Category: Martial Arts

Unfinished Business

Hack was once paid fifty dollars to serve as a “filler” in a police lineup and was identified as the perpetrator by the key witness, who turned out to be his second wife and “wanted to teach the bastard a lesson.” That lesson included Hack serving two months in prison until she recounted her testimony but it all had a happy ending. Hack based this book on the experience and his ex-wife said the four years she served for perjury was “totally worth it.”

The Bully Busters

Happy International STAND UP to Bullying Day!

I do feel compelled to point out that whenever Hack writes a book where a bully is a central character, he insists that his friend Tim Storms be depicted as the bully in question because Storms actually has a physique like that and Hack won’t admit it but he’s obsessively jealous about it even though he hasn’t set foot in a gym since he confronted bodybuilding trailblazer Vic Tanny while Tanny was doing squat-thrusts in 1965. Hack was convinced that Tanny was having an affair with his then-wife and challenged him to a fistfight even though it turned out that Tanny had, in fact, never heard of Hack or his wife. Even so, Tanny obliged Hack by tying his larynx in a square knot.

To the point, Tim Storms is actually a really sweet dude who would never bully anyone but when I pointed out to Hack that constantly depicting him as a bully was a form of bullying itself, he told me to shut up unless I wanted him to give me a nipple twister.