Magazine onslaught

It's about to start. We're gonna start getting like a new shred mag a week starting now and ending in January. Weird, then they starve your ass during the height of shred time. Thank God bloggers and online mags have stepped their game up. There's been some insanely good reading out there lately such as TWS Women in Action Sports (Circe Wallaces is gnarley), Shays Industry Interviews, Malakye's industry interviews and Mikes Mash Ups, YoBeats Bozung interview, this Blog (look for the Monday mistake section), Easy Loungin boards and the total interweb hate of the Glove lord. It's actually kept me searching for a replacement for ISSHEFILTHY. Anyway this is the new EURO cover love our boy JONI got us.

Water Wizzin

7 days down and done on the east coast. Got my fair share of family, weddings, reunions, bbq's, Kool Cones, linguicia, lobster, steamers, bahs, beeh's, hey guys, shitty McSk8 parks, fried clams, haddock, pools, the Atlantic ocean, 100% humidity, air conditioning and travelling. I'd actually rate this trip a 10 out of 10 on the vaca/family tip if you can believe that. Stoked on this trip for once and can't wait to go back east again.
What I WASN'T stoked on was arriving home after a 12 hour travel day coast to coast to find my fucking 14 year old beagle had locked himself in the bedroom I so dreamt about laying in and watching Entourage and Hung episodes that I dvr'd and he had pissed multi times all over the sleeping quarters as he was stuck in there for quite A FEW hours. Yep, ended up sleeping in a twin bed in the boys room last night with a sleeping bag as covers. Dog had the nerve to jump up and cuddle with me at 4 in the morning. Asshole.

Griffs house was a high life. I mean high light.

Water slide park called Water Wizz. Shit was resting on wooden 4X4's. Real safe.

A sea of fat fucks with multi tattoo's laid out here. I'm so over seeing bulldogs on peoples shoulders as well as that dolfin on your chicks ankle. Really, it's not that original guy.
Mac pointing at the corner of the water slide that took him and I out. Hit that thing backwards in the dark and got a concussion. Both of us did. It hurts to shave my dome right now.

"Hmmm flat chested tankini chick or this one over here that's sprouting shmeebs."

Slurpee...actually that's what we did after we drank them things. Pee'd in the pool.

Swam out to that dock and back. Then drank 12 buds.

Mattapoisett Girl, and you know how they are!

College room mate reunion. Bud, retired cop now a private dick. Sparky, 9 credits short of graduating but a multi millionare from building shit and now single and on the market. Stick, Boston fire man. All around bad ass. Good peeps. Was nice to leave these clowns with my self esteem in tact, for once. Fuckers are getting old and pussified.

Sparky had to jump in with the kiddies so he was taller than someone.

Thanks MASS. Love the right coast but it's so nice to be HOME.

M-assin

Backyard of the compound.

All skateparks need this sign. These guys actually shut this one down for a couple months till the kids got their shit together.

Mmmmm good.

Grammy Di and 91 year old Nana Blanche. Blanche still drives, runs up and down stairs and try's to climb ladders. Amazing.

Griffs basement.

Griffs garage.

Unfamiliar territory for the boys.

Charlie and Party

Stevens Safe Zone

No more almost getting clipped going cross the parking lot this winter.

Not to be out done by older bro...

WK'ND vid

WK'ND

No...don't come out here, you'll be embarrassed!

No more early grabs = no more landings.

"Dad, I'm not early grabbing anymore, only sissys do that."

Tile grinder.

Toothless wonder.

East Bound AH GAIN

Fuck me...100% humidity is happening there too. Family trip to Mass to get wicked with all the family's starting next Wednesday. Savage huh?

Thanks Right Empire

After 5 years of killing shit on the Right Coast for us, Mr. Chris Piatek has left his post as our face in the field for the brands. I 'd like to publicly thank his ass for treating our brands like they were his own. Personally I will miss his soft talking ass and wish him well in selling a fuckload of checker board slip on's. Good luck bro. Thanks. A email sent out today to all his accounts intro'n our new dude:
"I hope this emails finds you well & business is good with the great weather this summer. C3 Worldwide (Coal Headwear, CAPiTA Super Corp, & Union Binding Company) has new sales rep to work in the New England territory, please welcome Andrew Racine. Many of you know him and already work with him on some other lines: RVCA, VonZipper, 32, & L-Space. Here is his contact info: Andrew Racine aracine511@yahoo.com"

Thanks again Piatek, welcome aboard Andrew.

The future is upon us

Click to the future.

Sneaky Pete

Look how Milo barged into the photo here at the Bonfire Pipe To Pipe in Transworld. He's the cat in the middle at the top of the page next to the stripe shirt dude holding a bamboo pole. He did this same shit last year for Snowboarders America's Next Top Pro Model. Kinda the Where's Waldo of the snowboard world.

Up da road from us

Coming fall 2011. Two blocks away from the crib. Boys will be stoked.

Charlie Slasher

Is a real live person living on Facedildo. Friend his ass because contrary to some's beliefs...there ARE friends on powder days.

Hoodwinked Vid

Hoodwinked

This weekend we made our annual pilgramage to Mt. Hood. This time the Wiener joined us and oh boy was it on. We left at 2 on Friday and by 6:30pm after I had lived thru 30 "are we there yet Dad's?" the boys were ripping around Windells campus. Holy game stepper up from last year at Windells! The BMX jump section was so fucking next level, with lines for all abilities that my shoulder wasn't even twitching looking at it. But there was no room for dads toys as the scooters, skates, kids bikes and our gear took up all the room in the Bronco 2. Anyway, they removed the huge vert ramp in place of a air bag mega ramp and the basketball court was replaced with so much cement that Windells may be the finest place in the Northwest to skate period. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you have kids that shred and skate, there is no reason to spend a fuck load of money on some stupid ass Disney World / Land vacation where they eat cotton candy and hi 5 Micky. Take that cash and drop it at either Windells or HCSC and watch your kid come back a completely different better person. There is so much energy, like mindedness and just general raditude around these two summer camps that it's a game changer with kids. Shit, it's a game changer with adults in denial.

"Are we there yet Dad!?"

So we were lucky enough to be guests of both camps (thanks Tim Windell, thanks Preston Strout) and got to sample everything both camps offer. HCSC on snow shit is super on point for the little guys and myself with the mini bike snowboard jump lap park and the mini dude tube. Yesterday was a lapathon with the boys current shred hero, Scott Stevens. HCSC is SNOWOARD ONLY and the Wiener was skiing. Needless to say the vibes were out when he would roll in. But being Scotts tag along guest held some serious credibilty and people shut their mouths when they saw those two hangin.

Bro's...Scott, Mi and Mac.

Some serious shit went down in the foam pit this time. Scooter 7's and front flips from the Wiener.

Wiener was begging to take his ski's into the air bag. He got a veto on that one as I went into dad mode on that request. Some mtn bike dude sent a back flip off that thing like 50 feet in the air though. Insane.

Wiener mauled the concrete at Windells as they allow scooters on campus. Shit, they allow anything there. Bikes, mtn bikes, scooters, skates, rollerblades and even them swivel boards. A very inclusive enviorment Mr. Windell has there.

Milo loves this place. Building out back (Bob) has everything he needs. Tramps, street course, foam pit and big ass masonite dude tube.

And the scene every night around 11pm. They'd be up at 8, on the hill around 10, skating from 3 - 10pm then I'd throw em in the shower and shove some food down there throat and it would be lights out. Then I'd enjoy a on ice, cold ass, refreshingly relaxing Session.
Three days skating and scootering, 2 days on hill, multi peanut butter and jelly sando's, meeting all their pro heros, seeing the premier for Think Thanks Right Brain Left Brain premier, watching Nick Visconti destroy the skate park, snow park laps with Pete Saari killing back boards were only a few of the highlights from this 60 hour venture down south. It was so good that we already got a weekend in August planned...

Pollack snowboards

I was waiting for a company to introduce upside down camber along with inverted tip and tails. That way the tip would dig into the snow and really turn ice into powder. Instead my relatives in the homeland decided on this snake tech.

So anyway, these two Polish men rent a boat and go fishing in a lake. They are amazed at the number of fish that they caught that day, so one says to the other, "We'll have to come back here tomorrow!" The other asks, "But how will we remember where this spot is?" The first guy then takes a can of spray paint, paints an X on the bottom of the boat, and says, "We'll just look for this X tomorrow." The other guy says, "You idiot! How do you know we'll get the same boat?"

Dano

Brisse has the Absinthe cover. Gnarbacore.

So it begins...again.

First of many containers of snow goods showed up yesterday. Summer FINALLY hits Seattle and we start receiving winter goods.

Ky-borg said "fuck it, I'm getting a tan bro."

So close

I was to flying in one of these bad boys back east. Thermals or some shit like that kept us on the ground though.
Tabor here, own's Eastern Boarder and teaches flying. "You wanna go up? Let's go. Now."

One of his rigs. $60G worth of it. Goes like 80mph.

Some trainer thing.

Airport in the woods. Stealth like.

Happy Birthday Milo

10 years old today. Fucker.

How's meth handle getting high?

Finally a review that doesn't have a "how's it butter" section. Thanks Beat.