This was a board I did for a show at Lou’s gallery a few years back. Grant got it framed and now it looks legit.

Throwback.

Weiner and Still Champ.

Frytastic.

The Party Downers record release.

Serious Shredding.

Emo Ninja. Logan graffiti.

Steak and Al Pastor. Lunch with dudes.

I spent a ton of time making calendars of the past few months and I’m happy to say that they are all gone!

More tacos. Big Star.

Skated Krush a few weeks back. Steve doing his best Eazy-E impression.

Diwali. Chicken Shwarma.

This pumpkin has been in front of my apartment since halloween. It melted slowly.

Mista Pizza. Cracker crust.

Amazing Chicago Winter Sun.

Got up early one morning and headed out of town.

Westward Bound. Mountains and sun.

First stop.

Crinklefries and tacos.

Arizona sunset.

Dinner at the Chuckbox

Burgers cooked up by the Big Juan

Not too shabby.

Nate opted for some falafel.

Their demands are simply.

Sweet Crew

Are you guys a team?

No.

Oh just a bunch of friends who skate together?

Doing it.

On vacation.

This was my favorite park of the trip. Suhail kicks out the jams.

Charlie with a boneless one over the hip.

Nate over the bench one way.

And the other way.

Palm trees.

I’ve been trying to eat healthier. The guy making this sandwich hooked us all up with his discount. I think he also wanted us to go skate some stairs.

Off brand Chuck Norris calendar.

Arizona’s largest trophy shop.

We did some ditch searching.

A few were completely washed out. Others needed work.

There was a pretty good szechuan developing at this one.

Bic pen punk.

They still haven’t fixed this. (go back and look at last years AZ post for reference if need be)

We also headed to the mall.

If I wasn’t trying to eat healthy I would have been all over this. I also didn’t have a pretzel.

This Spencer’s gift had lingerie. The one I remember had whoopi cushions. Times change.

AuqaMassages after a day of skating? Why not we’re on vacation.

This airbrush stand had a bunch of weird alcohic stuff for babies. It’s an odd niche.

I think we ended most of our nights here.

One night there was somebody with a broken leg.

One night there was a girl dressed like Lady Gaga.

One night some kids boxed for some reason.

It’s how plaza’s should be built.

Lot’s of weird obstacles.

Lot’s of fun banks.

Del Taco.

Chandler.

The twinkie.

Deliciousness.

WWWWWWHHHHAAAAAATTTTTTTT.

OOOOOKKKKKKKKAAAAYYYYYY.

One morning we went to the wedge. It’s monsterous.

They were a few thugs getting blunted and waxing things up.

ScootThugz!

We found out there was a scootering contest.

So we got to work.

And split before it got any weirder.

Botox on the cheap.

One morning this was on TV. It was mesmerizing.

Pecos is always fun.

Rail challenge champion.

Last morning of the trip.

Doubles.

Tim Ward.

Signature manuever.

That was the Arizona trip. I’m already looking forward to the next one.

Back in Chicago, Marie’s Pizza with green peppers.

This is one of the best burgers I’ve had in a while. Pretzel Roll. Nicely prepared. I’ll be back soon.

This is where I found it. I like the mascot.

Arluck Time.

I’ll be putting up the link for the cd and the other merch next time. Buy some stuff. It’s the right thing. This was a humbling celebration of a life well lived.

I headed back to the zoo a few weeks ago.

Mostly to find out more about this.

But then I saw this.

And lost my mind.

Aladdins. There was a curry wrap there that was top notch.

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Checked out the Metal vs. Wood show at 360see.

Metal Nikes.

Paper plane.

Closer.

Singh.

This is my cat Chorizo looking like an old time movie star or some sort of a creepy ghost monster.

Alex had a birthday in Novemeber. This is the how the annual portrait turned out.

Back before the weather turned against the world Stephen went frontside.

I liked both pictures so I put them both up. A straight up shredder. He’s got a good head on his shoulders.

Some sort of desert French Toast breakfast at Overeasy. I normally have a salt based breakfast but once a year I go sweet.

Monkey.

A while back I was the artist in the window at Uncle Fun.

It was pretty fun. A ton of homies came by. I got some work done. Fantastic!

I was working on these things. I turned them into…

That’s right, the Such Luck 2010 calendar. I’m still finishing these up. If you don’t get yours in a week or two give me a yell and I can remail another one.

See there was a bunch of postal problems.

As you can see everyday is Veteran’s Day. Hopefully they’ll bounce back or you’ve received one. I have a few extras. Like I said, if you want one give me a yell.

Randomly.

Beef?

Beef.

Winter times.

Checked out this show at the Cultural Center. It was pretty good but…

This show was amazing. I hate to rant about how great shows are when they’re gone but I loved it. Went back twice.

Spacca Napoli.

We got there before it was open.

The owner invited us in and cooked us a breakfast pizza for free while we waited for everything to be ready. It was delicious. Then we ate our actual meal. That guy seems to really love what he does and that’s always inspiring to see. Makes me want to do more.

There hasn’t been much skating.

Still snuck in a trip up to Cream City.

This guy was in town to do some holiday high fiving.

He also got to enjoy some snow.

Parking blocks.

I always forget about this bowl.

 

Ian’s BBQ chicken and chicken taco pizza.

Dimestore added to my arm and gave me a kickass black light painting.

I trecked up to Evanston to try out Edzo’s.

Garlic Fry’s. Pretty serious.

Winter is good time for adventuring.

Alex had a pretty awesome show at Beck’s. I was really impressed with the final result.

The windows to the walls.

Turboism.

Buster.

There was a lot to look at.

Seriously. Art everywhere.

This guy.

Twizzlers

This one’s for Szymanskeeee.

Chris showed up. He has a show next month. You should have read about it on Parking Block.

Coffee shelter.

Meatball sandwich at Fontana Subs.

I thought the peppers were great.

Beware.

Still lurking spots.

This guy was transporting a time machine.

Contemporary art.

Wintering.

Calamity.

Tongue twister werewolfing.

Burger at The Counter. Looks better than it was.

I took this picture of the moon at 11:00 in the morning.

Torta from Xoco.

Bean day.

Columbian Empanadas at Macondo.

Chicken.

Cheese.

Sunglass tree,

Lucky Sandwich. Slaw on the side.

I got the best gift for Christmas and it wasn’t even a gift. My father is moving and he gave me a box of stuff that he found. In that box was this fine product and a tape with random footage from a day in 89 or 90. Look for an edit of that in a month of two. It gets me hyped and makes me laugh. Pretty amazing.

Only a few more months.

Crooked letter saint.

Twice a year I watch the marathon.

“The focus of Dude Life is just dudes who are into stuff, whatever that stuff may be. Primarily, it is skateboarding, babes, tacos, hot dogs, rock and roll, jobs without bosses, beers, road trips, art, and buddies,” says Ryan McClennan.

Hot Steve had relocated to Miami. It’ll be weird not seeing him at Wilson.

Arluck.