Bob Calhoun
- Location
- Pacifica, California, USA
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- Bob Calhoun is a regular contributor to Film Salon 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 POSTS
- The One Thing Missing from The
Avengers
May 10, 2012 02:04AM - Straight-to-DVD: Marsha Brady
& the Snow White Slasher Flick
April 12, 2012 01:17AM - Straight-to-DVD: The Naked Nun
Revenge Flick for Our Times
March 15, 2012 02:52AM - I just saw Andrew Breitbart on
Saturday
March 01, 2012 01:02PM - Cain + Gingrich = Caingrich
February 26, 2012 03:34PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “@Mike, Damn. It's almost
the best part of the
movie!”
May 10, 2012 05:48PM - “And the pizza! If you
stick around for the extra
extra scene
at the very end on
i…”
May 10, 2012 02:34PM - “It's sad and terrifying
how Zimmerman has no remorse
just for
the act of
killing…”
April 24, 2012 07:25PM - “@John Rampton, Oh now
"Snow White: A Deadly Summer"
totally
sucks but
i…”
April 16, 2012 03:36PM - “@Retablo, I'll check it
out but I've already written
my
Breitbart reminisces in
R…”
April 15, 2012 05:11PM
Bob Calhoun's Links
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 »
Steel Chairs and Gold Statues: My One Oscar Prediction
Going Out the Same Way You Came In
You have to wonder what was running through Bush’s mind today when he looked out over the millions of people that had gathered in DC to see Barack Obama sworn in. On the day of Bush’s inauguration they had to halt the motorcade because people kept throwing eggs at it. The… Read full post »
This review may contain spoilers. I’m not quite sure
it does per se, but you can probably puzzle out the film’s
flow of events by reading this. Proceed at your own risk.
ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT SCENES in Darren
Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
shows Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mic… Read full post »
Forry Ackerman, founder of Sci-Fi Fandom, RIP
Ackerman was a big influence on me…
What to do with W?
Please Lorne Michaels, give George W. Bush a job on SNL before he does something! You owe the man!
George W. Bush is finally going to be out of a job soon. He will return to his estate in Crawford Texas but may actually grow tired of clearing away brush when… Read full post »
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Barbara Joanne
Asta Charles
Anne Keehn
teresa
BOKO
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