J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q

It's a cold, rainy day here in Norman. Great day for a nice, bowl of turkey chili which is always made better by adding some JR's BBQ Sauce, Original or Hot, and/or our Chipotle Ketchup.

Bad night last night for OU fans as the Lady Longhorns rolled into town and snapped the Lady Sooners 20 game, home winning streak. Texas beating Oklahoma at anything is tough to handle for many of us Okies. The officiating in many womens, college hoops games is so inconsistent and last nite was no exception but the better team won. I have to admit that I'm a little rough on the refs from my front row, court-side seats.

We updated the Q&A section of the site earlier today.

I've been having fun on Twitter. Twitter about a variety of subjects. Follow us at http://twitter.com/JRsBBQ.

Good luck to former WWE Womens Champion Trish Stratus with the film role she's earned with a Canadian film maker as they prepare to shoot an action adventure flick. Like wrestling, making movies is a tough business and is largely dependent on creative and talent execution.

I still recall the great, womens hardcore bout on Raw years ago between Trish and the artist then known as Victoria aka Tara.

Speaking of hardcore, extreme, etc I will always have great respect for the Original ECW because of the passion and work ethic of all involved. Paul Heyman had  great vision for what he wanted to create and his talents bought into that vision. I bring this up because the letters "ECW" will leave weekly TV in 3 weeks and will be replaced with a new, WWE produced program. Anxious to see what they come up with for Sy Fy.

BTW...the Original ECW always reminded me of some of Mid South Wrestling and Watts' UWF. Passion, physicality, episodically produced TV, complex but definable persona's, great announcing...o.k. that was an attempt at humor but Joey Styles was awesome and perfect for Heyman's rendition of ECW.

I always wanted to work w/ Joey and perhaps we will someday on something.

Must be lots of new rumors on the 'net about my future. If any of you get some concrete info on what I will be doing for a living in the coming months, years, etc, please let me know because my status, goals for the future, etc are the same as I have repeatedly stated for months. 

I have actually been discussing some projects totally unrelated to the wrestling biz which are intriguing. 

I am excited about the future primarily because I'm feeling so much better physically and am presently in a great place mentally. Anything or anyone ho tries to adversely affect that status won't be on my holiday card list.

Life is too short, as I have been prominently reminded lately, to not do what one loves and to love what one does.

Anxious to see the new DVD coming out in April entitled "Hart and Soul:The Hart Family Anthology" as many member of the Hart family are outspoken and learned about the biz and obviously of the life and times of the iconic family. I think Dr. Phil would have  blast with this complex and entertaining family. I can't wit to get my advance copy of this DVD.

We've deleted lots of emails regarding Linda McMahon's political aspirations. I'm no longer a registered voter in Connecticut and have no horse in this political race. However, I will say that Linda is honest, honorable, a classy lady, that she doesn't need the money or a job, and that she isn't a professional politician which my be anyone's best trait for running for any political office these days in my eyes.

I'm reading "Brisco" again and finally put down the book penned by the late Jack Brisco and Bill Murdock at 2 a.m.this morning. I don't think that I am eloquent enough to explain how big a hero Jack Brisco was to me in my teenage years in Oklahoma.

For the record, Jack's wrestling hero was Danny Hodge and then Lou Thesz. Of course any one who follows these blogs knows that Dan Hodge is on another planet from any other wrestler that I've ever seen or known. Jack Brisco would agree.

If I had one vote for the WWE Hall of Fame, and I don't, it would go to Danny Hodge.

For the record, I'm a wrestling fan and I choose to never be called a "cast member" instead.  I don't adhere to the philosophy that the "studio audience" is the same as the "studio audience" on, say, The Price is Right. Ugh.

Steve Austin's film "Damage" comes out in March and I expect Steve to be aggressively making the rounds to promote the movie. We talked Sunday and he seems ready to get out there and promote "Damage" and mentioned that he was also excited to be hosting Raw in San Diego on March 15.

We are going to be adding some new packages to our site this month. Our on line traffic and on line business has been steadily growing. We thank all of you who support us.

Be well...Boomer Sooner!

J.R.