I’ve spent a lovely night at home tonight, alone, dutifully exploring leisure in several formats. My evening’s viewing schedule lead me to the very last feature in my instant que, Never Been Done. I didn’t really know what I was getting into with this documentary and I sure couldn’t remember ever adding it to my [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
“Never Been Done”
Posted in Review, Skateboarding Tagged Jon Comer, Never Been Done, Powell Skateboards, X-Games Leave a comment
Deckcrafter’s Blood Diamond Review
Here’s a review of the Deckcrafter’s Blood Diamond from our Senior Golden Years Correspondant, Trevor: I’ve spent many, many years snowboarding and riding a 42inch longboard around town. When I decided to get back into pool/park skateboarding last year I didn’t know much about it at all anymore. I started my newest venture down the [...]
Pelican Box Set, Pelican Beer
Pelican is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary of deliciously textured instrumental metal this year with a box set, limited to 500 in a wooden box containing their 4 LPs and 3 EPs on Viva Hate Records. They’ll also be playing a show at the Bottom Lounge on October 23rd. And, yes, 3 Floyd’s is releasing an [...]
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Bottom Lounge, Chicago, Gapers block, Pelican, Three Floyds, Viva Hate Records Leave a comment
Seattle Snowboard Connection
I wanted to tip my proverbial hat to the Seattle Snowboard Connection for being some real nice folks running a great shop. We were both knuckleheads and packed our pads in our checked bags for our return flight meaning, once we were stranded in Seattle, we needed to pick up new gear in order to [...]
Posted in Gear, Review, Skateboarding, Snowboarding Tagged Blood Wizard, Seattle Snowboard Connection Leave a comment
Back from Seattle
Arrived last night from Seattle after an AA fare sale kept us stuck in the northwest a few days longer than planned. I’ve uploaded some photos from the trip to the facebook account, but who knows, I might even post something more extensive about it here. The trip was amazing, we hit 6 parks – [...]
Posted in Event, Fishing, Review, Skateboarding Tagged Ballard Bowl, Burien, Concrete Disciples, Desert West Skate Plaze, Marginal Way, Milton, Phoenix, Renton, Seattle, Woodland Leave a comment
Wheel Chair Vert Riding
I didn’t realize people did this. Check out these maniacs.
‘Death To False Prophets’ Mural @ 3 Floyd’s
This here’s a video documenting the creation of the ‘Death to False Prophets’ mural at the 3 Floyd’s brewery in Indiana. The video features music from Bible of the Devil and was pulled off my new favorite blog Bomb Chicago which documents graffiti and street art in this city of broad shoulders.
Half Acre’s Freedom of ’78
Friday saw the release of Half Acre‘s collective hat tip to America’s most sexually articulate rock duo, Ween. They had been hyping this collaboration with Short’s Brewing since Ween came to town back at the end of June. Right from the nose you know this is a Half Acre effort. Aside from the noticeable addition [...]