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I agree fully with this article. I especially like the word “sucktitude.”

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What can I say except that it was an awesome movie? Not much. As far as I know from watching the original documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys and being a skateboarder for years it seemed to be right along with the story. I guess it should be since it was written by Stacy Peralta. The filming was really well done. All the angles while they were skateboarding were artistic and innovative like todays skateboard videos.(One of my favorites: Menikmati by es’ footwear)

I thought the actors did pretty well, especially the kid who played Jay Adams. I was not particularly fond of Tony Alva’s character… but you have to admit that he started the revolution in skateboarding for style, tricks, and branding skateboarders. Overall I really enjoyed the film and would tell you to go see it. For a couple of reasons: It’s a true story, heath ledger and johnny knoxville are cool actors, skateboarding and surfing is cool, the z boys are cool.

Here’s my very short story how I met Larry Gordan, or Gordan and Smith (G & S) a couple years ago…. so here it is. I was in a summer surf camp one summer (before I could drive myself to the beach) and one day we took a trip to the G & S factory in La Jolla. It was a pretty small shop, with surfboards being shaped in the back, a few offices and tons of surfboards all over the place. We were able to talk to him a little bit, take a mini tour and he signed cut offs of foam from shaping surfboards for us. So that’s my little claim to

I have now found the time to write about the blaze in my suite building this last weekend. Well okay, it wasn’t really a blaze, yet there was smoke! The alarm went off at about 1 am… right in the middle of a movie Kristi and I were watching. We at first thought it was a drill, then saw our pissed off Hall Cordinators face and thought that there was either really a fire, or somebody had pulled the alarm.

There was a fire. It was a small electrical fire as far as I know, no real damage. So we went outside and signed in and sat around for awhile with all the rest of the people that were at school for the weekend. Minute by minute tension rised as two fire trucks pulled up and firemen entered the building to take care of it. There wasn’t that much smoke, yet enough to notice from a distance. We were all kinda worried, yet you wouldn’t be able to tell. Some people were playing with a football, some taking pictures, and the rest of us were just talking amoungst ourselves.

Once that was done Kristi and I walked around to see if we could see anything. While walking outside Kristi saw one of the locks the firemen had cut off of the chains that keep cars from going on a street behind the building. She was to scared to take it, so I did! I decided to take a photo for memories sake. So that was one exciting thing that happened over memorial day weekend.

On a side note, Kristi’s kat, Moo has passed away. Rest in peace Moo.