Norts spews.

McThag has posted video of the Wienie 500. Instead of copying him here, I’m going to suggest that you go over to his blog and give him some love. The video is about 27 minutes long: I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I did fast-forward to the end.

I will say that I think it’s nice they have someone with a British accent doing the race coverage, but I’m an old man and remember Jackie Stewart from when I was young and watching the Indy 500.

(Huh. Did not know this:

At the age of 13, Stewart won a clay pigeon shooting competition and then went on to become a prize-winning member of the Scottish shooting team, competing in the United Kingdom and abroad. He won the British, Irish, Welsh and Scottish skeet shooting championships and twice won the “Coupe de Nations” European championship. He competed for a place in the British trap shooting team for the 1960 Summer Olympics, but finished third behind Joe Wheater and Brett Huthart.

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In other news, El Hijo del Santo is retiring.

He is the son of El Santo, perhaps Mexico’s most iconic “lucha libre” wrestler who also made a name for himself in movies and television.

Not to worry, though:

El Hijo del Santo said he now plans on focusing on projects outside the ring while enjoying things he couldn’t experience due to the rigors of his wrestling career.

I was going to say “please, let there be some El Hijo del Santo movies” but it looks like there already are. Many of them look like wrestling videos, but I am interested in the short “¡Esta máscara es mía! o Santo contra los burócratas” (“This Mask Is Mine! or Santo Versus the Bureaucrats”). Also:

The third generation wrestler, El Santo Jr. will carry on with the family’s tradition in the ring.
“As an athlete and wrestler, he is very well-prepared and is schooled in other disciplines such as olympic wrestling, taekwondo, jiu jitsu and muay thai,” he said. “So far, fans have received him well, he’ll have to find his own style and break down barriers, the name is not enough, it takes a lot to succeed in the ring.”

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One Response to “Norts spews.”

  1. Pigpen51 says:
    May 24, 2025 at 6:29 pm

    Jackie Stewart was THE man when I used to watch auto racing. It got to be too corporate sponsorship driven that I quit watching pretty much all auto racing.
    Stewart was the kind of sports announcer who was willing to call it like he saw it, sometimes getting himself in trouble because of that.
    I also read your previous about the S & W 500 magnum. My feelings at the time it came out were that if a person felt the need for such a powerful weapon then they needed a rifle.
    When I later saw that they were making it in the uber small barrel lengths, I wondered just who would possibly enjoy shooting one. But then again there are some who enjoy pain. The utility of having such a gun other than perhaps in a very, very weird circumstance in Africa or Alaska, maybe in Russia where they have huge animals who will happily kill you when they get a chance.