Ipl? Who? Rather than what.

As the international cricket scene progresses I begin to doubt Stephen Fleming and his jack russell. He claims to walk him twice a day. Nathan bracken thought otherwise. 

Similarly in the indian Punjab league ( ipl ) cricket has been taken to a new level. A somewhat Bollywood version of gridiron gang the film. Bowlers, batsmen and wicket keepers are in fact playing cricket.

The real argument here is. Who rather than what? You could argue the ipl has ruined the game of kings,  but inspired the fat and oversized children of the newzealand cricket community to lift their heads and go for a slog. 

Both sides of the story raise valid points and lead me to conduct further research. It turns out the chairman of the ipl and the chairwoman of weight watchers held a Meeting in 97 featuring a youthful 97 Daniel vettori. The result of that meeting was the tipping point in equestrian and the popular Indian Punjab league.

Through the looking glass: A mirrored image flip screen twist top table tennis love affair

In the last installment of The Left-Hander, we announced that the October issue would be one of our biggest yet. With over five of our journo's being nominated for awards at the American Globo's this month it has been a hell of a week in the ediotor's chair.

That said, life keeps rolling and my work with the pen never ends. As i sit here now, in a dim lit room, i cast my mind back over 7000 years ago to when I was first born.

Picture me, standing in a small room. The walls evoke a true sense of the Baldwin family and the floor boards are an old oak, with a shiny lamination over their surface. I turn, take up a pen and at the same time punch myself in the face. It stings but I'm not upset. I stand there and feel my nerve endings bouncing and jostling like a bowl of ricies with milk freshly poured onto them.

I bend down and scratch at my knee as it itches but at the same time see a small white object in the corner of the room. I reach down using only my thumb and third finger of my left hand to pick it up. I release it into the palm of my hand and stare at it with the same curiosity you would see humans have at an art gallery. My limited knowledge of language or survival skills places even more importance on this white object as I give it meanings so as to believe my life may have purpose.

At the same time, my mother at the time comes into my room and yells at me. Roughly translated into english she would have said something like; Dog, dog, dog, cat, cat! Obviously this was 7000 years ago so it does not translate into much sense but the meaning is ripe. Ripe with age and lessons of truth.

Back to the story anyhow, as my mother of the time came in and yelled at me, I was startelled and dropped the white object against the floor only to realise that it did not stop upon impact but bounced back up!

From here I quickly concluded that all I needed was to assemble a flat surface (smooth), a net ( semi-rustic) and two paddles. Fortunately I had been playing tennis the week before and thought to use similer rackets only smaller.

And that, was how miniture tennis with white object was created. It was not much at the time but centuries later it became table tennis and is still wildly poular in China.

I myself am now 16 and still consider myself a student of the game, but i will never forget the year of 68 BC'

Yi un Chi

Penetrating Nacho, Chancho and ignasio.

Im going to begin this article by listing some classic quotes from Nacho to entise you into this in depth analysis of a timeless classic. ( make sure to read the quotes in a mexican accent.)

- "I was wondering if you would like to join me in my quarters this night... for some toast."- "Chancho. When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. It's for fun."- "Ramses? he is the best"- "Be grateful, Juan Pablo, today is especially delicious."

"A clever film!" ( Conrad  Smith ),  " an oustanding film ( 2004 Daniel vettori )." Nacho Libre is simply. The best. The music captures the audience, grabs them by their ears and pulls them into a little bit of Mexico. You can almost taste the orphans terrible food. You physically and mentally become Nacho himself as the film is screening. I found that feeling quite sexually attracted to the nunn was a controversial yet fantastic part of the film, i myself actually masturbated halfway through the film to a latino porno featuring a maid getting taken from behind by two caucasians. Jack Blacks face, moustche, smile and general persona is what drives the film. He is really an absoloute idiot who is obsessed with the glory of a luchador. But how he makes his original personality ease into that character creates a rather excellent protagonist.Getting inside Chancho is a much harder fish to fry. Wee little Chancho is a fat young mexican boy. His role in the film is pretty much just to be fat and mexican. Which i think is an excellent card to draw in the deck of comedial film techniques. I find most film makers rely on the actually jokes of the film to draw humour. Which is both challenging and boring. Something as simple as having a foreign fat orphan boy run around avalanches a rumbling roar of laughter. Driving my thought to how under appreciated the writer of Nacho Libre actually is. I praise you.  I have given Nacho Libre a 4 star rating.
 " an oustanding film ( 2004 Daniel vettori )."

4 star rating