*This blog post was started on May 8, 2022.

Head On...into the Unknown: My Life and Women's Wrestling

So the blog titles are bleeding in to the nineties now. I suppose it cannot be helped. Until "Return of the Jedi", the first part of the eighties were a little blurry. There was "Flash Gordon", but that album only has a couple of tracks with actual lyrics. The title song will not help to describe my life. Lets just forget about "The Hero".

Why am I suggesting my future is unknown? It feels like all I can do is take life one day at a time. My finances are stable, but there is always the unexpected expense to fear. Therapy seems overpriced, but not surprising. We will have to break that down after the next appointment.

But, money is the only thing to worry about, and that is just something I philosophically want to avoid worrying about. If there is anything tense about it right now, it is that I have to actually pay for Zoom. Who would have thought that the Dwayne Johnson/Karl Urban based on a video game feature, "Doom" is going to bring out the most people wanting to record a podcast?

Another financial punch might be needing to find cooler music for the podcast. If you are going to be working with "Wheel of Horror", my uplifting theme by "The Smithereens" may not fit the proposed episode. I may just wait until this four-person, multi-time zone episode is in the can.

Just take the hit for Zoom. I do not want to miss out on the promo code. Why else would I have gotten another credit card?

Well, there are medical expenses. I cannot cost my folks $500 a month. And who knows what the cost of "Forbidden Door" tickets are going to run me. Better to have than wish.

My only wish is for a surprising death. Retirement is for those with college degrees. Hence why we need student loan forgiveness. A degree with debt leaves you in as bad a condition as me.

I am just worried about a static life right. I get enough static bullocks with the wrestling scene. We need competition just so we can get some hot shot booking to make my rankings seem more interesting.

The Disgruntled's Women's Wrestling Power Ranking (5/08/2022):

I am not saying that I want world titles to change hands frequently, but when all promotions are just keeping the same champions, it does not encourage you to watch the other promotion. Hollywood Hogan held the WCW belt for nearly two years, and it should have been a good idea (Starrcade 97 proved otherwise.). WWF knew they did not have an icon at the time, so they had to surround their championship with drama instead of sport.

Right now, wrestling promotions are too concerned with creating new icons. WWE is not even thinking about anything else. So, needless to say, "WrestleMania: Backlash" is not really impressing me, with the exception of Edge getting a better booked House of Black.

I will give the Smackdown Women's Championship "I Quit" match credit, but that is just a course correction. So, do not expect Rhonda to rank at the top.

The Number One Women's Wrestler in the World:
Thunder Rosa (Up 7 spots)

• She is the current Disgruntled's Women's Real World Champion.
• She is the current AEW Women's World Champion.
• She is the only current Western, televised wrestling women's champion with a secondary title holder beneath her further cementing her importance.
• Serena Deeb is the next top contender. If AEW plays up that this is the woman who took the NWA title from Rosa, we can lead to thinking that a title change is possible.

The Number Two Women's Wrestler in the World:
Bianca Belair (Up 4 Spots).

• She is the current Raw Women's Champion (A belt that has been recognized as the Real World Championship).
• She has yet to lose at WrestleMania.
• The Raw women's roster is being booked better, so she should get the finest contender.

Look Back in Anger: The Women's Wrestling Power Rankings (and a Cody Hot Take).

 *This blog post was started on February 22, 2022.

It is tough to come up with a good excuse for not having posted anything beyond "NinetyForChill: The #Podcast" in the past 20 days. I have had a Tuesday or Wednesday off the past three weeks from my soon to become full-time job, so I can claim that these were the ideal times to run errands. Still, these days off did not seem overly productive when it comes to the long term consequences. Until there was a job offer from my current employer, 2022 just felt like it was to be a rough year.

Things maybe changing. The deep hurting that I experienced watching "Foodfight!" came before I finally got to accept my job offer. My federal tax return has arrived, so I should be able to navigate my finances for the next few months. And it seems that I have the freedom to finally say that Marine Bank is responsible for the uncaring (and at least in one case, selfish) managers who came up with a bullshit reason to leave me panicking for nearly two months.

The bank can blame IDES for ignoring my appeal. If the state does not want to pursue the $604 the bank should have coughed up, I am hoping to bury its reputation. Of course, they may have the last laugh. It seems my retirement plan which was a lesser one than what Super Pantry provided me in 2009 needs a notary to be rolled over to my preferred bank. I only know one institution with free notary services, and they are the assholes who fucked me over for telling them to treat their staff better.

Too bad I cannot come up with a song title from the 1980's to state that feeling. I am too proud to be "Living on a Prayer" and I will not imply mastery of puppets for the Springfield-based profiteers I spoke of. "Janie Got a Gun" seems a little problematic. "Scary Monsters" could empower the awful salaried workers at their Champaign branches, but I think I have a Bowie title from that era to use.

And since I do not see these rankings below changing much from "For the Ladies: True Crime and Britt Baker", perhaps I should be upset.

The Disgruntled's Women's Wrestling Power Ranking (2/22/2022):

I guess this is just a testament to why there is only a sixth of women's wrestling content on televised professional wrestling. There have been four primary men's championship changes (Hangman > Omega; Lesnar > Big E; Lashley > Lesnar; Lesnar > Lashley) since these top three performers have won their championships. It is either there are too few women's wrestlers to make things interesting or the lack of depth is beyond apparent. You are going to get my best effort to make this appear interesting, but I think we have six more weeks of a static scene.

The Number One Women's Wrestler in the World:
Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D.

• She is the current Disgruntled's Women's Real World Champion.
• She is the current AEW Women's World Champion.
• She is the only current Western, televised wrestling women's champion with a secondary title holder beneath her further cementing her importance.
• I do not see AEW allowing her to be defeated at this point in her current feud with Thunder Rosa.

The Number Two Women's Wrestler in the World:
Becky Lynch

• She is the current Smackdown Women's Champion (A belt that has been recognized as the Real World Championship).
• She will be challenged by Bianca Belair, the only other woman to win a WrestleMania main event.
• She has actually defended her championship at the last two WWE premium live events.

For the Ladies: True Crime and Britt Baker.

*This blog post was started on December 2, 2021.

Too much work to know what the hell is going on. Tis the season.

I suppose working so much keeps me out of trouble, until you are expected to be a loan professional. This must be the reason the bathroom has been out of order at the bank for the last couple of days. It is karma balancing things out. To go into further details may violate the confidentiality agreement with the bank. With all the stuff I say about my family, parents preparing an NDA when their child moves out might be a wise move.

The lack of free time means I have not spoken to my folks recently. A write up is the worst that will happen to me at the bank. I think I can spare one more. Thus, there is just a sense of dread that somewhere, I am going to run into some trauma.

It is a yin and yang thing. Screw up someone's credit, I still get the offer to renew my apartment with $200 off my first month rent. Toilet goes out at the day job, the libertarian at the stall next to me is leaving for a bank job in my ex's hometown. There are not that many banks in Tuscola. Do I warn my ex's mom about a possible mistake?

All things considered, at least I know I am well informed outside of Central Illinois. I have a coworker watching a crime doc about Lori Vallow-Daybell. They are a fan of true crime entertainment and were perplexed not being aware of this case. My surprise came from the realization that people may not be reading enough. Then again, if we did not have so many mass shootings to take up the press, we can capitalize on every Casey Anthony-reminiscent crazy crime tale.

Of course I told my coworker to march against guns for this reason. At least agree with no more semi-automatic weapons. How well would that fuck up in Michigan have done amassing a body count if he only had six rounds and a hammer to pull back? With this power to compromise, I really got to get the progressives the girl who took my virginity gained the support of in her U.S. Representative campaign to follow me. If we turn this into a performance, I am as charismatic as the next bloke.

Aside from the fellow whose credit I may have screwed up (because my branch refuses to advance any of its employees thus ensuring they will not have the training to deal with odd scenarios), I have been focusing on the ladies around me. Vague pronouns are being done away with in the name of transitions. It is a weak segue way, but can you come up with a better one?

*This blog post was resumed on December 7, 2021.

The Disgruntled's Women's Wrestling Power Rankings (12/7/2021):

I assure you that I am researching to see if a Tag Team Championship lineage can be formed. It will not start in 1983 like most of the DRCW Championships. The NWA did their best, but by the 80's, it disappeared with the territories and brass knuckles belts.

With holiday craziness creating weird days at the bank, I have actually fallen behind in a lot of my creative aspects. Tonight, the editing of my podcast with Gregory Carl about the DC Animated Universe will commence. It should have occurred last night (if only he did not have a potty mouth), but trying to get my tablets and computers to sync up was a challenge that took up most of my evening. Oh the irony of writing a female-themed blog when a lot of the file moving were Suicide Girl pictures.

Because I needed to give my hundred(s) of listeners a head up, I offered up my coverage of the Criterion Collection kaiju classic "The X From Outer Space". If anyone is aware of another sub 100-minute movie that starts with X to feature in Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Reviews, you have 365 days to let me know about it.

This is why I am relying on coming up with a women's wrestling power ranking. It is going to be a lot faster to come up with 10 women that should be touted instead of 40 years of teams that rarely share that aesthetic.