“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling

Time for a spot of good old-fashioned poetry – written by a man with one of the greatest moustaches of all time: Now, this is the cup the White Men drink When they go to right a wrong, And that is the cup of the old world’s hate — Cruel and strained and strong....

Just sayin’

What with all of my injuries of late – the newest one being an ankle injury caused when I got my foot tangled up in someone else’s during a knife-sparring drill at the end of a class, whereby my right foot went one way and the remaining 190lbs or so of me...

Troublesome Solutions

Posting has been, and will probably continue to be, a bit light this week due to all of the work required to pack up all of my stuff, put it into storage, and move out of my place. I will in fact be leaving the US in a little over a week’s time, and it is not...

The sheepdogs

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence,...

Good pun

I mentioned back in April that everybody’s favourite cheesy operatic power metal band, POWERWOLF, is going to release a new album with truly badass cover artwork. Well, it so happens that the first single from that album has now been released, and here...

Friday T&A: Artlessness Edition

It’s a beautiful warm Friday evening here as we head into Memorial Day weekend, and that long weekend is off to an auspicious start already. I was walking along my usual route along the coastline near my home up to the Korean War memorial this morning, when I...

The Dominator mindset

Dominick Cruz was the UFC’s bantamweight-division championship – twice over. When he first entered the fight game, he was only around 20 years old. He amassed an amazing 9-0 record in his first fighting organisation, “Rage in the Cage”, before...

That will definitely work

This one here is for the ladies – all, like, two of them that read my blog and somehow manage to keep their heads from exploding. Girls – have you ever been to a personal training session at the gym and discovered that your trainer is perhaps a little...

Hard to disagree, Hank

Henry Rollins – of BLACK FLAG fame – had some rather interesting things to say about his experiences opening for THE GREATEST FREAKIN’ BAND OF ALL TI… uh, I mean, IRON MAIDEN: Now I’ve been to my fair share of IRON MAIDEN concerts –...

Hamid’s got that hangry feeling…

Another year, another Ramadan, and another several dozen people killed and injured by those peaceful, peace-loving, peaceable peaceniks of the Religion of Peace: Islamic terrorists have massacred at least 41 people and injured 102 in the first four days of the holiest...