Too Cold Still

I had off this past Saturday and didn't have any homework.  So I picked up Shardy and we went to check out the remodeled Washington Park, home of that semi-famous 9 stair rail.

Geese!

New set.  The rails are pretty tall and aren't really skate-able, but doing tricks over the side rails would work well.

Tricks down the 9 stair would work, but the middle rail isn't skate-able and the side rail is knobbed.  The knobs look semi-easy to take off though if anyone is really interested in that.

After that we went to The Denver Shop to hang out with Tony.

It was below freezing, but it had been so long since we skated that a flat bar, box, and flatground in a parking garage sounded good.  The session kind of sucked though, I couldn't really feel my toes.  Thanks to Andy and Travis for bringing the obstacles though.  Some skating is better than no skating.

The box.

After our session we hung out at Viva Burrito.  Horchata!

Joey points out the bullet holes in the window.

Classic Viva.

Birthday

Shardy took me out to Cici's for my birthday.  No, those balloons were not for me.  Thanks Justin!

It was too wet/cold to skate, so we went to The Shop to check out editing.  Whitney and Tony are really coming through.

New crispy!

Watched the new Shake Junt video.  Herman, Reynolds, and Dollin got my psyched.

Blurry photo of ice cream.  It's my birthday, I can have ice cream in the middle of the day.

Anna got me this book.  So good, I'm already almost finished.  I've read Eating Animals by Foer, and his fiction is equally as amazing as his non-fiction.  Highly recommended, a page turner, etc.  Check it out, especially before the movie comes out.  Movies are never as good as the book.

Birthday dinner at Blue Bonnet.

My food.

Then we went to Charlie Browns for drinks.  Natalie bought me a birthday cake.  She's too nice.

A good time was had by all.

Thanks to everyone for making my birthday so great.  I'm old now.

Windy

Met up with these turds at Denver Park.

We tried to skate some stuff in Capital Hill, but weren't really feeling any of the spots up there.  And it was super windy, which I tried to capture in this photo.

This spot.  Whitney rejoices.

Joey did a J Greer impression.

Messed around on this baby rail in an enclosed area (no wind).

Shardy nailed this caveman.  Overall, wasn't a very exciting day for skating.

Then I went to the Denver Film Festival.  Paul got me free tickets, popcorn, and soda.  Thanks Paul, you da best!

Saturday

Woke up real early and met up with Justin to catch up.  Still the best dude out if you were wondering.  

Then we picked Mason up and cruised to Denver Park.  The Saturday morning crew at Denver park is pretty consistent and awesome.

Vitamin Cottage is one of my new favorite places.  Good stuff, good prices, what's not to love?

Then we met up with Joey and Whitney at the RTD station.  Kicked out practically immediately, like usual.  We should really never go here again.

Then this ledge.  The debate over this thing is wether it is a hubba or a ledge.  My argument is that it is a ledge because hubba's are down stairs.  Either way, it's tall and hard to skate.  Adam Brown tailslide this thing almost 10 years ago... wow.

Lil Wayne Day

I'm taking a class on Homer this fall, and every time I open The Iliad I think of this quote from Virginia Woolf on my potential comprehension of translated Greek literature:

"For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel for ever drawn back to Greek, and be for ever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say?"- The Common Reader

If you got through that quote, good for you.  If not, just take from it that my studying Greek translated into English is already highly questionable, so I wonder why I do it.

While I was studying I ran into Patrick.  Great guy.

Then I went to Twist and Shout to begin Lil Wayne Day buy purchasing Tha Carter IV.  Well worth it.

When I went to put Tha Carter IV in my CD player, I thought it was very ironic that this popped out. I'm not choosing teams.

I met up with Ty and Kehoe for a day of shooting some photos.

Great Mexican vibe for lunch.

Great big Coke.

Classic Denver spot.  But nobody was really feeling it.  Ty tried to teach me impossibles to no avail.

More banks.

Kehoe and Ty getting some gems.

After skating I stopped by The Shop on my way to the Lil Wayne concert.  Tony and Whitney were working on editing the video.  I'm very excited about this, things are looking good.

I went to the concert by myself.  My friends either: weren't interested, or couldn't afford it, or both.  But that's not going to hold me back!

Had to make this purchase.

But, I ended up running into my friend Roscoe at the merchandise booth, so I hung out with him and his friends for the whole show.

Keri Hilson opened up.  Don't know anything about her.

Lovell taunted me with his Lil Wayne experience.  He knew that I wasn't going to get as close as he did.

Rick "The Bawse" Ross.

WEEZY!

He skated on stage all night.

If you look to the far right you can see him throwing down.

Standing on the board while rapping.

Doing a rock fakie (far left) while rapping.

He killed it. Best rapper alive!