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Archive for the Real Men Category
Thought for the Day
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Proverbs of Hell, William Blake on October 28, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Ernest Borgnine RIP
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Ernest Borgnine, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on July 9, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Ernest Borgnine, who co-starred alongside William Holden in Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, has died of kidney failure, aged 95.
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Wendy Waters
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Anthony O’Neill, Bronte Sisters, Catch the Moon, Fields of Grace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabelle Allende, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Keats, Mary, Mills and Boon, Scheherazade, Summer of the 17th Doll, Virginia Woolf, Wendy Waters on May 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Comparative Religions in 'Game of Thrones'.
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Game of Thrones on May 19, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Do you pray to the Gods?”
“The old and the new.”
There is only one God, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death; not today.”
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Emily Friedel
Posted in Fitness, Real Men with tags Australian Kettlebell Club, Biathlon, Catherine Imes, Emily Friedel, Girevoy sport, Iron Edge, Long Cycle, Master of Sport, Melbourne City Baths, Mike Mahler, Olympic lifting, Pavel Tsatsouline, Steve Cotter, Steven Khoung, The Ice Chamber, Valery Fedorenko on May 14, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Emily Friedel is Australia’s only Master of Sport in Girevoy, the sport of Kettlebell lifting. She placed first in her event at the WKC World Championships in 2010 and 2011 and also holds the official Australian women’s record for 24kg snatches. Continue reading
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Leo Tolstoy Vs. Robert S. McNamara
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Agent Orange, Axis, Battle of Borodino, Errol Morris, General Kutuzov, Hitler, Holocaust, Loe Tolstoy, Napoleon, Robert S McNamara, Vietnam war, War and Peace, War criminal, World War II on May 2, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
One of the most interesting aspects of reading is that sometimes you might read something and, regardless of whether you enjoy it or not, it begins to creep into your thinking. You start to see it everywhere; kind of like when you’re walking the streets in a strange country and you feel as if you keep catching glimpses of people you know. Continue reading
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A Woman’s Place is in the Cage – or in the Ring
Posted in Kickboxing, Observation, Real Men with tags Brian Butler, Daniella Smith, David Mayeda, East End Boxing Gym, Fighting for Acceptance: MMA and Violence in American Society, Gladiators, Herald-Sun Newspaper, IBF World Title, Joe Nader, London 2012 Olympics, MMA, Powerplay Gym, Sarah 'Missy' Howett, Sophie Ruston, Tae Kwon Do, Viper on April 29, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
War and Peace
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags 'Little Gidding', Four Quartets, Hawaii marathon, Napoleon, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Tolstoy, War and Peace on April 27, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Elephant Named Brain Damage
Posted in Fitness, Journalism, Kickboxing, Observation, Real Men with tags Alexei Kouznetsov, Alzheimer's disease, Andrew Rule, Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boxing, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Derek Boogaard, Dr Ann McKee, Francois Botha, Golden Glory, Joe Demicoli, Kickboxing, Lou Gehrig's disease, Mike Bernardo, MMA, Parkinson's disease, Rick Rypien, The Fighter's Factory, Wade Belak on April 1, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Herald-Sun newspaper dated March 2, 2012 featured an article about head trauma in sports, written by Andrew Rule. You can read it at:
Let’s face it; head injury is the big fucking elephant in the room at my house. Continue reading
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A Testimonial
Posted in Music, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags A True Testimonial, MC5 on March 29, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there; let me see a sea of hands. I want everybody to kick up some noise; I want to hear some revolution out there brothers, I wanna hear a little revolution. Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are gonna be the problem or whether you are gonna be the solution. You must choose brothers, you must choose. It takes five seconds; five seconds of decision, five seconds to realize your purpose here on the planet. It takes five seconds to realize that it’s time to move, it’s time to get down with it. Brothers, it’s time to testify and I want to know, are you ready to testify? Are you ready? I give you a testimonial …”
J. C. Crawford’s barn-burning intro to the MC5’s “Ramblin’ Rose”.
Theme Park at its Darkest 