thanks and roger

just wanted to say thanks to everyone that came out to the "premiere" on friday. it was a bit of a shit show, i didn't even make it their till like 9:45 because i had to be out in blairsville for a wedding rehearsal. i'm heading home and fixing up some of the glitches and adding some stuff i forgot. then i'm going to send some copies back to the burgh if anyone wants them. i think they'll either be free with a donation to the spot fund, or just free. whatever.

everyone's probably heard about it by now, but i thought i'd plug them all the same. from the remnants of bueno skateboards comes roger. check their shit out. the skate switch for jesus board is one of the best graphics i've seen in many moons and their ad section is amazing.

medic medic, self esteem down, we need anti depressants stat

well well well. a nice little sunday came and went. buddy man rob starr is in town so we skated negley last night and b cubed today. neither rob nor I have been to the cubed in over a year so going there was a nice refresher as to why we haven't been there in a year. 12 dollars for a pile of waxed floor dirt, masonite boogers, black hands, and preteens kickflipping into more tricks than I can ollie into (and post teens too, i suppose). jesus h christ. even though i'm salty about giving my money away like that and kind of bitter about the whole thing, it was a pretty big eye opener. i knew these motherfuckers were good but god damn.

not bcubed, but you get the idea

exhibit B

exhibit c - b cubed
anyway. i'm on spring break. nevermind the fact that it isn't spring, so hopefully some street skating will be done and i can do some stick figure drawings to scan and put up on here to show you what went down

mission accomplished

so jerry and I accomplished our mission of building a box. it's not the best looking thing, but it's not the worst either. when i went for supplies i was looking at the 2x4s and thought to myself "yeah i can fit a 2x4 in my car, nevermind the 8 feet long part." so i bought everything and then went to load it all into my automobile. this was around 10 so the temperature was below zero at this point. long story short, my hands were frozen sticks because 8 feet is too long for my car and i had to saw them down in the parking lot of home depot. it's one of those things that down the road I'll be unknowingly starring on a hidden camera show like "look at this asshole, volume 3" gotta make money somehow.

go bears.

Fridgits

not a lot of skateboarding going on that I know about. Late night sessions at negley in gardening gloves and a lot of ruthlessly unforgiving slams on frozen concrete are all I know about these days. Jerry and I might go to Home Depot today. I don't know. I don't know if we'll have enough time. Regardless, we're building a grindbox that can fit in his back seat so we can have something to skate other than flatground or the mannual pad at Negley when mother earth has 'that time of the year.' Maybe we'll get our design patented and make millions of dollars. I'm thinking a good company name might be 'munchonmai' or maybe 'old greasy' grindboxes. sounds like an interesting business venture. we could even market custom designs, like how they used to print half nekked girls on griptape, only we could do it on grindables. Who's in?

apparently the lakai video isn't due out till April. I heard that everything was done, but they're waiting on music rights. the habitat video is also supposed to come out this year so who knows? I've also heard one of the bigger shoe companies is going to be shitting the bed in the coming year. On a completely unrelated note, I also heard Jerry Hsu is on Emerica.

City video has been mind boggling so far. the first two parts were just ridiculous. It never clicked for me that Dave Bachinsky was the guy who kickflipped El Toro. You can appreciate the knee explosion factor on that little endeavor even if you're not a staircounter.

Well I'm at work. SO technically I'm getting paid to do this. Yeah it's pretty nice.