“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.”

Now that’s just badass

What happens when you put the following ingredients in a blender? One Airbus A-320, courtesy of SwissAir Six F-5E Tiger jets from the Swiss Air Force’s aerobatics team One skier One slalom course A few good cameramen And a really good digital editor Well, you...

Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling

I just finished reading John Ringo’s outstanding first novel in the Legacy of the Aldenata series, A Hymn Before Battle. Aside from being a terrific writer and a clearly highly literate man, Mr. Ringo is a HUGE Kipling fan. As I’ve stated before, I...

She’s certainly shaking something

What happens when you put a Taylor Swift single into an atom-smasher along with polka music and a metal shredfest? Well… this: (Kindly sent to me by Carey) I think I might have ruptured something laughing so hard. There is a particularly priceless moment right...

Battleship: HALO-style

Now THAT is how HALO should be played Looks like we’ll have an all-new way to play HALO battles- right on our tabletops: Spartan Games has entered into a License Agreement with Microsoft Corporation to design and produce tabletop miniatures games for...

50 Shades of Good

Well, actually, just 9. All Batman-style, though, so that helps. Click to enlarge And as for the man eating ice cream- if you had to constantly save a society from itself every day, especially a society that considers mommy porn to be high art, wouldn’t you...

The Hawkwind Medley

Question: What happens when you get a ridiculously tall musical genius in the same room as one of his greatest idols, Dave Brock from psychedelic sci-fi rock band HAWKWIND? Answer: A medley of the greatest songs HAWKWIND ever made over something like 40 years, given...

Three good reasons to study muay thai

Buakaw Por Pramuk. Multiple muay thai world champion. EPIC badass. The absolute worst thing about serving out my time living and working on assignment here in the UK is that I had to leave my Krav Maga school and its people behind. I love Krav Maga. I got to...

Poetic justice

Ironic, ain’t it? I know we’re supposed to be charitable and compassionate and all that, but there are times when schadenfreude is just too delicious to pass up. Like, say, when a church manages to solve its Gay Mafia problem by using the results of...

Shorts

So No More Jar Jar Binks, Then? Pictured: A former filmmaker and producer Jabba the Lucas is apparently a bit pissed off at the fact that Disney (very wisely) ignored all of his ideas for STAR WARS VII: The Force Awakens. They even had the audacity, the bare-faced...

Metal is good for the soul

A couple of fellow Androspherians have decided that today would be a good day to go full-on metal, so what the hell, why not get in on this… Here are a few of the best metal tracks that I’ve been listening to over the last few days: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD...