Lord Gonchar

Before I was a coaster dork, I was a pro-wrestling dork. We watched all the time, bought pay-per-views and even went a little out of our way to attend events. For a while in the mid 90′s I even worked the indy circuit in western PA until I blew my knee out. (but that’s a story for a different day)

I don’t really keep up with it much anymore. If I’m flipping through the channels, I might stop and watch for a few minutes, but I’m not up on who’s who and what’s going on story-wise.

Tonight the WWE is in town for the live RAW show the night after Wrestlemania – which is traditionally a big TV show. Being as it was happening at the Nutter Center (a stone’s throw away from where I currently sit typing this) and we were just there two weeks ago for the BMG show, I wanted to remember to check some of it out on TV this evening.

Today my wife calls and tells me that four or five of the guys are staying at the hotel and the lobby is full of wrestling dorks going nuts when one of these guys walk through the lobby. She even said there were a bunch of non-guests just hanging around outside hoping to catch a wrestler coming or going.(imagine everything wrong with coaster geeks, but add the trait of still being starstruck)

Then almost in passing she mentions some music producer guy was staying tonight too and everybody was trying to get his autograph. I’m like whatever.

So we’re watching RAW tonight and they cut to the audience & a shot of Timbaland along with the announcement that he’s in attendance and they do a little ringside interview with him. My wife goes, “That’s the music guy that’s staying at the hotel. He’s actually a really nice guy.”

Friggin’ Timbaland!

My wife is so out of touch with pop culture sometimes.