A close friend and secret Fudebakudo practitioner unironically sent me a link to this video of a pen, knowing I would enjoy it. It’s a short video from youtube channel TheImmovableMovers* showing marks being made with a flex-nibbed fountain pen: I post it here because when I work (by which I mean, my day-job) and [...]
Red and black: Zhang Ziyi in the forthcoming film The Grandmaster. Note the red light above her right shoulder shining directly into the audience’s eyes. And the black coat. Coincidence? You be the judge. As usual, Fudebakudo’s involvement in the history of the martial arts must always remain hidden because it is, at its heart, [...]
Jane Yeh‘s poem On Ninjas appears in the current issue of Boston Review. …They make single-serving Lancashire hotpots to show their culinary mastery.They take turns doing the laundry. (It’s easy; no whites or colors.)… You can buy the book this poem is from: The Ninjas (ISBN-13: 978-1847771476). I’d link to Amazon but, like buying a Fudebakudo [...]
Despite a history of doping scandals and problems with unruly crowd behaviour, the Japanese Posing Archery championships still hit the mark. I’m not sure of the original source of this, so I can’t give the correct attribution to the commentator.Update: I think it’s by Ireland’s “Apres Match”
So… the trailer for “forthcoming” Tarantino and RZA (no, me neither) film The Man with the Iron Fists is out. There are a number of aspects to this that may leap out at you (once you’ve confirmed you’re old enough — and presumably mature enough — to watch it), but probably the most obvious one [...]
I’m late reporting this but, over in Sweden, Monica Lundström has insightfully illustrated the experience of reading Fudebakudo. How fabulous is that? Very fabulous, that’s how fabulous. Available in the original language and also in English if your Swedish is a wee bit rusty. You can see more of Monica’s supercute illustrations, which are part of a [...]
There can be no doubt that Steven Seagal was a Fudebakudo master in a previous life. But still, that’s no excuse for driving over a puppy in a tank. Obviously his actions are motivated by compassion for all sentient beings (cock-fighting chickens in this case) and not simply an irrepressible masculine tendency to over-egg the [...]
Marina Hyde has written an excellent piece in the Guardian about the “the giddy thrill of seeing two go mankini-a-mankini in ancient contest” and the shenanigans behind the composition of the team GB wrestlers. It’s a little disappointing that the Guardian have used such an uninspiring image for that article (no disrespect to Mark McCormick, [...]
Enter the Dojo is a comedy web series on Ameri-do-te, an unnervingly plausible martial art. The disturbingly earnest and witless Master Ken (Matt Page) is scarily close to some of the more dangerous loons we’ve met at Seni over the years. Anyway, this may have been brought to my attention a little too late (sorry, [...]
By way of this blog’s recognition of International Women’s Day, here’s a tip o’ the hat to the most remarkable Edith Margaret Garrud, suffragette ju jutsu teacher. Amongst other impressive achievements, she taught the all-women Bodyguard corps specifically for protecting key Suffragettes against the police. She was introduced to the art by the perhaps better-remembered [...]
