Everyone has been complaining about the slack factor. Especially Gabe. Therefore, I will post this video clip Gabe made effectively meaning that he, not I, made this update.


Very serious hammerz.


Like this one from last summer. We need more of this.

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Holy smokes, it's been a while. Have you missed me? What's been going on? Does anyone even look at this thing anymore? I'm back and it's great to be here.

So much has gone down since I've last updated that I don't know where to begin. A few really memorable days stick out in my head, so I will go with that.

Lets talk about Morrissey. I have been listening to him croon since the mid eighties, but have never had the pleasure of seeing him live and in full cocky-ness until a couple of weeks ago. He still looks great and sounds as good or better than he did 25 years ago. He obviously is old and fat, but let me tell you, that did not stop him from taking off his shirt and still had the ladies (and dudes) swooning. I wish I had some pictures to show you non-readers, but of course it was no cameras allowed. Just go to google image search and look for yourself.

About a week before the Morrissey show, I had the pleasure of watching Stemper and T.J. session what is known as "grass toro". They were both going for it and both got the job done as you probably remember from Josh's last mini-video. I took some pictures and finally got my photoshop working again so here they are for your viewing pleasure.



Danny was charging up this rail with a regular boardslide, which to me seems like the hardest thing to do down that thing. He then went for some lipslides and ended up serving himself up some hand wounds. Good form on that boardslide, Dan.



T.J.'s 5-0 was pretty much the best thing I have seen done so far this year. He sat up there and just rode it out like second or third try. He took a few bails trying the feeble grind and then ollied over a bush for fun later on. Dude is killing it right now. Good things will happen for him in the future if I have any say in it.

As far as things go on the home front, Wii bowling is still the best game ever made, Gary is still a fucker, Josh still loves Star Trek Voyager (and now DOG the bounty hunter), I am still skating and Cream City is still the best park ever built.

Go visit these sites;

Platinum Seagulls
The Skateboard Mag
MKEskate
and last but not least,
Fuckin' Gary.

Later nerds.

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I don't know what the deal is, but we're blowing it. Too much Wii, I suppose.

Here's a couple pics from the weekend before the last:


It's always a prize to randomly run into Vance while we're randomly running into homemade skatespots. Of course Vance was cigging it and drinking $2 per six pack beers. But that's just Vance and that's just expected. I then took a photo of him doing an ollie over this wall but I kept making him do it. Then he kept making me take a photo. He insisted I used one on the site that he rode away from because "someone might be able to zoom and and see my foot is about to come off". I have so many photos of him doing it that I can't remember if he landed this one or not. Please don't zoom in.


We later were walking along some railroad tracks to check out a rooftop to skate on and found all sorts of hobo secret code scrawlings all over the place. Pizzy holds one up that I think says something about $2 six packs. Tim saw this photo and was bummed we didn't bring the hobo art home. Sorry, Tim.

Apparently that is all we did that day because those are all the pictures I have. Onto this last weekend:

Cru already posted the post Moz pictures and alluded to his early morning whiskey drinking and Wii playing. Good thing I have the pictures!


Weird Chewbacca pretty much sums up the whole scene.

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Pizzy is well known for his love of vodka Red Bulls. In fact, he recently recieved some as a birthday gift from Zitzer. Very fitting. Anyway, Cru was chugging down some vodka scraps and Pizzy decided to spread his love for Red Bull like Johnny Appleseed did for apples. Pizzy Redbullseed.


Here we have Cru at his very best, ever. The picture conveys that, obviously. We then tried to go skating which resulted in the funniest Lord Cru ever yelling the most ridiculous things at any pedestrian we passed. Of course I can't remember any of these hilarious examples. We met Stemper at a spot, and that was it for Cru. He just skated off to never be seen again.


I filmed Stemper doing a switch frontside wallride and I asked him to pose one so I could get a photo. I think he took me saying "posing" a little literally, but regardless, here's Danny Stemper posing a switch frontside wallride.


Ok, maybe Cru was seen again. Here he is making use of two vices: vodka and Morrissey. His post pretty much summed the rest up.

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Saturday was the big day, and because Friday was one of my worst in recent memory, and I THOUGHT I was done with school, I decided to start drinking right away. Clearly not the best idea given my health, but I figured it was okay. I started taking pics right as soon as I got to the horny house, and for some reason I thought it would be a great idea to let Josh and Tim take a few blackmail pics. It's a really good thing I'll never be important, or I'd be fucked.

I thought this pic of Josh would look nice, it was pretty romantic in the old Accord on Saturday. It's funny when you think something is totally cool, and then it blows up in your fucking face. That's basically what Friday was for me, and if you add the run-in I had at the mall yesterday, June 2nd couldn't come quicker.

Wait, I mean I never want it to come. Check out our post-Morrissey depression party at Rivers!!!

Josh is trying to figure out how he is going to live another day without the shirt Moz threw into the feverish crowd.

Ellis, the Bee, and the introduction to Riverhorse's finest beef jerky.

I was pretending to eat the jerky, pretty funny.

Ellis with my wife and kid..he loves when I say that.

Things couldn't have gone much better at this point.

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I just posted the second street mini video of 2007: Mini Video 38 - Entertain Me. Some old faces and some new. Please take a look.



Rails are dangerous and muddy things.

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You're probably not wondering where we've been, but at least there's a viable excuse. We got a Wii. Many a shoulder has been thrown out waging Wii bowling battles. People have croaked like bullfrogs, demanded sugar, expressed unearned bravado, spilled beer, but most importantly, had fun. Awww. In fact, Tim had so much fun that he had to take a multi day break from the action due to Wii related injuries. We're all pulling for a speedy recovery, buddy!

Actually that's not the only reason, Tim is sitting on a bunch of photos but due to his wacky computer set up which I will not explain here, cannot resize them to post them online. Considering he could use my computer which is sitting like five feet away from his, it's not a very good excuse, but excuse it is. I have a bunch of new photos too. I have no excuse. Except the Wii.

Aren't updates about why we're not updating the worst?


"Dudes, wouldn't it be boss if we all bleached our hair together??!" CHEST BUMP!


Hell if I know.

BREAKING NEWS
A minute ago Lord Cru emailed me a link to this Craigslist missed connection:
"Shirtless Man at Riverhorse on Saturday - w4m - 32
You were at the Riverwest pub crawl on Saturday. You were shirtless with more to love and let everyone draw on you with a sharpie marker. I drew something explicit which I thought perfectly described what I would like to do with you. Wish I had written my number as I'm sure it will take a least a month for the marker to wash off your body.
If interested in a private tattoo session email me."

So who was possibly at the Riverhorse that night with no shirt on, more to love, and writing all over him?? Let me think...



If Troy hadn't overdosed on beer that night I'd have to say that he really should go for that private tattoo session! Stemper, if you happen to see Troy's twin brother around town, let him know about all of this.

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Well, sorry I have been slacking on the party pics at the 3rd Lair Top Shop event, but I have been busy drinking German beers with Josh. Saturday night was the party at top shop, and man was it a rager. We geared up for the event by drinking PBRs in the street and taking nips of corn row's Jager. We missed most of Creature's new video Black Metal, but by the sound coming from the warehouse the video must be pretty good.

Here we are gearing up for the event.


They had a sweet set up for the video and seats for all. Danny and I only caught the end of the video, but we found it pretty scary.


Here are a couple stars of the video. We ran into Milwaukee's native Al P. He was representing the Cream City koozie to the fullest.


After the video ended I made my way the pisser and thats where the real party was. This was an epic place where the top dogs of the blog world hang out. I felt honored to be taking a leak next to these guys. Steve Fauser also decided to join the party!


Stemper was feeling loose as a goose and was just grabbing people to take a picture with. We made it up to the bowl where Stemps wanted a picture with this girl who was ripping all night. Too bad Stemps didn't get her to rip off his shirt.


Can I get in there wit cha? My photo opp with Al P. Noah and Sean also had to get theres with the big man.


These guys all got cut off from the bar, so testing your luck when the barrel is gone is a tough ride. Here we have Stemper doing laybacks on the mini spine flat bottom where he thought the coping was.


After the party we made our way back to the hotel and chilled on the patio for awhile. We noticed on the table next to us almost a full pack of smokes. Whose smokes are these, and what are we going to do with them? Stemps then proceeded to take the smokes out of the pack and wipe his ass with them.

Carefully putting the smokes back in the pack he was then offering them to all of the kids and old men that wanted one. This one guy didn't want to smoke the smoke but decided to shotgun one for all who were brave enough to watch. What a talented man that just tasted Stemper's ass. Look at the cherry on that smoke! This could have been the highlight of the trip for me, I mean, look at that stance. Holy Balls!


God, that was a fun trip, I can't wait to do it again next year. Until then, see you later!

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Sunday!


We started the day off skating one of basically the worst spots ever. It's right by my house so we just go there sometimes for the hell of it. We actually had wax for once though and decided to give the lip a little waxing to see what would happen. Like Rachel Leigh Cook in "She's All That" taking off her nerd glasses and magically transforming into a hot chick, we discovered that this is actually secretly a pretty good spot in disguise. On the left Gabe breaks her in with a frontside tailslide. On the right Pizzy gives it a backside treatment. I love Pizzy's backside treatments. Wink.


I hope these dudes appreciate me laying in this shit to take their sexy American sportsman photographs.


Pizzy Burnquist smith grinds at another spot right by the crib. We call this one "The Peterka Pole". No one did a nollie crooked grind pop over body varial on it. I was just asking for some feeble to board to feeble to board to feeble to board from Pizzy but he kept denying me. What a jerk. How much cooler and more 1991 would that have been than a Smith grind? He could have at least pressure flipped out or something.

Then we went home and ate brats again. No, I'm not kidding.

That's all for now. I'll leave you with this video clip featuring some of our Madison friends.



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Saturday was a great day outside. None of this rainy/freezy garbage we've been having. Quite pleasent indeed. Tim already covered the day, but here's my take on it:


Nothing wrong with starting the day with a little Jimmy John's and Steve Harvey. Pizzy knows what's up. On the right is Tim's first wallride ever. On a Zip Zinger, at that!


We skated all day, but got only that one photo. We were so depressed that we decided to sit in the backyard and cook some brats and basically have the best time ever.


Brats are indeed an exciting proposition. Tim was in charge of the meaty variety, Lord Cru was in charge of the veggie. You can see Cru prefers his buns toasted. If you know what I mean.


Here's two more pictures of Tim, just for fun. We had some sort of brat explosion and he displays the carcass for all to see. Later I think we played Guitar Hero for a minute. We must have, since I have a photo of it. A fantastic photo. Did we watch Tuff Turf after all of this? I think so.

Crimson Skateboards demo at Cream City tonight! Go check out Markovich and his posse.

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Well, what can I say? Top Shop at the 3rd Lair was a ragin kegger. We drank a few Curty Thirties of Pabst and had Mr. Stemper on board to keep the comedy alive. There was an ass load of people that came to this event, I think like fifty shops. I wonder what the local hotels think when 200 plus skaters come and take over. Well, I got a boatload of pictures to share with the world, I hope you like them.

This is my man cornrows, and damn he loves his Jager. Too bad that the cleaning lady stole it from his room, and then we stole it off the cleaning ladys cart. Score! Here is some pictures of us enjoying cornrow's Jager.

Thanks Cornrows!

Crew shot at the bank ledgy on the left. On the right, Justin pulled this trick around 180. Justin is really good at plywood surfing.

This isn't even a trick for the Stemps, it's a go to. Also, Switzer got some here.

We all got a sandwich from Jeff Bauman's work. The best wich in town!

T.j. is one of the best skaters I know. We got to this rail and he destroyed it with a shitload of tricks. I know my picture sucks and its just a 5-0 but he ended the session here with a sick switch 180 5-0 which he did perfect. While he did that, we all sat in the grandstand cheering on T.j while we rubbed our vaginas and a guy was creeping on us.

The party was just about to get live. Thanks Cornrows! The party pics will be posted tonight.

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