Savage 1986-2011

the turbulent trajectory of a family spanning twenty-five years

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The theory on ‘emotional labour,’ put forth by Arlie Hochschild in her book The Managed Heart, says that human beings constantly manage their emotions for themselves and their relationships with others; however, in certain professions, like flight attendant or debt collector, we do this for a corporation.  The means of emotional production are no longer our own, but controlled by the requirements (happy, natural smiles, or stoic faces) of an employer.  It seems to me that wrestling, more so than most forms of entertainment, combines emotional labour to the body so drastically that what is expended is both the idea and the physical.  Nate is an object that gets stuck in a world of human littering, one who never gets a chance to have his narrative redeemed until he rescues his family via a violence that is emotionally managed and not laboured. Of course this act of violence ends up setting into motion a trajectory of pain acted out over several years inside his powder keg family lifestyle. New Order song

The theory on ‘emotional labour,’ put forth by Arlie Hochschild in her book The Managed Heart, says that human beings constantly manage their emotions for themselves and their relationships with others; however, in certain professions, like flight attendant or debt collector, we do this for a corporation. 

The means of emotional production are no longer our own, but controlled by the requirements (happy, natural smiles, or stoic faces) of an employer.  It seems to me that wrestling, more so than most forms of entertainment, combines emotional labour to the body so drastically that what is expended is both the idea and the physical. 

Nate is an object that gets stuck in a world of human littering, one who never gets a chance to have his narrative redeemed until he rescues his family via a violence that is emotionally managed and not laboured.

Of course this act of violence ends up setting into motion a trajectory of pain acted out over several years inside his powder keg family lifestyle.

New Order song

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“Author Nathaniel G. Moore presents an inter-generational family saga so remote from the tropes overworked by fellow Canadian authors that one hesitates to even label it a “novel” – a word, for me, poisoned by too many visits to the cow barn (and the silent, fraught-with-baking-eulogies kitchen table).” – RM Vaughan “It’s remarkable how thin the line between laughter and tears can be. Stories by Nathaniel G. Moore and Valerie Joy Kalynchuk, for all their pop culture savvy and deadpan slacker tone, seem to teeter on the brink of despair.” – Ian McGillis, Montreal Review of Books (review of 2003’s anthologyCareer Suicide! which included the short story Randy Savage’s Moustache)“Nathaniel G. Moore has created a microcosm of a slowly disintegrating middle class family expectantly clinging to the myths once held religiously - more is good, much is better, hard work wins out - even when those myths begin to crumble, the illusion is more important than the reality.” –Mark McCawley Savage video 1 and 2

“Author Nathaniel G. Moore presents an inter-generational family saga so remote from the tropes overworked by fellow Canadian authors that one hesitates to even label it a “novel” – a word, for me, poisoned by too many visits to the cow barn (and the silent, fraught-with-baking-eulogies kitchen table).” – RM Vaughan

“It’s remarkable how thin the line between laughter and tears can be. Stories by Nathaniel G. Moore and Valerie Joy Kalynchuk, for all their pop culture savvy and deadpan slacker tone, seem to teeter on the brink of despair.” – Ian McGillis, Montreal Review of Books (review of 2003’s anthologyCareer Suicide! which included the short story Randy Savage’s Moustache)

“Nathaniel G. Moore has created a microcosm of a slowly disintegrating middle class family expectantly clinging to the myths once held religiously - more is good, much is better, hard work wins out - even when those myths begin to crumble, the illusion is more important than the reality.” –Mark McCawley


Savage video 1 and 2