KNUCKLE UP #255: UFC 216 + Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory. Thanks, Bald One.

Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his “one”-of-a-“kind” “perspective” to the depths of our degeneracy in regards to the M, the M and the A, UFC 216, and how it feels now that we’re not stuck on this whole “success” thing. PLU…

Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his “one”-of-a-“kind” “perspective” to the depths of our degeneracy in regards to the M, the M and the A, UFC 216, and how it feels now that we’re not stuck on this whole “success” thing. PLUS…well yeah, McNuggets. Not to pass him without continuing notice. Believe it!

IN Round #255, EUGENE S. ROBINSON [with the “S” standing for “Sauvage”], KNUCKLE UP’s master and commander goes deep in detailing his being sanctioned for the Nazi rebop, gifts from the mailbag and the finer points of why UFC 216 almost won…our hearts, minds, and sausages. Almost.

And have you bought OXBOW’s new masterpiece, THIN BLACK DUKE? You need to.

And for the listener ON THE GO? The KNUCKLE UP TIME LINE.

1] 7:01: EDITH PIAF

2] 8:52: THE BEATLES

3] 30:34: THE ADOLESCENTS

4] 41:00: THEME FROM BLACK ORPHEUS

5] 41:30: CAMEO

6] 41:35: DIO

7] 41: 37: WHAT I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO WHILE WRITING THIS? ALEX?

Eugene S. Robinson host of Knuckle Up and author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking [Harper Collins], A LONG SLOW SCREW [Robotic Boot] and a play called THE INIMITABLE SOUNDS OF LOVE; A THREESOME IN FOUR ACTS[Southern] also sings for a band called OXBOW and appeared in Bill Cosby’s Leonard Part 6 (and yes, a Cosby story is in the works), a Miller Genuine Draft commercial, and had his own TV show in Germany called? “The Eugene Robinson Show.”

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