I recently got pretty heavily into mixed martial arts. Well, watching it. Not participating.

Oh I know… I know you can’t tell by looking at me, but I’m not a tough guy. My praying mantis/greyhound physique strikes fear into the hearts of most. My younger brother beat my ass in front of his friends one time. All our lives I’d been able to overpower him and kneel on his chest while I rained down punches. A few years back at a cookout I had invited him and his highschool buddies to we got into a friendly (drunken) brotherly squabble and he left me with no skin on my shoulders, knuckles, elbows or knees and no square foot of my concrete patio uncovered by mulch and ripped up shrubs that once surrounded it. It was humiliating. I remember going to a bar in Harvard square the next night and people sincerely bought my story that I was jumped by six guys. I couldn’t let the lie go on too long and soon they all laughed at me.

His advantage? He wrestled in highschool. Oh and he somehow grew to an inch taller and about 30 pounds heavier than me in a year. That and the fact that I’m a complete puss.

Anyways, I’ve recently gotten into watching UFC fights and last Saturday I even convinced Jenny to come to a hellhole in Somerville to watch a pay per view event with me. To be honest, I think the real reason she came out was to watch Randy Couture with his shirt off.

Strange thing…that night his nickname went from “The Natural” to Randy “My Boyfriend” Couture. I had never heard that one used by the commentators in the UFC but Jenny insisted that was it.

We watched him pound the crap out of Gabriel “Manbearpig” Gonzaga until the ref stopped the fight because of a huge gash on Gonzaga’s nose that turned the ring into a bloodbath.

There are a few more UFC events scheduled for ‘07 and I may have a chance to go to one of them. There’s this pullout thing in Maxim magazine that has a fake belt that you take photo of yourself with and send it in. If yours gets chosen you and a friend are flown to an event of your choice and get vip treatment. I need ideas. Give me ideas. I want to go.

Here is progress on the huge Fort Point painting. The huge Fort Point painting that is huge and is taking forever good Loady in heaven gimme tha stremph.

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