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Thursday
Jul082010

Get on your high horse, motherfucker

Today's authenticity must-read: Is jousting the next extreme sport? The hero of the sport is Charlie Andrews, a man who is probably not one with whom to fuck:

He doesn’t joust because he’s attracted to romantic notions of honor and chivalry or because he has an affinity for the medieval period. (“I don’t know jack about history, nor do I care,” he says.) He does it because he considers jousting one of the most extreme sports ever invented, and he likes doing things that most other people can’t or won’t do.