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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is genuinely the first Moody Blues I've heard at the new retail job paging @discordpod.bsky.social

Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

it's not streaming anywhere and you'll have to import Japanese Blu-Spec CDs, but I have to get on my soapbox about Agharta/Pangaea; they remixed the albums for CD to make the whole band clearly audible, but imo the original mix that the aforementioned CDs recreated better suits the music

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Reading Ancient Evenings because of my own ancient Egypt literary project, and I really was underprepared for "protagonist's spirit is forced to fellate his great-grandpa who shares his name (through multi-chapter flashbacks) in a literalization of Jungian archetypes"

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

H.D.'s been dead for 60 years, poetry needs its 4K

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Finally at the point where I can laugh at this, but jesus lol

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Truly think that a good 20% of my issues stem specifically from the fact that, when Mom had DHS remove me from her custody (I was 7), she had me watch The NeverEnding Story (for the first time!) with her. In ten minutes I went from watching a horse drown to locking myself in the bathroom.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

listen, feel however you want to feel about Paradise Lost, but I do find it darkly funny how Adam turns into alpha-build Andrew Tate for a few hundred lines there after the Fall

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

after it was referenced on @discordpod.bsky.social, I am now listening to the Ray Manzarek rock arrangement of Carmina Burana, which sounds like if you told a bunch of 1981 LA session pros to cut a Magma record

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As an addendum, I finally started writing my ancient Egyptian epic poem to stick it to Robert

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

RFKJr. says autistic people will never write a poem, when I woke up today and started a cougar-themed verse to the tune of Black Man by Stevie Wonder

Moon is out tonight
Climate just right
For a cougar

Going out late
Knowing that it's fate
To meet a cougar

I need to be pounced
Pixar lamp-bounced
By a cougar

Give me something strong
‘cause the wait has been too long
For my cougar

I’ve been searching
All my life
For a MILF to strap me down
And be my wife
Elastigirl started it all
Made girls my age invisible

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

a wrestling shirt that only i would ever want: Barry Windham painted in the style of Wyndham Lewis

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Just spent three days platinuming Grim Fandango because I didn't find out that there was a run button until I was walking back up to the greenhouse with Sal's Number Nine ticket at the very end

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Wrestling Playlists @pwoloss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

You can read the fourth and final installment of the Michiaki Yoshimura bio from @kinchstalker.bsky.social at Wrestling Playlists now. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Killer Khan bio is my best work, but I think Yoshimura is my most important piece: a journey through early puroresu that isn't dominated by Rikidozan, Baba, or Inoki. Very excited for the new eyes that Charles will bring to my work.

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Wrestling Playlists @pwoloss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm proud to use Wrestling Playlists to spotlight the work of @kinchstalker.bsky.social, who has done some amazing work over the last four years helping improve our understanding of Japanese wrestling history. You can check it out now. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I’m so fucking furious at this shit

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's Day. I planned to read this satirical poem at a literary open mic this evening, but alas, PDX's annual snowstorm decided to show up. Breakfast for an AI Girlfriend

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My uncle David used to drunk-call the White House at 2am, going "YOU WANNA PICK A WAR WITH ME" and demanding to speak to the president

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Mighty Inoue's passing and the lacking obituaries have made it clear that my profiles here must stand as the definitive English obituaries of these legends. All of my profiles are living documents, but I have a responsibility to make them the best I can while their subjects are still living.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I have substantially expanded my PWO profile on Motoyuki Kitazawa, with information about Kitazawa's early life, details on his practical contributions to New Japan and the UWF, and some important corrections. forums.prowrestlingonly.com/topic/55766-...

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Had a dream last night where I went to a screening of Terminator 2, but little John Connor was in the audience, and all the other guys kept getting kicked out for trolling him about his destiny

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today I'm writing a substantial revision of my PWO profile for Motoyuki Kitazawa, one of puroresu's eldest still living. Mighty Inoue's passing and the obits I've read have made it clear that my work must stand as the definitive English obituaries for these legends, when their time comes.

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Patrick @tadthuggish.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My Thanksgiving has involved listening to @kinchstalker.bsky.social’s podcast, watching Jumbo v Mil, and loving the whole experience! Who needs football!

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fighter Fujimoto's JWA became affiliated with the Doshisha Pro Wrestling Alliance, a student puroresu club at Kyoto's Doshisha University. The DWA had superior resources, for their vice chairman happened to be the wealthy heir to a tea ceremony school. (Only in Japan.)

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fighter Fujimoto struggles through a Big Akihira leg lock, 1982. Fujimoto was a pioneer of hobbyist puroresu, who got his start holding free shows with fellow JSDF servicemen in the latter half of the 70s. At right is Akihira and Fujimoto at Rikidōzan's grave.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Good news: I found a 1998 South Korean TV documentary about Kintaro Oki on my old hard drive, which I need for a future podcast episode. Bad news: I don't have subtitles to translate!

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

How much did WrestleMania XI cost on PPV? Need it for an aside in my next script

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"BENNY HITS MISAWA WITH THE DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOWDOWA OTOSHI"

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I guess ABBA drew 72,000 at the Budokan in 1980, so eat your heart out All Japan

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A full South Korean Kim Il (Kintaro Oki) match from 1978 has surfaced. This is huge. Before this, we've only had matches taped by Japan in South Korea, or newsreels. Kim Il & Kim Duk vs. Tor Kamata & Tito Santana. Joe Higuchi as referee. youtu.be/sMmrVLLci_g?...

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(TV방송) 추억의 韓·美 프로레스링 태그매치 『김일&김덕 對 토르 카마타&릭 브루드 1978

YouTube video by 아련한기억 1971 그해 그시절

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

3 days after the Tokyo Sports show, on a house show in northern Osaka, Tiger Jeet Singh put his hands on a yakuza boss who didn't get out of the way in a crowd brawl. It was company policy to compensate ¥30k in these cases, but it almost got ugly. ("Bring Singh! I'll kill him!")

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Otsuka explains why puroresu promotions stopped running several of Tokyo's buildings in the 70s, such as the Itabashi, Adachi, and Taito Ward Gymnasiums: the administration of Tokyo governor Ryokichi Minobe started to block prefectural facilities from professional bookings.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

According to the late Tokyo Sports reporter Kazuo Iiyama, the JWA's tour route was modeled after that of rokyoku singer Torazo Hirosawa. I had wondered what the precedent to their national tours had been for a while.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

The manufacturer initially didn't want to make an iron fence, so they started with a wooden one. The iron fence forced NJPW to reduce the amount of pamphlets and other goods they sold, because the fence would otherwise take their truck over weight.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

NJPW started using the fence to protect the audience (and create a new finish type) in June 1979. It had already been pitched, but what made it happen was an incident on a televised show that February, when a fan came to the ring and hit Tiger Jeet Singh with a chair.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

It took a week for the dohyō to be filled back up after an NJPW show, so they couldn't book the venue too soon before a sumo tournament.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

NJPW built a special ring for use at the Kuramae Kokugikan. They couldn't set up the ring over the sumo dohyō without the corners sticking out, and cutting those corners was a problem when the ring was held together by wires going from one pole to the other.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

There were tentative plans for NJPW to run Honolulu in the summer of 1980, through promoter Mike Maeda. Otsuka shot it down after a research trip, because the ticket prices would have topped at ¥3000 (roughly $13 at the time), which would have been a loss. He regrets this now.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Otsuka states that he was the one who got AJPW booked at the Budokan again in 1985, after they had failed to book the venue for years.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I peppered his insights into this PWO thread, but I have gotten much further in his interviews than I have in the timeline on that thread, so it's going to be a while before I can integrate that info into a broader narrative about New Japan. So I want to share some of that stuff here.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Had a thread on Xitter about this that I want to spread to here. One of my big on-and-off research projects has been translating a series of interviews with Naoki Otsuka, which were published in the magazine G Spirits from 2020-22.

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Cameren Lee @kinchstalker.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

hey, I should start posting on here

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