Post Archive

Here you can find every post from Jack's Journal, even the ones I've hidden!

Dispatches - 13 July 2025 - A Week of San Fermín

What a year this week has been! As always, the fiesta has yet to disappoint!

A Tail in Pamplona: The Rejoneo at Its Finest

I still prefer the classic corrida, but after last night, I won't summarily write off the rejoneo like I have in the past.

ADVANCE CHAPTER: Pamplona and La Fiesta de San Fermín

An advance chapter from Jack's next book, "Aficionado: Discovering Spain Through the Art of Bullfighting." He discusses Pamplona's history, traditions, and the San Fermin Festival

A matador dressed in a traditional silver and white traje de luces in front of a charging bull in a sandy bullring. The matador is backing away from the bull as it charges towards him, his red cape (muleta) in his left hand and his espada in his right. The bull's darkened back is stained with blood from the picador's lance and the banderillas.

Death in the Ring: A Moral Reckoning with the Spanish Bullfight

Watching the spectacle before me, I realised it was the first time I had seen something die before me in person. This wasn't a movie, video game, or a thought experiment. Death was real in the ring.

Jack Rogers runs in front of 12 bulls and steers along Pamplona's Calle de Santo Domingo waring white pants, red scarf around his neck, and a blue shirt. The cobblestone street is full of runners in white and red clothing trapped between walls and buildings as the bulls run by.

Corredor: Why I'll Run the Encierro Until I Can't

In running, I lived life not just to the fullest but to its potential end, less than a macabre call for help than living life all out, or at least as much as I could without staring a bull down in the bullring later that evening.