Georges St-Pierre
Semi-retired badass Georges St-Pierre has been living the good life.
We know this because we check his Twitter account regularly, which often features him meeting celebrities and going on various adventures.
Sarah highlighted some of GSP’s most fascinating Twitter posts for Fightland.
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Kael
SickKids hospital has been putting on a campaign to illustrate how a seriously ill child can impact an entire family.
I helped put a couple of these family stories together for Huffington Post.
One of these stories involved Kael, a boy who spent more than a year in the hospital with a rare immune-deficiency disorder.
To read the story of Kael and his family head over to Huffington Post here.
Filed under Health
Jar Jar Binks
Sarah does not hate the universally reviled Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks and she has a pretty good reason.
Jar Jar, you see, was part of a running in-joke between her and her ailing grandfather.
She wrote about “Ho Ho Ding Ding” (his name for the Gungan jive talker in a piece for Consequence Of Sound.
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion
Weird Al has done a Star Wars song
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theatres on December 18 and with it, hopefully, so will a cleansing flood that will wipe away the mind-boggling stench that was the last three movies in the franchise.
To celebrate this occasion I took a Coruscant taxi to the darkest corners of YouTube and found 18 songs based on Star Wars characters.
For the full list, including songs about Boba Fett, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Yoda, head over to AUX by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Creed
One of the pleasant surprises from the world of film this year was the entirely credible reboot of the Rocky franchise with the film Creed.
Led by Michael B. Jordan as the son of Rocky’s greatest adversary Apollo Creed, one of the film’s great successes was the quality of the fight sequences.
Sarah looked into what kind of training Jordan did to prepare for his role in Creed.
To read all about it head over to Asian World Of Martial Arts by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 