Demolition by Ryan Murphy via Barrelhouse

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It must be something about this week that’s making us nostalgic for the 80s. First, Reading Rainbow successfully staged a comeback. Now, we found (and love) Ryan Murhpy’s essay over at  on his favorite WWF tag team.

Back when I was a kid — maybe six, maybe seven — Ax and Smash were the coolest dudes I’d ever seen in my life. They were (and still are) the longest-reigning WWF World Tag Team Champions of all time, six-and-a-half-feet-tall apiece, with boulder muscles and faces painted up like punk kids on Mischief Night. They wore spiked leather chaps, too, and full facemasks that only years later I’d associate with The Gimp from “Pulp Fiction.”

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