Bonzuko

memento mori
- remember that you must die.

Well sorry about that, lovely lurkers. Anyway, this blog is officially one year old! Celebrate with a festive beverage, go back to post one and read it like a novel!

By the way, here’s some sychronicity: last year, we were getting all excited for our first Advanced Stage combat class. Last year, it was advanced Unarmed and Taihenjutsu. This year, it’s Lightsabers. What a long strange year it’s been…

It’s going to be the last Friday of the month again, and that means it’s Test Night at the BQC!

It’s time again for a dip into the Bonzuko photo archive, ready?

Jeff has been one of my favorite folks to beat up at the Boulder Quest Center, and now he’s off to do missionary work. So close to your TSD black belt, man! And we had what would have been the funniest demo ever performed there all set up. Darn, we should have filmed it that evening, huh? Ah well. We’ll miss Jeff and his lovely fiancee Victoria very much. Here’s to you guys. God bless. ~Jenn

post meridiem
- after noon (P.M.)

We are big Sherlock Holmes fans here at the Bonzuko hombu. If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading these fantastic Victorian CSI stories, today would be the day to get started. Holmes and Watson are some of the most globally recognizable characters in literature, of any culture. Everyone knows that famous silhouette. Many even believe in Holmes so thoroughly they think he’s a real person! When Doyle was sick of writing Holmes stories, he killed him off (“The Final Problem” came out in the 1890s), and the reaction was insane! People wore black armbands in mourning, and the letters Doyle got! Emotional letters, calling Doyle a murderer, asking how dare he…can you imagine? The only other literary phenomenon that even comes close to this today would have to be Harry Potter.

Do whatever you like to celebrate the birthday of a great writer today, but some of it must include reading his work! So school’s out–this is fun reading, not work reading.

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend, which in Boulder means the Creek Festival, the Bolder Boulder race, and Jenn’s parents’ anniversary. Lots of excuses to party, basically. But then, in Boulder we always welcome any reason to enjoy a microbrew outside. Heck, we don’t even need a reason.

This Weekend’s Events:

Friday: NinjaFit at the Boulder Quest Center, 5:45-6:45pm. Last week, Aimee Heckel from the Daily Camera came in to sample the class and write a story on it. Rumor has it that this Friday there’ll be a photographer to add to her story. Come by if you want to be fit and famous!

Saturday and Sunday: Boulder Creek Festival: see Jenn help out the Boulder Quest Center with some demos on the stage. Shop at artists’ booths and eat good foods.

Monday: The Bolder Boulder: an annual footrace in Boulder. Celebrate by raising a mimosa to the TV footage of our beautiful city. Or, okay, you can walk or run it if you’re local and you want to…