So, I have these t-shirts...

Hey, you know how you like wearing shirts? Or, maybe you don't like that. In which case, you know how the social contract kind of dictates that you put a shirt on when you go out in public? Well, I'm sure you have many, many fine shirts in your wardrobe, but I would like to suggest that you maybe add another one to the collection. I hope that's not too forward of me. You see, I have some shirts here that have the name of my wrestling fanzine and a wrestling related image on them.



I almost typed that I made these shirts, but other than editing the fanzine named in the shirt's image, I basically did nothing to make these shirts exist. The art was created by the UK's greatest living visual artist who has ever designed a t-shirt for my wrestling fanzine, Sean Wárs. Here's a better look at that art before it was changed to line art for screen-printing purposes:


You guys, I have no idea how to type that diacritical mark over the "a" in Sean's name, so I have to google and copy/paste it every time I type it. I should probably learn to use my computer. Oh, wasn't I writing about t-shirts?



So, these shirts were designed by Sean Wárs and screen-printed by my friend Mike. I was going to help him do it, but we couldn't ever work out our schedules and Mike is super nice so he just went ahead and did it himself. He didn't have to do that. Mike is awesome. Mike runs a record label called Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records and you should click on that link and buy lots of stuff. Oh, but also buy one of my shirts. I'm getting to that part.

This is a die-hard limited edition t-shirt. There are only 40 of them. I'm only going to sell 32. This means that I'll be selling 8 each of sizes small, medium, large and extra large. I know that some people will want a shirt that is outside of this size range and I'm seriously sorry that I cannot accomodate you right now. If these sell well, I'll probably do another run in different colors that will include a wider range of sizes.

And now we come to the delicate matter of payment. Look, I feel pretty bad about asking you to give me money for the "privilege" of walking around with an advertisement for my 'zine on you. Most t-shirts people wear are basically billboards, and when you think about it, paying for a t-shirt with a logo on it is essentially the same as giving Pizza Hut or whatever a handful of cash and then they get to paint a Pizza Hut ad on your roof. They've got your money and you're doing their promotional work for them. That's a pretty good deal, if you're Pizza Hut. So in this equation, I suppose I'm Pizza Hut. Sorry for being Pizza Hut, you guys. I probably shouldn't have typed all that. Maybe I just typed myself out of some sales.

Anyway, I'm going to have to charge money for these shirts. I looked around and it seems like ten dollars is a pretty fair price for a t-shirt, so I'm selling these for nine. The US Postal Service will charge me around $3.50 to mail these things to you in the US, $5.00 to Canada and Mexico, and $10.50 to send one to any destination not on the continent of North America.

So, buy some shirts at the Official Atomic Elbow Online Store. I'll send you a sticker, too.

Look what's going to happen:

Coming soon in The Atomic Elbow #4.



It's the Kentucky Gentleman Chuck Taylor!

So, I was on a podcast again...

You guys know the Wrestlespective podcast? It's a good one. And the dude who makes it, his name is Jason, and he's a great guy. Anyway, I was on that thing again to talk about The Miracle Violence Connection (Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy and "Dr. Death" Steve Williams) vs. The Steiner Brothers from WCW Beach Blast 1992.



It was fun. I like talking to Jason. And I like you listening to me talk to Jason. So, yeah, if you have some time and if you feel like it, maybe you'd like to hear us talk. Here is a link to the episode on the Wrestlespective page, or you can get to it through iTunes or whatever. Thanks!

So, I went to some wrestling shows...

This weekend, I went to Chikara's shows in Alabama and North Carolina. They were both, as you would expect, great.

I am working on the fourth and fifth issues right now. I expect #4 to be out by the end of the year. I know that's a window of about 10 weeks, but I don't know how much more specific I can be. Sorry.

Here's a photo of me with Ophidian and The Batiri. You know it'll probably be on the back cover of The Atomic Elbow soon, but not in color, so, you know, consider it a preview or something.



Thanks for paying attention to the wrestling 'zine I make. You guys are the best.

So, I have these stickers...

I had some stickers made. They look pretty good. I did it because I read an interview with Pete from Sticker Guy in an issue of The Atomic Heat Ray fanzine and I thought "hey! I should have some stickers made." And here we are.



Do people buy stickers? Is that a thing that happens? I can mail them out like they are a letter, so postage would only be 45¢ or, you know, one "forever" stamp. But it seems ridiculous to just mail one sticker, doesn't it? I don't know. So if you send me $1.50, I will mail you three of these stickers. Does that sound fair? I think it does. I hope so.



These stickers are made of vinyl, so you can put them on stop signs or city buses or cop cars or park benches and they won't wash away in the rain. Not that I'm saying you should put them on those things, mind you, I'm just noting that you totally could do it.

I'm not going to put the stickers on the Official Atomic Elbow Online Store because I can only put 5 items up at a time before I have to pay them and I am cheap, so you'll just have to send me a paypal to secondperiod[at]gmail[period]com. Is that okay? I really hope it is okay.

Box Brown talks about his Andre the Giant book.

Remember back in The Atomic Elbow #1 there was that awesome comic about Andre the Giant in Japan? You should remember this. Because it was awesome.

Anyway, that comic was part of a larger project that Box Brown has been working on for a long time. I'm really excited about it, and you should be, too.

Box Brown recently gave an interview to the website YandP.tv about his work on the Andre the Giant book, and it's great. You should go read it. And start saving your pennies so you can buy that Andre the Giant book when it comes out. It's about time we got an Andre biography that's actually good. That Andre book by Michael Krugman that WWE published in 2009 is a piece of garbage.

Anyway, click here to read the interview with Box Brown. He's great.

The Atomic Elbow at King of Trios

It shouldn't be any secret that Chikara's King of Trios is basically the greatest wrestling event of the year. I couldn't make it to Easton, PA this year for the event, but that doesn't mean that The Atomic Elbow would miss the show. Referee Bryce Remsburg (Issue 2) kindly offered to stock a few copies at the merchandise table.

Friend of The Atomic Elbow Jesse Mack (@JMaq on Twitter) sent me this photograph, which simultaneously makes me very happy and very jealous.

Thanks, Bryce and Jesse. Oh, and you probably want one of those "Da Bryce is Right" t-shirts, too. You are right to want this. If you're not at King of Trios, you can order yours from Gimmick$ Wrestling tees.

Hope you jerks in Easton are having fun.