love finding these ads…
They’re better than ads that people put out today!

DJ shock aka DJ servin’ em aka the Flatspot kid will be opening up for Jeru The Damaja!
Wish i could be there to see how hype this party will be!
If you live in Hamilton and you do not roll down to this show you’re wack!

Check out the new DNR article on Alphanumeric when you get a chance…
These dudes are just starting!

Joel Hersey and i go way back… When i first started in this industry he was one of the first guys that believed in me and held me down…I got mad love for this cat! Well things don’t change… Joel still holds me down and runs one of dopest shops on the east coast of canada called Elusive… They carry all the best skateboard and snowboard stuff and they always got the newest and best Nike SB’z instock!
Check out Joel’s blog and skateshop here

There’s only one JP

Teebs reppin!

Nacho and Greg work at Pro skates and have an amazing
weekly hype-up, on product they just recieve in the store…
It’s dudes like this, and shops like Pro skates,
that keep things fun in the skateboard industry…

Check these guys out every monday for a good dose of skateshop slapstick comedy!
Hey Jon, you gotta bring these guys down to do a video on Knowshow!
You know that would rule! I’m gonna talk to the knowshow peeps tomorrow!

ASR was amazing this past weekend…
One of my best trips to the west coast in a while!
Peep the picks… I am too lazy to write anything!
Thank you to everyone who took care of us!

When we first got to SD we went straight to the new Alphanumeric offices.

Jon G postin up

The man with 10 jobs…
Seriously Mirko is one of the hardest working guys in this industry… love this guy!

A# Fall 08 lookin proper

Univ is right next door… stocking some of todays best brands…

Jon g on that flavor flav tip…

(hi-pitched voice) “Look he’s got his own milkcarton”…

We had brunch with Emmelie and Bella from FUCT in LA the next morning…
That was alot of fun… We had alot of fun poking fun of scientologists… Emmelie rocks!

We headed over to the Diamond Store on Fairfax…
Oh my goodness! BJ’s ride is insane!

Derrrrty…

Went and visited chris over at ALIFE.. This store is so dope!

We went on to check out Fairfax, and melrose and blah blah blah…
yo amiba records.. thats whats up!
Later on we went out to celebrate Nick’s B-day @ this dope sushi joint…

Man i was stoked to meet Jeremy Henderson…
Zoo York original from way back!
Look it up kiddos!
Man Nick knows some serious OG’z!

The SB bong graphic..

Drove home that night and got locked out of our room…
After an hour of bickering with hotel security we got in…
Look who we found inside

Next morning bright an early for day 1

Bumped into Nick from Vice right away…

Don’t get it twisted… Flatspot’s internationally known!

Mehrathon fam, Daymon was in the house with Money clothing.
D’s got that $4000 belt and Jonny Nuggs was all over the the Porno Flage’

Mehrathon homey, Nick from Lifetime was gettin his drink on early…

A# booth was booked solid all weekend

Mehrathon homeys, Stefan and Peech were in the house…
check out next issue.. gonna be a banger!! 10 yrs!

Ace trucks had 2 booths set up…
There was huge buzz at ASR as ACE dropped their rider list…
or should i say army!
check out these Hawaiin joints!

Yann from Exo came through the Brigada booth to peep the new glasses

Underworld’s Alex was holdin down the A pound

We went to go see Diz Gibran that night open for Consequence and Talib
Whoo Kid guest Dj’d for Diz and the crowd was hyped!


This one’s a classic.. Joey and Nick Tershay…

Lance in the house… no rigshaw beef this time

OG…Shrewgy from Ace in the house

We passed by the Vice party late night…
Looky looky who we bumped into.. Nick from Ultimate skateshop

Next morning rolled by to hang out with Erik and Jim at the Brigada booth again…
I started to get my art on…


Lil’ Weezy rolled by the booth

Jim and I went to go fuck with the annoying techno DJ…
Jim Basically took over…

On the way to agenda bumped into my homey Danny Supa
Always great to see this cat!

Then we bumped into Nick…
Damn he was rockin that Diamond x Girl tee! Sick!

At agenda we bumped into oldskool friend Mr Neil Nice!
This cat is good peoples and he can rock a party out…
Need some mixtapes homey!

Later that night we headed over to the official
Diamond Supply co – 10 Deep party for nick’s Birthday
This was one of the best partys!
So many people were there!
The Lineup was around the block!
Met so many good people that night!
We ate steak at the bar while listening to bangin beats…
Jon’s looking to Franchise the red circle

Mr. Force and Mr Ace… the Takeover!


3XL + 3XL = 6XL

Matt from ALIFE and Jonny Punfire

wow OG, Weston Correa holdin it down!


Jeron Wilson in the place to be…
His shoe is blazin hot… one of the hottest out there…

ELI was in the house…

Todd from in4mation in the spot

Diz Gibran


Weston and Kent

Pete and Emil from Crooks

The Northern connection

Pete had lots to talk with JB Gillet after just getting back from France

Felix and Nick

deadbeats

Manny Santiago was in the spot… This kid kills it!

Fuct in the house

Tone

GC and FTC


No you.. No you…No you.. No you

You know we were the late night Stragglers

Next morning we stopped by our homeys @ SHUT…
They have theit flagship store opening on Feb 8th in NYC
Congrats

Keepin it gangster… James reppin Flatspot

Met up with Erik, Emmelie and Jake from FUCT on day 3…
We were fucking with Amercian Apparel…

This dumb chick from AA was such a tight ass

Sorry roughneck.. this was done by the boys at PRO…

Back to the cold!

I got wind that Joey and Shrewgy @ Ace were going to release names
of some team riders at January’s ASR tradeshow…
Here’s a few! haha This is what you call the takeover!
Try a pair today… you’ll see what everybody’s talkin’ bout’!

Abramsky, Brett
Allred, Alan
Alva, Tony
Ando
Bakker, Billy
Ball, Garret
Barley, Donny
Barret, Barker
Berard, Kyle
Bigfoot
Black, Pat
Block
Bolyard, Sage
Britton, Eric
Caddo, Dave
Cerda, Jose
Chatman, Ron
Chicken
Chin, Mikey
Correa, Weston
Daher, Mike
Deans, Billy
DelaTorre, Brian
Dill, Jason
Dyke, Matt
Eckler, Gordon
Emerson
Field, Matt
Gagnon, Pierre-Luc
Germ
Gonzalez, Zach
Gorecki, Jimmy
Harada, Bennett
Hartsel, Jef
Henderson, Jeremy
Holmes, Robbie
Horton, Nathan
Hubbard, Mark
Ibaseta, Rick
Johnson, Brad
Johnson, Nolan
Jones, Nate
Kelch, James
Kokomo, Joe
Lee, Jason
Lucero, John
Marcus, Jimmy
Martin, Shawn
Martinez, Jesse
Matlin, Nick
Mattson, Josh
McBride, Lavar
Mercer, Matt
Miller, Matt
Mumma, Tyler
Murray, Aaron
Nelson, Royce
Olson, Steve
P2
Paez, Richard
Pastras, Dune
Peacock, Noah
Pierre, Team
Pimentel, Tony
Pronier, Skip
Reategui, Eddie
Remillard, Tom
Reyes, Jamie
Reynolds, Bob
Rodriguez, Matt
Rogers, J.J.
Rosa, Mike
Sanchez, Henry
Selego, Ed
Shrewgy
Smith, Rodney
Smolik, Peter
Stranger, Julien
Tershay, Joey
Tershay, Nick
Toad
Treece, Chuck
Tsocheff, Karma
Turner, Jovontae
West, Jay
Winsor, Ricky
Young, Carlos
Langi, Andrew
Lay, Ryan

Hey check out this clip I saw from SGV
Whats your haircut?

Empire is one of the OG skateshops in Canada and have steadily grown, ironically into an “Empire”!
Brigada is proud to announce the official opening of their downtown location…
Come celebrate with with us!

The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for it.
Thoreau

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice
to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Man this is way overdue!
Last weekend i guest ref’d the first annual Frost Bite Cup!
When i first got there Saturday morning, Angelo had already mapped out the field with these little orange cones and the nets were marked by two bigger pylons…
With a foot of snow and windy conditions, I must admit i was a little afraid at how the game was going to transpire. Paul reminded me not to be a pussy and that i should man up, i was also reassured by the teams marching up the hill towards the field!
After each respective team suited up in their color jersey’s and the sides were chosen the game started right away!
To my surprise this game was intense… jumping headers, slide tackles, and pele kicks were just some of the techniques i witnessed! I think i missed half the calls and i definately heard it from the teams and crowd but i was the ref and you know i had to hold it down! haha
All in all, this was an amazing event…
I look forward to year 2!
Team Le-Noyer 2009
check Angelo’s The Ringleaders for pictures and details

wow check out this great white shark!
My bro sent me this one!

OCEAN SHORES ,WA
While the ocean vessel ‘Dawn Raider’ was commercial fishing for dogfish, this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a lo ok; long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope a round it’s tail !!! ‘And that’s when the s **t hit the fan!!
The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. Just like in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned. She weighed in at 1035 LBS. It is suspected she followed a weak El Nino current into local waters in search of food. Although mid 60 d egree water is considered ideal for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate water in the low 50s.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

John Wanamaker

Terry Kennedy in Brigada and Diamond!