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May 13, 2009

ARCHIVE 9/7/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Reviewed in New Zealand

The website New Zealand Pro Wrestling Informer has a positive review of Irvin Muchnick’s WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal at http://www.nzpwi.co.nz/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3575&Itemid=70.
May 13, 2009

ARCHIVE 9/13/07: Correction: Congressman Tom Davis Is From Virginia

In my Beyond Chron piece today on the Congressional committee investigations of pro wrestling’s culture of drugs and death, I mistakenly identified Tom Davis, ranking minority member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, as being from Maryland. Davis represents Virginia.
May 13, 2009

ARCHIVE 9/14/07: WWE Death-O-Mania!

Two committees of the House of Representatives are edging toward hearings this fall that will further define the blurred lines of our junk-besotted popular culture. The essential question before them is whether the lives of professional wrestlers are as highly valued as those of aging character actors and exploited children.
May 13, 2009

ARCHIVE 9/19/07: Orton: Further Notes

Brian Stull invited me onto his “Stranglehold” show Tuesday night on KFNS radio in St. Louis to discuss the blog report on Randy Orton’s rumored suicide attempt.
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick