Mafia Graves gun update: Shell Shock’d

Shell Shock is some amazing shit.  I’ve currently got all foam components of the gun slathered and covered in about three coats of Shell Shock, and they’re almost all fully cured, and ready to begin the initial sanding down of them.  If all goes according to plan, then all of them will be smooth and plastic-hard shelled, and ready for painting, and eventual assembly before finalization.

Again, I have to reiterate that it’s actually been fun to be creating shit again with my own hands, instead of years of watching on the sidelines.  Throughout the week, I had been receiving and gathering materials for my costume as a whole, and I’m actually growing excited about everything as more and more pieces come in.  I look forward to the eventual completion of this gun, and I hope it’s everything I hoped it would look like.

The WWE needs to be careful now

Since the 1,000th episode of RAW, the WWE has gone and made RAW into a three-hour show now, up from the previous format of two hours.  Nowadays, three hours is just way too long to be watching wrestling, and I can’t help but think back to how I did on such a regular basis when I was in high school.  Clearly, this is one of those situations where I feel like I’m showing my age, and I already don’t feel like I have enough time in the days sometimes.  Also, I think the fact that wrestling often conflicts with baseball during the summer has something to do with it as well.

But anyway, the fact that RAW now demands its wrestlers and personnel to be present for a three-hour program, I can’t help but feel a little concern for the direction of the company.  Now I’m sure that the WWE will be fine, because unlike its former competition in WCW, they’re run by smart, competent people.  But the concern does have to do a lot with WCW, because with a three-hour show on Monday, and a two-hour on Friday, WWE is currently riding the same kind of blueprint that essentially ended up being the death of WCW.

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