Day 1 of our 2nd annual The Made by New York Women Film Festival was amazing, w/a packed house. Tonight we have drama night, w/6 great shorts, followed by 3 amazing "how did they do that" docs. Doors open at at 6 pm w/free food, shorts start at 7 & the doc block begins about 8:45. Tickets are free!
To-night! is the night. Day 1 of the 2nd annual The Made by New York Women Film Festival begins with doors open at 6 pm at the Loft at Foothills. Free food, cash bar & 6 great comedic films, headlined by the feature The List. And did we mention tickets are free?!?! See you tonight!
The IWC is on day three of mask-gate and I am on day three of being glad I don't follow the current stuff.
Mid South fans will want to listen to this: Ep. 91 of GKOSRT, Every Dog Needs a Bone to Chew On, where we discuss MSWA action f/May 1984 & let's just say it, Butch Reed is out of control. + some of the best matches, angles & interviews of the golden era
www.buzzsprout.com/1997141/epis...
I got a private deal on 3 Houston Wrestling programs from 1953, filled with autographs. Two were from Sept. 4, 1953. And ... I now appear to own two autos from Whiskers Savage.
Steve Johnson found some 1948 PAN wrestling magazines from LA and sent them out to the IWC historians on his list. There were some great Dizzy Davis pages within. Also, how would you like to meet for a drink at O'Mahoney's Irish Whip?
Steve Johnson found some 1948 PAN wrestling magazines from LA and sent them out to the IWC historians on his list. There were some great Dizzy Davis pages within. Also, how would you like to meet for a drink at O'Mahoney's Irish Whip?
By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Episode 90 of the podcast A Decided Highlander is up where I speak with the great wrestling author Ian Douglass about his new book and so much more. Check it out where you get your podcasts.
www.buzzsprout.com/1997141/epis...
Corpus Christi Sept 16, 1953. Jack Irwin is Ed McLemore's promoter in Corpus Christi during the Texas Rasslin' War. Moolah was a hit in Texas which may have extended the war. Corpus Christi was the one town where both promotions did well. Irwin had big crowds throughout. He got screwed in the end.
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated.
I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Once a carny ...
When my worlds collide, Dec. 27, 1955, Dallas Sportatorium: Otto Kuss vs Tommy Phelps, loser cannot work in Dallas for two months. I think Kuss wins, as he often did in these ref vs ref battles.
From the things I find file ... : The two-graph story worth thousands of words. This is from the Wichita Falls Record on Oct. 30, 1953. TIL cards like this were common in the 1930s to 1950s era in (wait for it) Texas and the Deep South.
From the things I find file ... : The two-graph story worth thousands of words. This is from the Wichita Falls Record on Oct. 30, 1953. TIL cards like this were common in the 1930s to 1950s era in (wait for it) Texas and the Deep South.
I appreciate how many of these stories include Brody raising money for Minneapolis. He doesn't just wear a t-shirt & people need to know that.
Been a while since I dipped into the Pfefer files so here is a BS exclusive for the six other IWC people here: Jackie Fargo & country music legend Eddie Bond.
The second annual The Made By New York Women Film Festival returns to Foothills in Oneonta on Friday, March 6 & Saturday, March 7, with a night of comedy & a night of drama. Tickets are free! Thank you to the Community Foundation of Otsego County for the grant funding.
Episode 89 of Greg Klein's Old School Rasslin Talk is a banger, Two Refs Enter, One Ref Leaves, a we discuss Dallas wrestling in 1954, which is post-war, unless you count the feud between Otto Kuss and Jim Blood. www.buzzsprout.com/1997141/epis...
Episode 89 of Greg Klein's Old School Rasslin Talk is a banger, Two Refs Enter, One Ref Leaves, a we discuss Dallas wrestling in 1954, which is post-war, unless you count the feud between Otto Kuss and Jim Blood. www.buzzsprout.com/1997141/epis...
My editor sent me some pages from "Hey Boy! Where'd You Get Them Ears?" so I can find some Paul Boesch quotes for the book, and I am in the happy place.
Today at the office. Just a couple of center fielders joining the crew.
Seriously. I am watching a 1978 match between Dale Valentine (aka Buddy Roberts) and Cowboy Bob Ellis. Ellis is 49 here, still has all his hair, and has Vaquero on the backside of his trucks.
If you are also having a bad football weekend, here is something to cheer you up. If you need me, I will be watching Southwest Championship Wrestling.
Working on posters and editing today. Go Texans!
Gino Hernandez in random places in 1977: Feb 3 in Flint, Michigan, March 20 in Canton, Ohio, and Oct. 26 in Seattle.
Houston Chronicle Jan. 24, 1980. Houston Wrestling got a lot of good press in the early 80s.
Episode 88 of GK's Old School Rasslin Talk, 2 IIs on One is up where we discuss April 1984 in the Mid South Wrestling Association & how the promotion built on the Last Stampede, a Superdate & which star is 2nd to none, even if we keep messing up his name. www.buzzsprout.com/1997141/epis...
Remarkable: David Shor's firm is circulating a memo among Dems that finds footage of ICE shooting significantly drives up Trump's disapproval. I obtained the memo here.
It also finds broad support for Dem plans to rein in ICE. If even Shor's firm is finding this...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
