Caught in between

This is what albuquerque looks like from a mountain.
This is what Megan looks like from a mountain.
This is what I look like on a mountain. (insert Van Halen "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" lyrics here)
I'm starting to think kooky longboarders are as useful as they are annoying- with those dipshits whizzing around all over the place we seemed to skate UNM undetected. Mike- tre flip
Hotel Blue view
Ray Chavez lipslides a rough one.
Grant and Mikey Indian School dawn patrol session on space ship Earth.
Slappy 5-0 ph- Grant
Mikey- 5-0 ph- GrantCrooked Grinder to fakie. ph- Mike
Mike Sanchez- 5-0; he's got a full interview coming in the next Shark Bait. There's a bunch of heavy shit in the next Shark Bait- you'll be hyped.
Went to see the Isotopes last game of the season- and hung out with The Simpsons.
Marge squared.
First night in town- Ray Chavez front board (iphone and ran through instagram)
Megan- Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Really cool museum.
Grant found this cat by the lake here a while back abandoned. I'd like to think I helped guilt him into keeping her- she's awesome. (and so is he for bringing her home)
Saw Riverboat Gamblers @ The Launchpad
Uh huh.
Grant's garage- the gals look on while we ride his two quarterpipes that make up a baby mini ramp.
Blunted.
5-0- these little ramps were so fun.

Polar bear plays and Ray slays an ollie at the D.I.Y. spot they have going now. It's super fun and I was honored to get to help pour a tiny bit of concrete on the little bowled section (not pictured). If this place stays secret and the cops don't find it, it will be super good at the rate they're going.

Cut the Chord

Took Dr. Biederman (feeble) over to Pawhuska yesterday for a fun session. Then I mangled my wrist and now I have to wear this splint for 3 weeks until I can get more x-rays to see if any of the bones in there are broken. Three weeks is a long time for a skateboarder and if nothing is broke now, I'm pretty certain it will be by the time I go back. That's life.

Hecka Tight

So Vans had this weird concept for people in Texas and Oklahoma to "Get out and do something". I never really need any encouragement and wouldn't generally consider going to the mall "doing something", but there's no way in hell I'm not going to jump at a chance to see Ray Barbee and John Cardiel. John Cardiel or DJ Juan Love played nice reggae tunes for everyone and it was cool to just give that guy a big-ass high-five and bullshit for a minute. (even got to do a little top 5 segment for the next Shark Bait in between his sets). Ray Barbee played live with the Mattson 2 and they actually have at least one album out- I believe their title is just Ray Barbee and the Mattson 2- it's on Galaxia if you're interested. It's all instrumental and if someone asked me to put a label on it I would call it "groovy elevator music" and not mean that in a derogatory way whatsoever. I was happy Friz brought along his VHS copy of Ban This" to get signed, that's pretty golden to have and and the Barbee signature makes it that much better. I though of bringing my Ray Barbee Krooked "Gest" board and my John Cardiel (that rad Lance Mountain series) to get signed, but didn't feel much like lugging them around a mall or having them in a hot car. This was a great time considering where it was and it was an honor to meet two guys who are literally in my top 5 skateboarders of all time.

Harmony Parking Lot

Pretty rad mail day for 'zines! You can have your own rad mail day too by getting BORDERLINE RETARDED here and LOWCARD here. I kind of hit the motherload on my first time getting "published" as a photographer here with six shots in a spread! (too bad I didn't get the photo cred, but I don't really care because Scott got credit for the writing and The Board Shop got a bunch of coverage.) Thanks a lot for using my photos to The Board Shop and LOWCARD- you can pick up this 'zine there while supplies last as well as the whole line of t-shirts and whatnot. (Shark Bait too for that matter!)

Broken hearted boys like me are everywhere you look.

New Smash stickers and new Shark Bait! Just 2 bucks on the right....
DJ Fort- nollie frontside noseslide (Go Skateboarding Day@ Mohawk Park in Tulsa)
Jordan Rudichuk switch bigspin heels for Jesus.
Seth ollies for the hell of it.
Chris Albright- frontside grind the taco
DJ Fort- nollie crooks
Brian McNair- grind of death
These aren't from "Go Skateboarding Day", but we went skating anyway. Seth- smith
Wesley- kickflip. (judging by the height of this, he should've just done the "big" rail instead)