Bob David Calhoun Strange Sports Stories and Tabloid Trash for Intellectuals.

Pinning a Lion, Tortillas Flyin’

Date of Review: 
09/04/2008
Published Work: 
Reviewer: 
Dan Kelly
Source: 
Chicago Reader

Review Excerpt:

Calhoun describes it as a moment where wrestling grappled with surrealism, and surrealism won out with a suplex powerslam—a scene where audience members whipped corn tortillas through the air while watching chickens engaging in less-than-mortal combat with lions, Scientologist boy bands taking on leather-daddies, and racist clowns battling Hasidic Jews.