tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post115521060299524226..comments2023-11-03T03:22:05.542-07:00Comments on Costume Jewelry: Beating the frustrationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155588409048478822006-08-14T13:46:00.000-07:002006-08-14T13:46:00.000-07:00I can appreciate your point about boxing as a spor...I can appreciate your point about boxing as a sport having an appeal absolutely different from fighting or just about anything else. My attitude to boxing is shaped by the fact I don't know much and haven't cared much about that sport or that tradition.<BR/><BR/>My feelings on watching those two matches, however, were so impressed as to get me right over the fact that I don't know much or care much about the systems of boxing into feeling I was watching two geniuses. Something like being charmed by music whose theory I don't understand on an instrument I'd never paid attention to before.Mistress La Spliffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809336191903934481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155587900780057842006-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:002006-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:00Boxing....Your appreciation of two major Ali event...Boxing....<BR/><BR/>Your appreciation of two major Ali events seems a demonstration of something more general.<BR/><BR/>All endeavours widely practised are, by definition, mostly mediocre. The apex is what is worthwhile to experience as audience, but the existence of excellence requires a mountain of ordinary to support it (and usually a less visible, submerged nadir of revulsive failure beneath). Whether a bell-curve or a pyramid, the top is seamlessly enmeshed in the whole.<BR/><BR/>The succint provocation is: no Ali without boxing.<BR/><BR/>As for the Idea-of-boxing being an unappealing Fight, of course. They are different things. Boxing is sport, albeit with some useful transference to fighting. Training (including strategy) for street-style self-defence, or even targeted aggression, is much different than for formal martial art or combat sport. When critiquing, that distinction should be manifest.<BR/><BR/>M., martial artist & boxing fanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155237621418485992006-08-10T12:20:00.000-07:002006-08-10T12:20:00.000-07:00Yes, the blood sprayed quite elegantly. The sweat ...Yes, the blood sprayed quite elegantly. The sweat and tears were even finer.Mistress La Spliffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809336191903934481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155237513677971762006-08-10T12:18:00.000-07:002006-08-10T12:18:00.000-07:00Bloooooooooooooood!!!Bloooooooooooooood!!!The Outer Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08491991941985176137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155225339784868812006-08-10T08:55:00.000-07:002006-08-10T08:55:00.000-07:00Sometimes it's really entertaining though! I don't...Sometimes it's really entertaining though! I don't think I would ever pay to go to a fighting match or encourage the industry in any financial way, but those two bouts were sure fucking awesome looking.Mistress La Spliffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809336191903934481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17047716.post-1155225182012967092006-08-10T08:53:00.000-07:002006-08-10T08:53:00.000-07:00Wow, you're on the day countdown for F now! That's...Wow, you're on the day countdown for F now! That's amazing.<BR/><BR/>Like you, I like fighting. But I agree that boxing is silly. You should fight if you need to, not for entertainment purposes. Dumb.Melbinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03289493982553105244noreply@blogger.com