In which Blake took a picture of a “hunk”…
http://www.prowrestlingdigest.com/?p=2173
In case it has changed by the time you read this…it’s Kirby Mack…a photo I took of him in Spartanburg,SC.
Archive for January, 2008
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Have some pictures of mine featured on Ms Coates’ website, check them out:
In which Blake suffers the fickle finger of fate…
So, I’ve had to cancel the trip to Chesapeake,VA. I’ve had some stuff come up on January 26th that will prevent me from going. Maybe next time. My last two planned trips to Virginia have not gone through so fate is trying to tell me something!
I’m reading “Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America” by Laura Shapiro. Those of you who know me well enough know of my fondness for fish sticks. I came across this passage last night after reading about the rise and popularity of frozen orange juice concentrate:
The next orange juice turned out to be fish sticks, which Birds-Eye introduced cautiously in a few test markets in 1952. Two years later fish sticks had become a frozen-food legend. More than 7 million pounds were produced in 1953, and 30 million in 1954. Most people ate little fish in the course of a year, but fish sticks were breaded and fried-a treatment that effectively eliminated the taste of fish, especially after the liberal application of ketchup. “This is the way folks love fish!” exclaimed an ad for Hunt’s tomato sauce, showing a picture of fish sticks doused with sauce. “Besides, it’s a perfect recipe for busy homemakers and career women-ready in a jiffy.” Numerous companies raced to get into the fish stick business, while still others headed to the laboratory and emerged with chicken sticks, ham sticks, veal sticks, onion-flavored poultry sticks, eggplant sticks, and dried lima bean sticks. These alternatives failed to extend the category as planned. By the same token, frozen tuna potpie was never able to inherit the mantle of the popular chicken potpie, and while frozen dinners in partitioned trays eventually won favor, the frozen breakfast in a partitioned tray (”Honeymoon Breakfast for Two”) attracted no following whatsoever.
In which Blake covers 2007…
So here is the year-end blog…It will not be in any particular order…enjoy…
I attended 57 wrestling shows this year.
I traveled 13,164 miles for wrestling.
Made my first flights for wrestling shows: The Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup in Florida, and for UWF in Virginia.
Started shooting for Hermie Sadler’s UWF – thanks to Hermie, and Mike from Highspots (all the Highspots guys actually!).
Saw a lot of good shows – met some good people – saw a lot of bad wrestlers!
Starting showing my age by turning in to bed much earlier this year.
On MySpace.com all the time!
A few regrets – I had a chance at something that probably would have turned into something really good. So good, that I probably would have stopped the wrestling weekends and not looked back. It’s the absolute truth that sometimes you only get one chance at important things-because of my fear of risks, I may have made a mistake that I won’t get a chance to change.
Deaths: Bam Bam Bigelow, Brett Somers, “Papa” Denny Doherty, Charles Nelson Reillly – R.I.P.
Best movie: “No Country For Old Men”
Got invited to work at the NWA Legends Fanfest in Charlotte. Three of the best days of my “fan-boy” life. Thanks to Greg Price for the opportunity.
Invited to work at the Carolina Wrestling Classic in Hickory, NC. Thanks to Bob DeSantis for the chance to work with you.
Babies, babies all year! Again, congrats to the new parents!
Saw some unpleasantness this year- but I’m not going to dwell on that. It’s over.
Made my world TV debut on Court TV’s “Psychic Detectives.”
I started getting paid for taking wrestling pictures in 2007!
I read 41 books in 2007.
Memorable phrases from 2007: Wookie Butt, Ryze n’ Cock, Young Lion, Smells like dead ham?, I miss us too, Kirby, heavyweight goober of the world, “ewwww ewwww..mumble, mumble, Woman!” (sung to the tune of ‘Witchy Woman’)
Got to meet: Baby Doll, Tully Blanchard, Barry Darsow, JJ Dillon, Jake Roberts, Kamala, John Waters, Jimmy Fortune, James Gregory, and even sat across from Michael Stipe in the Charlotte airport.
In 2008, my opinion of Hooters will not change – it is still the worst eating establishment in any town.
Got to be Kirby Mack’s “Addict of the Month” in February. In February also, my car was covered with more than 200 post-it notes which took me 30 minutes in freezing weather to take off.
To ER, Kirby, TJ, Thomas- thanks for the fun on the road trips, looking forward to more!
Ostgard – I didn’t get to see you as much this year, but it’s good to see that you haven’t lost your touch!
Thanks to all the promoters who welcomed me into their promotions – CWA (both of them), Action Packed Wrestling, American Pro Wrestling, UWF, Jeff Peterson Cup, NWA Anarchy, GPW and anyone I can’t recall of the top of my head.
Loaded Gunz-Looks like business is about to pick up!
