Indicates Mr Boyle with a pointed teaspoon, “Jesus, listen to me; I need a smack over the head. That sounds as stupid as something you’d say.”
Returning to Earth with a Crash and a Bang and a Column of Smoke
Posted in Observation, Ridiculous curiosity on April 11, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Steve Moxon – 'The Showdown' on April 28
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Carlos Quadiri, Crossfit, Frank Giorgi, Hewlett Packard, Joe Nader, MC2, Muay Thai, Peter Graham, Powerplay, The Showdown, Wes Capper on April 6, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Steve Moxon, K1 specialist, will be going head-to-head against Frank Giorgi, one of Australia’s premier Thai stylists on Joe Nader’s Powerplay show, ‘The Showdown’, at the Moonee Valley Racecourse on April 28. Steve lets me know what it is we – and Frank – should expect. Continue reading
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WOW!!!
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing on April 6, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Yesterday was the Golden Glory organisation’s birthday. I expect this news would have made both Cor Hemmers and Bas Boon smile.
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/395325/Dana-White-I-am-so-f——-mad/
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ufc-overeem-20120404,0,980820.story
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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”.
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The Best News I Have Had All Year
Posted in Fitness with tags Exercise, Female orgasm on March 20, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Aboke Abductions
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags Atrocity, Joseph Kony, LRA on March 18, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleSomething interesting I found while surfing the ‘net. To give you a taste:
The Aboke abductions were the kidnapping of 139 secondary school student females from St. Mary’s College boarding school by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army on October 10, 1996, in Aboke, northern Apac District, Uganda. The deputy head mistress of the college, Sister Rachele Fassera, of Italy, pursued the rebels and negotiated the release of 109 of the girls. The Aboke abductions and Fassera’s dramatic actions drew international attention, unprecedented at that time, to the insurgency in northern Uganda. Continue reading
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A Open Letter to the Western Detractors of Kony 2012
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags Child soldiers, Iraq war, Kony 2012, Srebrenica on March 18, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The late 20th-early 21st century sees a world in which 60% of its inhabitants live below the poverty line. The ‘Kony 2012’ campaign, regardless of who runs it or for what reason, ostensibly seeks to make famous a man who presses children into sex slavery or warfare. Continue reading
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A Few Questions For Bangin' Ben
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags Alexei Ignashov, Australian Boxing Federation, Ben Edwards, Burto Bungee, Capital Punishment, Daniel Ghita, Daniel Sam, Eurosport Live, It's Showtime!, Nich Boutzos, Ricardo Van Den Bos, Rico Verhoeven, Roman Kleibel, Romania, Simon Rutz, SuperKombat on March 11, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Sam's Comment, or Showing Jarrod Who's Boss
Posted in Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, A Room of One's Own, Betty Friedan, Cat's Eye, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, Dermott Brereton, George Negus, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Henry Handel-Richardson, Judith Herman, Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Sam De Brito, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Lost Boys, Tim Winton, Virginia Woolf, Wilbur Smith, Yumi Stynes on March 5, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleEvery time a woman responds to something I have written on this blog relating to feminism, she claims she can’t understand it [see ‘Why I do Not Call Myself a Feminist]. I think Sam’s comment, however, is the most astute and insightful I have received here. I wanted to feature it as a post in its own right – because of its perspicacity, but also because I guess I need to talk about the grinding of this particular axe. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 