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Where would you like to be on your last waking breath?
In your arms, cradled like a baby.
Where would you like to be on your last waking breath?
In your arms, cradled like a baby.
been working my way through patrice rants after someone here mentioned them re: independence day (my daaavid!)
the king kong one is pure gold
Yo Sketch, if you hear my voice won’t it take away from the mystique? Send me a link though.Yo @tonni when are we going to hop on a freestyle discord server?
I am the most dedicated freethinker you will ever find.Oh', thank God.
@tonni is a rabble rouser. I don't know if he really believes in the cause. If you say he's good though, I will comply.
Watching the end of the Universe.Where would you like to be on your last waking breath?
I am the most dedicated freethinker you will ever find.
How dare you?But are you one with the flesh?
I have my doubts.
How dare you?
Yo Sketch, if you hear my voice won’t it take away from the mystique? Send me a link though.
I’ll remember this.I already know how you sound, like a Castrato.
I’ll remember this.
TLSR , I'll be sure to miss that oneSure. But you can't whine about how long this post is. You asked for it
For background, let me state for the record that, if my AV wasn't enough of a clue, Bruce Lee is something of a specialty of mine. Even in academia, I've long been affiliated with a little sub-field called "martial arts studies" under the auspices of which, while I was finishing up my PhD in the UK, I co-organized (with my supervisor and the leading Bruce Lee scholar in academia, Paul Bowman) a conference on Bruce Lee (for which we even got Matt Polly, the author of the recent Bruce Lee biography, to be a keynote - that dude is not only cool as shit and not only has every piece of information and every speck of dirt on Bruce Lee, he started his professional life off in academia, specifically at Princeton, thinking that he'd be a philosopher, and loving Ayn Rand, but got disillusioned and just went "Fuck academia," left Princeton, and traveled to China where he spent two years at the Shaolin Temple training kung fu), after which we co-edited two special journal issues devoted to Bruce Lee. In short, I'm not just an amateur nerd, I actually study Bruce Lee in my capacity as a scholar: I'm a professional nerd
So, when I watched that documentary, I was bummed. (So was Matt Polly. Look up his Twitter feed if you want to chuckle at his Tweets while he was watching the documentary.) I was going to post something about it in the martial arts studies Facebook group, but then I got side-tracked with end-of-term university shit. It wasn't until another big martial arts studies scholar, Ben Judkins, who runs the phenomenal blog Kung Fu Tea, put up a critique of the documentary (https://chinesemartialstudies.com/2020/06/26/bruce-lee-and-the-problem-with-being-water/) that I remembered how annoying it was. That's when I posted about it, essentially expanding that initial Sherdog post.
This is what I wrote.
Do you like the game hide and seek?