Archive for the 'fighting' Category
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Did you guys watch UFC fight night last night? SPOILER ALERT: people get their shit messed! I have only watched half of them so far (three hours guys, some of us are busy ACTUALLY FIGHTING), but what I have seen has been pretty good.
Anyway, the first bout of the evening between James Irvin and Houston [...]
Friday, March 28, 2008
CARTHAGE, Mo. - Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV.
But the sport often derided as “human cockfighting” is branching out.
The bare-knuckle fights are now attracting competitors as young as 6 whose parents treat the sport as casually as wrestling, Little League [...]
Monday, March 17, 2008
I was researching the origins of the popular gambling expression, “baby needs a new pair of shoes.” This is what followed:
worker3116: and found this on a board
worker3116: Could someone please tell me the origin and meaning of this phrase or point out where I may find them? I first heard it in one episode of [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
You guys! Less than a month to go now until the greatest teen drama of all time hits theaters. Never Back Down is the age-old story of a misunderstood kid coming up against the character-defining challenges of moving to a new town. By confronting new people in a new environment, he will have to learn [...]
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
I don’t know about you (thankfully!), but when I watch the BBC documentary Planet Earth (Planet Earth, son!), I want to see a lot of this:
Aw look at it. I SAID LOOK AT IT. That’s right. Good job, Earth. You are really doing it with the wonders and myriad mysteries and stuff.
When I watch [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
Alien held out its claw and shook the empty glass gently but with obvious insistence. Predator rolled its eyes and looked at the clock. Not even 9:30. At this rate, Alien would have drunk half a case of champagne before midnight, and he was out of his alien mind if he thought Predator was going [...]
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
“Friends,” if ever I have called upon you, it is now.
As many of you have probably noticed, something has gone horribly wrong with the internet this week. We face a dangerous threat.
http://gregjohnsononline.blogspot.com/
Are you just going to let Greg Johnson take over the internet? Seriously? No. No you are not.
I have established a Facebook group in [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I did learn one thing during the three-hour Krav Maga seminar Tuesday, from a story that the instructor told. One of his students was attacked by two men at knife-point while traveling in South America. They stood on either side of him, and attempted to rob him of the pouch where he kept his traveler’s [...]
Friday, October 5, 2007
(New York Times)
Jeremy Carpenter (Ben Affleck) has a good job, and a loving family, until a freak accident on a paintball thing leaves the love of his life, Melissa Carpenter (Laura Linney), dead. Now he’s got to raise two kids on his own (Judd Apatow’s actual daughters), while simultaneously cleaning up the streets using nothing [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Team Babies, I have good news about fighting and bad news about fighting, which do you want first? Just kidding (about the whole caring what you want thing.)
Bad news: I have shoulder cancer. We were practicing an escape yesterday where the instructor had me in a triangle choke and I had to plant a [...]
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