On Sunday, a landmark event occurred.Professional wrestling made its mark on geek history with Wrestlemania 25.The festivities began the night before with the much deserved induction into the Hall of Fame of Stone Cold Steve Austin and culminated with the high quality pay per view event itself.

I noticed a couple things in the induction of Stone Cold.  First off, he really seemed to be giving the hint that this would be his last involvement with professional wrestling, presumably to pursue his acting career.  The crowd began chanting “one more match, one more match”, only to be met with a rather cold reply “I don’t know about that…”.  Wrestling is a business in which you never say “never”, but it really does seem that we’ve seen the last of the Texas Rattlesnake appearing in the squared circle.  The exclamation mark on this was my other observation, the blatant passing of the proverbial torch…to John Cena (much to the chagrin of the snarky fan boys, I’m sure).  Austin handed one of his famous “Steve-wisers” to Cena at the conclusion of his acceptance speech.  Yes, like it or not…the company’s hopes rest on John Cena and Austin knows it.

Wrestlemania itself was nothing short of amazing.  The money in the bank ladder match, the Undertaker/ Shawn Michaels match, the Hardy vs. Hardy match, and the HHH/   Randy Orton match were all classics in their own rights, but the ‘Taker/ Michaels match in particular was very likely among the best matches I’ve ever seen.

In other news, we get word from the seas off east Africa this week that an American cargo vessel was hijacked by pirates, who, as of this writing, completely fudged their hijacking and are now at a standoff with the US and Japanese navies with the American captain as their hostage.

Pirates?  Is this really a problem in this day and age?  And why aren’t these guys wearing patches or sporting parrots on their shoulders?  What has piracy come to these days?  Joking aside, I don’t see why we couldn’t solve the problem with about 4 or 5 marine marksman all firing in unison.  A few exploded pirate heads and the cargo captain gets to go home to his family.

Not to get too political here, but we can’t get around the fact that the Wild West (with pirates?!?!  Just too cool to be true) state of the nation of Somalia and its rapid decline of civility was something that the previous administration ignored.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming Bush for Somalia pirates directly, but it sure is nice that we have intelligence and a sense of duty in the White House now, isn’t it?

My final rant is of a social nature.  It’s no secret that I use MySpace as a central communication hub for pretty much everyone in my life.  In recent weeks, I’ve decided to be less selective with who I accept on my friends list, and the collection has grown considerably leaving me in the odd position of only actually knowing about 1/8^th of my online “friends”.

During the course of this “lazes’ faire” approach to my contacts, I’ve come to the conclusion that the generation now beginning to enter adulthood may very well be the most narcissistic generation we’ve ever produced.  They preen and pose for their profile pictures as if they were amateur models believing that maybe just maybe, somebody will discover them because of that one picture on MySpace.  You may call it delusional, but I see it as something far less pleasant, a spoiled group of kids that will have much difficulty being able to empathize with the outside world.  I hope I’m wrong because one of those assholes may be in charge of changing my bedpan someday…

Until next week, my friends, carry on.