Brick by brick, a house is built. It isn’t built in just one day, or one week. It requires time, effort, and patience. Brick by brick. A foundation, to support the weight of what is to come. Walls to keep out the frost of a cold world and the heat of an angry air. Windows […]
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There is an idea of a Maxwell Jacob Friedman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real MJF: only an entity, something illusory. And though he can hide his pain in his sneering, smug, shit-eating grin, and you can kiss the diamond ring on his hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you
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Deconstruction in pop culture challenges the status quo, what we’ve come to know of the most popular thing and twists it into something entirely different, challenging the ideas and methods presented. Take the 1990s hit television series Twin Peaks for example, as it addressed the way television shows had been presented in the late 80s
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“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of
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What I’ve come to learn about independent wrestling is that sometimes the adrenaline rush and emotions carried by the weight of the art that takes place with us and in front of us isn’t just relegated to jam-packed arenas and stadiums. It can also be found in small venues, built not by the fancy and
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We humans do the most reckless things sometimes. Take something heroic, like running into a flaming building to save the lives of those close to a crisp death inside, or something completely idiotic such as cruelly provoking a frightened and defensive animal. On June 5, 2022, Cody Rhodes did something reckless. Following a workout routine
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Have you ever eaten something that you initially thought would be terrible, only for it to surprise you? That delectable sensation that travels across your taste buds, and you wonder why you were so against it in the first place? That’s the Jericho Appreciation Society. The formation of this group is fairly recent, seeing the
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In wrestling, fans are occasionally given the treat of something special, not yet knowing just how special that thing is about to become. The rise of Becky Lynch, the Okada/Omega series, and BULLET Club are some, just to name a few. I am predicting that the Blackpool Combat Club may be one of those things.
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