Mortal Combat

All my life, people have been telling me "Matt, you can't get drunk and start swinging knives around at people." To the weak-minded, this is good advice, but I do it all the time and there's never any ill-effect. For example, at a New Year's Eve party, I got into this small knife fight with Becks and it was all fine.

Comments

Who is Becks? Is she your girl? Way to go, Matt!

Try not to kill her though.

Posted by Joe | January 1, 2007 8:41 PM

CUT U!!!!!!

Posted by Consumatopia | January 1, 2007 8:56 PM

Is Ficke betting on the fight?

Posted by teofilo | January 1, 2007 9:00 PM

I thought you weren't supposed to get drunk and start swinging cats around at peaople.

I've never heard the rule against drunken knife swinging.

Either way, looks like it makes for a fun party - save the karaoke.

Happy New Year!

Posted by SoCalJustice | January 1, 2007 9:10 PM

Jesus, kid, you fight like a girl.

Posted by rickhavoc | January 1, 2007 9:10 PM

Those are probably the same people who tell you things like, "Could you at least wait until we get out of the mall before you start lighting things on fire"... no friends of yours...

Posted by justaguy | January 1, 2007 9:24 PM

Matt, Did you come out of the fight looking like Omar?

Posted by zAmboni | January 1, 2007 10:50 PM

Love all the beards!

Posted by Alex | January 1, 2007 11:19 PM

Jesus, Matt. You've got to hold the blade down and out to protect your wrist. Don't they teach elementary knife-fighting at Harvard anymore?

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | January 1, 2007 11:22 PM

If it wasn't so expensive, I'd order you this:
http://www.amazon.com/Put-Down-Take-Out-Techniques/dp/0873644840/sr=8-4/qid=1167713277/ref=pd_bbs_4/002-1898566-1187269?ie=UTF8&s=books

Posted by Mike | January 1, 2007 11:48 PM

Is Ficke betting on the fight?

Of course.

Posted by Matt F | January 2, 2007 1:07 AM

How'd that work out for you?

Posted by teofilo | January 2, 2007 1:17 AM

Ended in a draw. So anticlimactic.

Posted by Matt F | January 2, 2007 1:44 AM

So how much did you lose?

Posted by teofilo | January 2, 2007 3:01 AM

Before we get too congratulatory, let's make sure someone's heard from Becks ...

Posted by Anderson | January 2, 2007 9:02 AM

I hope you go to some parties with hotter chicks than these. Or I hope they are brilliant or whatever.

Posted by Drew Miller | January 2, 2007 9:17 AM

"Before we get too congratulatory, let's make sure someone's heard from Becks..."

If things actually did go horribly wrong, I'd suggest Matthew deny everything, and a couple of years later emerge to write a book entitled, If I I Did It...

Posted by Petey | January 2, 2007 9:20 AM

Its like Norman Mailer said-- run from a knife, close on a gun.

Posted by beowulf | January 2, 2007 9:26 AM

Dude, it's all fun and games until someone gets a knife in the ribs...

Posted by TW Andrews | January 2, 2007 3:36 PM

Oh, Matt will rush out to buy a new pair of blue and white kicks, but the girl WILL be wearing his originals.

Posted by ferd | January 2, 2007 8:16 PM