It Liiiiiiiives~!

Honestly, it is hard to know where to start with serious necromancy like this. I never intended to let my blog dissapear into near oblivion, but I was hit with a series of weird life changes which I couldn't quite stay on top of when they were happening and I just didnt know how to manage my time effectively (admitedly still an area of life I struggle with).

I once promised a review of Bret Hart's autobiography but, well, considering how long ago it is that I read it I feel any serious review would be impossible. It wouldn't do justice to the book to review it without reading it over again, so I wont even try. I'll just say this: It is a phenomenal read that really gives you some impressive insight into the world of pro-wrestling from the beginning of a career to the end of it. If you like pro-wrestling at all you owe yourself this read.

I have some serious plans for this blog, something to stay on-top of on a twice or thrice weekly basis, but some of the things I need to figure out how to do are, well, eluding me. If anyone knows how to make blogger let me post more than one picture per blog update it'd be swell if you would let me know about it.

So, for now, stay fit and have fun (I wonder how many of you will get that reference?) and I'll see you soon.

"Hitman"

I am, without a doubt and as you all will quickly learn, a huge fan of Professional Wrestling. I grew up not really being allowed to watch it and, somehow, I always managed to sneak it into my weekend viewing schedule (WWF Metal, as I recall it being called, aired stupid early on Saturdays, before my Mum was awake to overview my watching habits). As a Canadian I grew up loving and idolizing those few Canadians who made it big and acknowledged they were from here. Bret "The Hitman" Hart was always one of those.

I was crushed by the Montreal Screwjob, cried like mad over Owen Hart's death and jumped with joy when I found a copy of Bret's autobiography on sale for 10$, tax in. Soon enough I will be writing a proper review of his book, but as of yet I have not finished it (almost there, mind you).

Today, however, I wanted to share something that was inspired by Bret Hart.
This is a poem I wrote about him:


"Hitman"
by James Snelgrove

Pink and Black
Colours of a Hart attack
Locked on his target
A Sharpshooter you won't forget
The best there is
The best there was
The best there ever will be

(Unfortunately, Blogger decided it wants to murder the formating of my poem. So, please, check it out on my DevArt page here: "Hitman" Link)

The drawing of Bret I included here was done by my good friend Brett Vinduska, and coloured by someone he knows on the lovely website DeviantArt (Boy, how I love DevArt!).

I hope you all "tune in" to catch my review of Bret Hart's book, Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.

Intentions

Aloha~!
So, I am fairly new to this whole Blogging thing. I have been excessively apprehensive about starting a blog due to my experiences with no one ever reading my devArt Journals and with everyone on LiveJournal, save a few, being horribly whiny and bitchy (don't worry, folks, I haven't been on LJ in ages). I've started this Blog to add my "unique" voice to the cacophony of the Internet, in an attempt to share and help my fellow geeks to better enjoy what they enjoy. To this goal I won't be limiting this blog, like many I know, to any one medium or genre, but more on that later.

Now, I know all my fellow geeks out there aren't as absurdly in love with the English language as i am, and some of y'all might be wondering what the heck the name of this blog even means.

Courtesy of Dictionary.com:

sa⋅ga⋅cious

1.	having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.

2.	Obsolete. keen of scent.

Sagacious is a nice word. It is strange and obscure enough to not be thought of as snobbish or snooty, like Discerning or Refined would sound, and it also, funnily enough, kind of sounds like an appreciative word in regards to food.

Imagine, if you would:

A 50's Kitchen scene. A child is eating pudding from a bowl while his mother washes dishes.
Mother: How was your pudding, Jimmy?
Jimmy: It was sagacious, Mum!

Isn't that fun?

Now, back to more practical, less fantastical things.
If you look down at the looooooooooong (and incomplete) list of labels for this introductory post, you will quickly become well aware of how wide my interests are and, potentially, how far the topics presented in this Blog will range. I intend to try and bring a critical approach to everything I comment on here without falling into the immediate or distilled reactions of geeking out over something that is part of a long-standing franchise or genre that I already love. For this reason i will not be likely to review a movie until it is available for home viewing, so as to avoid just saying "Dude, it was so cooooool!" after seeing it once and saying no more other than the few bits I remember with enough clarity to gush over. The best reviews come from being able to reference the material while writing so as to make sure you aren't being an idiot. Or, at least that is how I feel.

I haven't entirely decided yet on many aspects of this blog, including layout and Google Ads and colour schemes, so I would definitely appreciate any feedback you folks might have on the looks and structure of this blog in its opening days. I know I wouldn't stick around to read something if it made my eyes bleed to do so.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll all become regulars, the more the merrier.