tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36361633165565104632024-12-18T19:32:23.194-08:00The musings of a mobile kung fu teacher and poet in Los Angeles, CA, while he explores the area's electronic music dance scene. Along the way, he is liable to include stories or notes of some of his interesting discoveries. This is sure to be entertaining reading about the area's night life, with just a hint of interesting, real-life advice.Kung Fu Kevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394557995109020750noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636163316556510463.post-16117076261426080032014-08-05T23:23:00.000-07:002014-08-05T23:31:23.670-07:00

Forget it. VW fuses are a black art. You have wave a dead chicken over it, roll the bones, examine the entrails, do a rain dance, and know the right incantation before you can get that information. It's easier just to trace it with a multimeter. - From an online forum for VW drivers

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Immediacy Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience. One of the Ten Principles of Burning

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In a tear-jerking televised event, the 2012 ESPYS featured Pat Summitt, the legendary basketball coach who retired from the University of Tennessee, as this year's Arthur Ashe Courage Award winner. She was recently diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, forcing college basketball's all-time winningest coach to retire from the game she loves. She now focuses on confronting this disease

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Are you looking to stretch out the money you   invest every month into your automobile? Well, after you apply Obama's current advice and check your tires for proper inflation, you should read to the end of this post  (you must click the link to expand this post). After expanding the post, tap on the link to check out this year's  USAA Preferred

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  Greetings! Google finally dispels the rumors about their  super-secret AI glasses.  In the latest set of photos, dispersed to the public through Google's  personal muppet-  Blogger.com. Photos like these show what the future may look like:    Ooppps! That's not the glass project... This is: Thats more like the

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I just ran across this blog recently: we the change, which is full of personal growth, self improvement, and global consciousness articles. The title of this entry is hard to pass by without stopping by for a glance: How to Deal With Life in Tough Times And sure enough, this piece is some sound advice for people going through it;  which, my guess would include you too, right?

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 "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."  Woodrow Wilson Plain to see why he became president....

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       Religious? Here's what the gospels have to say about dancing: (recently spotted while perusing the net):       In the Gnostic gospel Acts of John, even Jesus danced and said to his disciples, "To the Universe belongs the dancer. He who does not dance does not know what happens." Early Christian churches carried on liturgical dancing in

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This is one of the better remixes I've heard of a classic song.  It's definitely worth listening to, both because it's a Rolling Stones song and because it's a good track. This piece is a side project from one of LA's own music industry experts, Reece McLughlin (BeatLab Records), aka Reecifer. The link to the song is below. Go to Soundcloud now and check it out; if you like it, you can

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Wow, who would've thunk it? Botox has been approved by the FDA for treatment of migraines. If you have this terrible affliction, you should be aware of the new treatment on the block: Botox. Neurology.org Site I guess it makes sense that the pressure I feel during a migraine could be alleviated by something like this. I experience cluster migraines, which means I am fine most of the time,

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Where does the inter-galactic shift take place?  Inter-stellar Boot-Scootin' Boogie!! Where else, but the Phoenix / Burgundy Room / El Centro?  Come on through to help us celebrate Sarah's birthday (Go Team Rah!), to Kick It With Kung Fu Kev, and/or to kick off the beginning of the end of the world as we know it. Where else are you going to be? "Now,

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Where will you be  when the end begins?

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 En Masse Monday Nights (OFFICIAL Playhouse Afterparty Every Monday Night!!) Well now! It looks like the afterhours options  in Hollywood are Heating Up, just in time for the weather to cool off.....

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Here's some more dancing delights  to keep you up at nights... Strange Delights is also being simulcast at their website from 8 until midnight, so if you can't make it to the spot, at least check it out online. It's not the same as being there, but it's close enough.

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If you want to go dancing after hours on the first day of the weekend, then there is no better place than... the Burgandy Room (formerly El Centro - located at Santa Monica & El Centro) where the DJ's will wage war with you and your army of dancers on a comforting wood dance floor battleground. They will ambush you with surprise attacks of great sound, spacious room to dance,

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KRS-ONE is in the house!!! That's right, one of the most influential sources  of knowledge, culture, music, and poetry  of our time  Yes, yes! The Blast Master, KRS-ONE  is going to be live in Hollywood this Friday. If you haven't seen him perform live,  you should go just to see this living legend operate.  If you're on the fence about

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That's right! It's in the park,  so you can dance all day and all night, and not wake up with sore ankles and knees!  (OK, that last part may be a bit of an exaggeration,  but we do expect any swelling to decrease by  tomorrow morning and eventually, go away entirely.)  (If the swelling persists, you may have one of a slew of ailments  linked to

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Here's some good advice about finding (and keeping) happiness. I wouldn't say it de-bunks any myths, but more, it reminds you of what you knew all along. After watching this video, I discovered  Dan Gilbert, the author of Stumbling On Happiness,  as he gave his TED talk. He discussed the topic of happiness and our psyche's ability to

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Gizmo's Freeware Needs You!   That's right, the popular online tech magazine/ web source, Gizmo, is looking for two editors to develop and maintain some freeware review pages found at their site: www.techsupportalert.com. The Editor openings are: of the Online Backup Site Page  and  of the Windows Video Editors Page. Have I perked your interest, yet? Well, no

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This quick read offers some simple, yet powerful advice to all the guys out there: Walk Like a Male Model

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      That's right, another member of the Hollywood elite is baring more than their soul to advance their career. The latest celeb adding to the fray provides one of the hottest, raciest, most daring videos on the web; and, believe it or not, it stars Eva Mendes!   Remember, you saw it here first.... this is a must watch video:   Eva Mendes Sex Tape

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A good friend of mine shared an old expression he picked up from his time in the Navy. It served as motivation to most of the crew when they came to port in a foreign land. You could say the phrase serves as a call to arms for the men to make the most of their time off the boat and it just so happens to remind me of a poem I read the other day...  The poem and the expression are both

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Alluding the disturbing noise created by the hustle and bustle of an 'advanced' society is near impossible. If we even approached deafening the screech of our global nails down the universe's chalkboard, humans might begin to fathom the bliss of the universe. Hopefully, you are one of the fortunate beings to know what the experience of 'no sound' or rather, 'the absence of sound' feels like. In

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Shocker! Like we didn't know this.... I don't know anyone near my age who has a land line. As he suggests, they just aren't hip anymore.... Actually, it's not about being hip though, it's about being flexible, mobile, customizable, app-able, and affordable after we have a device that matches the previously mentioned criteria (and is hip!). Maybe we are smarter consumers than those with dual land

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Here's an article I sent to a friend who's boss is meeting-happy like a select few people in the history of meetings. She is a member of the 'Official Meeting Planners' board of trustees and was the youngest person ever inducted in to the 'Meeting Maker' hall of fame, at a mere 36 years, 6 months of age. I hope my friend is somehow able to get the article into her boss's line of sight, with out

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