Facebuster nation, much like Larry Nelson wants to talk about the AWA Streetfight Battle Royals coming to
Suffice it to say, I have been swamped with other projects of import, specifically penning a lengthy chastisement to Nick Cave (with a CC to each of The Bad Seeds) for leaving a size 13" carbon footprint in the form of a near 60 page booklet of lyrics and liner notes accompanying the haunting and majestic Dig, Lazarus, Dig! Now that's out of the way, I am formally suspending my rasslin' writing sabbatical so I can get back to giving all of you the slapdash content and unsophisticated insights you both crave and so richly deserve...more profiling the personalities that inspired our pro wrestling fandom and have compelled us to continue tuning in to today's mainstream product despite its creative bankruptcy (see last week's episode of RAW with John Cena accompanied by gregarious thugs Shad and JTG [thanks to Rev. Von Fury for informing me which is which, since all black people with the exception of Ice Man K

The clip in question is culled from the summer of 1987 and in no particular order features (a) a spry, impish, and feathered haired Paul E. Dangerously putting over his Dangerous Alliance stable comprised of The Original Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose) and Adrian Adonis while promising to perpetrate violence upon the Funyuns and malt liquor ravaged torso of Tommy Rich (who I believe was being managed by Dangerously and working heel in Memphis against Jerry "The King" Lawler prior to jumping ship to the AWA); (b) Larry's agitation at Paul E's fully extended telephone antenna; (c) Larry's disgust after sullying his fingertips with a poster board containing such as blasphemous notion.
It's good to be back!
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