A note from the archivist: In 2014, I read an interview with joshi wrestler Act Yasukawa, and it was one of the most moving wrestling interviews I had read at the time. Learning of Act’s struggles with Grave’s Disease – a disorder I also had – inspired me to take the plunge and enter pro wrestling myself the next year. When I introduced a close friend to pro wrestling, I used this article to explain why it was so special to me.

In 2015, Act Yasukawa retired from the ring after then-World of STARDOM Champion Yoshiko shot on her, beating her bloody in a despicable act of cowardice. She has, thankfully, returned to the ring since, initially as a manager and now as a full-time independent wrestler. Unfortunately, Yoshiko also still wrestles.

On November 10th, 2025, it was reported that wrestling social media personality Leslie Lee III had passed away. My opinion on Leslie Lee III was not a positive one, but his death was discussed in my circles, and mourned, and that’s when I realized that I had known him long before – as “Dirty Dirty Sheets”, the one who wrote the Act Yasukawa article that I had read and reread many times.

I do not know what will happen to Leslie Lee III’s old website – once Dirty Dirty Sheets, currently (as of 2026) Pro Wrestling Is Art. I just wanted to make sure that this article was saved. It’s still a wonderful piece of writing, and I hope by archiving the text and images, it can mean something to someone else, just as it meant something to me.

-Erin

By: Erin

Posted: July 11th, 2026

Hey! You! You want an EMN Update? I’ll give you one! But first, let me drop something I’m super excited about!

Mandy has started writing articles she’s dropping on the website! It’s been a long time coming and I’m so happy she’s begun doing it! Mandy’s Movie Musings is now live, and she has started with a doozy – a really cool article looking at the recent trend of “Ruined Childhood” horror, and what lead to the “Poohniverse”.

Check it out! Check it out right now!!

In other news…

By: Mandy

Posted: July 11th, 2026

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In high school, I became close friends with a horror movie enthusiast. We would spend our lunch breaks deconstructing every Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street movie, and thanks to those conversations – as well as I-Mockery’s regular horror movie articles and James Rolfe’s yearly Monster Madness reviews – I was inspired to watch as many horror movies as possible. For what many would consider a low-brow genre, it tickled my mind in ways other movies didn’t. Filmmakers and screenwriters used the genre to put a face on their anxieties and trauma, and as someone with severe anxiety I found catharsis in seeing how they reckoned with them – or didn’t.

The first college class I fell in love with was a film studies class. It taught me what it meant to be media literate and it introduced me to some of my favorite movies of all time. At that moment, I knew I would never shut up about movies – whether that meant exploring the feelings movies give me, analyzing the subtext behind the movies I love, or learning about the history and behind-the-scenes stories behind them. I love it all. So, if you’re wondering why my film and biography podcast I do with my wife and my Letterboxd account where I review a minimum of two movies a week just isn’t enough, I have to shrug and say “that’s hyper-fixations for you!”

Hello, my name is Mandy. I’m the middle initial in EMN, and my goal is to make this a regular film column, sometimes about recommendations, but mostly to talk about trends and things that inspire me. Until the day Letterboxd allows me to post full essays, welcome to a vacation home for my thoughts. So, without further ado…