, have you ever cared about any Jeff Jarrett match nearly as much as this one Barry Horowitz match? To those who only are finding out about this now, I’ll answer for you, “no.” Jeff Jarrett has never garnered as much interest as this one match with Barry Horowitz. I cannot think of any further evidence I need to present to relay this message any clearer. Barry Horowitz, who was not particularly interesting as a performer still managed to perform on a level higher than Jeff Jarrett has been able to attain.
Reliving 
This DVD set is absolutely amazing to watch as an old school wrestling fan. For those of you who do not know, WWE (formerly “WWF”) used to have a late night show which ran on NBC when Saturday Night Live was in rerun. There were no monthly pay per view events in those days and most of time, this show served as the main story progressing medium. This show ran through the era which Mean Gene Okerlund referred to as “the glory days.” For the most part,