May 2009
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Word of the day: Puncicate
– The act of stabbing an English football fan in the buttocks to humiliate them. link
Video of a festival in San Juan de la Vega, Mexico, where participants tape fireworks to sledgehammers to celebrate some kind of battle. It is my new policy not to post hilarious videos of youtube mishaps, unless there’s a Keyboard Cat version. Luckily in this case there is: Play Him Off Explosive Sledgehammer Cat.
Fly Fishing For Sea-Run Browns in Tierra del Fuego →
In The New York Times, Peter Kaminsky fishes the Irigoyen River and finds that fishing blind and among “remolinos” and deadfalls could be a tiring experience — if it weren’t for the occasional 10-…
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Trailer for Rivers of a Lost Coast, a new documentary, at least in part about Bill Schaadt, the greatest fly fisherman who ever lived. From a 1974 Sports Illustrated profile: “The intensity with which he fishes is inspiring. He began to eat his lunch one-handed. He would cast, then in the several seconds it took for the line to sink, he would take a quick bite of a sandwich, set it down and...