“Hell hath no fury like a woman fashion policed by a man who looks like Fred Flintstone.” —Proverb The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough was, I shit you not, the song Pandora chose as I rolled up on the quaint craft fair out front of the 907 Pro Wrestling venue last weekend. “LFG,” I said to the voices in my head about this cornball synchronicity, because Cyndi Lauper of all people would understand the very niche existential…
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Tim Kail read my story about the first wrestling match I ever saw on his podcast The Work of Wrestling this week. He made it sound so good! You should go listen to the podcast and also check out his blog — he has been working tirelessly to celebrate professional wrestling and redefine it as an art form, away from the ever problematic label of “sports entertainment”. He also talked about our new heroes Kyle…
We all, I think, come at wrestling with our own collection of references, noteworthy matches we saw live, caught as children when they aired on television, or special pay-per-views we saw back in the day when, because of price or cable TV limitations, you didn’t necessarily see every pay-per-view. These important moments in a wrestling fan’s career define the fan’s perspective at its core. They are foundational, just like the books and films that influenced…