Wrestling

This is a picture of my brother and his team mates. They're rank #1 in class A - Jackson County Central Huskies. They're also rank #8 in the nation, Highschool wise.

I’ve got a theory – I think that WWF style wrestling is ‘the new ballet.’ WWF Wrestling is the ‘high culture’ of the common man.

Why should Wrestling be seen as High Culture?

WWF Wrestling should be considered high culture because:

• It has costumes worthy of a production Oscar – those fat opera chicks in horned helmets look almost tame by comparison.
• It’s got sex and violence. Don’t think sex, violence and high culture go hand in hand? Better re-read your Shakespeare. In the tales by the most exalted of bards, people get murdered, people get it on, and people get it on with the brother of their husband whom they just murdered. And let us not forget that many of Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed in what could best be described as ‘bawdy houses.’
• It possesses almost operatic levels of melodrama. I mean, who could forget the tragic death of the famous wrestler Owen Hart who fell almost 60 feet to the stage floor when the harness on his aerial wire snapped?

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Whatever fame he gained he paid for in levels of pain no one should have to endure.

Wayne “Superstar Billy Graham� Coleman hit NYC and Philly wrestling like no one else before. He had the jive talk. The tie-dyed clothes. And a physique like no one else had seen before. This was long before people knew what anabolic steroids were.

“These hands can crush coconuts! These hands can straighten out horseshoes! I train five hours a day! I run 19 miles a day!�

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PARAMOUNT PICTURES Pulls The PLUG

I got the call a couple of days ago from Heidi with Paramount Pictures that they decided to use their own people to play the Luchadores for Jack Black's new film NACHO LIBRE. Apparently, Paramount has a bunch of Wrestlers waiting around to roll at a moments notice for promotional gigs.

I spent all day roaming around town in my Hanes Underwear and steel toe boots trashing talking people just to get into character for this wrestling role. I even re-read "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling"(I really have this book).

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