A boxing glove wreath
Everyone knows ninjas are notoriously difficult to buy for.
Their throwing stars need to be the right weight, their footwear needs to be that perfect combination of utilitarian and cool, their swords need to have a certain taper…
It’s a good thing Sarah has these secretive people covered as she wrote up a very related gift guide over at Asian World Of Martial Arts.
You can read about it by clicking here.
Filed under Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Roddy Piper in holiday mode
The late, great pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper once sang his own unique take on “The 12 Days Of Christmas.”
As mostly non-Christmas music people around here, it takes something like this to break through our traditional anti-holiday music wall.
Sarah ended up writing about the song for Fightland.
You can read that by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
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
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
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 