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BOO EVERYTHING: WWE’S Royal Rumble 2014 and our collective spiritual wars, by Russell Jaffee

“Just cause it’s fake doesn’t mean I don’t feel it” –Laird, GIRLS (Season 3, Episode 4) Pro wrestling has got to be one of the weirdest...

My ninth grader hops onto the kitchen counter in her basketball jersey and tells me that at school there is a Dark Room. Disdain fills...

Let’s be real. Not everyone spends twelve months counting down to the AWP conference. In the year preceding my first-ever trip to the mad...

Ok, so: Rooibos, bitches. The world thought I was going to get married and have children with Katy freaking Perry, when #realitycheck, I...

Barrelhouse's newest online issue, focused on the theme of 1980s professional wrestling, was, to date, the most exciting and challenging...

It took me beating my dad at ping-pong to realize that Demolition were just a couple of middle-aged fat guys in S&M gear. Back when I was...

20. ‘The Natural’ Butch Reed We have comse to watch the Royal Rumble, the ultimate battle royal, and you are a natural warrior. We have...

Vernon “Ernie” Cervid turned five years old. By the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Ox. Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term as...

I’m only going to let you down. He said this before he even had a second drink. I was walking toward the jukebox, and I didn’t even...

A rainbow of rubberbands twisted into your beard, you housebroke George “The Animal” Steele, played Mario, brave little plumber, fat...