Basquiat’s crown
Jean-Michel Basquiat fever has taken over Toronto lately with the painter’s exhibit currently running at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
It turns out that Bsaquiat used the sport of boxing as an artistic and careerist muse throughout his career.
Sarah wrote about this intersection of art and fisticuffs for Fightland.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Art, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Homer Simpson can take a punch
There are a number of classic plots that pop up regularly in sitcoms — the broken-telephone episode, the grandpa-comes-to-visit episode, the high school reunion episode, etc — but one of the most entertaining ones is often X main character-takes-on-a-pro-fighter, hilarity ensues.
Sarah tracked down a number of these classic episodes from shows as wide-ranging as The Simpsons, iCarly, George Lopez and Ally McBeal.
To read about them, head over to Fightland by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion, Television
Malcolm X meets Muhammad Ali
In Sarah’s latest Fightland investigation into the intersection of fighting and culture she wrote about the short period where Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were associates.
Their relationship, in modern terms, was “complicated.”
To read the story head over to Fightland by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Tony Danza
It’s easy to forget all these years later, but Taxi/Who’s The Boss? star Tony Danza used to be a legit boxing badass.
Sarah looked back at his pugilistic history for Fightland.
You can read her story by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Mike Tyson and Tupac
Mike Tyson, the uncomfortably punchdrunk former baddest man on the planet, will apparently be rapping on Madonna’s next album.
Semi-related, Tyson also thinks Benito Mussolini is kinda inspiring.
To read the whole story head over to Fightland by clicking here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 