Saturday, December 31, 2016

Musings from Valhalla: Happy New Year, A Look Back on Our Year Together


A BRAND SPANKING NEW YEAR FOR THE BLOG!


MULESBLOG is like an World Wide Web window into the locker room at the "Armburst" Gym.  Smell and taste the masculine musk of testosterone, sweat and pheromones in the air.  Gather around and listen to the locker room talk, with of course your Mule at the center of the conversation.  There is humor, often off-color and never politically correct, wry observations and boastful talk of fights and sexual conquests.  Welcome to my world, I am so glad you can be a part of it

Time for a retrospective on 2016 the blog year that was...

HIGHLIGHT REEL


with color commentary from the Mule




BLOG TOP FIVE FOR 2016





In this long awaited and anticipated return of the much admired Trucker, our 18-wheeler hero goes head to head with a fine muscular specimen of Colorado's finest.



Fists fly and egos and bodies are bruised, in this raucous story of an epic "routine" traffic stop.


Things quickly become far from routine and start to turn very INTERESTING.  It ranks as one of the most popular blog stories with readers.


Trucker went on to make another appearance in 2016 Bikers vs. Truckers, and we may not have heard the last of Muscle-Cop who is down but not out and thirsty for revenge!



In 2016, Mule met Father Gary, the beach evangelist. 



Father Gary sure didn't look like any Reverand I had ever seen before.  Gary  is brawny and hairy chested, every inch a man's man in the classic American style. His physique is every bit as impressive as my own.    Especially impressive are Gary's biceps, like cannonballs those guns.  His Jesus tattoo only accentuates the size of his arm.


While he may preach about mercy in the pulpit, in a fight he sure don't show any.  Once he goes into assault mode, he doesn't stop till his opponent submits, or is crippled, or both!



To be honest I am glad I lost my wager with him and had to attend his church for a month.  


This lead to some other interesting adventures that I dutifully reported on the blog.


  And some I haven't reported on yet...Gary may be the most popular hero of the blog tales, other than your Mule of course!


There will be many new adventures of Father Gary in 2017.



In 2016, Mule met Jayson, the cocky, hung like a horse, high school wrestler stud. 


Mule got dick-mogged by the muscle teen in the
 change room at Armburst Gym


The Alpha  Muscle teen had something to
 prove to the Alpha Muscleman 


And prove it he did!


Jayson has quickly proved a fan favorite and has shown up in a couple of more stories in 2016!  If you missed them check out The Seduce Off and Creepy Clowns!  Speaking of The Seduce Off  when Jamal turned from Babyface to Heel it was one of the most favorably commented on story elements we have had. 




Mule and Cop Gym Fight



There was bad blood between me and the Muscle Cop going back to a ticket the asshole had given me weeks before.  What should have been a tale of revenge didn't exactly work out the way I planned, in the late night fight in the gym with the cocky black muscle cop. 





Muscle Cop turned out to be a lot tougher than I was anticipating. 






In fact, he ended up kicking my ass, and then some.






Got caught fucking this dude's wife.  He might have been a middle aged businessman now, but 20 years ago he was playing linebacker in the NFL. 




Unfortunately for me, it turned out his legendary  physical prowess had not diminished since his playing career ended.  





He was a real dirty fighter and had the early advantage....and enjoyed showing off for his wife...




Eventually the fight swung in my favor though...and the old Dude paid the price for embarrassing me early on ...


Good times!






This story doesn't get the love it deserves! It is one of my strangest adventures, when I encounter a hurilla, half-man half gorilla, and set out to find out just who is king of the primates.  I am a metaphoric beast in the gym, but this guy is LITERALLY a beast! I sure do channel my inner Tarzan though...which reminds me of my ggg granduncle MULEZAN...but THAT is a tale for 2017.






This is a favorite of some of you readers who love older vs younger matches, and really like watching me having my hands full with my 78 year old opponent. 


2016 saw the return of Grappler Dan, who seems to be everybody's favorite bear hugger!



Pop Quiz:  Here are Some pics from during the year, do you remember what posts they are from?
















For you math majors:  2016 saw 73 new posts with the blog as a whole garnering a collective  81,380 moar views,  56% of our all-time views! 

Half our viewers now come from outside of the USA, with United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Italy providing the largest share of these readers, but we love to see the great variety of countries that have blog fans in them! Love you all!


Also, thanks for those of you that took time to give us feedback either via polls, the "Comments" on the blog or by IM or by email.  Based on the feedback it looks like you guys want more posts where I win, more posts where I lose, more sex, less sex, longer posts, shorter posts, no water sports, more water sports, more pics, less pics, no women ("ugh, girls, yuk..."), more women ("hot chicks, dude...").  We will try to accommodate our most dedicated fans by providing the greatest variety of postings that my Mulish lifestyle can produce. A  little something for everyone who took the trouble to write in!


To the reader that keeps requesting I kill a horse with my bare hands, I am pretty sure that won't happen next year either. There will be horses in some of the stories in 2017 as I DO LIKE horses. No not that way you sickos, that stallion encounter in Phantom Mare being a fluke! So take the inclusion of horses as a partial wish fulfillment.

 But 2016 was the year we finally managed to feature a giant snake in a post, fulfilling a request by numerous readers.   Speaking of giant snakes,  happy new year from Al also. 




May the new year be full of warm furry critters to fill
 your belly
--AL


AND NOW FOR A LOOK AHEAD....


I hope you enjoyed out journey through 2016 together, and the folks at MULESBLOG: Mule, Steve (the bestest artist brah ever! ) and Stefan (bestest editor brah without whom my lazy ass would probably only post 4 times a year...) hope you will continue down the path with us in 2017 and beyond.


Some of what you might be seeing  in 2017


















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