The weather sure has been pretty weird. I'm not complaining though. The faux fall can stall here for the rest of the summer as far as I'm concerned. That might cut into chances of getting to see Pizzy go off the high dive, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.


Speaking of Pizzy, I've been pretty into the Oregon Trail.


Last week I got to see the fireworks in the pouring rain. The lightning made me very scary, but it was magical like a movie. Afterwards I met Sanj, Carn, and Neal for a show of wacky proportions.



Videohippos and Dan Deacon! A great show. And coming from me...I hate going to shows at this advanced age of mine, but I had a great time. A wacky sweaty great time.


Iris?? No, Fake Iris! Another neighborhood porch cat to go along with Fake Gary. I thought Fake Iris got entombed under the neighbor's porch, but she was living down the block or something. When she finally decided to make an appearance, it was voted the happiest moment of the week!


Finally, a skate photo. Danny Stemper, lipslide the wooden rail. I think this just mostly shows how bad I need to get a radio for my flash. I wish I knew how to save money.

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I guess I too have to answer to Munzy's call. But really, it's summer and who wants to sit inside and attempt to entertain you jerks?

So how many of you saw the billowing clouds of smoke the other day? Josh and I were skating some tennis courts you may or may not have heard about and had a really hard time breathing and keeping our eyes open due to the 4 alarm fire that was taking place some 5 miles away.



It engulfed three businesses and now I hear it was arson.

Speaking of those tennis courts, how come everything there is getting totally destroyed? Is someone coming there and taking a sledgehammer to the obstacles? I don't know about any of you, but I think that place needs to be worked on and stuff should be built.

Theres a new clip up over at the Cream City site, so go check it and while you're there check the upcoming events and plan accordingly.



Everyone knows Stemper kills it on the board, but how many of you know he can kill it on the dance floor? Those ladies do and now so do you.



That Jeff Chase guy is back in town, so you might see some new things to skate at Cream City. Oh, and challenge him to a game of skate and find out how bad you suck at skateboarding. Josh doesn't care about winning or losing, only a good time with a beer and a goat.

Totally, dudes.

Later nerds.

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New podcast, somewhat mellow:
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Looks like we just got called out by Munz over at The Plat hardcore. This comes from guys that run a website for avian jewelry... then again....

I don't know if I'm just a pussy, or I front really hard, but I'm scared to shoot photos on campus. Why you ask... WHY? Why? Cause I work there! And I don't just work there, I represent the place... I am effectively the face of the university.




"Gawd, I'm cute!"

What does this mean? It means I know a number of the police officers on campus and I know they wouldn't hesitate to give me tickets. Ugh. I'm a walking hypocrite. In more ways then one. A few weeks ago, Mr. Sean Hanley, aka Gil, aka Mini Ellis wanted to get shots around campus. I broke and went along with it. I was scared shitless the whole time. But here is what we got...



Sean Hanely, back smith on campus outside of Curtin Hall. Curtin Hall for all you that didn't know was named for Jeremiah Curtin who was supposedly fluent in over 70 languages. Old man curtin was busting his balls to nix the fat ugly American paradox years ago. What are you gonna do today? There... so now you know... and the more you know... the more you can see how often I don't update over at headquarters.

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So Munz wants me to update? I don't really have anything ready right now, so you'll just have to watch this. I know it starts a little slow, but give it a minute. No disappointment will be found here:


PS:


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Last Saturday.


We started the day per usual by eating some very healthy hamburgers and whatnot. Tim wanted to pose by these fliers because his favorite band "The Cock Smokers" are playing really soon.


It has always been the Carn's dream to hide Werthers under Tim's pillow, and Saturday was finally the day. He made the long drive from Chicago Suburban Hell to find that Tim was out of the house for a minute. Perfect timing to deliver his payload of carmelly deliciousness. Later, Tim was unknowingly doing wallrides to fakie whilst candy delights waited for him under his very own pillow. Not something a guy can say about himself on a regular basis.


We're trying to bring the school yard launch back, so the first spot of the day was an obvious choice. Neal Shah's melon got rave reviews. The Carn cried about it and skated flatground. Tim did a pre-grab Judo. I took photos with my shutter speed set faster than the flash syncs. Gabe sat in the shade because he ate too much. I don't know where Pizzy was.


These two photos of Gabe Chan are sort of similar but were taken hours apart. On the left he does a crooked grind to pop out on a ledge with a dangerous foot tangle up/slippery slip out/fall over the other side rating. Right side is a golden hour tailslide on a possibly even more dangerous janky rail that I've been trying to convince someone to skate for years. Gabe knew the golden hour was the right time and made me a very happy boy and himself a very golden boy.


Instead of skating at Cream City that night with Mcguire, Russ, and the Zero friends, we totally blew it and stayed at home, listened to "Doctor Doctor" way too many times, drank beer, and played the Wii. Tim decided that whenever Neal missed a putt on Wii Golf he needed to shoot Neal in the ass with Lord Cru's gat. Only slightly homoerotic.


Sunday was a day of glory. Another 7 Mile Fair trip was exactly what the "Doctor Doctor" ordered.


Everyone knows flat brimmed hats are super cool. At 7 Mile Fair they cost like $2, so why the hell not just get ten of them?


Milki was clearly stoked on her unicorn belt buckle find. I find it amazing that some people have lived in Milwaukee their whole lives and yet have never once been to the 'ol 7 Mile. What more reason do you need?


If the "more reason" needed was the chance to practice your almost forgotten high school Spanish while haggling to buy a Mexican wrestling mask, then yes, you can do that too.


Of course you can also use that wrestling mask to pose with your "Big Box" from KFC. Then you can take a picture of that picture and post it on your website.


Another case of the 'ol Gabe Chan "shove it out is easier" theory on backside tailslides. So yes, this is a backside tailslide shove it out, but you'll just have to imagine the shove it out part. He wanted to do it while wearing the mask but he was too scared he would get it sweaty. The mask would have matched his trucks perfectly though, he should have worn it.


You may have seen a whole bunch of full pipes and half pipes outside a certain building they're tearing down. It may seem like a great idea to try to sneak in there and skate them. We thought so too, and Mike did a pretty sick trick given the sketchiness of the dented up and very sharp edged half pipe. Literally one minute after Mike landed his trick and we were about to leave, we got rushed by the most aggro/nerdy security guard on the face of the planet. He was wielding mace in one hand and his baton in another and he meant business. It was way too late to run, since we had our cameras and boards all over the place, so we had to listen to him. He cuffed us(!), the cops came, but they realized the absurdity of the situation and took the cuffs off and laughed at the security guard with us. After sitting in the back of the cruisers for what seemed like an hour, we got our $160 trespassing tickets and were sent on our way. So I proudly present to you: Mike Roebke's $480 backside disaster.

That brings us almost up to date. Watch this in the mean time:

Looks a lot better than Transformers.

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Guyliner fucked my lover.

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Hey turds, do you remember me? Pretty random when the Carn is posting and I'm not. But hey, you have to promote your "podcasts" somehow, right?

Man, summer is so great. Backyard bbq's, cats, skateboarding, bike rides, fireworks, 7 Mile Fair, drinking....the list goes on and on. Too bad work interferes so much with all the fun stuff. Oh well, HK as they say. I'm still having an amazing summer.



Gabe is usually a pretty mellow guy. But get a few Red Bulls in him and a Mexican wrestling mask over his head and he becomes even more deadly that El Chupacabra. On the left he cuts through some marble with a crooked grind. On the right Gabe becomes who is known as El Maricon Loco! Watch your ass.



Neal was in town again for the past couple of weeks and it was great having him around. Dude loves to skate and drink and just get wacky in general. Too bad he sucks at Wii golf. Here is a sequence of him reacting to a sketchy tailslide Gabe was trying (and did). Maybe Josh will put up the picture of said trick someday.



On Tuesday a few of us went to the Cactus Club to see Dan Deacon. Without going into extreme detail, I can't really describe how amazing the show was. Just make sure to go see him if he happens to come to your city.

In Gary news, he is alive and well, and pissing off Josh all day.

In other news, go to Cream City. But you already knew that.

Later nerds.

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In an effort to keep up to date, here's a super quick July 4 USA USA USA update!


Schoolyard kicker? Check. John Mcguire is in town for USA's birthday and he will do nipple high no complies like he doesn't even care. On the right Gabe Chan does an airwalk. Or maybe it's an anti airwalk. I'm not old enough to know the difference.


Here's gabe with a glorious one foot tailgrab. Makes me so proud to be an American.



When you cookout, don't forget the Thousand Island. USA USA USA!

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So much has happened since my last update that there's no use in summing it up with some retarded paragraph. Instead, I will do what seems to be the longest update in pictures that I've ever done. On a side note, it looks as though Josh added a spell check to the updater. I wonder why....EDIT: Disregard that last comment, it's just the new version of Firefox.

This was our dance party. Steve obviously got MVP, but I assure you that everyone else was killing it along side the handsome man. Check out that fog machine! Here's what happened next...

This is why I stopped drinking altogether.



Textbook piece of shit.

Chinatown from a rooftop.

Now for the goodies...There was a bike ride that took place under the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway). There was a BMX division, and a track bike division. It was pretty rad, although not too many people actually raced, probably due to the fact that the course included running some pretty sketchy intersections. Totally rad to watch though.

I guess Vance has been in town...


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