Lick my Ballins

Yaa mon

2010-12-27T18:56:00.001-08:00

Funky enjoys the "American lifestyle" with some good ol Mad Dog...the old school equivalent of 4 Loko

Shits poppin

Is this Va?

Gun show

2010-12-27T07:35:00.001-08:00

Gun show, gun show, gun show...bring your guns, bring your knives, bring your wives

I don't know how a plastic gun is supposed to work but apparently they can get through metal detectors

Sale 10 deep each, I just found out they have brass nuckle like tazers

I don't think these have many recreational purposes

Choppers

Location:Hampton Va

2010-11-15T06:59:00.001-08:00

"I use to drink the O.E. down to the sticker
Pour in the Guinness Stout to make it thicker
Black Eightball y`all, I`m still drinkin after last call"
-J Ro

Hill Ro

Apparently these really enhance your social skills

I'm sure these convos made some peoples nights and gave them something to talk about but there were some victims as well

Oh yeah and happy bday dirty D!!

Totally Nectar primo

2010-11-10T07:04:00.001-08:00

Sick vid! Probably the best friend vid I've seen...especially since it's all diy/not backed by a company.

Kyle sets shit off for his masterpeice

Nik still smiles after sliding about 8 ft, high speed on his back

So yea it's a sick vid. The rest of my photos are even swaggyer (it was a rowdy premier) and don't do this vid justice, so go peep it for yourself.

Afterwards, we dispersed and continued raging it..
Emery showing Funky the finer points of American culture- parties and chicks!

Without too many words thank you for letting us off! Don't really want to spell this out here but were lucky as fucky!

Ya...we

2010-09-29T05:34:00.001-07:00

When 2 buses simultaneously try to get through this intersection they ain't going no where. This is intersection by Perkins in the southsizzle and has been a particular burden to my morning migration as of late.

There's some pro baseball that looks like Mikey Taylor

A southside sunset

The sewer session was the grimiest basement session ever. "I can back up my shit like Geech's basement"

Potts' 30th Birfday

2010-09-27T09:40:00.001-07:00

Happy 30th dog. Gotta come outta retirement a grind a 30 stair...or how many stairs are that hubba in Philly? Maybe there already

I still can't figure this shit out

Potts is flossing a blackberry these days. Who'da thunk it? Maybe he thinks of it as a Black(sabbath)Berry

The neighbors didn't bug as if we were having a 9/11 party.

Drivin craze

2010-09-27T09:30:00.001-07:00

After you pull a knife at the bar, you best be out quick. Buuut you can't drive through big brick walls.

Lights out

First Friday

2010-09-04T21:35:00.001-07:00

Well I could post more stuff but that would be cheating. Go to Homebase and see fo yo self!

Get r done

Steinart is a new southside transplant. He's already been corrupted

Bike brigade after party

2010-09-02T18:41:00.001-07:00

A bike brigade took over the plaz today.
P loc shares a comb over

Random update

2010-08-26T06:24:00.001-07:00

Spotted Mr Dibs on the southside

Ice cream goes well with mullets

Homestretch thanks to Gleason I am motivated again

Hill wanted a blog cameo so here you go Chilly Hill

Sunday Funday P2

2010-08-23T09:13:00.001-07:00

We went to this irish bar and got whiskey smashes which are like mojitos with whiskey
Neil in the house!

Liam getting emo

Sunday Funday

2010-08-23T08:49:00.001-07:00

I don't think I could control myself if I lived in the city
Sunday brunch and it's all down hill from here

Happy Birthdays!! Adam and Janet

Mc-Fizzle

Whoa-o

2010-08-23T08:42:00.001-07:00

It got fratty at the bar in NYC

2010-08-21T09:16:00.001-07:00

Turkey leg fool! Ain't no chicken wang

U can buy these from late night tv...wrap em around yer sack for a massage

The Great White Caps at volksplatz musikfest

Throw up yer 610's ...and growl??

Northside park in Norfolk

2010-08-13T11:46:00.000-07:00

Hi hatas I'm back from hiatus...
Peeped the northside park on Norfolk. The grindline dudes were workin on this after they did the plaza in Bethlehem. Should be done soon and it right by my 'rents crib...I see a fall road trip coming together

NYC comp and skate

2010-04-17T20:15:00.001-07:00

Hit up the city today. Billy Rohan throws these comps for dough. It's simple you land tricks and thy give you cash. Today was in this park in harlem with some obstacles set up for the extreme stuntas.
Here's the am, the legendary Muska was in the house. I didn't see any fold flips on the quarter pipe buy he was mcing with his Luke Skywalker sypras

Then we hit the city and did the Dj synyster voice all day...good times

Super breakfast

2010-04-02T08:17:00.001-07:00

DR Trip

2010-03-26T15:09:00.001-07:00

Just got scooped up in Miami, back from the DR.

The ocean and the beaches are sick

Here's on of the many shitty aspects of the country, the toll ran out change and we had to back up.

Overall I'd say it is a dope place to visit, on the other hand it has 3rd world aspects that could make you never want to go back. Definitely not for sensitive people and you have to be agressive or your gringo ass will get rolled.

Kurtz first time off lift

2010-02-28T12:01:00.001-08:00

Bear Crick

2010-02-27T18:46:00.001-08:00

After many struggles we were strapped up and ready to roll

Peace

Projectile

2010-02-27T07:34:00.001-08:00

Fools got sprayed up at sottos

2010-02-24T19:53:00.000-08:00

Out in western pa, the burbs of pittsburgh. The only place within walkin distance has karaoke tonight. Woo! Don't think I'm gonna bust out the humpty dance tonight

Get your vert skirt

2010-01-30T16:57:00.001-08:00

From wall street to Vert walls...Alan kills it. Welcome to his facility

Used to be open here now its fully bowled out

Check www.churchpews.com so you can lace up a few of these

The beast

This thing woops yer ass especially now that you gotta run out the deep end. Check the Hawaii 5-0 knee pads

2010-01-14T12:44:00.001-08:00

Melted into Molten lounge for Jaguar NoNo's birfday. Happy Birthday homie!!
And congrats on the new keyless shotgun technique...I see a shotgun grill-fest in the near future

Butcher still finds time to go out for some drinks when he's not getting covers on the latest bike mags

Eric and Lawrenzo weren't phased by lava either

Cap Cee, of B104 fame,is on the 1s and 2s every Tuesday at Molten lounge in the Sands. They have drink specials too but apparently I wasn't aware of this.
The scene is kinda clubbed out, think jersey shore. But it could have some promise in the future, the table games are coming this summer.

Railin it

2010-01-08T19:10:00.001-08:00

For all the heshians out there...there happens to be a rail on route 13 on the Va/Md border.

Va trip cont'd

2010-01-08T08:21:00.000-08:00

After the fish tourny we went to Va beach to party. Chee had the hotel hook up.

Here you have a group of girls on a birthday that mingled with some old women. They decide to do blow job shots and throw whip cream all over. There boyfriends were psyched especially short stuff/CB

Just wakin up

Oh yea it hit 70 degrees this day and it wad like 40 in Pa. Dang I need a plane

Skateplaza groundbreaking

2010-01-08T08:11:00.001-08:00

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a4_4plaza2.71392952jan07,0,1442863.story

Someone asked how this would help add jobs in the area. Well my bar tab definitely kept 1 bartender employed, in the after celebration.
But on a more serious note this will bring attention to the southside which has been neglected over the years. Then comes more stores, restaurants, etc because we all need drinks, food, gas, and gear when we skate.

Va fishin tourny - James river stripers

2010-01-05T07:41:00.001-08:00

Headed down to Va for the James River Fishin tournament.

Getting the gear ready the night before

We didn't get up for the 6 am opening buzzer but we still had a buzz from the night before

Va had just got pounded by a nor'easter that was worse than most hurricanes, so the conditions sucked and the water was raging out of the river.
I earned a new nickname "freshwater phil". I somehow managed to scrap it out and bring our only fish in. It was 1/4 inch over the 18" limit.

Normal people would be too embarrassed to bring in such a dinker but we thought we had a chance at the $100 smallest legal fish award

Only 3 boats had brought in fish when we weighed in.

We didn't end up winning the $100 and now I feel bad for killin a small fish that should swimming around still. This prize does not support conservation

Chick doing some sidework on the dock after the tourney... We stay grindin son

Raekwon Cuban Linx 2 show in Philly

2010-01-05T07:12:00.001-08:00

"y'all cats can't touch Rae's purple tape"

So Me Novy and Geech assembled at the god hour after studying up on our 120.
Stopped at the Tavy for some grubbage before we hit the road

Novy tweets while Steve speeds by

Geech was breaking in the new Beamer

Sean P was rockin the red black lumberjack wit the hat to match.
He killed it, rockin new and old shit. No hypeman, just straight bangers

It was too dark for photos during Rae's set but he killed it too.
I'm digging the new energy bringing back the shit I grew up on.

Bub Rub

2010-01-05T06:56:00.001-08:00

Dirty D's b-day golf

2010-01-05T06:47:00.001-08:00

Dirty D coordinated a group of us playing the 18 hole Bethlehem Muni. So we got some 30 packs and we were all pretty much there at 11 am, early for a Saturday.
Let me first start with a story of our "friend" who lurked us out on the 1st tee box. I guess he mis-counted our group and thought he could hop in an open seat of a cart instead of walking. Well our carts were full and we weren't lacking friends like this herb. Some of his nicknames were insta-buddy, Nofriendo, etc. Anywho he lurked on our sesh for the first 9 holes, for those who don't golf that's takes about 2 hrs

Dustin got all spiffed (and spliffed) up for the occasion

Steve came from philly to woop all our asses. He doesn't swing all the way on the back swing but it goes straight everytime and still plenty far. I'm calling it the Hen"check-swing"

O yea I should mention that Dustin chose to drive ahead of my shot (I'm deflecting the guilt here) and then I totally wanked a shot. He thought that kneeling down would keep him safe but my ball smacked right upside his dome.

Dustins b-day golf cont'd

2010-01-05T06:37:00.001-08:00

Eddie rolled thru to play and was thrilled to finally get rid of Insta-buddy

I think Eddie needs different clubs for tall people

Dustins homie Chris was out and another insta-buddy victim

Colbert smokes and strokes

Test

2010-01-05T06:29:00.001-08:00

Hdhdhdh

Thai kitchen Sat. 10/31

2009-11-03T08:28:00.001-08:00

Headed out to Thai Kitchen for grubbage
Colberg

Val chillin with the master chef

Colbert after eating the ghost chilli, the worlds hottest pepper! You can't see the sweat in this pic but like a true ghost it came back to haunt him late at night for a few days

Flu scare

2009-11-03T08:20:00.002-08:00

Yep I came down with something last week. With all the swine flu going around, they diagnosed me with the flu. I guess fever = flu but the doctor was too lazy too do the swab test I guess

Turns out Dustin got the same shit and his doctor said it was bronchitis. Hmmm? O well I was out a few days and I'm better now

After shop meeting grub@ Cherry's Caribean

2009-11-03T08:20:00.001-08:00

The squad rolled down 4th st after a meeting at Homabase.
Bam! Cherry's Carribean, prepare for bangin fried and jerk chicken, the best mac and cheese ever!

Fried uh huh

Kurtz even gotta peice of fried chicky

"what should I call my blog hmmm"

Eskandalo Halloween Party 10/24/09

2009-11-03T08:13:00.001-08:00

Bubba-juice

Val helped kill everyone

We peaced out to Nates party in Easton. As much as I want to do everything, timing was bad here. They were all shit canned and out of beer, but we still salvaged a good time

Adlib etc show at Sterling

2009-11-03T08:07:00.001-08:00

Doing my best to rep the Valley rap scene. Adlib on the mic...

Aeyone?

Had to peece out for week night work curfew

Sammies on the back 9

2009-11-03T08:02:00.001-08:00

Dirty D and hit up the Bethlehem Muni. Course for a full 18. It was on a Saturday I think October 17. The weekend before the Halloween skatejam, no wonder both of us got wooped by the Doly in SKATE.
Anywho the sammies on the turn were mad good and much needed sobering for 9 more holes

Exotic (aka weird) artshow in stroudsburg

2009-11-03T07:55:00.001-08:00

I'm not exactly sure how I got involved with thing thing. Thought it was a photography artshow or something, but it turns out it was an erotic art show...
The squad, makin it a party again

Lorna had some peices up

Shit got weird with this skit thing they did. We we trapped in and had visions of kool aid man busting through the wall

Horny

Tight

Aftermath records

WTF was that?

Cheesesteak Mission

2009-10-26T13:13:00.001-07:00

Cheesesteaks were on order after a big night of wedding boozing
We met up at Pats, yeah I'm kinda a Ginos hater. Rocky went to Pats enough said, fuck a Boyz 2 Men video

Well I thought I was good for round two and I hadn't ever been to Tony Lukes, the locs fav

Unfortunately by the time I got my food the hangover was in full swing and I wasn't very hungry for another cheesesteak...I'll have to go back. I would say their operations isn't as efficient as Pats. I mean you can barely get out a "wiz wit" by the time your sammy comes out. Tony lukes takes you order and gives you a number, which took a while. Oh yea and don't wait behind the people who have the slips, they ordered already. Of course I wouldn't do something so stupid, but this other dumbass...

Romano and Andrea's wedding cont'd

2009-10-26T13:04:00.001-07:00

Walker pounds some zambuca and the countdown to disaster starts. Everything seemed like a good time until Gary pops up all bloody. I guess punches were thrown and a bottle to the face was the result. Gary going to the emergency room is nbd but Greg's dad was on the bus too and wasn't to psyched

Had to get a hankasaurus shot

Greg wanted to choke Liam after the bus scene but ended up letting him slide

Ramono and Andrea's wedding

2009-10-26T12:57:00.001-07:00

I barely got there on time (I know what you're thinking and fuck you! Haha) to make it on the bus. These fools had already been drinkin. This is Gary the number one "that guy". I've ever known and he is hammered already...more on this later

The church scene..the hired photographers were ice grillin cuz they want you to buy their pictures not take your own.

Alright we got that overwith now let's get to the bar

Dance

Sing

Hank is looking for his last song partner

Bottles on the bus home...the beginning of the end

First Friday October '09

2009-10-26T08:01:00.001-07:00

You know how we do son. Stand up!
Ok I'll calm down now. Anywhoo there was an art show at Your Welcome Inn for first Friday so homies came out to party

Nate (Lukes bro) came out. Y'all should check out this dudes comedy tapes, I think he's on to something, were putting together the first draft of the business plan this week

Bubba and Mike

Look at that pony turd

I was blacked out fo sho when I took this pic

Some random pics septemer '09

2009-10-26T07:47:00.001-07:00

Here's Eddie going for a putt. Me Dustin Geech met up by eddies crib, yea he lives on the course, no big. Geech has better pics on his blog. It was a fun day overall but my game was suckin bad

This is a cheesesteak from the Tavy. Perty dang bangin if you ask me bub but it tears up my tummy, good thing there's Tums.

Potts and Tarah's Wedding Party

2009-10-26T07:26:00.000-07:00

OG Hometeam rep Eric Potts decided to take the plunge and get married. Congrats to Eric and Tarah.

Dustin and Kallyn (sp?) were on the scene

The wedding party. Potts is too metal for a formal wedding so there were no suits...ok well they actually already had the wedding in Vegas...an Elvis wedding that is, I think potts wanted the Ozzie wedding but marriage comes with sacrifices.

We watched the footy from the wedding...no not including the honey moon you perv

These old ladies were really getting freaky with there dance moves...well more like they fraeked everyone out

Dustin bustin some dance moves...actually I don't know what he's doing here. Maybe I asked him to pull my finger?

Artsy Mind Freak Release

2009-10-04T18:04:00.001-07:00

Bubba's brainchild was finally released at Sotto Santi

The band rumplestilskins was pretty dope. I should do some tracks with them

Steak night with the college bros

2009-10-04T17:59:00.001-07:00

Met some buds from college for a steak dinner..with unlimited wine. Then we went boozin all over manhattan...

Don't have any other pics of this night, but I had my first KO punch in my life. Some dude was poppin off at the mouth so I popped off on his dome. Now
Before you thinking I'm a meathead...this guy had it comin and we tried walkin a way but he kept talkin shit.
Now on a meathead note if you've never knocked someone out, I would highly suggest it.

Golf september '09

2009-10-04T17:52:00.001-07:00

Dirty D has become quite an avid golfer. His volatile emotions are quite entertaining on the course. My chip
game was on point this day and I chipped in 3 times in the first 5 holes

Cool sunset

And a dope rainbow...no homo

Va trip labor day '09

2009-10-04T17:46:00.001-07:00

I had to get up early and haul ass down to Va for and ODU football game. Not a big football fan but the old man was bout it. It's the first time they had football since the 40s so the locs were psyched and it's a good excuse to do some mid-day boozin

Big Chad's homie Chris had VIP parking for the tailgates

Here's the view from our seats, right next to the student section...luckily we didn't get puked on

Here's the infamous ODU rail, probly the only skateable handrail back in the day

Va trip labor day '09 cont'd 1

2009-10-04T17:40:00.000-07:00

Chick had a big boat day planned. We stocked up for the days activities and go out on the water

Picked up Travis, rockin the crocs witout socks

A dance party broke out on the boat next to us

Va trip labor day '09 cont'd

2009-09-30T17:22:00.001-07:00

Boat race wit Godfreys rig

This ball thing was an instant hit...it's like a human hamster ball that floats... Then it popped within about 5 mins bummer

This was my ol skatepark growing up. It used to have a big mini and small vert both with metal, and this slab. The city decided to get rid of the park and tear down the ramps. Then changed their minds and wanted a park again and put some prefab crap on the slab

Flower Power

2009-08-31T06:13:00.001-07:00

With no wraps or motivation to get them, a flower was concocted...an old trick I learned from some Turkish dudes

Karaoke is so cool

2009-08-28T08:36:00.001-07:00

Thought I would share some recent pics that I don't really remember taking

Lil Em!!!!!! This guy is a Tally Ho Karoake regular. Pretty funny rendition of Eminem, unfortunately Karoake status doesn't justify the inflated ego

I miss the thugged out boom boom room

V's b-day/Musikfest '09 cont'd

2009-08-28T08:31:00.001-07:00

Happy belated (like 20 days ago) b-day to the "quez" aka Andy V

I missed this pic on my last post. Chicks just flock to Kurtz on the streets, he acts dissatisfied

The whole gang was chillin on the bridge

McGrady's after fest sesh. Janet and Lauren

"don't cross the beams Eagon"

Muzikfest 2009

2009-08-28T08:21:00.001-07:00

Ob I'm a behind on my blogging but late is betta than neva

The crew assembles, fill up a Sotto's aka Brotto's Panties.

Another pit stop, Geech polished off his roni while mug reppin Kuato Lives. Man I wish I knew how to hyperlink from the iPhizzle

Colbs last sighting in Btown

The religion freaks, don't drink, smoke or poke unless you wanna go to hell

The crowd was lashing back and throwing condoms

And I thought I had a long shit list

Add some homo thugs to the mix...god bless America

Po with the peanut buttercup sunday def a night ender

Ginnys Diner R.I.P.

2009-08-28T08:07:00.001-07:00

There goes a southside staple, Ginny's diner. Eminent Domain means the gov't really owns us all and th land we stand on, so if they want it back they make you move an pay you what I wad worth about 20 yrs ago.

I'll have to find another spot that has bangin Benedict with bacon sub'd for ham.

Glengarry Highland Games Part4

2009-08-25T07:07:00.001-07:00

It was time for us to leave and Peeps wanted to get in Val's bag

Scruff had enough of the festivities and decided to take a nap

Ok that's it, getting this up has been a bitch and it keeps crashing my blog App, hence the 4 parts. Woo!

Glengarry Highland Games Part 3

2009-08-25T07:02:00.001-07:00

Val is eyeing up the "squares" desserts

Paul doesn't need much but his scotch and the camera

They convinced us to stay another day so more scotch and carrying on at the kitchen table

Scruff is showing us Americans that it's always cold in Canada

Don is a gnarly dude. He's got a few hockey teeth

Scruff tried to dance (or something) with Paul and they both went down hard

Paul gotta shiner

Glengarry Highland Games Part 2

2009-08-25T06:47:00.001-07:00

Peeps is Scottish too

At night it's a wild scene at the beer tent. Do not enter if you don't want to get doused with beer

Scruff is grindin on my cousin Jenn

Don passed out....

And woke up with a black weener, which he thought wad a beer

My dad refuses to retire and now he's trying to hustle these video phones. They are pretty cool tho.
Chatting with my sis back in Va

Thomas John Klapak 6 lbs 7 oz

2009-08-25T06:36:00.001-07:00

Congrats to Eddie and Amy

Highland Games, Maxville 7/31-8/2 part 1

2009-08-20T13:17:00.001-07:00

Me and Val and Peeps headed out on Friday afternoon, my mom sent us on a wild detour that took 9 hrs...

Peeps is a good traveller

After the trek a walked into uncles Paul and Donny, and Scotch

They play this game with washers and crates, not cornhole or quates

Hit the highland games and these guys threw sacks over the marker

Pillow cup

Shit got crunk with 1500 bagpipers and drummers

Slayer show 7/29/09

2009-08-10T09:31:00.001-07:00

Meet up with Montgomery and we rendevouz at Dirty Ds crib.

Novy toook the Atown express with Geech. Pumped!

Dirty D leads us the the gates...of hell. Didn't have a slayer T so Gwar was the next best thing

Throw the horns or blog cam

Waiting for Slayer to come out

Let the games begin

After show bro down

Let's go home!

Luckily Marylyn Manson was the closer, peace early and ok for work the next morning. A perfect dose of hell

Raphael Blogenstein RIP

2009-08-05T17:00:00.001-07:00

Just pull it out and cut it

JC and Munes B-day Sunday 7/26

2009-08-05T16:52:00.001-07:00

Heading out to Joysey City

Serious

Geech is lovin the traffic peep the rear view

Picked up Julian and he took us to the ledge wedge foundation spot

Done with JC and just enough for the city

A thunderstorm broke out so we got Veitnamese

It's Rob Campbell fool

Happy birthday Munester

The beach bar was wet

Hip hop at Element Saturday 7/25

2009-07-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

Hank Tate rocks the mic at Element. He called some other dude up to this "61-ohhh" track.

I'm breaking! Breaking!

JDG, Inastate 78(Aktual and Native), plus a drummer and a lead guitar formed a new hip hop band. Is this the first hip hop band in the valley since The Goats?

Southside Friday 7/24/09

2009-07-26T21:46:00.001-07:00

Start the night off right with beer and dice games

All in

Credit cards, mortgages, wedding rings are on the line

Lounge scene

Raphael Blogenstein

Peeps is back bitches!!!!!!

Po was shredding on the way to the bar. Ollie the "flower gap"

50-50 over the grate

3 flip in front of bar

Mike made a friend

He wad cool but the wheelie didn't pop

Good night

River Float Saturday 7/11/09 Part 1

2009-07-15T20:41:00.001-07:00

After making my "rounds" it looks like this post is right on time, picking up where geechybond and whiteyblackman left off.
Kuato Lives -in the 610 for 3 days continued
We headed out on Saturday for a lil Lehigh river float action bub
Eddie and D are pumped for the trip. Ayo!

Car is fulll loaded as we go to the Rt 33 launch to drop off cars

Luckily we didn't get shut down by a cop right before we launched. As you can see the clouds took over as we were getting in the water. Where Mary J to "rub me on my back and say baby it'll be ok"

Taylor is a Jim Jones fan "Baaalin". And Kurtz, a Kanye fan, tries to "Touch the sky"

The crew reunites after our initial test run. Whiteyblackman left with a leaky raft, a "can do" attitude, and planned on pumping his raft up alon the trip. Luckily Eddie brought a patch kit which worked and we were good

The floatilla goes through a rapid section wooo!

Geech is got out of the water to pee. My mom used to say "it better to be pissed off then pissed on"

River Float Sat. 7/11/09 part 2

2009-07-15T20:38:00.001-07:00

By the time we were at the stefko bridge people started running out of beer and that's only about half mile in. As we approached "party island" people started to disperse

Kurtz was whining about being cold

The Union of cold decided to secede from the floatilla. I can't hate when I'm sitting a foot above the river and purple lips don't lie

Dustin and Eddie were high and dry, and high

Geech is peeing again but getting more extreme. The walkers realized that we were floating just ad fast

Max and Jenny G decided to float instead of walk

River float 7/11 part 3

2009-07-15T20:35:00.001-07:00

Gary almost lost his car key. Luckily I was recovered but it did require a fully submerged dome piece to grasp it

Eddie take the plunge from the rope swing

The "not cold" Rebels were in hard core fish mode.

After many hours of fishing, all in all it was wack. I got this dinker and a couple others that were similiar

Gary in the distance learning the in outs of fishing.

At this point the river moved really slow and we were looking at the 33 bridge over an hour. We got hit by a thunderstorm but luckily we got some huge trash bags from subway.
Back at the home front, Colby manned up the grill session

L.I. is in the house!!

2009-07-13T07:47:00.000-07:00

Our homies Mike, Luke, Taylor and Rich (and later Paul) decided to trek to 610 from Long Island to do some schralping, party and epic lifestyle bangers.
They arrived Thursday and hit up most the A-town spots.
Geech is showing Rich and Luke we the starting line is for the sprint start at Sheridan

Taylor grabs a bench and soaks in the A-town culture

Mike the maestro for LI manned the whip, which luckily made it through. His film game tight (tawyt braowh), he skated every spot and was downtown Julie Brown for whatever. Check his Kuato Lives 2084 blog

Revenge of the lenses

Dirty D tries wallriding into the bank from the ledge

LI Luke with a feeb stall

V aka "the quez" with a smith to fakie

The kids were diggin Mikes motor-psychle...check the freshly painted gas tank

This was the sleep scene at the crib for three days...

Luke likes to sleep under the stars so he stayed on the porch every night, Kurtz joined him this day

I'm missing some things here...
Phone died Thursday night. Which was Allison from Eskandalo's birthday, Happy B-day. This also includes an epic hill bomb back to the bar after a few pitchers. Followed by a motorcycle burnout gone bad...and dude gets heckled while spun out bike is on top of him. Usually the qweeds are loud and obknoxius and have Sottos locked down but it was our turn this night and one gweed even wanted to fight Wes.
The next night was a house party near my house which I didn't attend but it sounded fun...the pass out pictures above are the day after

Hellertown Park?

2009-07-10T07:16:00.001-07:00

Looks like hellertown is trying to a park together. Well more like provide a lot/basketball court and it diy for the ramps...check the link
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/the-morning-call/TQSV4UO9VBNFDOUPN?lw=1&no_xlink=1

That's actually the comments forum. Obviuosly opening up with some...make a post so they know we a force to reckon with and were not all druggies who listen to Corn

No stress Wes

2009-07-10T07:06:00.001-07:00

After completing my daily duties I was lucky enough to catch a sesh at Dunny...well more like we watched Wes killin it. I think Wes was one of the first people I ever filmed and we went to funny many times...that was probly 7 years ago...I never forget a kickflip that was caught primo, he was still like 5 feet up in the air and didn't kick out...just manned up for a splat
Here's the new/older Wesley George Buck...

Whiteyblackman was on the scene, saying fuck your blog...check his site for the clip...I hit a rock while filming the front board line hence the big jitter

D Rek is checking your specs

Ripping the bowl

2009-07-09T11:02:00.001-07:00

Guess who this is?

That shit looks like a toupee!!! HHaha

Lehigh River Float 7/5

2009-07-08T09:03:00.001-07:00

The plan was to float from Sand island to the party island. The annual island party and my late planning seemed to contribute to the lack of participation. It was the first float of the year which is always hectic for me since my "boat" is somewhat high maintenance. Once we got on the water, it was perfect from there on.
I'm stepping my game up this year, more on this later. I was second guessing taking this step to further complicate my boat situtaion...but Val helped persuade and was down for the road trip
So we trekked to Cabelas aka redneck paradise

With a new deep cell battery in hand I'm ready to elevate my "boat" to real boat status versus just being a sophisticated intertube. Here it is ladies and gents...the trolling motor

Colbs new boat was rated for kids, but he's a kid at heart so it worked out perfectly

The view of the steel from the river is sick. As mother nature carries you gently down the river, you see the remnants of the wooly mammoth of industrial revolution. Beginning...

Middle...

End...

The water flow rate and height could not have been better. Here is the data brohams, remember this next time we float

Colby got swept away by the nice flows and was a quarter mile down stream. I was in fish world, here's my reward caught in the same area as a nice bass I caught last year...same fish?

While trying to release this guy I entered a rapid section which got sketchy. Hopefully that fish didn't die after I let him go and I didn't lose my phone.
Someone lost there boat on the shore

Aaah the beautiful scenery...I could do this every day

Boat landed safely at our predetermined landin spot...I once drifted 2 miles past where I was supposed to while I was with some older dude I just met...hmm we never went floating/fishing again.

Colbster drifting in safely, repping the hang loose gang

NOTE TO THE HOMIES!!!!!!!!!!!
Were planning another adventure which will be an all day extravaganza.
1) meet in the afternoon and float during the day
2) then go to my house for a BBQ aka grill and chill
3) hit up the bars

This could be THIS Saturday 7/11 so holla at me if you're in

4th of July

2009-07-06T09:38:00.001-07:00

We were chillin and grillin for the 4th...kinda lagged on getting down to the bridge/didn't think they would start on time ...but as luck would have there's a good view right from my porch

Demons escaping hell

New York Friday

2009-07-05T19:53:00.001-07:00

After wading through our thirsty Thursday hangovers, we assembled at the cribo and headed out to NYC. Somehow I ended up driving...what a coincidence

Colberg was super pumped and invented a new 2-step just for the trip

Clouds were lurking but Colbs 2-step was more like a anti-rain dance

Stopped in JC

Then stopped to see the cool cats at...

Juiian aka Kellen James was chillin with Greg aka Free Bird and my homie Cash who always drops the convo stopping lines

Stopped here to "warm up" but it got kinda hot...check whiteyblackman (haven't figured out hyperlinks yet) for the flanders.

We hit up Lenox and locs were cool this time but still kinda annoyingly oblivious. Skating is so cool these days, kids don't realize there's uncool shit you can do during a sesh. Anywho got more Flandskies and hit up this spot, but the pastor had some fresh boys to molest.

Did I mention Ben joined us at Lenox, I'm an asshole and called him Bill all day. It's actually an inward complement cuz I'm kinda into the name Bill right now, only the badass Williams become a Bill...well except the faggot that sits 2 cubes down from me

Manhatten 'henge is like a week away

I called this panama dan spot but I think that is incorrect

Colbert insisted on chilling with a chilly

I resorted to...

The Gza was representing in front of us

That's all folks

Thursty Thursday/ Hill's B-day

2009-07-04T15:45:00.000-07:00

Thursty thursday was in effect. We were pregaming for Hills bday... Dice are poppin off

Who's the big winner

Smoky and peaty...just how I like it. It's like first getting into smoking dank

Hill bombing at night is sketchy

Hilldo for real do'. Salud!

Mike likie

I blacked out for sure this night

Trout pools and skate pools

2009-07-02T06:38:00.001-07:00

Ventured out to Dustin's crib to meet up with Eddie who lives another half hr away...
We hit up this fishing spot where Eddies boi caught a giant trout...this is a Pa native, as in it wasn't raised in a swimming pool and dumped in the crick. These guys deserve to live, they spawn the next generations and the usual native are about 8-9", unfortunately they have the "I'm catching my dinner" mental.

So after seein this pic, I had to head out. We know the maintenance man here who gave us special access...picture Bill Murray in Caddy Shack

Through the wood to this waterfall...between the rock opening

Dustin and eddie are passing L's, that's short for Lures

I have to say my pics pretty much suck this day. I had to Tom Sawyer steez it and go barefoot into the water, which I didn't want to drop my phone/camera in. Then it was too dark. We checked out a sick indoor pool at a abandoned resort, well it was more like big wallrides than trannies. If there was more reality behind people calling me "Ballins" then I would open a skate park there.

Bick Ball

2009-06-28T15:51:00.001-07:00

I had the opportunity to witness Bick Ball which is a combo b/t baseball and kickball. Here you have the official rule book

Then you have a kickball ie a kiddie ball from cvs, which is pitched/kicked at the batter.

Then wham! The batter smashes it with a wiggle ball bat...I did it like this, I did it like that...

Ok from there it's kinda hard to follow... There's "outfielders" who have bats and catchers in the infleid. Here's the outfielders..

Then badically it's a free for all. The people with bats try yo smash the balls that get hit out and somehow they collect points. As you can see it's all out to hit the ball

Good effort

And sometime shit gets hectic...yea that's her husbad for less than 24 hrs

I tried to figure out the rules but it was more fun to watch...every pop fly was like when hockey players are all smashing the glass at once...

Congrats Brian and Jayne, a wonderful wedding.

2009-06-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

Hot dog revolutionary Edwin Padilla, who resembles the another revolutionary Immortal Technique. As you can see it pays to be the pioneer a la early bird gets the worm, and he is 20 deep with customers.

Here we have the competition, I think one of these dudes used to run "piggies" which was a hot dog spot where la lupita is now. Too many people were on south beach diet in those days to spark a hot dog revolution. There not getting as much love as other dude but they do offer grilled food like hamburgies and kielbasa.

Apparently both carts are cool with each other and are rocking the hottest T on the southside

Personally Im not a big hot dog fan. The thought of grinded up pig scrotum doesn't seem appealing at all times. But I will no doubt have to try a Spanish dog from MC Pad Illa at some point. For now I stick with la lapita. You a giant taco for $2, the same price as a 'dog. I don't give a shit how how many carts are on the block as long as La Lapita stays open

And it comes with chips!!!!

Bye Peeps!!!!

2009-06-25T05:42:00.001-07:00

Unfortunately I had to say good bye to peeps today. My dad must have been missing her so he came up from VA to pick her up.

Colbert B-day

2009-06-24T11:35:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, June 23, was Colbert's birthday. Happy birthday son! Reel talk ma du

Homies came out and met up at McGradys...

2 tables deep yo

We took some shots... Three wismen I think it was...real gag reflexer

Another round...

And colbert starts losing it...he then turned into the incredible hulk

Thanks to the person at 69 news whose job it is to monitor Twitter follwers tweets...Homebase and Eskandalo were on the news. Something like ...a tweet pic with a new "No beef with the hotdog guy"...a phone call from the news 10 mins later...cameras rolling within an hour...
Allison said some stuff...but there was no volume at the bar (pronounced "bah" by guido dooshes)

Bubba is fixing his 'do for the camera...just cuz a dude works at a salon doesn't mean he's light in his loafers...okaaaay!

Homebase gotta a shot in as well

Some shuffle board and it's gets blurry from there..

Saugy SKATE round 1

2009-06-23T06:29:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, Monday 6/22, was the first Round of the Saugy SKATE showdown. It was bubba vs berner, Droid vs weber, me vs max, and Dustin vs Brendan (who sub'd for Nik who was late jeez even Last Place P was there already). I was skatin so I don't have pics but Berner, Weber, me and Dustin are advancing.
Here are some after sesh pics:
D and gee

Wes lipslide across to 5-0 down the slant

Im on a mission to capture some of Sigs epicness but all I got was this front board slide

Having a picnic

Discussing who's tits are going to get bigger over summer

Damian was learning back nose blizzies, probably the hardest trick in the book. I'd say he's pretty much got em

Sig says peace to this sesh and he's going home to work on popping another one out... Gotta catch up with Gleason

Meathead Ballins

2009-06-22T12:44:00.000-07:00

I was wondering why "my" blog address was taken and why I had add the "blog" to philballinsblog.blogspot.com

Here it is philballins.blogspot.com
All about b ball woop Dee doo...well at least he promotes gambling which I guess is kinda badass/cool. The real Ballins lives by a casino though...I challenge this fool to a game of HORSE

NY trip Sunday 6/22

2009-06-22T08:37:00.001-07:00

Me, Geech and NoNo decided to try an beat all the wet weather and sneak in a trip to the city.

Geech is psyched on trips to the city

Dark clouds are lurking as the mahatteb skyline is on the horizon

We head straight through to Brooklyn to meet up with Lukie pukie and colberg...we skate the spot by the bridge and it's starts rainin about 20 mins in...

Load up in da whip and head to the city...

Get to the city "like damn it didn't even rain here"

That lasted about half an hour, where we pushed around and got a few attempts at the Chase steps. Oh and we hit the slant bank/ledge thing and Geech gotta quick clip before the guard wild out...he was more pissed about filming than skating..."you (referring to me) must be stupid". We also dicked around the courthouse area and looks like Lukster is marinating some fresh shit. Then we hit the Patriot Saloon near "Duane Reade"...which 2 parallel streets are named off Church and also the name of a drug store. Apparently is you tell them it's you b-day you get to see some boobies, but didn't oblige...Gary said his dick was already wet hmmm...
With the first part of Berraps flowing and the rain waited til we got outside to start again, so we headed to Max Fish... You know where all the cool skaters go

There was some doubt as to where the Fish is, so Gary walked around for a while in the rain...get yo dik wet son!

Oh and this guy had classic toilet paper on his shoe, Novy got a sick pic of it in motion. Here he is trying to grind it off onto the floor. Where pee wee Herman when you need him?

We decided to try to go to KCDC for the Zoo premier, well we were hoping for an open bar and maybe skate the ramp, but it was closed...so we went to Enid's, ya know where all the cool skaters go in Brooklyn. We ran I to Pensyl who started boozing before we did. Thanks for beers!
We were bro-in down with Strubing as well, if you can see this pic...nbd

Then were hungry again so we stopped in midtown for some Halal.

Colbert was happy for Halal, and we parted ways

Definitely not a great idea to eat a Halal plate while driving...but we managed. Gary popped in a tampon and was able to endure...

Tag yo ass!

2009-06-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

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Zoo York vid premier

2009-06-20T08:57:00.001-07:00

Zoo York vid "State of Mind" premier at Homebase 6/19

Whaytin for the show to start

It's crazy like....

Lining up

Woop there it is...

Bringing it back to the street

Wish I was there and it wasn't raining

Barley pushing... Cop the vid it's well worth it

Brackets getting picked

2009-06-19T14:29:00.001-07:00

Bad karma

2009-06-19T12:44:00.001-07:00

This is the guy who sat in front of me and dustin on our way back from our Texas trip. Obviously he was planning on sleeping but we were on Volume +10 after so many jack and cokes. So the karma swung back my way last Sunday when this 7 foot giraffe mofo sat behind me on the 7+ hr flight back from scotland. Dude fucking kneed my back like every 30 secs! Karma is a bitch!!!

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Keeler's 21st

2009-06-19T11:18:00.001-07:00

Monday was Kyle's 21st. Happy b-day. Gotta get your boozin game up homie

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