This memoir by @johnlurie.bsky.social is the most accurate depiction of the music and film industry that I have ever encountered. It’s a tremendous book detailing the endless line of punishers waiting to steal your money and send you on the worst routing of your life through all of Europe. Too real.

the push pull of managing a nerve/neck injury, trying to not get too depressed by staying active, and wanting to get better at jiu jitsu long term is not going great.

I recently read Dennis Hopper's 1989 biography "A Madness To His Method" and it had multiple stories of Dennis calling his stunt man buddies to show up some place with guns to bail him out of potential trouble, including showing up at a Taos school assembly. What a time.

I did an insane gameshow stream and it was truly so fucking stupid, I’m very proud of it.

https://youtu.be/QmgJyf5VqrM

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I’ve been having nerve issues that make it really hard to stay seated so when I had tickets to opening night of “The Contrition Pageant” at The Elysian I asked if I could just come backstage and take portraits. They said okay.

My friends and I have run a mutual aid distro in Skid Row in LA every Saturday for coming up on three years called Solidarity and Snacks. It is incredible to feel a group of people construct a piece of community infrastructure. Snacks, drinks, and survival supplies for 150 people no questions asked.

its shocking how many 3 tier threats are coming out of eastern Europe in the past 5 years. Fakhretdinov looks like a world class hammer.

Kevin Lee is someone I've always rooted for (except against Chucky) even when he says and does silly things. He's always felt like someone trying to find himself within the broken and toxic world of MMA.

Finally watching The Shield and its hard to tell whether the butt rock soundtrack choices are pure or subjective to the horrible dogshit these characters would listen to.

Gabriel Santos is doing a great job of latching on sub attempts but he's not controlling Onama's legs at all. It's so hard to finish an armbar when your opponent can retreat in more than one direction.

Allen uses stack pressure to ground and pound and pass then uses a cradle to create back exposure. The no hooks entry on the RNC was beautiful.

I was impressed by Brendan Allen's guard passing last fight. It's increasingly rare to see folks be able to aggressively pass against educated grapplers.

Does the cloud app have mma communists yet?

One of us just tested positive for COVID. Excited to be in a foggy brain haze while trying to comprehend “Abberation In The Heartland Of The Real”