This Friday January 30, Lucha VaVoom is coming to The Grove of Anaheim. The shows contains Lucha Lubre, or wrestling for you gringos out there, a burlesque show by several different performers and comedy acts by Tom Kenny(voice of Spongebob Squarepants), Blaine Capatch and, one of my favorites, Patton Oswalt. It looks to be a good time. You can get tickets here. A quick search showed me a $50/ticket price, but if you enter the code “MASK” you can get “buy one get one free”!! (You can thank Spencer Cross over at LA Metblogs for the pw.)

C'mon you little Hulkamaniacs!

If you really want to see live wrestling but can’t hack the $50 $25/ticket pricetag, check out M 1 W Pro Wrestling happening at Santa Ana High School Saturday afternoon at 2pm.
Tickets are only $8 for adults and $5 for children and students/ID!
A friend of mine is the famous infamous Red Tornado! So go cheer him on! As if that wasn’t incentive enough to go, there’s a good chance you’ll see me there too!

View of the track from my awsome seats!

Saturday night, supercross came to Anaheim Stadium for the second time this year. For those not in the know, supercross is dirt bike racing, and is usually held inside a stadium. For the last 20 or so years, Anaheim Stadium has hosted this spectacular event. In fact, Southern California is really where the sport got catapulted into what it is today. But was it fun?
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Tonight, I saw my 2nd hockey game ever. And it was awesome! I’ll admit I’m not a huge Anaheim Ducks fan. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely cheer for them and always hope they win, but I certainly don’t go out of my way to watch anything hockey. My mother-in-law, however, got some free tickets for us to go watch the game tonight.
As you can tell by the picture below, our seats were crap AMAZING!!!!!

I hope they score a basket to make the pop fly in the field goal!!

Rhys Millen, world champion drifter and amazing stunt car driver will attempt an amazing task tonight. He will do a backflip in an off-road racing truck. That’s right, a backflip off of a ramp!
There’s more info here at Red Bull’s “New Year No Limits” site. Click down at the bottom where it has the name Rhys Millen.

He was to attempt this last year, but he screwed up in practice and broke his back. I’ve provided the video here:

“Why does this apply to OC?? He’s doing it in Vegas!!!!”

Rhys lives in San Clemente, and I’m happy to say I dine with him on a regular basis, so I’m all about giving him props on the interwebs!! Also, all of the practicing took place at the El Toro base! I got to go see it in person and it’s pretty insane! I would supply the cameraphone video I have, but I’d rather you just tune in.

ESPN!!! Tonight!!!! DO IT!
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*UPDATE* He made it all the way around, but he rolled the truck and wasn’t able to drive away. He’ll be doing this again I’m sure…..

To be honest, I had no idea who this fellow was. I am not much for UFC or sports or any manly shiz really – okay, so maybe nude Greco-Roman wrestling might pique my interest but I digress…

The LA Times and TMZ and even Perez Hilton have reported that Levens and his wife were found shot to death inside their Laguna Niguel home. The deaths are reportedly being investigated as a murder suicide. Sad. Why at the Holidays?

What could possess someone to shoot their spouse in the chest and then turn the gun on themselves? Such a shame. I can’t imagine what could be so bad that could make me or anyone I know do such a thing. I suppose drugs or ‘roid rage would be a good scapegoat – not that I have any evidence that Levens engaged in either. The unpleasant alternative would be that he was simply batshit crazy.

Because if there was ever a time to do it, it would be today.

The Angels continue their unfortunate tradition of kicking butt during the regular season, and falling apart in the postseason. 

It’s do or die in Boston today.

He did it.

Frank Rodriguez of the Angels broke the single season record for saves, with 58.

Now the ball he used and his jersey will be on their way to Cooperstown.

Let’s cross our fingers that the Angels can cap this fantastic season off with a World Series win to get ring number two.

They’ve won their fourth AL West Title in five years. Whooo-hoooo!

They are the first team in the majors to clinch a playoff spot, and still maintain the best record in baseball.

Again, do we Orange Countians give a rat’s ass (ahem, no reference to prior problems intended) if they are supposedly the least popular team in the MLB? No way baby, just keep bringing those titles home!

That’s right, in case you haven’t been paying attention for the last month, Michael Phelps won like a bazillion medals and he would not have been able to set that record if not for the hard work of Orange County’s own Jason Lezak.

Wait. Who? Well I guess that’s the point really. Michael Phelps ended up on a cereal box and Jason flew back from the Olympics in coach. For fuck’s sake I don’t even fly coach and I’m a nobody. Come on people, he’s a champion, the least you could do is give the man some leg room! Anyway, for those who either don’t know or don’t care, he was the guy who swam the final leg of the 400-meter freestyle relay. He was behind and somehow managed to bring his team to victory by a mere 0.08 seconds. In other words he rocked it OC style!

The LA Times has a nice article about Irvine’s unsung hero and ok, so he hasn’t been totally neglected. He did appear on Oprah and he did get a new car as a gift and what was that other thing he did again? Oh yeah, he won a gold medal at the Olympics. He’s a year younger than me ya know? What have I done? He swam to victory while I, by comparison, sat on the couch eating Pinkberry watching him swim to victory. Hey, we all have our niche right?

I went looking for a royalty-free picture of Jason and had no luck. Actually I had a hard time finding any kind of photo that didn’t feature Michael Phelps’ gaping maw prominently obscuring Lezak’s head. Poor Jason, he gets no love from the mainstream press photographers. That’s okay, the OC Metroblog loves him and that means something doesn’t it?

Doesn’t it?

Hello?

Is this thing on?

So I took Maria’s recommendation and spent an evening at the Pearson Park Amphitheater in Anaheim watching the spec-freaking-tacular fire knife competition. If you haven’t taken time to stop in and see this event in its five year history, you’ll have to make sure and drop in next year for the sixth annual competition. It’s well worth the fifteen dollar admission price and features adorable kids doing impressive Samoan dances and some seriously buff warriors showing off their fire knife skills.

This particular contest was hosted by the actual descendants of Freddie Letuli, the man who literally invented the concept of adding fire to the traditional knife dances the warriors performed before and after battles. Guess there’s nothing like flames and sharp blades to celebrate your victory or to scare the crap out of your enemies?

The winners of the three divisions (pictured above) all performed remarkably well. Have you ever been to one of those tacky but awesome fakey luaus? Have you ever seen the attempt some of their dancers make at the fire knife? It’s often vanilla, slow and not nearly as thrilling as it should be, Not so at this competition! The “world championships” are held here in Anaheim and tonight we saw competitors from all across Polynesia, Asia and the United States.

The live drummers provided the soundtrack and the rhythmic pounding was down right infectious; just try not to tap your feet, I dare you! At two and a half hours, the program was just long enough without becoming overly extensive and numbing to your butt. While there, we checked out the tasty long-rice, kalua pork and the many polynesian vendors on site. Needless to say, we came away with full stomaches and more than a few trinkets.

What will tide us over till next year? Well there is always YouTube.