Holiday blowin it

  So yeah it's been the holidays and I've been blowing it on the blog. I have been working on some things though that should hopefully come to life soon. I have been exercising my Australian connections though and I have a couple of sites I think you will like. The first is Jack Pam's site. He is a photographer for Staple mag down under and is worth a peak or two. And the second is a photographer by the name of Steve Gourlay. The site is really nice and has plenty of photos of your all your fav's and maybe a few you've yet to favor. The new year is almost upon us and that means New Years eve celebrations. Don't do anything I would have done a year ago. I'll see you in 2010!!!

From the bottom of my heart!!!!!!!!!

Stump the chief

I hope someone asks a bible question when the boys from Metro skate shop try to Stump the chief over on the DLX site.

Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight!

So it seems like the whole world is getting snow at the same time. Including Washington, DC. Snow is somewhat foreign there and some people organized a huge snowball fight online. It was all kinds of fun until some off-duty cop got his ego bruised when his Hummer was hit with a snowball. The next logical thing to do as a man of the law would of course be to pull his gun on unarmed civilians. Wow. Flabbergasted. His fellow officers of the law seemed a bit more understanding but the gun slinger still used his buddies in blue as confidence for him to get tough with some snowballers. Mental. I'm not condoning blasting snowballs at vehicle's, but a gun?

Let a few mummers in bah!

It's Xmas time, let a few mummers in.

Who's trashy now?

That was an example of a terrible way to portray skateboarders to the world through mass media while below is an example of a few the best. Before a pair of Pushead's would fetch you a fortune on ebay, this was Nike's first attempt to relate to us. And it worked. "Hold ya horses there McEnroe!"

Shoe cents

Oddly enough, my next search on youtube was "Skateboard shoes" and this was the 4th item to pop up.

Skateboard Rap

If you youtube search "Skateboard rap" this is the first thing to pop up. I was expecting JR but got Jay Muthafuckin' Mayne. It's an old track, I'll be honest, and Jermaine I mean it with love, its not fire but I do have to say that the song is about 3 years old and Jay Mayne has only been getting better. I'm pumped to hear the new mixtape, where the fuck is it?

Evil Christmas

I Googled  "evil christmas" and "pentagram tree topper" thinking I would be overwhelmed with awesome X-mas decorations. Turns out there is not a lot out there. I really need a Pentragram for the top of my tree. If anyone can help please let me know. I guess I could just settle for this:

Do it for Jesus!

Roll in.

If Jesus can walk on water, what's with the surfboard?

Awesome

Watch who you score with.

Mutten Hawk

Nobody thinks about skateboarding more than Rodney Mullen. Nobody.

Dissent TV: Tony Hawk with Rodney Mullen from DissentTV

Theeve trucks

Are they really though?

Are you eating your words a little?

Got a team do ya?

Ok, as ashamed as I am to admit this, back around 2002 I bought a set of Tensor trucks. I was fooled by the gimmicks. I was 17 in 2002 also so I can't really be blamed. I am a youngster, don't hold it against me. Anyways I have been skeptical of any new truck developments since. But I will hear Theeve out and see if they can hold their own, but I swear if another truck company plays me for a fool.............

New chandelier

Thinking of a new chandelier. Which one are you backing?

Dudes!

    My boy Greg got a nod from  the tap in the daily randoms for the MJ graphic he whipped up. Nice work Greg. What AVENUE shall you take next? Heh? Heh? Props dude.

Fuck Dump.

    Fuck dump. What's a fuck dump you say? Well you know sometimes in skating how you just fucking eat it? Like all of it? Basically you got seconds on your plate and ya ate that too. Well that's a fuck dump. Sometimes you escape the fuck dump for months, even years but the fuck dump doesn't forget about you. You are never too old, too young, too good or too bad for a proper fuck dump. Here, demonstrating the fuck dump for you is my pal Nick Wilton. Nick stopped in to skate the Haven park in North Haven, CT. They have a full pipe. Now I've never really skated a full pipe, but they look primed and ready to fuck dump anyone in it's path. FUCK DUMP! Respect.

 "I think I bruised a rib." -Nick Wilton

I'm guessing this was pre-Fuck Dump.

Fucking Stoked brah!!!!

Report: Most College Males Admit To Regularly Getting Stoked

Casey Rigney

This is definitely worth a look. Been a while since I've seen some new footage of Casey Rigney but this shit is on point.

16 year old McGraw

I was lurking the Studio Skateboards site and was stoked to find this footage of Andrew McGraw from back in his Boston days at the age of 16. I've played Andrew maybe 1000 times in s.k.a.t.e and I won once, and I'm pretty sure he was wearing dress shoes so I'm not even going to really claim that I have ever fairly beat him. I have come close a lot though, and the one trick that I could always run on him was the switch hardflip. He would always say he used to be able to do them "back in the day". I guess he wasn't frontin' because he does it down like a 10 stair at the end of this video.



Also note the clip at about :30 where he backside 5-0s a ledge but then must take his shirt off  and hold it to nose grind it? I know you were 16 so we'll let it slide. haha

Also check this and this.

City of new lights

The full length video is now posted up online over at the City of new lights site. With a full part from east coaster Josh Clark and a pair of cameos from Halifax's Nate Oliver and Kyle MacDonald, you can't go wrong.

Christmas gift ideas

With Christmas right around the corner, you are all probably wondering what to get that special someone. My guess is that this will suit most people on your list this year. Buy Now!

Never learn.

 I don't know why I bother watching skate videos anymore. All it does is get me all hot and bothered and then ultimately disappointed. It has been freezing in Halifax the last few days, wind chill out the ass, yet for some reason I still got my hopes up last night while watching a few new videos. You see I put them on just to pass the time and then end up getting stoked to skate. While in my warm apartment looking at my TV it's easy to trick yourself sometimes. I was watching and thinking, "I'm going to check the weather network after this." Naively thinking that Mother Nature would give me a sunny, above zero, windless day to skate one more time. Well no, instead Mother Nature gave me the usual "Fuck right off!" that you usually get in almost mid December. So instead of working on my flip tricks, I'm writing this junk. Far less satisfying. I am thankful for the mini ramp sessions I have been invited to since the cold hit, but it's just not the same as a nice strip of flatground and a box.

When I was a kid it was not unlikely to just put on 3 sweaters and skate the salt infested streets of St.John's. Something tells me that this would grow old really quickly nowadays. Shinners below zero are enough to make a grown man cry. I guess if you were really committed you could do like these folks below.


Not sure how much these Blinx LED lights helped but maybe they give off enough heat to melt all the snow in your path?






Well I guess it's just safe to say that it will be a few months before we can really enjoy ourselves skateboarding again. Until then maybe we can snow skate? Gonna be a long winter.

Paul Liliani

This is Paul's video from the Supra Dist. site. It's very neat. Cameo by my boy Bruce with the security guard. Paul rips.

Ballistic profile on the Supra site.

The weather has taken a bit of a turn here like it does most December's, so the amount of skating done has now dwindled to a few sparse mini ramp sessions. So surfing the interweb of skateboarding has become my fix. Today I stumbled upon this profile of Ballistic skate and snow on the Supra Distribution  site. Ballistic was my first real skate shop and has been doing it for the Newfies for some years now. I would go in there as a little shit and just be amazed. I then moved to Halifax and went from being amazed of my first skate shop (Ballistic) to terrified of my new shop (Proskates). Anyways, they talk to Kurk Brown, longtime St. John's ripper and all around gambling addict. KMoney!!

SOTY Pop

This video part, along with contest wins and general ripping are why Chris Cole gets Thrasher skater of the year for a second time.

Megan Fox and Ryan Decenzo

Jereme Rogers, Chris Gentry and Jesus wish you a Happy Holidays.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Bye Jereme

nar⋅cis⋅sism
/ˈnɑrsəˌsɪzɛm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nahr-suh-siz-em] 
–noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.






  Well now that we are clear on what narcissism is, it's safe to say that Jereme Rogers is narcissistic, delusional and overall completely out of his mind. If you were able to make it through the over six minutes of drivel in "Jereme's Goodbye to skateboarding", hell if you made it through the first 30 seconds of the thing you know that he's actually fuckin' nuts now, to the point that if you were a family member or friend of Jereme's you would have to, by definition of what a friend is, step the fuck in and say "Duuuuuddddeeee".

   I mean really, lets take it a step further here and just say that it's not even Jereme's fault. Someone has to be fueling him. The sad truth of it is that Jereme does have a lot of money and can probably find enough people to surround himself with that will tell him to "Fuck the haters" and "Do your thing". That old adage that we can all be whatever we want when we grow up....it's bullshit. No really, within reason, we can do a lot of things. If I was really dedicated to being a paramedic and trained hard, studied enough, I could probably get there. But rapping is a whole different story. Jereme, YOU ARE NOT A RAPPER. If you want to do this for fun, then fine, so be it. But to say that you are done with skateboarding to get your "Second crown" in rapping, is straight up delusional.

  And why do you think "God" has your back so much? If there was such a thing as a "God" why would he be so down for Jereme that he gives him the great gift of skateboarding, and then says, "You know, that Jereme Rogers kid really needs another gift, I now anoint you a Rap Star!!!!" Everything about that song is terrible, the rapping, the words, the beat, the video, so obviously "God" did not hook you up this time.

  I mean look at Terry Kennedy, he's a good skater (maybe he's not your favorite) and he's not terrible at rapping. He uses beats that you at least want to hear. Actually here, listen to this.......




Guaranteed after listening to those songs back to back, you would be bumping Terry over JROG. I'm not even going to lie, I do enjoy that Super Star joint, it went well with his part in Baker 3. My point is Terry needs to come to him and be like "My dude, this is not for you."  Even when Terry got into rapping he didn't abandon skateboarding, he used it as a launching pad, skate kids love that Terry rap because they see him "Skate" to it. His profile on the Baker site lists rapping in his hobbies, now maybe he would argue that it's more than a hobby but my point is that as far as skateboard rappers, I'm taking Terry over Jereme, any day, all day. Even if Terry's latest ad in the January Thrasher looks more like an ad for an action figure than a skate brand.