The (Live?) Album Project: Let’s Talk New Rock Bands

My wife and I saw Styx, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Sammy Hagar, Loverboy, and George Thoroughgood all in concert over the summer a couple of years ago. We had a LOT of fun, but we also realized -- inescapably -- that our favorite bands are all getting old now. These guys are in their mid-to late-70s or worse.

Like it or not, seeing these bands in concert is becoming a limited time proposition.

With that in mind, we launched the Live Album Project, both because we wanted to get recordings of our favorites before it gets too late and because we wanted to find some new favorite bands for the future.

#AsForDynamite: Alright. Even *I* Didn't Like That One.

I wrote earlier this week about how AEW is a young man's or woman's company, and then they throw *that* out there.

#AsForDynamite: AEW Is a Young Man’s Game

Before we get started this week, I’d like to acknowledge that the last two articles in this series got way too negative in their approach to the fanbase. I am therefore trying to keep it more upbeat this week. There definitely are times when, “Fuck all these assholes. Normalize tribalism!” feels like an appropriate response to the discourse around pro-wrestling. However, our charge as West Pointers is “to live above the common level of life” and “to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”. It therefore matters little what other people are doing. I myself have long since been called to a higher standard.

#AsForDynamite: What Are We Doing Here?

Well friends, how are we doing?

I said on Twitter yesterday that I didn’t think that these #AsForDynamite posts were necessarily getting over, and since then -- happily -- we’ve seen a small but substantial uptick in readership. I mean, I’m still not sure that the world needs yet more bullshit in the pro-wrestling space, nor I am about to quit my day job to create yet another pro-wrestling YouTube channel. However, enough folks tuned into the last two articles to make me feel comfortable at least writing a mission statement for what we're now calling #AsForDynamite.

#AsForDynamite: The View from the Cheap Seats

My daughter Emma and I went to last night’s AEW Dynamite in Worcester, MA. The show was awesome. And now, since I’ve wanted to pitch a series of articles called “The View from the Cheap Seats” to AEW President Tony Khan for quite some time now, I’m gonna go ahead and shoot my shot.

To say the very least, I was *quite* surprised when AEW announced a show in Worcester. My daughter Emma is a freshman at Clark, located just two miles away from the DCU Center, and while she likes the university, we both agree that the town itself is kind of a dump.

With Emma during the Bucks' entrance

Swim Across the Sound 2024

If you've got a few moments, I'd like to talk to you about the Swim Across the Sound. 

The Swim is an annual charity race sponsored by St. Vincent's Medical Center to benefit cancer patients in Southwest Connecticut. The Swim doesn't pay for cancer treatments. It pays for all of the things that insurance doesn't cover. 

#AsForDynamite: Let's Talk About AEW & "Tax Evasion"

I grant you that no one needed this much pro-wrestling analysis from me today. But then this happened, and well, here we are.

Tax evasion?

I obviously missed something.

— Danno E. Cabeza (@DannoECabeza) March 29, 2024

Some very low IQ individuals have said recently that AEW was created by the Khan’s for tax purposes

— Wrestling_Mark (@WrestlingMark16) March 29, 2024