Bob Calhoun
- Location
- Pacifica, California, USA
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- Bob Calhoun is a past Salon.com contributor and observer of offbeat media. His 2008 punk-wrestling memoir "Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling" (ECW Press) has spent one entire week on the San Francisco Chronicle's Bay Area bestseller list.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Walter, I'm not sure
about Ventura's medical
condition
vis-a-vis wrestling.
He go…”
3:09PM - “Robert, Jesse still has
the same fame whore tendencies
that
any pro wrestler
has,…”
2:06PM - “Everyone knows that the
military is completely
ineffective
against Godzilla.
A mi…”
1:08PM - “If the newest Trek is
any indication, the next one
will have
the Enterprise
able…”
November 19, 2009 06:01PM - “Most of the people I
know or know of who used to
work for the
SF Chronicle
(still…”
November 16, 2009 08:18PM
Bob Calhoun's Links
I Sing the Body Ventura
When Jesse “The Body” Ventura won the Minnesota governorship in 1998, it must have given other high profile bodybuilders a feeling of inadequacy that they…
2012 vs. 2112: CGI Apocalypse vs. the Ayn Rand Rock Opera
Roland Emmerich has built a career by putting the event in the event movie. His most famous film, Independence Day (1996), set the pattern by giving us Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith thwarting an alien invasion with a Mac laptop (presumably…
Terry Gene Bollea aka Hulk Hogan was able to navigate the psychotic world of professional wrestling for decades, but three seasons of reality TV destroyed his life more thoroughly than a jack knife power bomb through a stack of tables.
Since Hogan Knows Best first aired in…
Manny Pacquiao is in the city of Baguio in the Phillipines to train for his November 14 fight against WBO…
Capping off a month of rising racial tensions spurred by Glenn Beck and shouting Southern congressmen, this week’s installment of The Ultimate Fighter offers us a bout pitting a musc…
Who in the flaming fuck is Aaron Ekhart? Is he the guy with the really big dick on that HBO show Hung? No? Are you sure? He sure looks like that guy. Well if he ain’t that guy, how in the hell did…
FIGHT FANS: This is both a review and a wrap-up. There are spoilers and they are gruesome.
Kimbo Slice is the perfect representative of the latest season of the Spike TV reality…
The Two Sides of Swayze: Southern Slugger and Dirty Dancer
My mom tried to drag me to see Dirty Dancing in 1987 just as she had done with The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond seven years earlier. Dirty Dancing was the movie that was getting older ladies (and probably more than a few younger ones) all hot and bothered./…
The Giants scoreboard on Creature Features Night at
AT&T Park in San Francisco on August 29, 2009.
Although it's not quite a done deal, Governator Schwarzenegger should be signing a real shite-bomb of a budget this morning. Since I’ve given you blogs on the lamentation of my salary and my guide to Arnold-free action flicks, I figure it’s time to make my Arnold Budget Bash-O-Ram…
On Tuesday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced another 2,000 layoffs, making many California residents more than a little bummed by having a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Terminator that “absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead” as our state’s highest elected offici…
I work for a major California public university. My pay is probably going to be cut by eight percent next month. I’m one of the lucky ones. My fellow state workers at the DMV and other state agencies have been eating an eight per cent pay cut for months…
Karl Malden was Detective Mike Stone. He patrolled the Streets of San Francisco (A Quinn Martin Production) around the same time that Clint’s Dirty Harry Callahan and McQueen’s Bullitt were plugging perps and getting into rad car chases respectively. But Stone/Malden wasn’…
I never really thought I’d end up voluntarily writing
obits as a hobby (or habit). As for Mr. Jackson, I can only leave
you with this…
Now seems like a good time to score that copy of “Off the Wall” that I’ve been meaning to pick up for…
Farrah -- every older kid had her poster taped up to her wall when I was a seven years old. That poster. You all know it. They sold it in comic books ads that badly suffered from the morray effect along with pin-ups of Sean Cassidy, Travolta in Saturday Night…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Today marks the two year anniversary of the suicide and crimes of pro wrestling star Chris Benoit, the most bleak tragedy in a segment of the entertainment industry that is unusually prone to them. A few days after the incident, I wrote the following essay in an att… Read full post »
DAVID CARRADINE has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. The reports of his death are getting more and more lurid. He may have hanged himself with a cord of some kind. The US Embassy in Thailand is only confirming his death right now. Reports of suicide or mysterious circumstances…
Rag-Na-Rocking my Way to Fitness with Thor
I set up a 75-lb. TKO brand heavy bag in my garage and
started sparring again. I’m feeling the effects already
– my hands hurt.
My band, Count
Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society, is
backing up Thor, the Rock
Warrior, bender of steel bars, destroyer of hot… Read full post »
Bruce Dern is Way Cooler than David Carradine
I “met” David Carradine a few years ago at the Dragon Fest martial arts convention in Glendale, Calif. It was when I was working on the “Judo” Gene LeBell book so Gene comped me in so I could spend a few minutes here and there standing around his table while he… Read full post »
I wonder when the overlords of Amazon.com (or maybe mere hackers) will realize that my punk wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood and Cornmeal, deals with GLBT themes? I mean it has gay characters and parodies of gay characters. It also has a pic of a man’s wiener reproduced in full color (IE:… Read full post »
Those Makeup Counter Women Killed My Brother
In a bid to become Hollywood’s undisputed King of Ruphenol, Seth Rogen has a scene where he date rapes Anna Faris in his new mall cop epic Observe and Report. Rogen, as…
Will Financial Aid be Available for Reeducation Camps?
According to Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann and other rabid right wingers, the Obama Administration is in the midst of planning Maoist style reeducation camps plucked right out of Joe McCarthy and Jack Webb’s cold war fevered imaginations. Now what about these reeducation camps? Will financial ai… Read full post »
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Writing Down The Bones: How I Survived My Anorexia
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A Look at Werewolves from WOLF MAN to NEW MOON
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December Meet Up
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