Hulk Hogan on the mat
Like a lot of guys my age, I'll always have a certain amount of affection for Hulk Hogan.
He was the live-action Superman of our childhood, a cartoon hero come to life, and even when we realized he was in reality a juiced-up "sports entertainer," even when we outgrew professional wrestling...we were still Hulkamaniacs at heart.
When Hulk stopped wrestling and took up reality TV on Hogan Knows Best, I watched even though I usually hate celeb-reality shows. As with Gene Simmons' show, there was something great about watching one of my childhood heroes navigating family life and just trying to get along in his retirement. If it sometimes seemed over-the-top and staged it just brought back memories of his pro-wrestling glory -- with less overt homo-eroticism.
And so it pains me to see the Hulkster falling on hard times -- troublemaking son crashing cars and permanently injuring people, wife leaving him and running around with a teenage boy toy.
N&R Interactive's Louis Bekoe points me to this item on a bar in Florida (near Linda Hogan's home) that has taken Hulk's side in this little marital spat of his.
You almost feel sorry for her -- until you hear the kid's been riding Hulk's motorcycle as well as his wife.
That's seriously off sides...