it starts in this parking lot

Weather:
Spotty, shoddy.

There’s a new puzzle up in the tinker section. I’ve been waiting to post this but I still haven’t managed to get it over to Fat USA Wilson Ledge, so its up.

On the artwork front, check out Sketchbook Mondays and you can see a couple recent things I’ve been doodling. The president zine is almost done. Jason is sending his submission in the mail, so probably next week it’ll be assembled. If your interested in a copy you can email me.

Raising the roof, toxins in the air, out of frame?
Xander and the kazoo, take 2

Marks been painting more. Here’s his lastest.

Mark Gildersleeve

Some random found artwork at Wilson.

hawt?

Freedom?

fishy ply

Suessical.

chulk

This week was my birthday so I figured I should go out and whoop it up. There’s a good night over at the Ashland on Thursdays. Skate videos on every TV, product give away, dollar PBRs, and dollar corndogs. Here’s how the night progressed.

Night of the Living Shred

Grumpy changing dvd’s.

Grumpy

Lou came by for the clam juice.

skates daily

Pretty much the only thing anyone talked about was Northbrook. I think Kevin’s probably been by now.

Natural Born Lurker

Crash and Calabro, suprisingly mellow.

Before it got late

Circustrick was bummed on all the Northbrook hype.

Joanne had Jury duty the next morning

Chad and Nikki got me a happy meal and a card. Best gift this year.

love

At some point the night turned rowdy.

Spencer

And continued on in that direction.

Pat

All in all, a delightful birthday. I’ll be out whooping it up again in 11 or 12 months.

I’m missing the Big Black reunion at the moment and it’s been grey all day.

Hot Doug is on vacation.

Riser pads made from broken calculators

Weather:
Rain, clouds, more rain, humidity, drizzles, and finally, nice enough.

I didn’t post last week and this week has been hectic so this will have some footage, some pictures and some links. Pretty much like every other week but not as detailed. If I don’t write about stuff when its fresh then it gets pushed out by other events. So here’s the summary….

janky moving pictures=
Spencer during the 5 in 5 roadtrip. Tail to backwards.
Alex out of the city bumps the vert curb.
Xander pops into the plywood and Chad plays kazoo.
Spencer with the hat twirl.

Artlurking
Natasha’s website is up and rolling. Exquisite photography of the fine feminine form.
Polly has started up SketchbookMondays again. Find out about it here.

I have some a stack of stuff to upload and a stack of stuff to send out. None of this will be happening anytime soon. The president entry’s have been making me smile. Keep them coming. Again the date has been changed to 9/1. There’s always time.

Last Saturday Quicksilver brought Hosoi out for a demo to promote his new movie. Shoester has some choice video clips up. James from CTS put an hour of the demo up here.

Here’s some legends and Calabro..

Stevie Dread, Hosoi, Calabro

Sunday, I went on the 5 parks 5 hours old man trip. Thanks to Lou for driving and Capt. Phil for putting it together again. This was my favorite thing.

This park had hubbas in the bowls for some reason

Eric’s new set up.

Fine work

There was a parade in one of the northern Illinois republican towns we visited. They love taxes.

They sure love taxes

One the way home we saw this truck that loved jesus.

Hay Zeus

That’s it for this week. High fives all around.