This is a disturbing story if true:
A woman seen wearing a white nationalist T-shirt and directing people towards Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is now under investigation for possibly stealing the Speaker of the House’s laptop and planning to sell it to Russia’s secret service.

Riley June Williams, 22, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is currently on the run from authorities after video footage captured inside the Capitol clearly shows her taking an active role in directing the insurrection.

But the FBI is now investigating an altogether more troubling accusation.

According to a former love interest of Williams, who contacted the FBI’s tip line in the days after the attack, Williams had stolen a laptop or hard drive from Pelosi’s office, which she planned to give to the Kremlin.

These details were included in an affidavit filed on Sunday evening by FBI agent Jonathan Lund outlining the criminal case against Williams.

“[The witness] also claimed to have spoken to friends of Williams, who showed [the witness] a video of Williams taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi’s office. [The witness] stated that Williams intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.”

The witness said that the sale had fallen through for “unknown reasons” and that Williams either destroyed the computer device or still has it.

Lund added that the Russia allegations are still under investigation.

The affidavit says Williams has changed her telephone number and deleted her social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, and Parler since Jan. 6.

Wiliams was first identified over the weekend by UK broadcaster ITV, which published a report about Williams’ activities inside the Capitol.

The report spoke to Williams’ mother, Wendy Williams, who confirmed that her daughter had “just took off” and hadn’t said where she was going. She confirmed her daughter was the person seen directing people “upstairs, upstairs, upstairs” towards Pelosi’s office.

“She took a sudden interest in Trump’s politics and far-right message boards,” Wendy Williams said.

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The modern matches are kind of unexciting as well.  Most of the time I see a bunch of moves that build up toward a sequence that usual involves a finisher being kicked out of.  Oh yeah that too, finishers are severly devalued now days.  It seems like everyone kicks out of one and makes them less exciting when used.

Anyway, there's no psychology or storytelling within matches anymore I've noticed.  It's just kind of people doing a bunch of moves with very little rhyme or reason.  I rag on HHH, but the guy does actually try to tell a story when he does/did wrestle, he just needed someone to reign in his excesses, and cut out the fat and not have every match go 30 minutes or so.

On the booking vs writing debate, I've always felt that the booker also had some responsibilites on how the match went (ie the payoff).  The writer's responsibility was more or less write an engaging enough story where the fans want to see these guys fight/wrestle.  Sometimes booking and writing overlapped I guess.  They both need to be strong to create a satisfying feud though.

Guess one of the most famous ones where the match totally sucked and was overbooked would be Starcade 97.  It should have been an easy book/matchup with Sting destroying Hogan and the Nwo.  Instead, you got some convoluted match that ended up involving Bret Hart and some clusterfuck finish.  Totally screwed up what should have been an easy story/angle to finish and wasted the build of it.

Sorcerer, starring Schneider is also really good.  It also had the misfortune of coming out the same year as Star Wars and had an incredibly misleading title.  I think it's better than Marathon Man, which should have ended 5 minutes earlier than it did.  Also, not really in the mood to go to the dentist after watching that film.

Prince of the City was a 1980s film, although it has a 70s film feel.  It has Jerry Orbach and Treat Williams.  It's solid, I watched it.   Cutter's Way with Jeff Bridges that was released in 1981 has that same "feel".  A couple of more 70s films:

Who'll Stop the Rain--nice post vietnam thriller starring Nick Nolte as a guy from the run from all types of pepople
Charley Varrick--Walter Mattheau in an excellent heist/con thriller.

Also, the 70s films just had better music and soundtracks, especially with the funk infleunced ones.  Some of the 80s soundtracks with the synths are really cheese and add to this sort of light and happy mood that talked about earlier.