Monthly Archive for December, 2008

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Home Again, Off Again

Published on December 5, 2008 in Snow and Travel by risu. Closed

Got back from Vancouver this past Sunday, and tomorrow (Saturday) I’m off to Sapporo! Had enough time to do the laundry and put everything back in the suitcase. Snow conditions aren’t really that good, but I’m taking the powder board up since the jib board came back from Whistler-Blackcomb a little worse for wear from all the rocks and krap – the edges feel like TV infomercial serrated knives, and there is a new core-shot amongst the field of new scratches and scrapes, not to mention the marred topsheet from when mister big dummy anglo ran me over from behind. Yesterday, Sapporo Kokusai looked as bad as Whistler, with dirt showing through the thin snowbase. There was a good dump last night, so there looks to be a new 10-15cm on the ground, with more to come over the next two days. With any luck, I’ll be out there poaching it on Monday morning!

Hopefully I’ll be able to keep you updated as my trip progresses, and I look forward to what Root and Fabio will put up here and on the gallery from the Vancouver trip.

Got “F”?

Published on December 3, 2008 in Art and Culture by risu. Closed

Cade Roster’s Cade Roster puts the “F” in “Fine Art” show opens at Chinatown Boardroom tonight at 18:00. The show will run thru the 27th, so go check it out! The gallery’s normal hours are Tuesday thru Saturday, 11:00-16:00. From the info I have received so far, he’s painted on skateboard decks, so this might be your chance to get some sweet custom wood by a great local artist.

Stay tuned for some highlights from the show…

BFOD V2.0

Published on December 3, 2008 in rant and Snow by risu. Closed

The skinned finger healed up in time for the Whistler Thanksgiving trip, so all was good…

That is up until Saturday, when we were out-of-bounds on Blackcomb poaching some unridden fluff. We found a nice log jib, and hung around to session it. I rode it first and cleaned it (with a slightly off-center sortie, but that’s another story). After my run, the snow on top of the log had been scraped away, revealing a prong of death branch sticking out the top. I kicked at it and busted most of it off, but there was still a nubbin of death that bugged me. I got out my Swisstool and sawed it off. While I was shaking the wet sawdust out of the saw blade, the tool slipped out of my hand and disappeared into the snow. Without thinking, I plunged my hand into the snow and found the sawteeth with my fingertip! Blood fountained forth, drenching the tool, dripping all over the log, and splattering the snow like a crime scene! Continue reading ‘BFOD V2.0’

Bike Destroyer

Published on December 2, 2008 in bike by risu. Closed

Saw a Saabaru last week with a mangled roof rack Q/R-style bike tray. The picture from my keitai didn’t really come out that good, so I outlined the two trays in yellow so y’all can see what’s going on. Essentially, put a bike on the tray, drive, and run the handlebars of the bike smack dab into the header of your garage door! The fork bends back, but before it breaks, it presses the frame backward and downward, forcing the rear wheel to bend the thick, extruded aluminum tray (before both the frame and wheel also break). The bike definitely didn’t survive this encounter! I wonder which poor bike store employee had to hear the, “I was just riding along…” story ?

Downtown Devil

Published on December 2, 2008 in Culture and rant by risu. Closed

I saw this neat paint chip at the Downtown Post Office loading dock that looks like a galvanized-colored version of the popular image of what a devil is supposed to look like in Western culture.