Bastion Booger Resurfaces!
I Fucked Evangeline Lilly
By DEANNA FLEISCHMANN, Journal Staff Writer
PHOTO: Mike Shaw holds a framed water color painting. Local celebrities,
including Shaw, are donating art work for an auction to raise money for the
Marquette Children's Museum. (Journal photo by Andy Nelson-Zaleski)
MARQUETTE - He's visited 32 countries, all 50 states and all 10 Canadian
provinces and he did it as a professional wrestler. Now, Mike Shaw is
painting watercolors.
On Dec. 2 the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum in Marquette will host a
celebrity art auction featuring local celebrities such as Shaw.
"We wanted to have fun and do something off the wall," museum Director
Nheena Ittner said. "We thought it would be fun to have non-artists donate
art work for an auction."
Shaw, 47, originally of Ontario, Canada, started wrestling when he was 22.
He was under contract with both World Championship Wrestling and the World
Wrestling Federation.
Standing 6 foot 1 inch tall and weighing 360 pounds, Shaw was known as
Norman the Lunatic with the WCW, Friar Ferguson with the WWF and later as
the sewer creature Bastion Booger, also with the WWF.
"I did it for about 20 years," Shaw said. "I liked traveling and getting to
see what I've seen was great. But when you get to be in your mid-40s the
grind gets to be a bit much and I had two small children."
Shaw and his wife Kelly live in Skandia. He is the area manager for Midwest
Patrol Security.
Money from the auction will help the museum, which museum board member Joe
Burdick said is in great need.
About 30 local celebrities are participating in the auction, including John
Jilbert, Sue LeGalley, Mayor Jerry Irby, Northern Michigan University
President Les Wong and NMU's football coach Doug Sams.
The fund-raiser is scheduled for Dec. 2 at the U.P. Children's Museum at 123
W. Baraga Ave. Viewing begins at 5:30 and the auction will start at 6:30
p.m. For more information, call 226-3911.
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getting crazy. They think they're getting saner.