Moisturize. Buy records. And not just this weekend. Take a 4-day weekend. Watch pro wrestling, whatever form makes you happy. Don't shit on people's fun. Put sweaters on your outdoor plants. Break kayfabe. Hoist the cone. Rewatch Blade Runner. Respect pedestrians in parking lots. Eat parmesan fries.

Oh maybe they did. I have the volume kind of low as to not wake the dog.

Watching the GCW Clusterfuck show. Unprotected chairshots to the head. If only we had some science to figure out if that's bad for people.

Finally seeing Nattie vs Shayna at Bloodsport. This is a war.

Drink for wrestling. Drink because of wrestling.

Probably the least surprising thing ever. 63 million dudes visited a rape camp website. You think dudes (and it's dudes) are repulsed by him? But if Vince walked out in front of just about any wrestling audience, he'd get cheered. We are a sick country.

PICK OF THE WEEK: At the Gates bid farewell to Lindberg with final album ‘… Ghost of a Future Dead’ Photo by Ester Segarra Saying farewell to a metal institution isn’t something easy to do whether it’s the members of the band or a person writing about their final output. There is no question heav…

PICK OF THE WEEK: AT THE FUCKING GATES, 'The Ghost of a Future Dead' (Century Media)

Pig’s Blood smother death metal with gruesome intensity, bloody power on ‘Destroying the Spirit’ When you see the name Pig’s Blood, you probably have an idea of the direction in which their music goes. I assume you’re not expecting something that goes well with a white wine or a night out, and…

Pig's Blood, 'Destroying the Spirit' @darkdescentrecords.bsky.social and apparently it's @clawhammerpr.bsky.social week here at the site.

Oh, we know.

Jericho just did the subliminal man gimmick from SNL. No one under, like, 40 would even remember that.

Pittsburgh’s Stalemate of Wills grind doom, grime into bruising package with ‘Existence Denied’ There’s a lot of doom metal. A LOT. Well, there’s probably more black metal right now, and a lot of that sounds remarkably the same. Luckily for doom, even though there are a slew of artists making…

Stalemate of Wills, 'Existence Denied' (FFTC Records) @clawhammerpr.bsky.social

Nixil, Drouth combine forces, lash smoke and fire at modern times on ‘Toward Dead Temples’ I’m so tired of writing about how every week is more fucked than the week before it, no matter how it might seem to be a convenient crutch for opening these. I really want to be able to stop doing …

Nixil/Drouth, 'Toward Dead Temples' (self-released) @clawhammerpr.bsky.social

Sexual Chocolate (Great Lakes/Big Lake) YouTube video by It's the Beer Video

@pierogibeast.bsky.social is on assignment, so Jayden joins us this week! We have beers in the raw sunlight.

Moisturize. Grow plants. Enjoy plants. Smoke plants. Befriend plants. Have a pizza. Listen to the Dire Straits and early Satyricon back to back. Slowly feel safer eating at restaurants again. Watch all wrestling. Laugh at Orbán. Feel elation for Hungarians. Hoist the cone. Pet every animal. Breathe.

Drinks? Drinks.

I saw them at Gilead Fest in 2014, and between songs, their singer/guitarist said someone told them their music is great when washing dishes. I also love everything they ever put out.

PICK OF THE WEEK: Lividus, 'Scarabaeus' @namelessgraverec.bsky.social

Black metal ghouls Doodswens spark warfare with fear, death, hammer with ferocity and chaos Photo by Lilit Ghazaryan Feeling eternal darkness in your body and mind is not a rare commodity. In fact, about 720,000 globally choose to end their life annually, according to the WHO, so there ar…

Doodswens, S/T (Svart Records)

That's perfectly stated. I was trying to explain to a friend why I didn't take today all that seriously. The pattern of abuse makes sense. It becomes something to joke about because you know the cycle.

Egregore mix sci-fi madness into death, black metal cauldron on sprawling ‘It Echoes in the Wild’ The universe is strange, and so is the metal inspired by the vast darkness, which only makes sense. I mean, we know what’s out there, but do we really? What if there is shit that we just can’t see?…

Egregore, 'It Echoes in the Wild' (20 Buck Spin)

Moisturize. Ignore the fucking maniac. Buy very legal medicines. Prepare for an onslaught of pro wrestling. Defeat a cold. Finally witness Emperor. Absolutely hammer potholes. Buy an incredible slice of chocolate cake. Remember you also had a major hand in your growth. Never forgive a fascist.

That punishment should be televised. For a reason. Not to celebrate it. But to show what will happen to anyone else who tries this in the future.

Not ideal

Goblet

Questionable Shots (Haggard Brewing/Three Floyds YouTube video by It's the Beer Video

@pierogibeast.bsky.social and I have beers. I can taste mine this week. Also SAURON!!!!!

I have a beer ive been aging since his first term for this moment.

This is the Bret Hart getting hit by a car before Mania of this Mania

Seem to?!

I mean, well duhhh. Obv reporting it is crucial, but yeah. They're fucking morons. This isn't hard to figure out.