Tomorrow my little buddy and I are packing up the Volkswagon and heading East. You can expect this place to be pretty quite for about a week, but you know what they say, it's always quite before the storm. Goodbye sunshine everyday, hello Baltimore gray.
I had to go back and take care of some biz. Rocked out the K grind ala Blose steez. Thank God for backside 180 nosegrinds. Then I got worked a little and lost my board in the creek, but all in all like Ice Cube said 'Today was a good day'.
Willie Nelson was right, I should have been a doctor or lawyer instead.
I've know this kid, since he was a kid and got 3rd place in a Solid State Contest way back in the day. A great Skateboarder, Amazing Artist, and a True friend. Scott has been part of the Seven fold team since day one, and I can't imagine any of this happening with out him being such a great part of our family.
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| Indictment A bill of particulars documenting the president's "repeated injuries and usurpations" of the Americans' rights and liberties. [11] | Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President of our United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices (see Homeland Security), and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Bilateral Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of US law in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. |
I found these on the way to that gap. It's funny people in California call Jersey walls - K rails, wonder where that came from? Anyway I knew I had to come back here if I didn't break myself on that gap. Fronside wallrides are one of the funnest things you can do on a skateboard.
At my age this thing is like the Santa Monica triple set. 3 flat to street not bad since I never skate this kind of stuff. My adrenaline is still pumping that I'm up posting this. I was stoked to get out there an do it now that I have health insurance again. It's was hard getting the self portrait, sorry about the blur and ended up taking a good scrape. But I had to get one on film since Blose omitted that massive gap from the What?! dvd that I did at the end of that of the sketchy run in Glen Burnie.
Kyle just checked in with this art, company ink and some really good skate photos, nice hearing from you Kyle!
Here's my opinion on the whole Go skate day thing - everyday is go skateboarding day unless you are one of the posers who works in the skateboard industry, then you need to make up a holiday to try to hype it up so you can sell more product.
"Sorry folks the team's closed, the Moose out front should have told you."
Cheerleaders at the Etnies Goofy Vs. Regular Contest a few years back. Check out poor Nyjah trying to skate around this weirdness.
