This lede. Though the article is pretty interesting too.
One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.
The second paragraph plays out with similar hilarity.
Also on the deck, and also in the thrall of the night’s pleasures, was one Louis Helmburg III, an education major and ace benchwarmer for the Thundering Herd baseball team. His response to the proposed launch was the obvious one: he reportedly whipped out his cellphone to record it on video, which would turn out to be yet another of the night’s seemingly excellent but ultimately misguided ideas. When the bottle rocket exploded in Hughes’s rectum, Helmburg was seized by the kind of battlefield panic that has claimed brave men from outfits far more illustrious than even the Thundering Herd. Terrified, he staggered away from the human bomb and fell off the deck.
Fortunately for him, and adding to the Chaplinesque aspect of the night’s miseries, the deck was no more than four feet off the ground, but such was the urgency of his escape that he managed to get himself wedged between the structure and an air-conditioning unit, sustaining injuries that would require medical attention, cut short his baseball season, and—in the fullness of time—pit him against the mighty forces of the Alpha Tau Omega national organization, which had been waiting for him.
This video on why Jackie Chan's action comedys work is amazing. Particularly the explanation on the differences in how fight scenes are done then vs. now. I hate how action movies nowadays blue balls the audience with constant cuts and shakey cam. Fight scenes are essentially a dance, could you imagine a dance movie getting away with the unclear visuals that action movies do? Maybe that's part of why CGI is taking over fight scenes, its less time consuming and aren't limited by physical constraints.
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Analysis driven decision making, as part of products and software. Or smart devices, is a future of design I'd like to see more of everywhere.
I probably should watch some Jackie Chan films, it's been a while since I did so last time.
- Taking a knee and Tebowing for their souls.
- Hyperventilating until one passes out.
- Releasing your inner war cry in an attempt to scare away the very soul jarring concept.
- Sexual arousal.
Hey, they gotta come from somewhere, am I right?
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/9/7359503/microsoft-surface-nfl-demo-hands-on
What attracted me to this article was the grip of all things. Looks nice and robust.
Best fight scene eva.