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Hey turds, what's new? A lot has been going on over here. Tons of skating, many alcoholic beverages consumed, some minor surgery and, as usual, tons of Gary.

Speaking of Gary, he has some very special fans over in Sweden who also so happen to make music. What luck Gary has; those dudes wrote and recorded a song just for him! Check their Myspace and listen to "Gary's Journey". Gary loves to frolic to it. A future classic for sure.



New mini-vid coming sooner than later. Go to Cream City now and get to ripping.

Later nerds.

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As I've said before, if I'm looking at an old magazine and see something Milwaukee related I like to scan it and throw it up on here. The March 1997 issue of Transworld had a "50 States" theme and had a couple pages of photos taken in each state. Milwaukee got all the love in the Wisconsin section.


If you've ever looked at that courthouse rail that Al is nosesliding, it's like half a push run up. I remember trying to film someone doing a feeble on it forever ago. I don't remember who, but I remember things didn't turn out so well in the end.

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As I'm sure you know, there was an Indy demo at Cream City last week. Free beer was provided, and free beer is what I ate for lunch. When you eat free beer for lunch a guy doesn't really do a very good job getting photos of the festivities for his website. I did get to see Dan Drehobl , Rick Howard, and Omar Hassan skate the bowl for a minute though. Obviously that was as awesome as you'd expect it to be. Otherwise I just cooked scores of burgers while trying to convince kids to pay the $1 they were supposed to cost, often failing, and then just giving them a burger anyway.

Before I manned the grill Sammy Baca was taking care of things. He was charging $0 for them, so that's probably why the kids were so bummed when I insisted they gave me a dollar.


Saturday I skated all over the city with TJ, Pizzy, and Mike. It was a weird day where it would rain super hard or hail for two minutes out of nowhere and then be perfectly nice again like nothing happened.

According to Tim, this is a really old spot that people skated in the 80's a lot. TJ Bohach, Crailslide.

Golden hour momentary rainstorm. A good photo op if you like corny photos like I do.

Mike's in town for about as long as the day's random rainstorms. We got a little bit of good new footage for the next video clip though.

Here's a bonus shot of the knee that got fucked up earlier in the day. Falling while filming are the worst falls ever. If you want to save the camera at least. It was fine for the rest of the day because there wasn't a mega scab forming, and not bad the next day either. Today I can barely walk. Gotta suffer for the art, man.

Speaking of "the art", here's some potential shoegaze record cover photos that I took the other day.





Too bad it's not 1989 anymore.

Don't forget to watch the new video clip. A big thanks to Mike Munz for linking to it on the Skateboard Mag site, also. High five.

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Filming is real fun. Mini Video 44 - Wouldn't You? Watch it to ease my pain.


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The Moblog is back! Check back often for pictures of cats!

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DON'T BLOW IT!!!

Tomorrow, Wednesday June 18th. Indy Demo. Free Beer if you're over 21. Watch some guys that you probably are way into skateboard. Cream City Skatepark. Noon!

Bring your sister.

Here is a short story from last weekend:





Mega Ramp This!!!

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As it was raining (again) the other day I decided to look through some old photos and see if I could find anything interesting to post to the site. I kind of gave up on it and watched Pat, Gabe, and Tim play Skate on the Xbox for hours until my brain was of the consistency of apple sauce. Today I sat down and Photoshop was sitting open with the pictures I chose. Guess what? They're unintentionally all of animals. I now present to you: The worst photo update on wiskate in quite some time. Featuring: the archival animals of wiskate!







I guess I can't leave it at that, so here are a few more from the last week or two.

Here Tim demonstrates his exciting new development in waxing technology: THE WAX WAND. No more pesky grinding your knuckles against the curb or even having to bend over. Look for them in your local skateshop soon. Also: repels mosquitoes.

As you may have lived through, or perhaps seen on the news, lately the Midwest has been transported to Southeast Asia during Monsoon season. Last weekend it rained something like 7 inches in two days.



One of those days we were out skating and it was about to start raging. All the tornado sirens were going off, so obviously the safest place to go is Rocky Roccoco's for some Pizza. While we were inside it started raining so hard that the roof just gave up and started leaking water onto all the slices of Pizzas behind the counters. It was quite a challenge driving home after eating, a lot of streets were flooded because the storm drains couldn't keep up. We did eventually make it home, and what else is there to do but to ride crappy old bmx bikes around in one of the gnarliest storms I've ever seen in my life. Some of the puddles we went through were so deep that we were peddling underwater. We rode around for probably an hour and a half, and needless to say, it was probably the best thing I've done so far this year. Big ups to Tim and Risser for coming along and having fun too.

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I'm too lazy to make a real post due to my dire need of a sandwich. Here's a couple skate photos though.

Max Murphy, hurricane grind. He hit his head trying this, but did it anyway like a true champion.


Tj Bohach - layback frontside boardslide.




At least summer is finally here for real.

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What a fantastic day. Nothing beats getting up early, biking to the corner store, getting and drinking a Sparks, going to a flea market, meeting up with a tight crew and skating until you get flooded out by an insane storm. That is; nothing beats that except grabbing your bmx bike and going out in said storm with a couple of friends, bombing around town looking for the deepest puddles (in this case virtual lakes) to ride through. Highlight of my summer thus far for sure.

Here are a few pictures from today that had to do with the skating part.



I don't know why we ended up at the Domes ledges, but Max and T.J. raged it. Max smith grinded it and did some other stuff.



Like I said, T.J. raged it too. This is the second half of a 5-0 to switch crooked grind to fakie. He did other things as well.



You will see it all whenever this lazy pile decides to capture the footage and make a mini video for you turds.

Summer has just begun, don't be afraid of the heat and take advantage of every minute life offers you from now until the snowy season.

Later nerds.

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