The King
August 18th, 2014
Sometimes making it big in Professional Wrestling doesn’t have much at all to do with wrestling ability. Sometimes it’s about how well you can strut your stuff. Sometimes it’s about how badly you can piss people off. It’s about how much the crowd will buy into you whether you’re a hero or a heel. Jerry Lawler had been all of that and done all of that. From his early days and his feud with Jimmy Hart in the AWA to his feud with Bret Hart in the WWF, Lawler had always been outspoken enough that he was a natural to take over as commentator as an announcer of the WWF Superstars of Wrestling in 1992. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, actually he was. At least he was supposed to be at the Chiller Theatre event in Parsippany, New Jersey on October 27, 2012. But he would stand by the fact that he wasn’t supposed to be at the Quick Stop in another city in New Jersey. If all of this lingo means nothing to you, then you’ve probably never seen the low budget 1994 black and white flick Clerks that put director Kevin James on the map and made Jay and Silent Bob household heroes. Actor Brian O’Halloran was supposed to be here at Chiller and I took advantage of it, having been disappointed to miss other autograph shows at which he appeared. 
On Sunday, June 29, 2014, the time finally arrived to depart on my first week-long vacation of the year. It was hard to believe how long it had been since I had taken a full week off (although my friends never hesitate to tell me that it feels like I am always on vacation). This particular trip was to attend the 19th International Sons of the Desert convention in Hollywood, California. It just felt like yesterday that my pal Bob was bidding on this at the last convention and I had pledged to help in any way that I could. 
In the Winter of 2011, I was able to meet