had about a week with no riding.
the weather has changed for the worst. we started out with mad snow and it looked like we were going to have great season but, mother nature seems to have abandoned us. we haven't gotten any new snow to speak of in about a month and the spring came in mid January. we thought we were getting that one week of nice sunshine and warm temps, then it turned to a month and a half of it. it seems that we a re cutting into that 110 inch base that we had and it is only February. at this rate i don't know how we are going to make it to July, (oh poor us we may only have to ride till June). it seems the comp season that should be in full swing is almost stagnant, no one wants to ride slushy pipe with crumbling walls or 60 footers with sloppy lips and rutted landings.
good news! i am moving to Peru for a few weeks then to Argentina in the summer (it's great to have a wife from south America) so i get to ride all year long. come back here for next season all ready to hit the comp season with no down-time to cool off.
this is my blog so i do have the right to rant now and then and now is one of those times.
this is about corporate America. to be specific, advertising. have you ever just been watching the tube when a commercial comes on with music in the background of a band that a bunch of money grubbing, exploiting, sons of bitches should never even know about?the latest exploitation in this long list is "THE KING", yes boys and girls BURGER KING.
now before i go on i want to let all you kiddos know that i am not talking out my ass. i myself for a short time was a member of the corporate rat race. class of 1997 Penn state masters in business administration focusing in advertising, (my head is hung in shame). if you watch the tube at all you know about "THE KINGS" latest marketing campaign. using the retro big headed king suit from the 70's to try to get the baby boomer peoples coming back to "THE KING". they give out the vid games with the big head king to the gen"Y" kiddos to get them to come in. now, now, those f*cking chicken hawks have gone after the gen"x"ers (thats my generation). paying off, (or even buying the rights from the record label I'm not sure) the "Violent Femmes". now it might now be seen as a big deal to a lot of people, but you have to realize when this song was written (1988) it wasn't even allowed to be played on college radio stations because of other songs on the album. do you see the irony in this? but wait, lets take a look back at what has been done in the past few years to make you dislike songs and bands that are great or even good just because it has gone main stream. 2002 Garnier using the Transplants, 1999 Nintendo using the butt hole surfers, 1997 Nintendo using the dead milkmen, 2000 - today Sony using anything off any tony hawk poop skaters video game. my point is this. if a company or business needs to use song and dance to make peoople come to their stores and or restaurants then their products probably arent good. so by buying into their sterotyping and image that if you buy their products or eat thier food you will be cool and unique you are actually falling into croud of the lemmings headed for the cliff. do youself and our nation a favor, STOP BUYING INTO CORPORATE RULE. THINK FOR YOURSELFS AND DICTATE THAT YOU DECIDE WHAT YOU BUY, AND NO AMOUNT OF DECEIPT AND LIES IS GOING TO DECIDE WHERE YOU SPEND YOU MONEY.
kids get off you fat asses and learn to skate don't play it. do you understand that when you play skating you make it football. i helped make skating what it is today by buying boards, braking bones, and sitting in my driveway practicing tricks for hours on end, even a amature sponsorship for a few years. by turning it into a sport you are killing what we all did. oh well we're killing the earth so you will have no place to breath, paybacks a bitch.
