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My Blog: MDP's "Double Decade" Premier with the DC Crew
By: porters_tahoe

"Enjoy The Ride...More" is DC’s marketing slogan for their highly anticipated release of snowboards this winter. Last night at 50-50 Brewery in Truckee, CA, PortersTahoe.com and the DC crew – including riders Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, Aaron Biittner, and Lauri Heiskari – all came out with more than just their A-game to kick off this 20th anniversary edition of Mack Dawg’s "Double Decade."

Somewhere between 400 to 500 people joined Porters and DC at the biggest movie premier ever at 50-50 Brewery. There were two screens – inside and outside – showing the next progression in riding with several very well-received segments from not only the DC crew, but riders like Wille Yli-Luoma, Eero Ettala, and the closing part of Jussi Oksanen. The movie also sprinkled in 20 years worth of snowboarding pioneers and ground breaking MDP parts over the years from names like Chris Roach, Nate Cole, Noah Salasnek, JP Walker, and Jeremy Jones (past and present). "Double Decade" truly does give you more by throwing in a great, eclectic mix of music from the likes of the Pet Shop Boys, Devo, David Bowie, Doobie Brothers, and – believe it or not – the Grass Root’s "Let’s Live For Today" for a very soulful and artistic Jussi part.

But that wasn’t all for the day.

Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson from Snow Park Technologies arranged for some of the Porters crew and the DC boys – Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, Aaron Biitner, and first-time golfer Lauri Heiskari – to play a round of golf at Northstar-at-Tahoe earlier in the afternoon. Conditions were ideal. Scores were very competitive in a "best ball", two-man format of 5 teams. In the end, a little home-field advantage – and let’s face it – just plain better skills from Gunny and Walsh propelled them to the win.

Longtime Nor Cal industry veteran and DC sales rep Ron Depp put the evening in perspective this way, "It’s amazing that we could draw such a large crowd with only 5 days advance notice and have so many ex-pros and industry people come out of the woodwork...or the Truckee woods!" Bill Markham, DC Snow Sales Manager, added, "Double Decade is a walk down memory lane that showcases many legends of the 90’s rail brigade. The film also captures how shredding has progressed from backyard rails to big mountain kickers. Couple this with almost 500 kids, beer from 50-50, great support from Porters and DC pro shreds Iikka, Devun, Biittner and Lauri and you got a night you won’t forget....or remember in some cases!"

Judging by how big of a smile Lauri Heiskari had at the end of the night, everyone truly had a great time...and MORE!

http://www.porterstahoe.com

Published On: 9/20/2008

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Hilltrip News and Events: Wrap Up - Step it Up Series 06/07 benefit Surfrider Foundation in Whistler
By: hilltrip

The Step it Up series brought to Whistler a new bread of event bringing guest speakers into a bar environment to educate the young hip and cool crowd of Whistler about different themes relating to the protection of our environment including the wellness of our own body, mind and spirit.

Surfrider Foundation in Whistler

Like it’s previous events, Hilltrip’s goal with the Step it Up series was to fight global warming. With an event every month from November 2006 to April 2007, the series included six different educational sessions about sustainability with a global warming twist. Through the whole series, Hilltrip was able to raise $550 to benefit the Snowrider Project of Surfrider Vancouver and a lot of people learned about ways to become a better steward of the environment and themselves.

Starting with a Sustainable Mountains Session in November , Step it Up no1 sent a strong message to the snow sport industry by having Jonaven Moore, a renown professional snowboarder, do a presentation on global warming and how negative PR is affecting our understanding of the issue, well timed after Tyler Bradley, the environmental chemist behind the creation of the first environmentally friendly ski wax in the world; Hillbilly Wax-Works & Ethica Enviro-Wax who had a satirical look at the state of the snow sport industry itself.

DJ Mat The Alien in Whistler

Step it Up no2 being close to Christmas, Hilltrip thought educating people about how making informed choices during the holiday season would help them reduce their environmental footprint and be good for their own body environment and organized a Sustainable Food Session. The session covered the concepts of SLOW food with Diana Rochon, RAW food with Sarinda Hoilett, SUPER food with Randall Carpenter and there was a slide show to give ideas to people on how they can green their holidays.
If you are interested you learn about how you can GREEN Christmas Holiday click here >>

Yoga in Whistler

For the third Step it Up, we decided to do something a bit different than the usual sustainable environment type event by having an Awakening Session and introduce a spiritual approach to sustainability. We believe awareness and consciousness can play a big role in improving someone’s life and the world. For the occasion, we had Kelly Oswald of The Oracle, Tina James of World Yoga Within and Robbie Dagg & Friends with OM MANI PADME HUM.

The fourth session was done in conjunction with Surfrider Vancouver. The theme was Sustainable Watershed and Pina Belperio of Whistler Water Watch and June Van Der Star of Surfrider did great presentations followed by a Sea to Summit, a video where snowboarders, skateboarder, and surfers are talking about the entire hydrological cycle and how it relates to their day to day life. Following the session, we had the Enviro-Mental Showdown Party following the qualifier of the Showcase Showdown, an annual snowboard competition.

The fifth one was a Sustainable Energy Session and we had Sarah Valentine giving a few tips on how we can reduce our energy consumption easily and than Hilltrip went all out and presented 15 documentaries about energy and climate change over 2 days as part of the Sierra Club Energy Film Festival.
You can read more about the Energy Film Festive by clicking here >>

As a way to end the series, Hilltrip teamed up with a bunch of local artists to present an Expression Session on Earth Day, April 22nd, and the last day of the World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF) this year. Kostaman & The Vibrations opened at 7pm with a few reggae songs, Angie Nolan and MollyFi followed with poems and spoken words, Daniel Poisson, Chris Dyer, Olivier Roy, Jon Parris and Stan Matwychcuk had art pieces on display, Chili Thom & Feet Banks came to show their short film “High in the Mountain”, Animal Nation did a few raps, and Rainbo performed a hula hoops go-go set to the sound of DJ Parris. During the evening we also had the OxyMoron Martini, a heathy martini containin FrequenSea.

This last Step it Up event was also the launch of Green.Colonies.com in Whistler! It is also during that event that the winner for the Surf trip, the Option Snowboard, the SPY goggle and the O’Neill goodies were draw. There was so much going on, it was a great way to close the festival and the series in beauty.

Thanks to Whistler Brewing Company, Clif Bar, O’Neill, Deep Snow and Surf Experience, Option Snowboards and Spy for sponsoring the Step it Up series, Maxx Fish Bar & Lounge for letting us host the series, Surfrider Vancouver for setting an information table at each event, the speakers and artists for their performances and inspiration as well as all the people that have helped make this series of event happen…Nadia Cote, Marie-Lou, Giselle, Haley, Elexa, Sarah, Andrew, Adrian and all of those who came.

For more information on Hilltrip, visit www.hilltrip.com

Check out my gallery to see pictures from each Step it Up event!

Published On: 5/8/2007

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Hilltrip News and Events: Get inspired by an artistic evening on Earth Day, April 22 with Hilltrip
By: hilltrip

Building on the momentum of Step it Up series, Hilltrip is happy to invite the community to come to the sixth and final Step it Up event at MAXX FISH, nicely coordinated to happen on Earth Day. Celebrated every April 22, Earth Day is the largest, most celebrated environmental event worldwide. First launched as an environmental awareness event in the United States in 1970, Earth Day is celebrated as the birth of the environmental movement and is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities.

For Step it Up no6, Hilltrip is presenting an Expression Session including Kostaman & The Vibrations opening at 7pm sharp, followed by a slate of local artists including Angie Nolan with poems, MollyFi with spoken words, Daniel Poisson and Chris Dyer with visual art, Chili Thom & Feet Banks with “High in the Mountain”, Animal Nation with a few raps, John Parris with a few mixes and more.

At 10pm, the winners for the Earth Raffle will be draw. Everybody attending the Expression Session will have a chance to enter the raffle to win one of the grand prizes by writing their name at the back of a Step it Up flyer and dropping it off at the Surfrider table during the session. All the ballots collected trough the whole series will be included in the raffle, so people who entered at previous Step it Up sessions will have their chances to win. Prizes include a 3-day Surf Experience Expedition sponsored by Deep Snow & Surf Experience, an Option snowboard, a pair of SPY goggle, O’Neill goodies among other.

After 10pm, Rainbo and Lexi Moon will perform hula hoops go-go dances to the sound of DJ Jamie Vale.

Also on the sensory extravaganza menu is Martinis at Midnight offering the ‘Oxymoron’ martini, a martini with a healthy twist containing FrequenSea, a unique ‘Superfood’ discovery containing all of Mother Nature’s essential nutrients. This martini has so much good stuff in it that it will relieve all the guilt of consuming alcohol.

“There are so many good messages from artistic expressions; and art is also a powerful catalyst for change. This event is going to be Hilltrip’s 3rd Earth Day event in Whistler and I hope to inspire people to be part of the solutions and care for our planet thought different art forms” says Marie Fortin, event organizer. “April 22 is the last day of the TWSSF, so this last Step it Up event will be like a cleansing evening for the body and the soul and a great way to close the festival and the series in beauty.”

Admission is only $10 and includes a free Cool Tag from Clif Bar and a beer from Whistler Brewing Company. A Cool Tag™ is a renewable wind energy credit that will keep an estimated 300 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) — the main contributor to global warming — out of the air. That’s roughly the same as neutralizing the global warming emissions generated from traveling 300 miles (more than 480 kms) in the average car.

As with every Step it Up event, proceed will support the Snowrider Project, a campaign of the Surfrider Foundation, which aims to bring greater understanding of the hydrological cycle and foster a sense of stewardship towards alpine and valley watersheds. One major initiative for Snowrider is organizing local mountain clean-ups in spring after the snow melts to pick up garbage haphazardly littered during the season by skiers and boarders.

Thanks to Clif Bar, Whistler Brewing Company, O’Neill, Option Snowboards, Spy. Deep Snow & Surf Experience and Maxx Fish for their support on the Step it Up series.

For more info visit www.hilltrip.com

Published On: 4/18/2007

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My Blog: Super cool bits of knowledge
By: sunshinegurl77

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!

The average person laughs 13 times a day!

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.

In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.

In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer !

In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.

In Louisiana, it's against the law to gargle in public

In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in a church.

In California, it's illegal to eat oranges in a bathtub

Monkeys are forbidden from smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.

In the state of Indiana, liquor stores may not sell milk.

In Florida, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.

In Florida, men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.

The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

In Topeka, Kansas, servers are forbidden to serve wine in teacups.

In the fine state of Nebraska, it is not legal for a tavern owner to serve beer unless a nice kettle of soup is also brewing

In Los Angeles, California, it is not legal to bathe two babies at the same time in the same tub.

In Staten Island, New York, It is illegal for a father to call his son a "******" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior."

In the fine city of Devon, Connecticut, walking backwards after sunset is not allowed.

It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.

It is illegal to have sex before you are married.

Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.

Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car.

One may not promote a "horse tripping event

Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

Indiana:

You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.

It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public.

It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.

Published On: 10/14/2006

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My Blog: A press release!
By: signal_snowboards

Signal to the Summertime Rescue!

Press Release, July 2006

For immediate release

Our summer has been full of record-breaking temperatures that have made us salivate at the thought of playing hookie on powder days, but that hasn’t stopped us from launching into the start of another great season. Signal is excited to announce the official dawn of premium Signal coffee. These beans are the best quality blend of Ethiopian, Sumatran, and Latin Arabic flavors roasted by Seattle’s finest private roasters and pack enough bliss for the morning commute to the office or the mountain. Signal coffee will be sold exclusively at local snowboard shops or on our website. Join our Coffee of the Month club and we will provide you with fresh coffee delivered straight to your mailbox. Signal coffee will also be appearing this winter at competitions, supplying athletes and spectators with a cup of hot joe. Check out how you can get your taste buds on our coffee by going to signalsnowboards.com.

The Midwest was a temporary haven for skiers and riders who couldn’t quite make it all summer without snow. Pinewski’s ski and board shop hosted a summer urban rail jam in Anoka, Minnesota on July 29^th that boasted a stylin’ rail/ledge combo. Signal’s own Dave Lee, Matt Hammer, Stephen Myers, and Nik Jacobson all dropped by to hang out with Midwest locals and pump up the crowd. Congrats to Signal rider Jake Olson-Elm, who took second place at the rail jam and pocketed the $400 prize. A lucky rider from Zombie Board Shop also walked away with a new Signal board just for being cool. Enjoy the board! And a happy 20^th anniversary to Pinewski’s, too.

A new contest is brewing for our Signal dealers across the globe. Beginning August 1^st, shop-sponsored riders will be able to join the new Signal Street Team and compete for an advanced sponsorship on the Signal team. Street Team photo and video content will be updated by each rider on our website, where the public gets to decide who the top riders are. The Street Team will run until April 15, 2007, when Matt Hammer will make the final decision of top dawg. Grab your friends, a camera, and your board and show us what you got! Go to our website for more info.

Another Signal Pirate Radio show, hosted by Dave Lee, is now streaming. Download and listen to chill beats and Dave’s soothing voice any time of the day. Listen to music from Sonic Youth, Tool, Les Savy Fav, Billy Talent, and Muse. Song requests are always welcome. Go to signalpirateradio.com for the latest show.

Thanks for supporting Signal and the love of snowboarding.

Published On: 8/3/2006

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My Blog: I bounced off my head and hit a tree; welcome to my world
By: codyo156

A diary of a weekend in Fort Collins:
I look down the asphalt hill and wonder if it's big enough to give me an adrenaline rush on my long board.
Four minutes ago my sister Brenda told me not to eat shi*t; "the hills over there are steep," she said.
From the top of the road, however, it looks like a fun ride. I figure it's a blue, a double-blue tops.
The only thing worrying me is the three stop signs I'm going to ride through with only a glimpse and a hope.
At that time, I didn't see the ends of the real problem: the 90-degree turn I need to make at the bottom of the hill.
Only two of the hill's five pitches are steep, so I don't think the ride will be too insane.
Ready for some turns, I let my board start rolling and hop on it at the hill's peak.
I ride through the first stop sign and think, "this is sick bra, I'm making some gnar turns in town."
That thought, however, is soon left behind me.
I absorb jagged bumps with my knees and my board starts shaking violently under my chacos, which combine with the rough asphalt to make it nearly impossible to hold a solid edge.
A second of awkward acceleration later and a vision of hitting a parked-white-Toyota-Camry at 30 miles per hour flashes in my head.
shi*t. I realize the slopes by themselves aren't very gnarly, but together they equal three blocks of pure acceleration. I'm committed to an intense line and I don't have a chance of even-money-in-Vegas of making the back-edge turn at 30 miles per hour.
I'm going to eat shi*t, but where?
On the asphalt?
No, then I wouldn't be pretty anymore.
I hold on and look for the best place to run out my speed. I choose my only option; the yard at the bottom of the hill directly in front of me.
"Get ready to start running," I tell myself.
My plan explodes; there's pointy speed bump at the base of the driveway - the entrance to the grass - which is now RIGHT HERE.
f*ck.
I jump off the board just before the collision and I land on my feet in the driveway.
"I'm a bad ass," I -almost- finish thinking.
Then my speed flips me on my head and the momemtum bounces me feet first into a pine tree.
It's too bad nobody saw me crash. Maybe then the ambulance would have arrived quicker.
Haha, just joking. I'm not a pussy.
I smile and breath a sigh of relief as I crawl out from under the tree.
Surprisingly, I don't need a single band-aid and I only get one grass stain on my shirt: under my collar.
After eating pine, however, what I need is a beer.
I keep riding until my sister gets home, then we pick up some of her friends and go to the Fort Collins Brewery.
The four of us walk onto the sun-soaked patio and an old acquaintance yells my name; he's sitting alone drinking a hef.
I ditch my sister and her friends, sit down with Will and order a Major Tom's pomegranate wheat.
The last time I hung out with the guitar player was when he was leaving for college. Now, he has his degree and it trips me out how to think about how fast time has flown by.
The waitress hands me an orangey-tan pint and I sniff it, take a sip, swish it around and then ponder the first swallow.
I decide it's better than I remember it being, so I relax my guards and enjoy it.
Soon, a guy the guitar player calls the "palate man," Jefe, shows up with his beer mentor.
Jefe, like a true man of the palate, doesn't claim to like hefeweizens just because the type of beer has a name similar to his.
No, it quickly becomes obvious he's high up on the beer-appreciation-ladder.
His buds appreciate how malts can make a beer smooth, but understands they make beer generically bland - malts are like the instant potatoes of beer ingrediants.
We agree the hop-heads in Oregon make the best ales and our discussion flows into the ingredients different breweries use.
He says New Belgium, and many other breweries, use the same hops as a base in all of their beers.
This can be a good thing. If you like one beer from one of these breweries, there's a good chance you'll enjoy their other beers.
I assume, however, they do it purely for economic reasons.
The guys talk about the beer they have brewing at their home and say it should be ready to bottle in a few weeks. Then, the beer mentor, compliments the Fort Collins Brewery, saying all of their beers are not only unique from other Fort Collins beer, but they're individually crafted and each one is uniquely true only to its own suds.
I'd say craft-brewery's brew-master's love of beer is evident in every fresh pint they serve.
We talk and laugh until the 6 o'clock last call.
Then my sister and I go to a different bar.
When we get there, the upstairs patio is full, but she sees some of her friends so we sit at their table and order a bucket of Pacifico.
I pour salt in the beer, which confuses my sister. Later, she takes the salt shaker away from me "because it has a lot of cholesterol."
After a few buckets, my sister and I start arguing about the merits of soccer and wrestling. It's a stupid conversation, so I let her win and decide to make a lap around the bar. By this time, even the fashionably late people are out.
I say hi to some girls and the pretty one eventually buys me a drink.
I carry on an artificial conversation with them and drink my plastic-cupped-rum-and-coke.
Then I see Brenda, concentrating on every step she takes towards me.
"A cab's on the way to get us," she says.
"Don't worry about me," I say. "I'll find my own way home."
Thirty minutes goes by and I end up downstairs taking shots with an old high school buddy; the pretty girl's boyfriend sent her a text and then we ditched each other.
I do one last shot, a Poudre Canyon drop off, with Lucas and then I use his phone to call my mom.
She wakes up on the third ring and asks, "Where are you?"
"Tailgates," is all I say.
She shows up a few minutes later and I stomp out a bummed-cigarette and get in the car.
"I'm getting too old for this Cody."
Thanks Mom.
The next day I get a lethargic hangover.
I play frisbee golf my favorite ex-girlfriend and don't do much else.
Eventually, night creeps in and chokes out the light, my sister and mom go to sleep, and I find myself alone, thinking of all the people I'd love to see while I'm home.
I used to see my whole family a lot more often, even when I lived in Gunnison. Then my parents got divorced and the rift has been widening since.
Now, the only time my sister Christy goes to my mom's house is when I'm there and Brenda refers to my dad by a name she got from Harry Potter - "Voldemort" or some shi*t like that. It means "the one we don't speak of."
My family lives in the same town and doesn't see each other very often, but I feel like an a**hole when I roll into town and leave before I see half the people I want to.
"I'll swing by and see them next time I'm home; next time when I'm not so busy," I tell myself. Then I get a little teary-eyed as I grip an unfortunate reality that I'm starting to run of some "next times."Old age and diseases has some of family's minds in a vice.
My poor aunt will repeat the same thing every few minutes.
Me pobresita tia dije el mismo cosa mucho veces porque no podia recordar que dijo.
I have an aunt that will say the same thing over and over again and not realize it.
The family-bullshi*t-stress gets to me so I grab my board and walk outside and into the moonlight.
I make one lap at the elementary school across the street before the green glow on Lemay Avenue's pulls me to the road.
I walk up the hill, past the glow illuminating the street's outline, and step on my board.
I make a few turns and then I realize I need to quit forcing my actions; I just go along for the ride.
I close my eyes, let the cool breeze dry my sweat and hope I don't hit a bump. I get lucky - the pavement is smooooth.
Soon, the novelty of quarter-mile-rides wears off and I decide to try out the streets of Linden Lake.
The pavement is pitch-black and the outline is barely visible where it winds around the corners.
"Just don't eat shi*t again," I think.
I squint my eyes figure out the line. Then I step on my board, peddle once or twice and prepare myself for anything.
I lean into the first toe-edge turn so hard I touch the road with my hand. Then I stand back up on my board, edgy because of invisible-speed-bump paranoia.
The edge makes my body feel alive in the moment; I find the dao and the only thing that matters in my world is the next reaction I'll have to make. Nothing else matters.
I see a sign for a "speed dip," so I bend my knees to absorb it; I just roll over it.
The private road turns out to be the the pow-of-pavement, so I peddle past the million-dollar-houses again and again as I do midnight laps.
I find happiness in a few more moon-lit-moments before my body finally tells its time to walk up a hill and make my last turns on an easy pitch home.
When I get there, I don't have any energy to devote into the psychological battle of what I should be doing to become a better person.
I fall asleep, high on turns and contently ignoring the knowledge that I'm nothing more than an imperfect, self-centered human. I know I do stupid things and I abuse stupid things, but I believe people are happy to see me, whenever it is I'm lucky enough to see them.

PART 2:
On the drive back to Montrose I stop at the Wendy's in Longmont. Cars in line wrap around the building and I get mad about how much time it will cost me.
So, to ease my stress, I duck below my dashboard and flick my lighter. Then I sit up, make eye contact with the cashier, and suck the smoke out of my mouth and into my nose. Her still expression tells me she doesn't give a shi*t.
After that, the ride home is retardedly slow. I miss my exit and do a circle in Denver. Then I drive around Vail looking for a gas station, which is long enough to understand why a Western Slope city would boast "this is not Vail" in their ads.
Later I take a detour through Aspen, where pick up a newspaper that actually confirms my stereotypes of rich bastards without souls buying third homes there and exploiting the place for personal gains.
Then I back track and take another look at Woody Creek, the place where the late Doctor Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, played with guns and stayed up late writing stories; like a vampire with an appetitite for tweakers, as he would say.
When I see the sign that says "Gunnison County" I feel home. I drive over the shi*tty-dirt-road that is Kebler Pass, pop out in Crested Butte and stop in Gunnison for a break. Flo hands me a PBR when he sees me, then Becker and I go to his girlfriends for a bowl.
It's past midnight when I finally roll into Montrose and for the first time I'm truly glad to be there; I'm ready to slow my pace of life again.
Life is good though. If you can build relationships strong enough to come back alive with only smile, it's chill. Fill the days with good people, good beer, good music and new experiences and soon the bad will spill out and evaporate. Sometimes and unexpected bump might throw you on your head, but if you can muster a smile, it will only make you feel better.

Published On: 7/8/2006

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My Journal: Squamish Show ! By: thefallofsummer
*Yup, we are playing The Howe Sound Inn and Brewing Co. on Saturday June 24 after the Skate Jam at the park. A wicked time sure to be had by all.* *love,* t.f.o.s Published On: 6/14/2006 Add/View Comments (0)

My Journal: sonic 102.9 again
By: ScrapPaper

oh
my
god

marmot: 3 days
tuesday...sunny...beautiful
wednesday...sunny...light snow in the morning
thursday...snow didn't friggen stop...can you say drool?

f*cked up my knee on day 1 and did it again on day 2...sucked it up and had some fuuuun day 3

so much shi*t went down it was awsome
inside jokes:

poker
uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss baby
gangsta handshakes
"moo." "OMG DON'T MATE WITH ME!!!"
frank. and stein
monkey boy and smartiepants
"yeaaaa you made it! but i'm better."
free pens
powerade in the dry sauna
pears
"it's brewing..."

*will add more...

oh man...what a great three days...most excellent :)

Published On: 3/31/2006

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My Blog: MARTINI CONTEST By: hilary987654321
for all you crazies that dare to venture out to surrey i am in a martini contest at Big Ridge Brewing Co. on March 2. tickets are 10$ and you get 3 martinis.. you just have to vote for me!:) Published On: 2/20/2006 Add/View Comments (0)

NEGRO: beer quote site i found online
By: negro_23

Beer Quotes

As many of you know and I'm sure the rest could figure out we do enjoy a tasty beverage every once in a while. Actually pretty often. Here's some beer and drink quotes compiled from various lists, books and websites. Quite a few came from http://www.tastybrew.com, a great site for everything beer related. Should you have one of your own to contribute e-mail them to webmaster@teamcrude.com.

Three great beer commercials (each is greater than 1mb in size), click 'Opening competition', 'Good dog' or 'Best beer commercial of the year'.

"What can the Brits tell us Czechs about the quality of beer? It's as if we Czechs went to France and told them how to make champagne." --Jan Vesely, chairman of the Czech Brewing and Malthouse Association, after CAMRA called to question the quality of some Czech beers

"The misconception is you need to learn how to taste. It's more a sense of recognition than a sense of taste." --Jerald O'Kennard of the Beverage Testing Institute in Chicago on tasting beer

SAM: What'd you like, Normie?
NORM: A reason to live. Give me another beer. --Cheers

"The most dynamic beer culture in the world is here. There is more going on with brewing in America than anywhere else." --Kalamazoo Brewing founder Larry Bell

"All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." --Homer Simpson

"To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a support group. Salvation in a can!" - Dave Howell

"Be always drunken. Nothing else matters...
Drunken with what?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.
But be drunken." --Baudelaire

"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink." --Gore Vidal

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into." --Don Marquis, 1878-1937, American journalist

"It is a fair wind that blew men to the ale." --Washington Irving

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." --Oscar Wilde

"Chicken Soup for the Beer Drinkers Soul......Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." --Jack Handy

"Let us reflect if we wish to be brilliant. Too much immprovisation leavs themind stupidly void. Running beer gathers no foam." --Victor Hugy

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits

"Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale." --George Borrow

"We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer." --Jimmy Buffett

"Drowning our liver from river to river." --Team Donner Party

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." --Kaiser Welhelm

WOODY: Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you.
NORM: I know. If she calls, I'm not here. --Cheers

"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk they're sober." --William Butler Yeats

"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer." --Homer Simpson

"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer." --Henry Lawson

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." --Frank Sinatra

"Here sleep in peace a Hampshire grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer;
Soldiers, take heed from his untimely fall,
And when you're hot, drink strong, or not at all." --Epitaph on a soldier's grave

"The pub knows a lot, almost as much as the churches." --Joyce Carey

"Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." --Mark Hawkins in the New York Times, 1977

"A quench of bartenders." --Arizonan Karen Heberman's winning entry in the Ardent Spirits Web site competition to find a collective noun for bartenders

"Why should mother go without her nourishing glass of Ale or Stout on washing day?" --1920s anti-temperance slogan

"...the stronger and staler the Beer (in it) is, the Better the Ketchup will be." --18th century cookbook author Hanna Glasse's advice to ship captains on how to prevent ketchup from spoiling on a long sea voyage

"I don't have a drinking problem, except when I can't find a drink." --Tom Waits

"Wine is but a single broth, ale is meat, drink and cloth." --English proverb

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk in order to spend time with his friends." --Ernest Hemingway

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." --Henny Youngman

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill

"My people must drink beer." --Frederick the Great

"Yes, my soul sentimentally craves British beer." --Thomas Campbell

"Life alas, is very drear. Up with the glass, down with the beer!" --Louis Untermeyer

"The Church is near by the road is icy. The bar is far away but I will walk carefully." --Russian Proverb

"I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking." --James Gould Cozzens on what he does in his study.

"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety." --William Shakespeare

"God made yeast, as well as dough, and he loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." --Stephen Wright

"Making light lager beer is like going to the beach in a thong. You better have all your parts in place or it's going to be ugly." --Tom Dargan, brewer for the Gordon Biersch Restaurant & Brewery in Broomfield, Colo.

"Whiskey and Beer are a man's worst enemies... but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!" --Zeca Pagodinho

"One pint of beer ... equals 1/2 college credit in philosophy." --Raymond Hankins

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." --W. C. Fields

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." --Homer Simpson

"Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink." --Tucker Max

"If you can't have 1 by 11, have 11 by 1." --Anonymous

"They who drink beer will think beer." --Washington Irving

"Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old." --Bishop Still (John), Gammer Gurton's Needle

"A pleasant apertif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer." --M.F.K. Fisher

"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim." --Xenophon, c.435-c.354 B.C., Greek historian

"Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging." --Rennie Ellis

"No, sir: There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." --Samuel Johnson

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!" --Brian O'Rourke

"I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death." --Jack Kerouac

"They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime." --Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter

"Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free...beer is good enough for me." --Lord Neaves

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W.C. Fields

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." --Frank Zappa

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." --Socrates

"For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King." --William Shakespeare

SAM: What'll you have Normie?
NORM: Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap.
SAM: Looks like beer, Norm.
NORM: Call me Mister Lucky. --Cheers

"Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer." --Janis Joplin

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." --Dave Barry

"Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
Drink with me, and drink as I.
On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale Source." -- William Oldys 1696-1761

"Why do I drink? So that I can write poetry." --Jim Morrison

WOODY: How's it going, Mr. Peterson?
NORM: Poor.
WOODY: I'm sorry to hear that.
NORM: No, I mean pour. --Cheers

"I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night." --John Heywood, Be Merry Friends

BEER: HELPING UGLY PEOPLE HAVE SEX SINCE 3000 B.C.!!! --The Book of Genesis

"A mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer." --Ancient Egyptian adage

"Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser." --Anonymous

"To some, it's a six-pack' to me, it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!" --Unknown

"Women and drink. Too much of either can drive you to the other." -- Michael Still

"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato

"I've always believed that paradise will have my favorite beer on tap." --Rudyard Wheatley

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers." --Cliff Clavin (Cheers)

"O Beer! Guinness, Allsopp, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue!" --C.S. Calverley

"She never tasted it -- it can't be tasted in a sip!'" --Charles Dickens

WOODY: What's the story, Mr. Peterson?
NORM: The Bobbsey twins go to the brewery. Let's cut to the happy ending. --Cheers

"..and I will make it felony to drink small beer." --William Shakespeare

"What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia? What event more awfully important to an English colony than the erection of its first brewhouse?" --Reverend Sydney Smith

"Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking." --Eden Philpotts

WOODY: How would a beer feel, Mr. Peterson?
NORM: Pretty nervous if I was in the room. --Cheers

"Flow Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, beer!
Tho' stale, not ripe; tho' thin, yet never clear;
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull;
Heady, not strong; o'erflowing tho' not full." --Alexander Pope

"Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him." --Mark Twain

"I do not remember the poor creature, small beer." --William Shakespeare

"You can never buy beer. You just rent it. --Archie Bunker

"Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer." --Al Bundy

"Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days." -- Ancient Egyptian Credo

SAM: What do you know there, Norm?
NORM: How to sit. How to drink. Want to quiz me? --Cheers

"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night." --Ancient Greek Proverb

"I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me." --W.C. Fields

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer." --Anne Sexton

"Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol." --Anonymous

"Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder." --Anonymous

COACH: Can I draw you a beer, Norm?
NORM: No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one. --Cheers

"Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life." --Anonymous

"Life's too short to drink cheap beer." --Anonymous

"Drink triple, see double and act single." --Anonymous

"I drink, therefore I am." --Anonymous

"When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer." --Dave Barry

"There can't be good living where there is not good drinking." --Ben Franklin

"You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man." --Bruce Aidells

"People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot." -- Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer. --Cheers

"Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time." --Catherine Zandonella

"I drink to make other people interesting." --George Jean Nathan

WOODY: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?
NORM: All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty. --Cheers

WOODY: What's going on, Mr. Peterson?
NORM: The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson? A beer please, Woody. --Cheers

"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire." --David Rains Wallace

"All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow." --Dave Barry

"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs." --David Daye

WOODY: Hey, Mr. Peterson, what's up?
NORM: The warranty on my liver. --Cheers

"America is a country of beer, not wine, drinkers." --Tom Dalldorf

"Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health." --Thomas Jefferson

"I'll have another beer. I'm not driving." --Father Theodore, Trappist monk

"The government will fall that raises the price of beer." --Czech saying

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." --Dave Barry

"Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow." --Cicero

CLIFF: Hey, Norm, What's up?
NORM: My blood-alcohol level. --Cheers

"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine." --David Moulton

"If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose." --Jack Handy, deep thoughts

"I recommend..bread, meat, vegetables, and beer." --Sophocles

"I work until beer o'clock." --Stephen King

COACH: What would you say to a beer, Normie?
NORM: Daddy wuvs you. --Cheers

"Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is." --Denny Conn

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into." -- Don Marquis

"Beer is a wholesome liquor....it abounds with nourishment." --Dr. Benjamin Rush, American physician

"Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies come to life and fade away. What care I how time advances; I am drinking ale today." --Edgar Allan Poe

"I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds." --Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --Ernest Hemingway

"Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer." --Frekerick William

"Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand." --Fritz Maytag, American brewer

"If my mother was tied up and held ransom, I might think about making a light beer." --Greg Koch, CEO and co-founder of Stone Brewing

SAM: What do you say, Norm?
NORM: Any cheap, tawdry thing that'll get me a beer. --Cheers

"Spring is here, so let's have a beer." --Randal G. Sprecher

"There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better." --Stephen Morris

"Put it back in the horse!" --H. Allen Smith, after he drank his first American beer.

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." --Humphrey Bogart

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion." -- Miguel de Cervantes

Published On: 1/23/2006

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