This is just a place to record my random skewed perspective on things... I hope you don't feel like you wasted your time reading it.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Rest In Peace Macho Man
I love sports, movies, music, pop culture, comic books, novels, history, beer, and politics. I like to consider myself relatively well spoken, read and educated. If I have a vice, an addiction so to speak, it's to pro-wrestling. I am fully aware of each and every stigma attached to it, and I honestly don't care. I'm hooked. I've been hooked since I stayed up to late on a Saturday night in 1987 and saw a guy dressed like Elvis smash a guitar over a stringy haired, bearded dude wearing purple trunks with three white stars on the front and Macho Man printed on the back. A few minutes later, Hulk Hogan was lead to the ring by a woman in a torn dress to save him. When the dust settled the two men shook hands in the center ring. That was my introduction to Randy Savage. There was something about his weird voice, head band, ridiculous capes, and sunglasses that made him cool. Twenty three years ago I saw an interview with the Macho Man where he uttered the words "I've got me a tag team partner, and he's the greatest tag team partner that anybody in the world could ever have!! AND HERE HE COMES RIGHT NOW..." and out came Hulk Hogan to form the Mega Powers. I guess I'm a fanboy geek because that is still cool to me. I always enjoyed watching the Macho Man whether it was for WWE, WCW, NWO, Slim Jim, or occasionally in the movies. Nobody ever wasted their money to see Randy Savage. Heaven is a little brighter today and the world is little less colorful. You will be missed Randy. You were flawed, a bit crazy, tempermental, talented, entertaining and often imitated but never duplicated. I wish you fair winds and calm seas. Rest in peace.
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