“The best part of a writer is on paper. The other part is usually nonsense.”
–Hollywood.
Archive for the Real Men Category
Charlie Bukowski’s Thought for the Day
Posted in Fiction, Observation, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Bukowski, writing on December 27, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
UFC: The Other Side of the Bloody Coin
Posted in Kickboxing, Real Men with tags Antonio Silva, Boxing, bullfighting, cage fighting, Carl Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Daily Telegraph Newspaper, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Hunt, motor racing, Phil Rothfield, Rush, The Crossing, the Shadow, UFC on December 11, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“Young men love war and old men love it in them.”
-Cormac McCarthy,
The Crossing.
Phil Rothfield recently published an editorial in The Daily Telegraph that has gone viral across the Facebook pages of many of the people I know. It’s a pretty inflammatory screed, and I’m surprised any credible newspaper would publish it; the comment about ‘allowing’ women to fight on the card alongside men must have left feminists, along with fight-fans, scratching their heads. Continue reading
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Tarik Solak: Return of the Super-Promoter!
Posted in Kickboxing, Real Men with tags A1 Grand Prix, Billboard Nightclub, Chris Allen, Cihad Kepenek, Crown Casino, Ernesto Hoost, FEG, Forbes Magazine, Foxsports, Fuji TV, Glory, Gurkan Ozkan, ISKA, K1, K1 Oceania, K3, Ken Imai, Mark Hunt, Melbourne Pavilion, Mirko Cropcop, MMA, Mr Ishii, Mr Tanikawa, Patrice Quarteron, Paul Slowinski, Peter Lewis, Prince Amir, Tarik Solak, Vedat H., Vodaphone Arena, Wayne Parr on December 6, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
International Kickboxer Magazine, Nov/Dec 2013
Tarik Solak is back on Australian soil with a new show and new fighters. To put it simply, he’s excited. Continue reading
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James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ – the Warm-Up with Coach Rodney Hall.
Posted in Fiction, Reading, Real Men with tags Anna Karenina, Cubism, David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, Kant, Picasso, Schopenhauer, The Bloomsday Book, Ulysses, Venus in Furs, War and Peace on November 23, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Gotta love a man with an eye-patch.
J: I guess that’s what War and Peace is about. It’s about what happens when people are forced to cope with the force of history as it’s bearing down on them, which I guess is the way Tolstoy would have looked at it.
R: I’m so glad you liked War and Peace. I knew you would. When you were reading Anna Karenina, you were telling me ‘There couldn’t possibly be a better novel’. And then, there was. Continue reading
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Lou Reed on Hoddle Street
Posted in Obituary, Real Men with tags Hoddle Street, Lou Reed on November 15, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Took this photo while idling at the lights.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=167739956
Goodbye, Lou.
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Mary Johanna Boyle, 1917-2013
Posted in Obituary, Real Men with tags Barnadown, Genazzano College, Lord Byron, Nursing, So We'll Go No More A'Roving, University of Melbourne on November 11, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
My Grandmother, Mary Johanna Boyle, died on October 8. Had she gone on to her birthday on January 30, she would have been 97 years old. Continue reading
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Tyson the Rapist – The Facts
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Boxing, Desiree Washington, Evander Holyfield, Jake La Motta, James Toback, Jill Meagher, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, Mike Tyson, Raging Bull, The Age Newspaper, The Hangover, Tony Awards, Yahoo Answers on September 28, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
I found a link on Facebook to Neil Patrick Harris doing a song-and-dance number to open the Tony Awards in New York. It was vaunted as the ‘best awards ceremony opener ever’. Conspicuously, it also featured a brief cameo from Iron Mike himself. Continue reading
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Gokhan Saki’s Nike Ad
Posted in Kickboxing, Real Men with tags Gokhan Saki, Kickboxing, Nike on September 20, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
This Nike ad features Dutch-Turkish kickboxer, Gokhan Saki.
He must be the first kickboxer ever to make it to a Nike ad. It’s proof of how good he is and how big a sport kickboxing is in Turkey.
I am proud to say I knew him when.
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Peter Graham signs with Bellator
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing, Real Men with tags Barry Raff, Bellator, Boxing, Boxing Works, grappling, International Martial Arts Center, jiu jitsu, Judo, Larry Papadopoulos, MMA, Peter Graham, sambo, UFC, Viacom, wrestling on July 30, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Congratulations on being signed to Bellator. What were the circumstances under which they contacted you?
Bellator has a whole bunch of managers and companies that supply pro combat athletes. They were looking to improve their heavyweight roster, and my name came up. They knew me; they had heard about my 8-fight winning streak. Actually, to date, I am on a 12-fight win streak altogether, which includes 11 wins by KO; that’s boxing, kickboxing and MMA. Continue reading
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Wuthering Heights
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Aaron the Moor, Catherine, Duncan, Edgar, Emily Bronte, Gnasher, Goneril, Hindley, Iago, King Lear, Liverpool, MacBeth, Mr Earnshaw, necrophilia, Nelly Dean, nosferatu, Othello, Thrushcross Grange, Titus Andronicus on June 3, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Fan-art from some obscure Russian website – you get the idea.
I have a love/hate relationship with Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 