In 2014, Goldust was a feel-good success story. Here was a guy in his mid-40s who'd cleaned himself up, and was competing at a level higher than he ever had. He was teaming up with his brother Cody, who had turned to Stardust, and once again putting on solid tag matches. Near the end of the year they captured the titles once more, until dropping them to Miz and Mizdow in November. As 2015 began, creative seemed to lose interest in the brothers as a team and set them against each other. Goldust beat Stardust at Fastlane, and that was it. The feud was supposed to continue on (hence why Goldust was attacked in front of Dusty Rhodes after the match), but creative gave up on that idea too. Goldust soon turned into a jobber, and was left without a storyline. A shoulder injury left him out of action for nearly the rest of the year, until he triumphantly returned at Survivor Series...to job some more.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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