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About me

A person of few words, I just want to share a few items:

I've taught writing at the university level

I've written music for over 25 years

I've been a parent of two for the last 15 years

I've had a near-death experience

These are the major colorings in my writing persona, for better or worse. Read my work, be indifferent or even hostile to it as the spirit moves, but please READ it!

Briefly me

My passion is ...

knowledge

I know too much about ...

trivial pop culture

My parents always told me ...

no one thing - they were terribly inconsistent

My childhood ambition ...

professional wrestling

My favorite memory ...

son's birth

Why I write ...

a need to contact others of like mind

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Widespread Panic, merely the world's greatest band!

My first job ...

selling tomatoes over the phone at 9

My best moment ...

getting a standing ovation from my students after an anti-NASCAR rant

My inspiration ...

my wife and children

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Sports & Recreation > Wrestling Best pro wrestlers of the 1960s: 1 of 1

The decade of the 1960's was the last period of time that professional wrestling existed as a purely underground phenomena, almost completely untainted by what has evolved into “sports entertainment”. Vince McMahon was a college student, modern icons of the sport such as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, the Rock, and John Cena were either babies or had yet to be born, and the vast majority of fans who attended pro wrestling matches still believed that these were actual competitions. Memories of this era and the men who excelled at portraying pro wrestling as actual confli...
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