Daniel Murphy, Esquire Hack and Blog Pilferer

http://mma-merchandise.com Bas Rutten: I loved it, because I really wanted to see how hard we hit and kick. I didnt like the bag, because it had sensors all over it, and if you didnt hit the sensor directly, youd have less power. So I was looking forward to the crash test dummy, and we all kicked it and it was good, I really enjoyed it. Youll see on the show that they (the production team) were quite blown away. They measure the viscous criteria(VC) of Bas Rutten’s kick using... more

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Bas Rutten doing wacky drills: People seem obsessed with Bas Rutten to the point. To be fair, his streetfighting videos were awesome and worth spoofing. But now people are re-editing his standard MMA instructionals to try and make them funny. Heh. Okay. Some of those are pretty amusing. The rest of the videos are embedded after the jump. Strikeforce Destruction commercial: Too bad Josh Thomson is off the card. More Bas Rutten wackiness: Re-editing his speech so that he says w... more

I received one of the most depressing pieces of mail I’ve ever encountered on Tuesday. I should set the stage by mentioning that I’ve recently had occasion to think about prison reform in the US. I was invited to a meeting by Open Society Institute in New York which looked at some length at the problems of America’s criminal justice system: extremely high rates of incarceration, huge racial disparities in sentencing, and the fact that six of ten African-American high scho... more

November 18, 1927 Los Angeles Readers may recall my last dispatch from South Main.  My goodness, what a cesspool of vice.  Wouldn’t something cultural make the place a little more high-hat?  Like a museum, perhaps?  A mvsevm, even. Well, they tried a mvsevm down on South Main, and it just didn’t work out.  In fact, Mrs. Mary Fraser is downright peeved.   It seems she was shown the Roma Hotel by agents who described it as “a nice quiet place,” and she signed ... more

November 17, 1927 Los Angeles Charley Chase received a sentence of fifty days—suspended—from Judge Baird today, for while Chase admitted to taking a sip of whisky before crashing his auto into the back of a taxicab on Hollywood Boulevard last Monday morning, the magistrate judged Charley to be only reckless, not drunk. Chase is today best known for his work in promoting the exclamation-mark’d picture.  Long before 1947, the year which saw two noir exclamation-mark&rsqu... more

  November 11, 1927 Los Angeles Mrs. Marie Steen was minding her own beeswax tonight in her home at 8619 Grape Street , when a short, heavy-set man appeared at her door.  He informed her that her husband had been in an accident, and that she’d better board the eastbound R car , go to the end of the line and meet the man who’d take her to her husband.  Marie did as she was told, and at the end of the car line was met by a man in a new automobile who took her north on Easte... more