Easter Pink

April 9th, 2012 | 8:48 am | Daily News | 9 Comments

How much did Melo’s game winning shot (and Rose and Deng’s missed free throws, for that matter) have to do with the legendary Frank Costanza sitting courtside yesterday? (Visible at 1:06 with his non-biological son.)

E.J. now has a dedicated website Tumblr for his photos at FuckYouEmilio.tumblr.com. A lot of Tompkins photos, some some cute lookbook shots, and this epic photo of unlikely caucasian favorite, Araabmuzik.

Phat Stylez came through with a mini retrospective on Aesthetics, easily one of the phattest skate brands of all time. Part 1, part 2. Watch Ryde of Die before you put on your bucket hat to go skateboarding today.

Late, but here’s the video for the New Orleans, Birmingham, and Atlanta portion of the Map Masquerade tour. New Orleans is easily one of the better-looking parts of America, and Suciu and Jake kill it. (Loosely Related: Here’s Jake backside noseblunting the rail-to-bank at St. Vincent’s.)

It’s good to see 12th & A / East Side Community High getting some good press about their involvement with skateboarding after the nonsense that caused 12th & A to get shut down late last year. (No, it’s still not open for public use.)

“What’s the history behind Palace?” “Took a gap decade after getting das boot from school, hit 27, had a mid-life (crisis) and decided to start a good skateboard company out of the UK.” The last Palace x Umbro link.

Our good friend, Adam Abada, made a homie-cam / iPhone clip chronicling this past mellow winter. It has no wallies in it.

Speaking of iPhones, some kid in China sold a kidney so he could buy one. A life with one kidney is better than a life without Instagram.

Have custom cut cruiser shapes gone too far? Jason Jesse made an AK-47 shaped cruiser. Unfortunately, it’s shaped like the gun, and not a skateboard silhouette of Russian forward for the Utah Jazz, Andrei Kirilenko, who wears #47.

While researching last week’s post about bulky skate shoes, this Donger Puma commercial came up. Here’s a play by play: He skates up to a set of stairs, opens a laptop, some chick pulls up in a convertible, she walks past him, he stares at her ass in leopard print pants, she turns around, they make long eye contact, she walks away, and he then decides he’s better off doing an ollie over her car. Oh, and Korn is playing in the background the entire time. Imagine that pitch meeting…

Quote of the Week: “What’s D7? The chicken wing spot?” — Tufty


Have a good week everyone.

Jerry, it’s Frank Costanza, Steinbrenner’s here, George is dead, call me back

January 25th, 2010 | 11:55 pm | Daily News | 8 Comments

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Today is the ten year anniversary of two of the last decade’s top ten rap records (number one, and number eight or nine, respectively). This date marked the beginning of the end for New York’s hold on musical relevancy that expired around the time Trap Muzik came out, and has not experienced a resurgence since. And probably never will. (Disclaimer to casual readers: Quarter snacks does not acknowledge modern genres of music outside of rap, so MGMT, Animal Collective, and other Brooklyn bands do not have any effect on the city’s musical relevancy.)

In the midst of all the Banks-being-closed-for-four-years talk, the dream topic of the Little Banks’ reinstatement is something that should be addressed. If you have any ideas as to how to convince the idiots in the public works department who prefer overgrown weeds, homeless people and heroin needles over skateboarders that a revival would be a good look, please share your ideas here.

Anthony Pappalardo is like the Stephan Marbury of skateboarding. He’s somehow Converse’s star player, but literally doesn’t do anything. I know that half of Long Island will be out for blood upon reading that, but after about a decade, old video parts don’t really subsidize a lack of heart when the rest of the team is out there on the court killing it every night. Someone give Sammy Baca a shoe, he actually skates.

So much for the Parks Department’s age-old excuse of kicking us out because we’re “damaging the property.” Last time I checked, snow doesn’t experience “property damage.” But they seem to feel otherwise. At least we’re not the only ones suffering at the hands of discrimination.

Still pretty much the best European on a skateboard after all these years.

What an idiot.

Quote of the Week: “He has yellow fever. I don’t like niggas who got yellow fever.” – B.B. the Boss

Worst Decision in Syndication History

September 21st, 2009 | 11:37 pm | Daily News | 22 Comments

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Thanks for ruining the routine I have had for the past eight years, scumbags.

P.S. Any questions about the relevancy of this post or demands for “real” updates will be deleted. This is bigger than skateboarding.

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“I’m Sitting At Home, Reading a Periodical…

March 8th, 2007 | 7:21 pm | Daily News | 10 Comments

…and this is the call I get? My son is a bootlegger?”

Not really sure how much bootlegging I’m about to be involved in, granted that this video is free in the first place, but let’s just say I’m saving you the trouble of having to leave your house and going down to a shop to pick it up yourself.

This is the New 411 Up For Grabs DVD with the New York City section. Everybody who had seen it before me told me that it sucks. It’s nothing amazing, and certainly isn’t like like the last NYC section they had, but its worth a couple watches either way. The problems in it are mostly in the fact that 75% of the people in it are kids who came here from Cali over the summer, but I guess that’s pretty much more at fault of everyone here not submitting more footage (or saving it for some video thats going to wind up free on the internet anyway). A lot of it is recycled (the last trick is about three years old), and there’s a lot of B-Footage scattered about as well.

Luis, Rodney, Falla, Billy, Steve (for wallriding a chain-link fence…) and Nolan all hold it down though, and Brandon Westgate has a pretty sick line on Water Street. AND THANK YOU, for having the whole montage not be a mixture of the Staten Island ledges (which aren’t in it at all!), Flushing, and Chinatown Manual Pad (also not in the entire thing!). They switched it up on the spots, which is definitely a good thing.

Frankly, they should’ve used this song for it (sooooo New York, right?) instead of some dude nobody’s ever heard of, but we can’t all get what we want. 411 needs some thug motivation

And as for the rest of the video, all I have to say is Nate Sherwood’s intro is bar-none, at the top of the (already really long, pause) list of annoying intros.

Filmed by: Bryan Chin, Steve Marino, Ewan Bowman, Tom Colabaro, Seamus Deegan, Chris Mulhern, Dan Santiago, RB Umali, Justin “Tookie” White

Download the NYC Section to your harddrive [92.9MB]

Watch the NYC Section on Youtube

Download the whole video [287.7MB]

Send me a cease and desist letter for bootlegging a free video

If you want a DVD copy, your local shop should probably have it.