Before the Olympics started my buddy and I placed a wager on which country would come top of the medals table. He bet that the USA would win simply because they always win by miles. I bet that China would be No.1 because they have home advantage. Now we're nearing the end of the games and the US and China are neck-and-neck. Thing is, not everyone is in agreement about how the tables should be ordered...
Wow Spain, really? Dear oh dear. Casual racism and discrimination in Spanish sport is alive and well and pulling slitty eyes and making monkey noises and mimicking disabled people...
Real violence in the US has been all over the web for years and now—as shown by the rise of street fighter turned MMA contender Kimbo Slice—even upstreaming to primetime TV. Bare-knuckle fights over there are a hyped-up, pumped-up production set to a high-octane soundtrack of Slipknot and sometimes rap. Filmed fisticuffs in Ireland however are a bit different. Shot on shitty camcorders, they are a gritty, lo-fi affair featuring two big blokes with their shirts off and their dukes up, somewhere in the countryside. The only sounds you hear are fists hitting soft, flabby flesh, the scuffle of trainers on country lanes, and the barks of onlooking men, women and children, as well as the occasional dog.
If Quadangle, PK, Mini-ripper, ET Kuwahara or Mongoose mean anything to you then you’re going to want to get down to the Rose Street Artist Market tonight. ‘FRAMED2’ the old school BMX exhibition will be hosted by DC Shoes and will launch the new production model of the infamous 80’s SE RacingQuadangle. Expect lots of big boys polishing their little toys and more than a couple of bored girlfriends.
FRAMED2 Bmx Exhibition Rose Street Artist Market 60 Rose St Fitzroy Thursday 29th May 6pm – 10pm
I've always been shit at arm-wrestling. At school it was just another humiliation I had to deal with alongside nipple cripples and dead-legs. I guess I never really got over it. Then one day I came across videos of competitive arm-wrestlers squeezing grippers. They got me thinking that maybe I too could train to gain what it takes to go Over The Top. In need of a coach, I contacted the UK's undisputed women's junior champion, sixteen-year-old Joanne Poole (pictured). We locked hands in a
pub in Slough where she trains alongside other members of the South
East Arm-Wrestling Krew.
The last time we blogged about doing something sporty, it didn't quite work out as planned. Even though Andrew didn't do any of the training he said he was going to do, he stilll, somehow, completed the New York City Marathon. And in a pretty decent time too. Anyhoo, this year I'm thinking about entering Nike Supersonic. It's this thing where the fastest 1000 people in London are going sprint off against each other to work who is the fastest of them all. Or something. In order to work this out they have a bunch of trials, the first of which were held in Finsbury Park...
Skater Stevie Williams was attacked by Nazi skinheads during a recent trip to Europe. But that didn't phase him. He has been through shit growing up that would've made most kids quit before they could even pop an ollie. When he wasn't being beaten up by black kids for his love of skateboarding, Stevie honed his skills in Philly’s ironically named Love Park, a place that used to be synonymous with fists, knives and guns. By the time he hit 15 he was already restless and headed to the West Coast. Like something out of a Steinbeck novel, he wound up on floors and in doorways without food or friends...
Someone sent us this Hipster Olympics clip saying, "You gotta watch this. It's soooo hilarious! They totally diss Vice." So we started watching it, and we continued watching it, waiting for it to get funny, but it didn't. They mention us about 7 minutes in, but we got so distracted blowing crumbs out of our keyboard that we missed it. Seriously, didn't the hipster handbook come out in like 2003? What's next? A video of hipster bloggers talking about why Pitchfork isn't what it used to be? (It isn't.)
If the sight of a bunch of alcoholics wheezing around a park wasn't sad/funny enough, picture them getting starting to fight over a friendly kick-about. The Old Blue Last just won the Trendy Pub Cup, a football tournament between London boozers that aren't lame, such as The Hawley Arms, The Lock Tavern, The Horse & Groom, and The Old Queen's Head. We not only won it, we beat the shit out of everyone (literally) when the hotly-contested final game boiled over into a 14-man brawl.
Here's a clip showing kids from Yemen sliding barefoot down ancient irrigation channels. Not as gnarly as the Saudi skitching clip, but transfixing nonetheless. YouÂ're up, Oman.
Before the Olympics started my buddy and I placed a wager on which country would come top of the medals table. He bet that the USA would win simply because they always win by miles. I bet that China would be No.1 because they have home advantage. Now we're nearing the end of the games and the US and China are neck-and-neck. Thing is, not everyone is in agreement about how the tables should be ordered...
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