Ivory Tower Eggheads

Over the past couple of weeks or more even, it seems that Seekins Kinda Rules Everything Around Me (S.K.R.E.A.M.?), as I can't go out without seeing dude, as both Ryan and I have decided. Read up on the dude here.

By now I was sure that Sissi would have switched his homepage to The Chrome Ball Incident, but instead, he kept the faith with a timely comment to prod me into updating again. All is fair, but this time, I've got an excuse, the influenza virus, aka the great gastronomical catastrophe of 2009. But all is well now, more or less; I stopped dry heaving early Sunday morning, no fever dreams Sunday night, and today, I may be inching closer and closer to, let's say as euphemism, normalcy. Chadig?

Secret, or until this moment, guilty pleasure: From G's to Gents. I can only watch about 15 minutes of it, and I couldn't figure out why the hell they were on a climbing wall today, but boy is it good in quick hits; the best kind of car-wreck.

A special message to Ash, and a little bit to Juri too...It's not your birthday anymore.

Daniel Castillo's stock has been on the rise ever since his showing on that one game of skate on that one website; now he's living out my step-hop fantasies on Crailtap. You already saw that? It was worth watching again though man.

Speaking of The Berrics, this was cool, damn...

Plat reader Scott commented that the Crack Stacks are an example of the architectural style of Brutalism. He also recently pointed out that Wayne Cummings is in yet more trouble. Good riddens.

Edit: Let's see the Cuban travel ban lifted. I'd go there in a second.

The Projects

Photo Essay. Happy Weekend.

WEED COACH

Forever on the verge of becoming a Sam McGuire fan site, and now risking becoming a Davis fan site, we got more DTorg.org foote. I'm feeling that new nickname, but how's it going to work if Gerwer is calling him Torgy? I don't know, I really don't.

Happy Dirty 30 to Damian. Hopefully the whole w.c. thing did you some good last night.

I'm incredibly tired of the economy, not being the only one I'm sure, but here's a proper write up about Active's bankruptcy on BTO. Overdrive yo!

Watching Gilmore Girls, it's the spring break episode, and Alexis Bledel is dreamy.

Almost missed it, Nesser Bangin' @ the Berrics, back smith to wallride is Plat approved.

Night Moves Part 18

All summer long, one way or another.

Circular Thinking

Gave up on skateboarding for a living forever ago...like what, ten years ago? Further proof that I made the right decision: This web foote of Dan Murphy. The skating is no doubt amazing, but man, it looked like WORK, and then look, it ends up on the interweb. I'd be crying onto the keyboard if I filmed that stuff and it ended up on the web.

Killer Boots with some remembrance of things such passed, as he puts it, the good old days. Sit through the old AWS/Habitat commercials and A, notice how sick they were, and B, remember that some of what made 411 so good back in the day, was the ads. I suppose that some of what would be in a 411 ad has just become web fodder, re: above, but it's far and few between that one finds a web vid with the same level of production.

Digging Mike Burnett on the Crail Couch, mostly for the bit about the horrors of cold calling.

Characteristically, Nesser almost avoids a speaking role on Skate or Dice.

Tha Surf with CJ foote from Barcelona. I'm trying to imagine CJ chilling in Europe, and words cannot describe how _________ it must be. The words just aren't there yo; trust one on that sw varial flip, that stack looks way more gigantic than I ever thought it was.

Ran into Hessian Joe at that warehouse jam this past Friday, and man, he pointed out some burliness from that BUBD slam photo of him from last year: peep the clumps of pulled out hair on his shoulder, and try not to shudder.

Back from the dead with a shaved head, and a wholly blunted sigh of relief.

Sometimes writing stuff about skateboarding seems a little superficial and or not all that important, but then again, I've never been assigned 2000 or so words about how people hate Facebook's new layout, and better yet, how they're going to end up liking it. The life re-affirmed.

LIL' DAP SOLO ALBUM

New Nickname For Davis Post

This Torgy stuff needs to stop; please submit your new nickname for Davis Torgerson in the comments section below. Blame twitter.