WITH WRESTLEMANIA 29 CREEPING UP on the internet and physical reality in a matter of hours, live from New Jersey, I thought I’d reflect back on my useful archival data in regard to the grandest stage of them all, and of course ask some cohorts what they thought about the big spectacular as well. My memories of...
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THE NIGHT MICHAEL went into the hospital — December 13th — Sidney Crosby recorded the first six-point game of his career. Five assists, one goal. The next day Michael watched the sports highlights in the main lounge for sad men on the tenth floor of the institute, a stone’s throw from the University of...
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Happy Halloween from The Barnstormer! This year, we’re dressing as we do every day: a genuinely amazed and grateful crew, thankful to our readers, and our talented and generous contributors for being a part of the Barn each and every day. Do us a favour, get yourself a treat, and check out the Contributors page....
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The following is an excerpt from Nathaniel G. Moore’s forthcoming novel Savage 1986-2011. The story tracks Nate’s idyllic teen years in the 1980s to his disorganized and funereal twenties to his hopeful thirties, chronicling the middle-class implosion of his family, bracketed by July 1986 – when Nate first saw Randy “Macho Man” Savage in person –...
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