National Public Radio has taught me hundreds, no, thousands of useful things over the years, and, without a doubt, I've done what I could to support them for enriching my life. More recently however, lacking a real steady income, I've decided that my monthly contributions to MPR would be better spent on, say, rent or something. We all know how it goes. However, after today I may have to rethink my position, and start shelling out a little bit of cash.
Today, while listening to the radio, I learned that Andre The Giant once allegedly drank 119 beers in 6 hours. That's a game changer. For perspective, that's 4.9 cases of beer, or one beer every three minutes, non-stop. In other terms, that's a 44.6 foot tall wizard staff.
Got a killer tour of McGuire and Davis' new crib via video I-chat. Highlights included Davis' bumper in their living room, the fact that their apartment doesn't have a refrigerator, the jizz stained chair that Sam bought for $30 off a prominent artist/blogger, and the mattress leaned against the wall which, to quote Sam, "guests like to lean against."
Has Thadolo, quoted as saying that he'd like to, "get in touch with [his] paleo-self," taken up the caveman lifestyle, which has recently taken NYC by storm? While Thadolo declined comment, his friend and rival blogger, Neal Erickson did comment that Thadolo "has been playing catch the rock in between games of O.U.T. at Tompkins." Caveman link via Scott.
The Calsurf blog has a 2009 year in review in photos; I'm just two weeks late in posting something about it. Enjoy.
Van Halen strikes back: I stumbled upon our Winnipeg '06 video today and uploaded it here to the Youtube, but lo and behold, the use of "Eruption" by VH meant no audio track. Worst part of it all? You don't get to hear A-plus' wheel screech on that early grab 360. For shame! Whatevz, watch a quicktime of it with audio here.
No doubt, if the download time directly from Nike is any indicator, the above video will take a hella long time to play. No worry, the delay is worth the wait; Grant Taylor delivers the expected concrete goods, Shane O'Neill holds his own as (in our humble opinion) a slightly discounted Dtorg.org, and there are always those rumored Basilica moves, which are confirmed, while others struggle not to be a decade late on their switch tres. They fail.
We're a buck short and more than a day late on the latest Flow Trash Throwaway Montage, but I'm cool with that. ELO is so good.
The first two lines are the best. Been meaning to post this.
Even thought there is much debate over just when the past/present decade ended/ends, we here at Platinumseagulls INC have decided that the aughts are over and we're onto the o-tens, and so it is time to address the illustrious Phil Schwartz' question (from last post's comments) regarding some sort of decade long Twincities skateboarding wrap-up. Yes there will be a wrap-up(s) on this website. Just not now. In an effort to broaden the opinion here which is normally just mine, some emails have been sent off to get decade wrap-ups from various sources, and I'm pretty sure once one or two of them show up in my inbox, I'll get sparked and try to do the same myself. For now, I've tried to get thoughts from a shop-insider, an industry-insider, a city-outsider, a city-expat, and two members of the TC skateletariet, young and old. We'll see how things pan out; a deadline of about a week has been set, so I'll just cross my fingers for everyone.
John McGuire does the pizza-man to trash and that's the new Wiskate vid. What with the cold and the snow and the fact that the dude upstairs hasn't shoveled the walk yet, the previously linked vid is quite the nostalgic head-trip. I wonder if Ellis tears up a bit when he's editing that shit.
The Badger got up on The Berrics; I heard the way to get Reda to stop sticking his camera into your face is to start asking him questions. Go figure.
Having taken the tweeting world by storm and putting out one of the most (self)celebrated video parts of 2009, Ryan Hansen starts the Oh-10 by unleashing DECADE OF THADOLO.
National Public Radio has taught me hundreds, no, thousands of useful things over the years, and, without a doubt, I've done what I could to support them for enriching my life. More recently however, lacking a real steady income, I've decided that my monthly contributions to MPR would be better spent on, say, rent or something. We all know how it goes. However, after today I may have to rethink my position, and start shelling out a little bit of cash.
