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Bob Calhoun

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Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners (@OM4YStoners). Author of The Murders That Made Us (@ECWPress). Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him

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Bob Calhoun used to wrestle men in Sasquatch suits while drunks threw food at him. He chronicled these days of glory in the punk-rock/lucha-libre memoir "Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling" (2008, ECW Press), a national bestseller. His latest book, "Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor" (2013, Obscuria Press) has been spun off as a web series and column in "Meetings Today," the magazine of the convention and tradeshow industry…

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Shattering Conventions: Unleash the Furry

Shattering Conventions: Unleash the Furry

Being at the Furry con all seems so normal when you just put on the fur suit. The furries start to fill the m…

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The trippiest martial arts movie ever?

The trippiest martial arts movie ever?

When you review straight-to-DVD movies, you see a lot trailers built around Kimbo Slice fighting Rampage Jack…

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Was that the Zodiac Speaking?

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By Bob Calhoun
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bob calhoun · Follow 11 min read · -- A new Netflix documentary series finds even more compelling evidence that Vallejo pedophile Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac Killer, but does it bring us closure? A police sketch of the Zodiac killer, and suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, who is the focus of the new Netflix series, This is the Zodiac Speaking.
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S3E11 Blaxploitation Feat. Odie Henderson w/ Blacula (1972) & Darktown Strutters (75) on Apple Podcasts

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By Bob Calhoun
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Boston Globe movie critic ODIE HENDERSON joins us to talk about his new book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION. For this, Odie has programmed two equally stony but very different examples of the film movement that further funkified the 1970s. First, Shakespearean actor William Marshall brings dignity and pathos to the title character of the horror classic, BLACULA from American International Pictures in 1972.
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S3E8 Criterion Crackup feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Point Blank (1967) & Pressure Point (62) on Apple Podcasts

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By Bob Calhoun
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The Dank Diplomat Ngaio Bealum is back on OMFYS and he's picked a pair of movies to get high to from Criterion Channel's current series HOLLYWOOD CRACK-UP: THE DECADE AMERICAN CINEMA LOST ITS MIND. First, LEE MARVIN is punching dudes in the nuts and throwing them out of high-rise windows all to get his $93,000 back in POINT BLANK (1967).
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