The Front Fell Off--the Whole Story

The viral "The Front Fell Off" has been making its rounds across emails everywhere, which was damn funny in its own right but incomplete--I recently found the whole story. If you have yet to see just how the oil caught fire, as well as the Minsiter's comments off the air, check it out here:

Ever wonder where Bigfoot went?

With the rapid and increasing urbanization of the Pacific Northwest, forest critters are finding fewer and fewer places to hide out, and are also facing increasing pressure from other forest critters more adaptable to humans. Take the Barred Owl / Spotted Owl issue, for one. Or, perhaps more scientifically, one might look into the Bigfoot issue instead--apparently, the big furry hombre has had enough of people in the PNW and is now living on Mars. Personally, I think the Little Mermaid hypothesis is more credible, especially as that would explain both the worst of Kierkegaard and the subsequent train of thought that derailed somewhere before Derrida (though he and his fellows probably thought the train was still moving...).

The point of all this? None whatsoever. I need to get back to work!

I think it is time for my beating...

A long time ago, when I was living in the same town as my good friend DC and he was teaching me stick fighting, he gave me this cartoon. Probably gave it to me one day after my brain got full of new info, locked up, and got me smacked in the head (I have a killer "block punches with my face" defense).

Anyway, I have been doing muay Thai for 10 years now (but had only 1 ring fight in all those years, back when I was young enough to take it!), and I still block punches with my face. Yeesh. At least it is only in sparring and I have headgear on. But as I get older (and slower) I am starting to get back into sticks and various other weapons arts, not so much for the "martial," but as I mellow out with age, the "art" side of things. Siniwali drills, for example, are beautiful to watch but even better to be doing--kinda like moving Zen--and, if you lose focus, you could get a nice smack in the head or hand. But I still want to go to Thailand one day to train (hear that Will?!?).

I was thinking of all this cause DC sent this link to me not long ago: Karate lessons give child self-confidence to quit karate.

Someone at CNN gets it. :-)