Count Dante's memoir is here

After seven years of slugging it out with Macho Sasquatcho and battling El Pollo Diablo, Incredibly Strange Wrestler and announcer Count Dante (AKA Bob Calhoun) retired from the squared circle to write his memoirs. The result of The Count’s post-Incredibly Strange Wrestling literary labors, the punk-wrestling memoir “Beer, Blood and Cornmeal”, is currently hitting stores across North America. In the book Dante/Calhoun pulls back the curtain on ISW’s organized and insane theatrics.

“Beer, Blood and Cornmeal” weighs in at nearly 2 pounds, with over 300 pages and 32 color pages of photos illustrating all the in-ring mayhem and rock and roll madness. Not only does Dante’s book give readers a real behind the scenes look at San Francisco’s punk rock/lucha libre spectacular, it also details the 1990s San Francisco music scene that ISW sprang from.

V. Vale of RE/Search Publications, a purveyor of the “incredibly strange”, contributes the book’s foreword where he writes: “We are fortunate that this picaresque saga of one 6'3", 300-pound musician-hulk's experience with the performance art entity known as Incredibly Strange Wrestling exists.”

Matthew Polley author of “American Shaolin” calls the book, “[an] unforgettable insider’s account of the bygone era when punk rock and wrestling ruled San Francisco, Bob Calhoun (AKA. Count Dante) proves that he’s still the fastest mouth in the business. You may run, but you won’t be able to hide from this gleefully warped tale. I couldn’t put it down.”