Alliteration

Ah, to blog and at the same time be writing a thesis about blogs. Check out this guy. Great title bar quote, although he's obviously a bit of an American fascist. But that's not the point, the point is he's playing right into the hands of my thesis, or where it looks like my thesis is going to go anyway, ahahahahaaaaaaa, nice one, you poor fool, I'll use you for my namby-pamby liberal academic purposes without so much as your awareness. These people are giving me the good stuff as well (perhaps even more so), although don't ask me what that's a photo of, although it seems pretty disturbing. And in another way, so are this lot, possibly passionate patriots, more probably paranoid (although undoubtedly persecuted) propagandists. And all on your friendly neighbourhood internet! Hurrah.
Oh, and we should probably all go here and register (or just browse, for many many hours).

In other news, Bruce Lee was the man. The documentary on him that screened last night illustrated this several times over. He invented Jeet Kune Do ("Way of the Intercepting Fist"), the main principle of which seems to be: "If your opponent moves, kick them in the face (or the ankle, or the groin) possibly several times over, because moving is a horrid mistake", but it seems it must be a difficult art to master, because;
1)Bruce Lee was seemingly the only guy fast AND strong enough (one fingered press ups, anyone?) in the world ever to do it properly, and;
2) It's not something you're really supposed to master anyway, because his whole philosophy was 'the way of no way', which said, well, you can master the style of Judo and the style of Karate, and the style of Kung Fu or whatever, but what you really need to know when someone attacks you with a knife is not a whole bunch of fancy moves, but how to immediately kick them 4 times in the face, and here is the easiest way to do that, and that is: be Bruce Lee. No ornament here. Just wiry muscular lightning quick hurting.

It also illustrated that you should not attempt to fight the very large martial arts expert and NBA superman Kareem Abdul Jabar (unless, of course, you are Bruce Lee, which you aren't. Don't give me that, you aren't) and that Tekken really, really ripped all Bruce's moves off (and even his outfits) and gave them to the almighty Law. Which is why you should fear him.

In addendum, and with a nifty basketball link up there too, good work the Tall Blacks, we came 4th in the world at basketball, and played well enough to show that with a little bit more luck / concentration we could have even won (especially in leading Yugoslavia at half time and beating them pre-tournament). Here are for your amusement are some quotes I located:

ESPN.com, September 5: 'When the USA wins gold in Indianapolis, and it will, it will not erase the memory of a sad performance against Argentina. That's too bad, because this team is better than that.'

ESPN.com, September 7: 'After the game, Team Spain celebrated like they had beaten Angola, not the United States. Been there, done that. "I would have like to beat then in the finals, then we would have celebrated," Gasol (a Spanish player) said. "But we were playing for fifth place and that is no reason to celebrate.'

Nice 6th, U.S.

The tournament was also the first time the U.S had lost using N.B.A players in 10 years and 58 games. And they lost 3 games at the tournament. Ho ho ho. Taste bitter defeat, U.S.A. Now it seems we're better than you not only at decent sports like rugby and cricket, but at one of your own big ones, basketball, as well. I'm sure we'll be getting round to outranking you in baseball any minute now, and probably gridiron as well, just as soon as we find the 752 sufficiently interested people necessary to form a gridiron squad.

I successfully broke into the Sociology department this evening. I was considering an ascent of the building, but reasoned it would be quite an embarrassing way to get killed. So eventually I hopped in an open ground floor window. Nobody objected. I'm pretty sure I could have removed at least one computer before anyone noticed. Everyone should also check out the new card readers around the SOCI / PSYC building that seem to have been manufactured by Nintendo. (Try one after hours, you'll see what I mean.)

Also, for those of you counting, that's 3 entries in less than a week. So nyah.