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Month: May 2009

  • Surf Style

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    During my copious hours of down time, last week, I watched an inordinate amount of FuelTV. I really enjoyed all of the Skateboard and Snowboard segments. I changed the channel for the bmx segments. But for some reason, the surfing segments are so infectious to me. I especially love surf films. I capped the weekend…

  • Capacitating Flux

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    Dear Jake, The other day I was looking in my Dad’s palm pilot for a phone number and I saw something titled, “after I fell off my toilet.. I drew this”. I opened it and it was a rough sketch of what looked kind of like the flux capacitor? What […]

  • Some Stencil Fun

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    Sunday night, Reagan was being all artsy, working on some stuff for Piper’s birthday. She was having so much fun cutting up paper and stuff, that I decided to get in on the action. I got this great idea to draw and cut a stencil for the grip tape on my longboard. So I pulled…

  • La Musica Coolica #26 (Strokes)

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    The Strokes are awesome for so many reasons, it would be impossible to list them all. Here are just a few: They are from New York; They were at the forefront of the “garage band revival” in the early 2000’s; the “garage band revival” finally moved popular rock out of the disgusting butt rock slump…

  • Wet-Dry at LeMans

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    After a week off, GP was back in action racing at LeMans, this week in France. It was a crazy race, because of the wet track conditions. It was drizzling up until the warm-up lap, which caused all of the riders to start the race riding bikes shod with wet weather tires. Pedrosa, Lorenzo and…

  • Piperooski

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    Today was a busy day for us. We spent the majority of it running all over the tri-state area to get Piper’s stuff moved. When we arrived at Blythedale will all of her stuff, she was snoozing away. It didn’t take her long to wake up though, and tangle herself up in some funky position…

  • NYRR Kidney Health 10K

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    [Reagan, in front of the great lawn, before the race] I thought it was great that the benefit for today’s race was for kidney health. Reagan and I were joking the entire time about that scene from 30 Rock this week, where Dr. Spogemen talks about how kidney transplantation is no laughing matter. Today was…

  • Convicts get their stripes

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    These little guys have been doing great. They are eating twice a day, now. I moved the mama back to the large tank, so she could be back with her homies, and resist the urge to cannibalize any of her young. This week some of them have started to develop their little convict stripes.

  • A second to breathe

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    We got Piper all moved in back at Blythedale and everything, today. I’m feeling pretty good about the way this week is coming to an end. Reagan had a girls night tonight, with one of our friends who is moving away. It gave me a chance to get out and skate a bit. It was…

  • Scarlett Johannson

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    Lining the bottom of the cage this week. As a side note, it looks like the little guys (and girls) have been busy. Look what’s going on in the nest: