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Reading Bob Calhoun: Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Strange Wrestling

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Bob Calhoun spent seven years of his life making San Francisco a little more bizarre with Incredibly Strange Wrestling — performance art taken to the level of blood sport. The phenomenon featured a revolving cast of lucha libre-inspired characters who would step into a makeshift ring and battle it out, while bands like NOFX, the Dickies, and the Donnas provided the live soundtrack. Spectacles included the Ku Klux Klowns in heated battle against Hasidic Jews, and a flock of Christians being "fed" to the lions. Lucky for us, Calhoun (aka Count Dante) lived to tell the tale in his raucous memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal, which he reads from tonight.

– Matt Sussman