UPDATE: This is the actual video.
Bruce Lee is one of those rare icons of film that was as badass in real life as he was in his movies. I heard that one time he caught a bullet in between his asscheeks while he was procreating with a stegasaurus. Unfortunately, that wasn’t caught on tape, but this was: It’s a pair of older Nokia ads featuring Bruce [allegedly] playing ping pong with nunchaku and I hate to sound impressed, but I’m impressed. And if that wasn’t enough for you, he then tapes a piece of sandpaper to his ‘chuks and lights a cigarette with them. I actually tried that once in a bar. My results weren’t exactly similar. via Roger Ebert’s blog, via @Enrico_Pallazo_
Former US Senator, former US Navy fighter pilot and current old guy John Glenn will dot the I in the Ohio State marching band’s renown Script Ohio formation tomorrow when the Buckeyes play the US Naval Academy.
Only a handful of non-band members have dotted the “i,” including comedian Bob Hope and golfer Jack Nicklaus.
Legendary Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes dotted the ‘i’ a few years before he died in 1988 and called it one of the highlights of his public life.
Glenn, 88, said he was surprised when he received the invitation. “It’s a a great honor,” he said Thursday from his home near Washington, D.C. “We’ll have a lot of fun.”
I thought this was pretty awesome, and then I realized that he was dotting the I with his wife. I guess that’s cute. I mean, Glenn orbited the earth. What did she ever do. It’s not like she was cooking him dinner while she was up there. I’m sure he got out of the rocket upon his return to Earth and she was like “Why didn’t you call? I was worried sick!” Sheesh. Women.
Sherwood Films sent this clip of Eric Scott in Scotland attempted to break his own jetpack speed record at some auto show. No, like a real jetpack. The jetpack is powered by steam through a catalytic reaction, so even you treehuggers can appreciate this. Scott was cited by local police for his jetpack speed–over 60 miles per hour–and was given three tickets “that I’m almost certainly not going to pay.” When you have a jetpack, you can do whatever you want.
The Marine Corps, as you can tell from me jabbering on and on about it on a sports blog, is obsessed with its own culture and history. We read and share Medal of Honor citations to help remember the tradition we have to live up to. And nothing makes me want to run through a brick wall and head butt America’s enemies like 2ndLt John Bobo’s citation from Vietnam (I’ve written about this before, btw).
Before you make fun of his last name, read this:
When an exploding enemy mortar round severed Lieutenant Bobo’s right leg below the knee, he refused to be evacuated and insisted upon being placed in a firing position to cover the movement of the command group to a better location. With a web belt around his leg serving as tourniquet and with his leg jammed into the dirt to curtail the bleeding, he remained in this position and delivered devastating fire into the ranks of the enemy attempting to overrun the Marines. Lieutenant Bobo was mortally wounded while firing his weapon into the mainpoint of the enemy attack but… his tenacious stand enabled the command group to gain a protective position where it repulsed the enemy onslaught.
YAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! God DAMMIT that makes me want to jump out a fourth-floor window and punch through concrete. You soft-bodied blog-reading assholes better put down your cans of frosting and start getting your legs blown off and using belts as a tourniquets! Go. Do it now. Don’t come back to this blog until you’ve repelled a VC attack and you’re bleeding to death. Pussy.
You’d think that as a heavily tattooed boxer with a mohawk, cruiserweight Juan Carlos Robles would be maxed out on badass cred. Well, not quite. Robles wears a necklace… made from his own finger. THAT HE CUT OFF HIMSELF.
Following a 2007 motorcycle wreck that left him with a broken kneecap, fractured forearm, and dislocated elbow, Robles didn’t have the insurance coverage to amputate a pinkie finger that was mangled by road rash…
So he went home, put towels over the kitchen table and blocked off a working area with several two-by-fours. He put gauze around the area and twisted soldering wire around his right pinkie to slow the flow of blood.
“Then I put a wood chisel on it and dropped a 15-pound weight on the chisel,” Robles said. “The piece shot out about six feet like a missile.”
Well hold on just a second. Before you go thinking that’s the coolest thing you’ve ever heard, wait for me to tell my story. You see, one time I had a zit inside my nostril. I knew it was going to hurt, but a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Long story short, that’s a very sensitive area, and it’s natural for the body to react by producing tears.
[Deadspin]
Ordinarily I don't approve of poor sportsmanship, but Swedish Greco Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian was so righteously badass about his loss in the Olympics that I can't help but be impressed. Abrahamian lost in the semifinals to eventual gold medal winner Andrea Mignuzzi, but poor officiating led the Swede to verbally abuse the judges before he was dragged away. But that's not all. After winning the bronze medal match:
[D]uring the ceremony, Abrahamian took the medal from around his neck, stepped from podium and dropped it in the middle of the mat before storming off.
IOC officials promised a disciplinary hearing, while the victorious Minguzzi said his celebration had been spoiled. "Certainly one can always question decisions made in the course of refereeing, but in sports it is appropriate to show sportsmanship and accept the results," he said.
Oh. no! Not a disciplinary hearing! Probably won't be that big of a deal, considering Abrahamian also announced his retirement. What an absolute pissed-off badass. After all these stories about international bonding and sportsmanship, it's good to see a good ol'-fashioned "fuck you" that spoils the medal ceremony. Who doesn't want to bring this guy to a wedding?
