Bob David Calhoun's Blog

• An Ex-wrestler's take on "The Wrestler"

  January 7, 2009

  • My review of the new Mickey Rourke movie The Wrestler was an editor's pick on Open Salon this morning.I

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• Forry Ackerman, father of sci-fi fandom, RIP

  December 5, 2008

  • IT'S HARD to come up with words right now.
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• What to do with W?

  October 30, 2008

  • Please Lorne Michaels, give George W. Bush a job on SNL before he does something! You owe the man!
    
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• Litquake: the Police Blotter, Barroom Brawl Edition

  October 17, 2008

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• The Reanimated Corpse of Cody's Books

  October 2, 2008

  • Nothing quite says the death of capitalism like the arrival of the Spirit Halloween Superstores.
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• Is Butter Cat Ready to be Vice President?

  September 17, 2008

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    Butter Cat, that housecat that will sit one heart
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• My Namesake's Grave

  September 10, 2008

  • WHEN THE ORIGINAL COUNT DANTE DIED, they just chucked him in a hole. His real name was John Keehan.
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• You Call Him Bigfoot, We Call Him Sasquatch

  August 22, 2008

  • My punk wrestling memoir,Beer, Blood and Cornmeal, has a sasquatch on the cover -- a sasquatch being rolled up into a pin by a gay man.
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• I Wrestled Bigfoot

  August 18, 2008

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• Right Out of a Comic Book

  July 30, 2008

  • I wish I had arms like these. No really.
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• The Tossup at Tosca

  July 17, 2008

  • I wonder who got my book at the Redroom mixer at Tosca on Tuesday?

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• Video of my Sidewalk Reading in Front of Cody's

  July 10, 2008

  • The video of my reading in front of the closed down Cody's has just been posted on Fora.TV.
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• The Word on the Street

  July 1, 2008

  • IT WAS A JUXTAPOSITION OF CONTRADICTORY IMAGES. A colorful banner declaring that Cody's Books was "Now Open" hung above the store's awning while a photocopied note
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• I'm still reading at Cody's Tonight.

  June 30, 2008

  • I'm still going through with my reading on the sidewalk in front of the recently closed Cody's Books in Berkeley tonight.

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• The Show Must Go On -- The Reading's now in front of Cody's!

  June 25, 2008

  • Folks, It's staying light out longer these days so I'm going to still show up to Cody's this coming Monday and hold my reading on the sidewalk in front of the boarded up husk of what was once a gre

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