RIP TO THE TRUE LEGEND OF THE EARTH IRON SHIEK
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Which Tumblr post of yours are you most proud of?
Oh, I don't know. I've been posting on Tumblr almost since Tumblr was created, so I'm sure I've forgotten about 98% of the things I've posted. I'm proud of some of the original, longform pieces I've written over the years, like the Iron Sheik essay that I reposted a few months ago when he passed away.
I think the three major JFK essays I posted on the 50th anniversary of his assassination -- 11.22.1963: One Minute in Dallas, Waking Up in Dallas, and Burial at Sea: The Odyssey of JFK's Original Casket -- is some of the best work I've done. My story about Theodore Roosevelt's first wife and mother dying on the same day in the same house, "The Light Has Gone Out of My Life", is a good one. I'm pretty proud of my essays about George H.W. Bush being shot down by the Japanese during World War II and "What Have I Done?", which is about Nixon's final hours as President. And the longer pieces I've written about Franklin Pierce (Pierce and the Consequences of Ambition, In Concord: The Friendship of Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "When Tears and Toil and Conflict Will Be Unknown") and LBJ (The Johnson Treatment and Brújula) are among my favorites.
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OMG NOOOOO
RIP SHEIKY!!!! YOUR TWITTER WILL ALWAYS BE LEGENDARY!!!
FUCK HULK HOGAN!!!!!!!!!
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#RIP Iron Sheik who passed away at the age of 81
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Heard it was Hulk Hogans Birthday.
Join me in wishing him a very happy Fuck you🤝
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RIP to Khosrow Vaziri -- the Iron Sheik -- the legendary pro (and amateur) wrestler and former WWE Champion, who was one of the most fascinating people I've ever met in my life. What an incredible, turbulent, interesting life that Sheik lived.
I wrote a piece back in 2011 about a couple of days that I had spent with and around him a few years earlier, and it's still one of my favorite things that I've ever written.
Khuda hafiz, Khosrow.
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How about some love for the late Iron Sheikh
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