Columns 2 Dec 15 Jeffrey Harris Top-Down Smackdown: A Lament for John Cena’s Absence Greetings everyone. First off, my name is Jeffrey Harris. I'm filling in for Read More
Columns 27 Mar 15 Luke Y. Thompson Topless Robot LIVE! Butts and Catfishing at SXSW, With Fred Topel and Jen Yamato On this week's podcast, our special guests The Daily Beast's Jen Yamato and Read More
TV 19 Jan 15 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Royal Rumble Picks, for Better and Worse Dear Mattel: Toys of this, please. I don't have much to say about the Read More
TV 10 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Grumpy Cats and Handsome Heroes First things first: Grumpy Cat will be appearing next week on Monday Night Read More
TV 3 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Ryback and Think of Angles To fully understand the extent to which WWE dropped the ball with Ryback Read More
TV 15 Sep 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Night of Champions Predictions Prediction #1: Hornswoggle will return to save Heath Slater from Adam Rose's Bunny Read More
Comics 3 Sep 14 Luke Y. Thompson Finally, The Rock HAS CONFIRMED…He’s Black Adam We sort of thought we knew this for a long time, but there Read More
Live Performance 25 Aug 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Guess What – Cena Turned Heel a Long Time Ago It's the most common lament of the modern wrestling fan: "Why won't John Read More
TV 18 Aug 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: The Part-Time Champ Is Here! As a big Brock Lesnar fan, I was on edge throughout his big Read More
Movies 4 Aug 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: 5 Wrestlers Who Were Actually Better in Movies Than in the Ring Hmmm, what could possibly have inspired this mini-list? It used to be a cliche Read More