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Day 69: Wrestlemania Week VII: Bray Wyatt

April 1, 2017 phillPop Culture

I love Bray Wyatt because Windham Rotunda has completely and utterly transformed himself in a way that few wrestlers ever do. The son of Mike Rotunda (a star in his own right) and the brother[…]

Day 68: Wrestlemania Week VI: The Rock

April 1, 2017 phillPop Culture

If Hulk Hogan had it, The Rock IS it. Such amazing charisma, such a natural connection to the audience. It’s hard to believe he started as: It wasn’t until the crowds went insane chanting “Rocky[…]

Day 67: Wrestlemania Week V: The New Day

March 30, 2017 phillPop Culture

I have always pulled for diverse wrestlers. Koko B Ware. Junk Yard Dog. Ron Simmons. But I really, really enjoyed the work of Kofi Kingston in particular. He was tag partners with CM Punk at[…]

Day 66: Wrestlemania Week IV: CM Punk

March 29, 2017 phillPop Culture

To start, a weird confessional moment. Several years ago, Julie and I were at Target in Okemos, MI. I always make her duck into the toy department when we’re out shopping because I collect (and[…]

Day 65: Wrestlemania Week III: Chris Jericho

March 28, 2017 phillPop Culture

Y2J is one of the first figures on this list that I watched from the virtual beginning of his career as a “smart” wrestling fan. I never even remotely thought any of Jericho’s career was[…]

Day 63: Wrestlemania Week I, my 8 Favorite Wrestlers: Stone Cold Steve Austin

March 26, 2017 phillPop Culture

It’s time to lighten up the ol’ daily grind here on the blog, so in honor of Wrestlemania coming in just seven more days (yay! Super Bowl of wrestling!), I’m going to do an 8[…]

Day 58: So Simulacra

March 22, 2017 phillPop Culture

I don’t know if you’ve seen Logan. I you haven’t, minor spoiler coming. *don’t read* Okay, so in Logan, there are these X-Men comics. But they aren’t real X-Men comics, because that’d be[…]

Day 53: Villains

March 16, 2017 phillmemoir

This is a revised version of a little musing I had a while back. I used to teach with Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity as a course reading, and part of what I did in those[…]

Day 52: so for a generation we got Warpath

March 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Said it was blue When your blood was red That’s how ya got a bullet blasted through your head” -Zack de la Rocha, who I quote all the time, “Bullet in Your Head” from RAtM[…]

Day 48: The Half-life of Collecting

March 11, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I collect Funko Pop figures. I have… a bunch. Like over 150 of them. That’s not nearly as much as some of the collectors you can find on Reddit, but it’s still a significant number[…]