Fatty Bill's Wild Ride

Fatty went half Heath and took a bike trip to DC. Supposedly he got lost on a one way, because you know Birry, he's always trying to ride the take it up the one way street.

Out of the Bag

Well this is about 5 years old now, and a lot of the footage might be 5 or more years older than that, so it's a mish mash of high school and college-aged footages including some of the–and I know this is corny as fuck–best times of my life. I got a shitload of ollies and tailslides, Bill has his rough draft to his Yunker part according to E, you can tell how old Rob's footage by the tautness of his "drawls.",Cody has 1.5 parts split with Noah who grows hops to make beer on a farm now and Bobby who is one of my only friends who actually, officially quit skateboarding. There's an intro and an outro that I'll get around to uploading, but here's the parts as they are: shitty filming, shitty editing, white unbalanced, out of focus, young, dumb and a lot of fun... There's a grip of leftover footage from Jerm, Nick, Austin, J Funk and a few others that I think I had saved thinking One Up might use it for a video or promo, but I thought I'd lost it all when my computer shit the sheets, so perhaps I'll do a little remix and throw that on the YouTubes as well. I also got some point and shoot stuff of Nick, Drew, Jerm, and whoever else has made his way out to visit in the last five or so years so I can hopefully make something with that in the next month or so since one of the main perks of unemployment is free time on my hands. Anyway, like I said, hope you enjoy.

Hard copies are available. Feel free to hit me up at christiansenrud at gee mail dot com or text me or bother Bill or Rob.

Things Wild Bill Says

This seems like a Twitter hash tag in the making

-"This one time I was in highschool and I had blood in my stewels"

- "I'm gonna lock you in my basement and starve you to death" (to an unwelcome party guest)

- "You're shit, I'm champagne!"

- "I'm not a ballerina. I'm a package"

-"I'M GOING TO....COME. ON YOU!" (to his skateboard)

-"You can't even smoke in Arby's anymore"

-"I would snort coke off fred gall's ass"

-"Did that faggot with the ponytail just kick us out of the party?"

-"You have 8 different kinds of microbrewed non alcoholic beer, but no Budweiser?! This is what's wrong with America."

-"Hey check this out [picture of his dick]. It's the golden ticket."

-"Mike Madnalogodo"

Fuck Yinz Bonus

Fuck Yinz 2 is awesome. Hit OneUp for your own copy and in the meantime check out the extras

nothing like crailtap's top 5. not one bit

Lining up some fourboards for the coming months, which is nothing like crailtap's top 5s. no sir. not one bit.



top 4 pgh skatespots that aren't around anymore
1.the green banks
2.the river banks
3. mlk middle school
4. pnc banks

top 4 things about working at shady skates back in the day
1 smoke breaks
2 gymkhana
3 gettin paid to do clinics
4 fixing rollerblades

top 4 old burgh skaters
1 mike myers
2 mark tengowski
3 joe hendrix
4 jason guyer

top 4 new burgh skaters
1 zach funk
2 the panzas
3 jeremy kulousek
4 drew windon

top 4 movies
1 cb4
2 spaceballs
3 the last dragon
4 ghostdog

top 4 records to spin when you dj
1 wu tang-anything
2 bootcamp-anything
3 tina turner-private
4 lionel richie-all night long


top 4 ways to get wild bill in a tizzy
1 tell him he's wrong
2 varial flips in skate
3 ask him bout biggie @ sola
4 ask him bout money mike @ diesel

top 4 reasons to show up late to work, if at all
1 happy hour at the smilng moose
2 cloud city
3 happy hour at oneUP
4 happy hour in cloud city

top 4 things about working at diesel
1 money
2 money
3 money
4 comp tabs

top 4 reasons to pee in a drink at diesel
1 douchebags
2 my new haircut
3 dumb broads
4 happy hour at the smiling moose

top 4 burgh dudes who transplanted elsewhere
1 kevin taylor
2 mark brandstetter
3 austin kanfoush
4 ross macwhinney

top 4 things about attending NA high school
1 lunch
2 gym
3 the parking lot
4 mario and luigi

top 4 pittsburgh pro athletes
1 heinz ward
2 santonio holmes
3 james harrison
4 roberto clemente

top 4 pgh djs
1 spaed
2 assasin
3 drastik
4 yamez

top 4 things about living above the shop
1 commuting to work
2 lunch breaks
3 smoke breaks
4 maow breaks

top 4 stories about jigga (the time he ____)
1 did it switch
2 did it nollie
3 did it on the x-19er
4 saved my life.

F A T B I L L L O L

Fatty has a pretty interesting poll on his blog. Hit it up, might be good for a chuckle

Fat Bill

photo by chris stadler

Friday Friday

(photo: Stadler)
Nick Panza is a beast, anyone who says otherwise is experiencing a little bit of this


Anyway, as always the Pittsburgh weather has been as up and down as a manic depressive, but it seems that we've hit an upswing. 79 degrees and blue skies. No complaints today.

The One Up Skate Jam is going down in 8 Days (next saturday). I suggest you all request off work, tell mums you'll be out late, and get your game faces ready.

and tomorrow there will be some skateboard business up in Erie. According to Blank Skate Supply:

"This weekend in Erie PA they are having their annual giant festival Celebrate Erie. The Blank Skate Team has been asked to do 3 demos on Saturday August 18th.

DEMO 1 - 12:30
DEMO 2 - 2:30
DEMO 3 - 4:30

They are closing off a city block and setting up ramps and rails for us to skate. Stop on up and check us out. We are doing this to help the Skate Erie Associtation raise awareness and money for a Public Skatepark. Please feel free to make donations or purchase Skate Erie T-Shirts to help the cause.

There are 250,000 people expected to participate in the celebration over the couple days that it runs. That means it is possible that we could do a demo for 80,000 people AND have a chance to meet Kevin Bacon!"

- check it out if you're in the area or feel like driving.