Pictures Present

Yesterday was the annual Fight Club picnic, although I'm sure that the casual observer could make that sort of deduction from the photo below...Definitely a fun time. Unless I can make it to Club next Tuesday, yesterday may very well be the last time I see some of these people. I'm going to miss this Club...In...

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Pictures Past

I can't bear to lose some of these pictures after a week.In case you didn't catch DATU_B's comment from the original post, he said... OK, I've been patient, but that rear leg weight transfer of yours *has* got to go!!If you can't enter you can't fight, simple as that. I challenge anyone to defeat that statement....

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My Weekly Personality Analysis

Can't believe I almost forgot...Your Deadly SinsSloth: 80%Wrath: 80%Envy: 60%Gluttony: 40%Greed: 40%Lust: 40%Pride: 40%Chance You'll Go to Hell: 54%You will die with your hand down your underwear, watching Star Trek.How Sinful Are You?I'd say a lifestyle like that would be enough to make a lazy person ang...

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You Can Take a Boy Out of Social Work...

This is the second time this picture has crossed my electronic path. I don't know if it's because my friends are freaks or if it's just because we all live in Ohio.BE WARNED BEFORE YOU CLICK - This is a picture of a registered sex offender in the state of Ohio. It is a simple fact that he is physically deformed and that, coupled with his status, can make this very, very difficult for some people...

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What the H, E, Double Hockey Sticks?

Why didn't anyone tell me these pages existed??Chicago Videos from Rhino's RetroVidThere was a video for Must've Been Crazy? With Donnie Dacus and Laudir de Olviera?? A live performance of Devil's Sweet? What the f**k kinda rock have I been living under?Someone's Personal Collection of Chicago VidsQuality isn't very good, but where else are you going to see a LIVE version of Must've Been Crazy?...

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Fight Club Tuesday

DATU_B likes to flying round kick little girls in the head. Mind you, this was a little girl who proceeded, in the next fight, to take him to the ground and barrage him with head butts, and who has been known to flying-elbow him in the face. But, still.We won't even discuss my pitiful performance. All that boxing training and I still let my guard down. Tsk tsk. Eh, well, no pain (to the nerves...

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Been Around the World and I, I, I...

Well, ok, not literally. Last week was the annual "International Week" here in this single bastion of non-Caucasian liberal ideals in the midst of Appalachian Ohio. Last Thursday, I accompanied E to a perfomance of the Sema Ritual by Whirling Dervishes from Konya, Turkey which was preceeded by a short performance...

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Fight Club Thursday

Not much to tell, really. Forearms were sore enough to necessitate balur treatments last night and immediately upon waking up this morning. Gotta love Cimande (notice the spelling, whoever updates the Club website ;)).Had a whole new world open up in the area of high wing weapon deflections vs. high backhand strikes (i.e. most kali systems' "Angle 2"). The best way I can explain it is that I'm...

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Right, 'Fess Up

I admit it. This fits me. And, I'll put money that it fits most of you who take so much as two steps out into the digital world.The Unger ReportBy Brian UngerDigital Overload and Digital GuiltDay to Day, April 25, 2005 · Unwatched television shows backed up on your TiVo, hundreds of e-mails to read... and then there are the blogs you haven't gotten to yet. Day to Day slightly confused correspondent...

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My Weekly Personality Analysis

Professor X95%Rogue90%Shadowcat85%Jean Grey75%Beast75%Colossus70%Banshee70%Wolverine70%Iceman65%Storm60%Cyclops55%Archangel55%Nightcrawler55%Which X-Men member are You?created with QuizFarm....

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Hey, Jealousy

Someone I met through my little LiveJournal spy camera got to see Bill Champlin, Steve Lukather, and a whole host of other musicians including Dennis Matkosky, Michael Sembello, Jason Scheff and Bobby Caldwell in a show in Nashville -- probably the closest those cats will ever come to me. Apparently, a large chunk of the songs they played were songs I have plus a tune from the upcoming Chicago XXX....

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Fight Club Tuesday

Ultimate sparring day! Man, I have to give props to Coach Jones -- all that conditioning paid off. Now that my lungs are better, it would've been nice if my muscles have followed suit. I had to try ultimate sparring someone other than DATU_B, basically because I didn't want to be bathing in balur at the end of the night. Plus, his highline kicks are getting a little too high for my taste lately....

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Stand Yo' Ground?

Ok, time to get back to what this blog has become famous for - my thoughts on the various aspects and implications of martial arts, self defense, and other gruesome violence-related stuff. It has been awhile, hasn't it?A friend of mine emailed me another article in reference to Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Here it is (but I'm not sure for how much longer - you know how Yahoo! is with their...

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Go On, Say It!

I decided to finally switch to Blogger comments. I've been meaning to do this after they fixed it so that no one has to have a Blogger account to post. Plus, it's easier for me to check, monitor, and edit. Don't worry -- all of your cool enetation posts will be around for the time being (if inaccessible). But, I'm sure as it quits being used, they'll disappear soon. Let me know if there are any...

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Manic (Depressive) Monday

Well, I've got some time before the Diamond Mines, so I'm at "That Place" and finally getting a good download speed for the latest Who episode, "Father's Day." If you need to kill time as I did last night, here's something: An interview with Bill Champlin on Mick Martin's Blues Party, heard on Sacramento's KX...

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Amazed

I'm sitting here at the coffee shop a.k.a. "That Place" as E calls it, listening to a local band getting interviewed. Now, I know very little about this band, what their goals are, or if they even care about establishing any sort of musical career. But, if this interview is any indication, these are just the most ridiculous and clueless bunch of kids I've ever seen. I honestly don't even know why...

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Quiet Saturday

Yesterday was the Wife's Proseminar presentation for completion of her Masters degree in Linguistics. She's just steps away, now. I'll (or she'll) put pictures of that up later.But because of Friday's antics and an infamous local annual drunkfest, we mostly stayed in last night and I got to enjoy a harrowing...

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Bad Thing

Cimande djurus + the Silver Bullet ™ = Need for balur. This is what happens when you mix martial artists with Coors Light, which I haven't touched in damn near a decade before last Friday nig...

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My Weekly Personality Analysis

You scored as The Artiste. You like cafes you can't afford and clothes you don't wash. You love to "epater la bourgouisie" You'll show everyone someday- your parents, the academy, that whore who turned you down on the street... Now, if only you could afford socks.Test by www.MollyCrabapple.comThe Artiste88%The...

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Fight Club Tuesday

I'm still not feeling 100%, so I shirked again. I showed up for the second hour of weapons (which really didn't get going until :35 after) with my still nameless shilelagh. I've decided that "Fratboy Buster" is out. The context will be gone once E and I move out of here. Last night was my first mini-introduction...

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Here's a Legal Tip

As long as I don't touch anyone (except in self-defense, of course), this is now a legal orthopedic device. My next research question: Is there, in fact, any law in any place that says one needs a legal orthopedic device in order to carry one?Not that the precedent hasn't already been set in this county...

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Forgot About Dinner

I did say I'd talk about dinner, didn't I? Barbecued meat! 'Nuff said!No, not really 'nuff said. Besides the good, red chicken, there were lots of fixin's. "Sorry the potato salad's store bought," they said, but like we'd even say anything between the chicken, these awesome deviled eggs Mrs. DATU_B made, as well as this awesome chip dip. I almost didn't go because I wasn't sure I was up to it....

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New Toy

While I spend the next half hour downloading Doctor Who 1x07, The Long Game, let me tell you about the dinner the Wife and I had at Mr. and Mrs. DATU_B's where I got my new toy, a nice shellacked Irish shilelagh, made from an ash sapling. This isn't a mere walking stick. It's a Gangs of New York special. I'm...

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Don't Panic Get Too Excited

E liked Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more than I did. Call me a Douglass Adams purist, I don't care. But, the movie worked best for me the closer it stuck to the basics of the mythos. I can forgive the plot point differences. I can't forgive changing the entire point of the book. Just like you wouldn't rework "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" into some sort of spy thriller, you shouldn't take...

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The Joys of Being Ill

Because of my illness and the ungodly amount of time spent at the Diamond Mines despite said illness, I've missed...All training this weekA late night screening of Ong Bak at the house of GURU_ANGRYCatching so much as a single frame of the local annual film festivalSeeing Steve Buschemi who was showing a film at said festival. I wanted to see if any idiots would scream out things like "Hey, Mr. Pink!"...

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My Weekly Personality Analysis

So, who's the Star Wars equivalent of Sybil? Click to see my Star Wars Personalit...

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Time Out

That's what my body's put me on. I feel like crap - it's either a budding virus or fading allergies. I can't tell yet. I'm home three hours early from the Diamond Mines and will probably take the rest of the day to sleep. Maybe four hours a night of training won't be the best thing tonight.First thing in the AM tomorrow, I'm gonna go and "turn State's," as E puts it (a la Glengarry). As we've...

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Stoolies

It's funny when a bunch of random things dovetail.PART ONEThe Wife will probably mention this on her blog, so I'll summarize. Yesterday, she witnessed a car accident outside our house. Two guys in a truck sideswiped a car. Took the side view mirror right off. Apparently these guys parked their truck and buggered off into this house across the street and didn't reemerge. It was obvious something...

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Don't Call It a Comeback

REVIEW: 'Glengarry' Hasn't Lost Its StingBy MICHAEL KUCHWARAThe Associated PressSunday, May 1, 2005; 10:47 PMNEW YORK -- More than two decades after it first arrived on Broadway, "Glengarry Glen Ross," David Mamet's scabrous, yet often hilarious look at the underbelly of the American Dream, has lost none of its sting.This powerhouse revival, which opened Sunday at Broadway's Royale Theatre, scorches,...

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Aren't Torrent Sites Grand?

I knew this show would be good but I never thought the episode Dalek would be one of the better pieces of sci-fi drama I've seen in awhile. &nb...

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