{"product_id":"tonights-main-event-9781958182703","title":"Tonight's Main Event","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmazing to me that in 25 years, I've never written \u003c\/p\u003epoems about pro wrestling. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've written fan fiction and other things when I was \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emuch younger, but never poems along these lines. I've broken \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeverything down into three sections. One for my memories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne for random topics I felt like writing about. The third is a \u003c\/p\u003eshoot interview with a fictional wrestler named Mark Prime. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dan Wright asked me if I was interested in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoing this book with him, a lot of different ideas and anecdotes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom my past suddenly came rushing to me. I realized as I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estarted writing these that I had far more negative associations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith this weird, amazing form of athletic entertainment than \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epositive ones. This book doesn't change that, but it did go \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea long way towards making me understand why I stopped \u003c\/p\u003ewatching to a significant extent a few years ago.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I'll always be a fan. It's hard to shake something \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat has been part of my life in some form or fashion for about \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 years. Like music and film, wrestling has been meaningful to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy influences and dreams and ideas in ways that are hard, perhaps \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esilly, to explain. No matter what, I can't seem to quit wrestling \u003c\/p\u003eas a fan entirely.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting these poems reminded me of everything in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrestling that depresses me, and everything about wrestling that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etires out my enthusiasm. At the same time, this book gave me \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore enthusiasm for what I do love about this sport than I've \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efelt in quite possibly a full decade. I've exercised through writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome of the things about pro wrestling that annoy or sadden \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eme, particularly most wrestling fans. What's left is a book I'm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003every proud of about a subject I'm glad has been part of my life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWrestling is surreal, heroic, ridiculous, dangerous, and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eultimately something that never fails to surprise me. It's still real \u003c\/p\u003eto me dammit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liquid Lunch Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50408027881746,"sku":"9781958182703","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ec11ec9-8dad-4869-9341-404518845a15.jpg?v=1740435262","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tonights-main-event-9781958182703","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}