friends...

should enrich your life, not bring it down. seems like these days people have less consideration for other's well being and feelings than ever before. or maybe it's just this fucking city. either way, we keep keeping on and fuck the downers. there's only so much you can say or do to help someone and then it's up to them on whether or not they make the right choices. here's to my friends that keep me laughing...



wrex getting an invert. baker asked if he'd got an invert in it yet, i said i didn't think so, but ask wrex, i bet he'd do one... sure enough...



this is mark eshelman... he's known my bff most of his life of skateboarding. he learned to skate in a gnarly pool because he had nowhere else to skate. this pic is a tad early, but he gets a grind.

git ur hair did

alotta slackin'

and trying to have fun...

wrex at tempe photo by tim jones


dio by the empty fire pit photo by carl

listen

skated in the new year

instead of sitting around partying drinking it up and getting wasted, we got motivated to skate. luckily my best friend and two of my favorite skate buddies no longer survive through the party lifestyle... so it makes it easy to roust their need to skate. first up was desert west. i love the hips there. and the bowl is the smoothest thing in this state. "because shaggy did it" -quotable ninjegasus

we stopped by the house of pool theatricks on the way there and a pool was relinquished. so on to desert west...

this was the first park my bf took me to after moving to phoenix. i instantly fell in love with the hips.


these are some banks that grindline put in with the bowl. baker, carl, and wrex were having a fun session on it while i took a break and drank a squirt. i guess i should have gotten closer, there was some rad stuff going down.






mirror mirror on the back wall, this cell phone picture does no justice at all. this was fun and pretty whippy. we only got about 3 runs each, ninjegasus = zero thanks to the angry neighbor from across the alley.

yep, new sauce is out and this issue is a-nice. the pictures are super crisp and clean. this issue is a tad thinner but delivers your expected sauce goodness just as well as its thicker predecessors.



oby always sends in something fun. this time a vert ramp story.


dream session! by baker... which i so luckily got to attend. the day started out at pecos, got to meet julian from antihero and dorfus. super nice guys that rip. in this article by baker you will see trujillo clearing the gap at the keyhole. wrex got roll-ins at the pond... it was all insane to see.


baker also did a little write-up on the desert west bowl bash on valentine's day.


his article talks a little bit about the history of desert west, phoenix's first skatepark. i like this a lot. we were just there on friday..


there's an installation by pink crack. those guys sure know how to rip a party session...i like the fact that they travel a lot. one of my favorite zines with a blog.


and last but not least, this sentence has 2 words that make portland a beast that only the strong can embrace...


support this rad zine! pod and baker do an awesome service to the skateboard world. the cloths are rad and serious rippers love the wood that sauce offers anyone with at least $13 dollars to spend on something worthwhile. that 30 pack can wait.

The Sauce Store:

i have an entire 10 days off after i leave work today. my agenda? skate skate skate... (after family duties are over of course). most of my time will be spent in this hole.

an empty thought

obsession - booty sweat

every year i get less and less excited about xmas. nobody really treats it like its original meaning. more proof that religion is empty. it's all about consuming and feeling guilty about not having enough money to buy them what they really want. seems like more assholes are out at this time of year too.. i see people who took the time to decorate their houses and have blowup toys in their yard and deflated because some jerk punched a hole in it. does anyone really care anymore?

agent shitriot

i stole this from a trendy movie blog because seagal is in it!


agent shitriot

bob bla ba

deathbox

this little puppy is now almost a year old now. he's huge. 90% wolf.

for your information

from the skateboard mag website:

The Tony Hawk Foundation Board of Directors has announced the recipients of its Fall 2009 Skatepark Grant Awards, as well as a special allocation to match, dollar-for-dollar, donations to the Watts Skatepark project in Los Angeles.

From the 52 applications submitted for this season's Grant Review Session, the Board of Directors selected fourteen from low-income communities across the U.S., and collectively awarded $130,000 to help build free, quality skateparks that will serve at-risk youth.
Fall 2009 Tony Hawk Foundation Grant Recipients
$25,000

* San Luis Obispo, California

$15,000

* Mount Airy, North Carolina
* Lyndonville, Vermont

$10,000

* Aurora, Illinois
* Brooklyn, New York
* Wilmington, Ohio
* Dormont Borough, Pennsylvania

$5,000

* Estherville, Iowa
* Lyons, Michigan
* Mecosta, Michigan
* Royalton, Minnesota
* Commercial Township, New Jersey
* Greenfield, Ohio
* Martinsville, Virginia

quote worthy

"let's see how many people we can get to trespass an empty pool at once."

haha...

an early xmas present from my main squeeze ♡♡

he rules the pool

he made one line drawn with a pencil. and he changed my world. thank you!!!

and thanks forjan for the pic! wrex frontside grinds with ease. blaarrrrppp!

send dio get well mail

Dio Fan Club
12400 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 624
Studio City, CA 91604

awesome news of the day

memphis crew rules

check out capitano's blog

saturday

it's on... no dorks please

i found this tribute art awhile ago.

this is what happens when i avoid work

axl face disaster

actually it's a noseblunt but this guy does gnarly frontside disasters so i know it'll happen

edit: p.s. that's not axl's face on there. i'm such a dork sometimes. but by all means, get your disasters on!

flashing eye aches a rad project - skatemental dolphin style babee

sometimes when i'm bored, i make stuff like this. this was for a fantasyland pecos locos session that did or didn't happen.

and then update it a year or so later. this version is for my bff!

i love husker du but that guy loves them way more...

Walking around with your head in the clouds
Makes no sense at all
Sell yourself short, but you're walking so tall
Makes no sense at all
Is it important? You're yelling so loud
Makes no sense at all
Walking around with your head in the clouds
Makes no sense at all
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/eZT ]
Makes no difference at all

I don't know why you want to tell me
When I'm right or when you're wrong
It's the same thing, in your mind, the only time
I'm right is when I play along

You concern yourself with evidence
It's evident to me
Well you say you've got the tiger by the tail
But I don't see these things that way

nags head

looks like fun, itsa grindline

insane

sometimes i go through old emails and look at the cellphone shots i have either taken myself or received from others. these are from long distance nights from az to ms. i can't describe the longing i felt when i received these.