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Happy New Year, or like Eddie said, MERRY NEW YEAR!



I post that same clip every year, and the shit never gets old.
Every single year without fail it is still the best way to say Happy New Year.
Even Kevin Wilkins at The Skateboard Mag thinks so.

I have to work tonight so today I decided to actually leave my apartment before noon and do something productive.
I had a couple of errands to run and on my way to the bank at Ala Moana I saw a couple of dudes skating at the bus stop.
Probably high school kids on Christmas break or something, one of them actually even looked familiar, but anyway there they were at the bus stop right in front of parking lot of the bank doing manuals and skating flatground.

I don't know why but I was super stoked to see that.
The bus stop was crowded, people there definitely didn't look too psyched on it and security was probably on their way but these two kids couldn't give a flying fuck, they were just getting theirs while waiting for the bus.
Or even better, maybe they weren't even waiting for the bus.
Maybe they were just rolling around and decided to session the sidewalk and curbs of Ala Moana Center.
Who knows?

Anyway, I got done with the bank and on the way out of the parking lot I rolled down my window and yelled "KICKFLIIIIIP!" in my best Sean Reilly bro voice.
In case you didn't know, this is standard protocol when you are driving anywhere and you see kids skating on the street or anywhere you happen to drive by.
You are legally bound and obligated to do it.
You can even yell out different variations if you are feeling extra saucy, such as "HEELFLIIIIIP!!!" or "HARDFLIIIIIP!!!!"
The look on people's faces run the gambit from slightly startled to straight up disgusted, and you may even be lucky enough to see one of them actually attempt your request.

I'm not sure if those kids heard me yell, no I take that back, in fact I'm almost certain that at least one of them did not hear me due to the fact that he was wearing earphones, and when you take earphones and combine them with the act of skateboarding, the result is almost always completely gay and unfathomable, unless your name happens to be Ian Okui, and even then, you're on thin ice.

Point is I saw a couple of kids skateboarding this morning and it made me happy.
Yes!
It's true.
I get happy sometimes.

Speaking of happy, I finally have a day off tomorrow.
That means while the rest of the world grovels in bed and tries to sleep off their champagne and cocaine hangovers I am going to be out there shredding somewhere.
I don't know where just yet, but hopefully it will be somewhere illegal and normally unskateable on regular days of the year.
LET'S FUCKING DO IT!

Comments Are Open So Have At It

Used to have commenting enabled on this blog but then I disabled it for a long time, and now it's back on, big fucking whoop!

First of all not too many people even look at this blog and the amount of people that would care enough to actually take the time to type anything in response to the shit that I post is even smaller so there weren't a whole lot of comments to begin with.

It was just small chit-chatty type of shit, most of it relevant to the actual posts, some it not really but it was pretty normal I guess.
Then the spam started flowing.
Hard!
I mean there were some super weird ones, often not even in English.
It got pretty fucking annoying so I just disabled the commenting altogether.

Now these Google Blogger people are saying that they have a handle on the spam problem, so I thought I'd give it a try and see how long it takes for the guaranteed huge horse dick pill invitations to roll in.

So if you like something, hate something or just want your opinion to be known about whatever the fuck, go ahead, just don't be a kook about it and everything will be dandy.

Kiss My Mistletoe!

Merry Christmas, fuckers!
Hope you are enjoying the holiday with some people you care about and not at work like some of us.
Better yet you're out getting your shred on, almost everything is closed today and even the cops most likely won't give a shit about your trespassing ass today, go ahead and pillage if you are able, I would love to barge downtown or Waikiki today but duty calls.

Anyway, gotta go back to work now, have a great one and I leave you with a couple of Christmas shout outs:













Mele Kalikimaka, fakas!

Holiday Greetings or Whatever

Forgive me if I haven't posted anything for a while but it's been a busy and hectic December in the service industry and this isn't the first thing I think of doing when I have a day off or some spare time.

Also, if you haven't noticed already, I am lazy.
Super lazy.

A couple things have happened during this chaotic holiday season.

First of all Happy belated Birthday to me and Sean Patrick Reilly!
We celebrated our birthday this past Sunday December 19th.
Sean finally turned dirty thirty and me, well I turned much older than him.
Sporty forty one to be precise, or middle aged I suppose if you live to be 82.
I feel like your uncle.
Can your uncle do a 360 flip on flatground?
He must be your cool uncle then.

Speaking of Sean, his roommate and true Southern gentleman Jeremy Strength had a going away party at their compound in Manoa last Friday night.
Jerm is heading back to Florida for a couple of months and then in March he will be returning to Japan for some more of those home schooling adventures that he experienced last year.

Anyway, at the party Jeremy was handing out tattoos like candy, and I was fortunate enough to witness Jarold Webb receiving the Bad Boy Club logo on his leg, but with the guy smiling instead of mean mugging.

Also at this party I was more than giddy to participate in some dice rolling, which I haven't had a chance to do in some time and came up about forty bucks or so.

Some other shit happened during the party that was really lame though.
Tim Jackson was bombing a hill near the house and got hit by a car, a fucking hit and run no less, but Tim being the tough guy that he is, just came back to the party and continued drinking with some road rash across his lower back.

Speaking of hit and run, there was another unfortunate accident that night and our homie John Oliveira was there when it happened.
John and a big crew of dudes were riding bikes around the island and one of the boys, a kid named Zachary Manago was hit by a car and fatally injured.
John's girlfriend Grace was at the party with us when she got the call from John that one of the guys was hit by a hit and run driver, I didn't know that he passed away until it was on the news the next day.
I never met this kid Zachary but apparently he used to go to In4mation all the time and was a really nice guy from all accounts.
Rest in peace, homie!

Also, the cops couldn't locate the car that hit Zachary so a group of his friends went and rode around the area where the accident took place and found the fucking car themselves!
The driver was released pending further investigation, which is apparently standard in vehicular homicide cases, and hopefully this dude will be held accountable for this tragedy.

By the way, FUCK a hit and run driver.
To the guy who did this:
You're a pussy, a fucking gutless sniveling bag of shit for doing that to somebody.
Take some goddamned responsibility for your actions, you fucking coward.

Also spotted some cool shit in the past couple of weeks here and there on the Internet, a couple of them are this:



I don't know what the fuck kind of speed you need to attain that position but I'm guessing it's some kind of tow-in or bungee action.
Either way, it's insane and one of the gnarlier photos I've seen recently.

Also this video shot recently at the Stoner Park in L.A. features not only the best Christmas song ever, it has the owner of (still) the best 360 flips of all time Jason Lee skating and our buddy Adrian Adrid as well:



Also, I do not make it a habit to look at The Berrics website, but when I do it is nice to see something like this on the frontpage:



Good to see Chad getting the most of that Berrics Unified money!

Also speaking of Chad, he finally updated the APB website and now you can order those hot new t-shirts that Nicky Diamonds keeps tweeting about, the extremely sizzling APB/Diamond "Kaimana" collabo as well as a simple and clean APB logo tee.

Finally, this photo right here captures the spirit of Christmas and the holidays in general:
My favorite bumbaclot Jordan deOliveira and his boss, my favorite skater, Rick Howard at the Girl holiday party.



Mele Kalikimaka, faka!
Have a good one.

Osaka in October Video From Soundboarding

Last time around I put up a bunch of photos from the Osaka leg of the October trip I took to Japan for my boy Junji's wedding party, and now Muraccho has posted the video footage on his Soundboarding website that he shot during that time.

Junji was really busy with all of the wedding preparations and whatnot so he didn't get a chance to film a whole lot while I was there, but the one time that he and Takashi and I went skating together was really fun and he captured the spirit of a super awesome day as well as some bonus footy from his raging wedding reception party.



Speaking of my man Takashi, did you know that he made it to the southern tip of Okinawa on his great journey of pushing on a skateboard from the most northern part of Japan to the very bottom of the country?

It took you 5 months, but I just want to say OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU, TAKASHI!
You are the fucking champ for doing that shit, nobody can touch what you just accomplished!

Also, on a Osaka-related side note, I just watched the new Expedition video "Madness" today and I noticed that in Matt Miller's part he skated the "San Francisco" spot on the river in the Nakanoshima area of Osaka, right next to where Junji's beautiful outdoor wedding ceremony took place.

Now, I had heard from Takashi that Matt Miller ollied over the bar from flat into the bank, and then later saw a photo of it in Transworld Japan, but today was the first time seeing the actual footage of this trick and I was fucking blown away by it.

Photo:



Peep the screen grab from the video:



Daaaaaamn!
Almost the exact same moment, and even though it's "just" an ollie, it's a burly one and this is a fucking gnarly thing to do there, trust me.