Me too! Thank you, it's a lovely thing

(alt text because i was neglectful: a hand holds a copy of issue 2 of unch magazine in front of a faux-vintage map of Australia for some reason. Fingers apparently supplied by the Michelin Man)

Announcing? I won't say anything about the issue 2 pre order I've definitely not already put in then

Were you also there for that second one? Fond memories of that weird show, but it can't possibly be 12 years ago

Man, typewriters trigger a really distinct smell memory for me. Dunno if it's the oil or the ink or what, but I see a typewriter and I can smell a typewriter.

I hope your typewriter smells good, I guess?

It has taken me until now to get it on the wall.

Oh boy there's some recent Milkshake Duck to report on this one Maff www.sportskeeda.com/us/streamers...

I'm more a 13,000 unread and absolutely no capacity for personal memory thus a complete reliance on the inbox kinda guy

At the Bristol Downs fireworks one year, he quite spitefully did a cover of American Pie before he'd play One and Only. He did all the verses, including the deleted seventh one.

Frequently. Particularly when on holiday. Oh, did we bring Smokey? No, that is a fat jumper.

I would be remiss not to mention @sumosoul.bsky.social, an account on which you can watch the stuff that matters; Aonishiki's recent clashe with Hoshoryu, for instance, is a banger

Anyway, that's it. Try watching sumo, you'll like it, and highlights mean you can be up to speed in like 20 minutes a day.

Other channels pop up now and then with better highlights, more information, and livestreams which are reasonably convenient to watch in the UK, but these tend to get shut down pretty fast. I'm currently keeping up via Don Don Sumo, which has good technique breakdowns: www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2

If you don't yet watch sumo, you can! NHK uploads highlights to YouTube when it can be bothered www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN

Also can't ignore Kotozakura, currently the only second rank (Ozeki) rikishi. One, because of his magnificent double boob configuration, and two because I don't like Kotozakura and it's fun to watch him struggling at the moment.

I have to mention Takayasu, mainly because he's an old hairy fella that really looks like he's had enough of your shit

...Abi. Cheeky in a different way, Abi absolutely loves a henka. That's when you sidestep your opponent at the initial charge leaving them flailing to the clay. Quite why nobody has worked out that he's absolutely going to do this is beyond me; it's disrespectful, sure, but it wins bouts (sometimes)

Ura. Who doesn't love cheeky chappy Ura, with his hot pink mawashi and plucky spirit? He's basically the Rey Mysterio of Sumo, coming up with creative ways to use his opponents' size against them and generally doing his best for the kids. A babyface through and through. Unlike:

Aonishiki is Ukranian, with a freestyle wrestling background that's been completely bamboozling his opponents. He's 21, which is just unfair, and smaller than many opponents, but he's beginning to tear up the top Makuuchi division. The sky's the limit - Mystic Meg predicts Ozeki rank soon.