Magnificent Rant

If you're in the mood to hear a real rant, Guy Andrew has the link to a first class one on his site, Rooks Rant, today, given by a pro wrestling guy named Jim Cornette, excoriating the right wing. Guy Andrew is a connoisseur of rants, as per the name of his site.

What's impressive about Cornette's rant, aside from its controlled force and the fact that all his points are well taken, is that, though seemingly delivered impromptu, it is well organized and spoken without stumbles of any kind, from beginning to end.

This shows that all those pre-bout loud-talking sessions when the wrestlers go to great lengths to put down each other can end up giving them tremendous verbal felicity.

Finding that this rant came from the pro wrestling world also interested my wife and me because not long ago we had to grapple with seeing a highly gritty movie called "The Wrestler," starring an actor who epitomizes gritty, Mickey Rourke. He plays an aged wrestler who is having trouble facing the end of his glory days. But there were no good rants in that. It was pretty much all visual, especially one bout that featured him and his opponent attacking each other with barbed wire, staples fired from building supplies staple guns, and other metal objects that they had just bought in a hardware store, before the film audience finds out how these items will be used. Not surprisingly, Rourke's character has a bad heart attack as he is leaving the changing room later, after they pulled all the staples out of him.