A Funny Thing Happened to Me the Other Night...

I was writing an article a few nights ago about Georges St. Pierre and "The Silence of the Lambs," when I had a sudden urge to call my B/R buddy Stoker Da Fire. It must have been an act of God because after talking to Stoker and coughing continuously (you poor guy, you certainly are a very tolerant friend, Stoker!), I lost my article.

Is there a moral to this story?

Actually, no, there isn't. This is just one of the ironies of my life and attempting to be a writer on B/R.

When I considered rewriting the article, I realized that all though I had a point to make when writing it, a better point would have been to write about "The Silence of the Lambs" as it could pertain to BJ Penn.

To anyone who has seen the quirky psychological thriller, it is wide ranging enough in its theme that it could apply to a lot of people or situations.

Initially, my thesis was about coveting something that you see all the time, but don't possess. And, NO, people, get your minds out of the gutter...I wish my sons had turned out to be as exemplary as did Georges. How proud his parents must be of him and how humbly he wears his celebrity! I do envy them very much.

But that is indeed not the way I feel the movie relates to BJ Penn.

It could relate to his obsession and envy of Georges and wanting what Georges has, of course, but no, that is not it either.

BJ, to me, would be more synonymous with Hannibal Lecter who is called "the Cannibal" for his delight in the consumption of his enemies' flesh and organs; also a theme of the movie.

Not to say that BJ wants to consume Georges' flesh, but consuming Georges' blood would be more on target.

Having shed a lot of blood and even requiring the infusion of five units of blood during a surgery in 1975, I really cannot understand BJ's blood fetish. He should become a registered nurse if he is that much of a blood connoisseur, there is no want for blood in that profession.

Seriously though, could BJ be anemic or have a significant deficiency causing this hunger for blood?

Vampires are currently a very popular topic in literature, television, and science fiction movies.

My youngest son, who was supposedly a twin, even thinks he was nourished in utero by consuming his twin. The fact that I was knocked out for the surgery and not allowed to observe as I had planned always made me quite suspicious that something unusual occurred. That and the fact that the birth of a "girl" was recorded in the birth book kept by the nurses' and that this was never completely explained to me afterwards.

But I digress (and I consider myself a master of digression, by the way).

The point is that I did not end up writing either article and perhaps that is just as well, now, isn't it?

Neither subject will have a bearing on their fight on January 31, 2009, and writing the article would just have been a diversion for me, with no redeeming value to a serious fan of the sport.

Consider yourself spared...or sort of, anyway.