New York's alright if you like saxophones.

New York's alright if you like saxophones.

Ready yourselves for some real intense inspiration.

Right out of the gate I need to send up flairs and ask for Hancocks on a petition that's pretty time sensitive.

You see- there's an off-the-beaten-path little corner of the world down there in Portland where some industriously-minded skaters build a little community skatepark called 'Feral Cat Cove';

Don Rice getting caught doing what Don Rice does by Chris Sprinkle.

The spot began four years ago during pandemic V.1, and has grown to pretty substantial proportions.

Well, as you might imagine the story goes, The Man doesn't care for it, and it's been leaked that the park is slated for demolition real soon unless the skaters can provide a petition showing that we've got the numbers, and our desire for it to stay is greater than the city's desire to return the space to the tweakers, illicit trash dumpers, and various other sorts of shitbags.

This is where you come in. Sign the petition, donate a clam or two if you've got it, and rest smugly with the knowledge that you've had a hand in the betterment of a community project that can use the help.

If you only pay attention to the comings and goings on this here channel, then I'd like to present some photos of my sweet stem over the course of twenty-one days;

Would you look at this baby? I just want to wrap it up in some soft linens and feed it some hot milk and tell it how when it grows up, if it wants to, it can be anything it wants. Even the president of the Stuntman Association of The World.

In business news, I would like to let those with interest know that after a little bit of a wait, Blue Collar jerseys (long and short sleeve), as well as the bibs are all available for purchase again;

 

I know these are shite images, but between rebuilding the site, and then discovering that the Podium Wear storefront links died in the process, and then dragging them for weeks to get them live again, (the AHTBM jersey storefront still is not), I kinda spaced on the fact that I didn't have proper renderings with which to promote said store once they were live again.

I swear to God- I can barely manage my day to day, let alone any aspect of anyone else's.

Would you like an example? Very well then- Yesterday morning a primary objective for me was to get the graphics finalized for the forthcoming sixth AHTBM skateboard deck, but in order to do that, I needed to get an updated template from my new deck vendor. While I was plotting to do that, I remembered I needed to pay my screen printer for a new batch of WSRW shirts and hoodies, but before I did that, I had to find the email from him with the invoice, and so while juggling those things in my swiss cheese brain, I stepped to my computer only to find that my keyboard had died so I plugged that in, then upon wandering into the kitchen to do that, got distracted by four other things and so on and on the day went. All of that said, I did manage to vacuum, mop, dust, write this post, do laundry, a load of dishes, make lunch, and take a 30 minute nap though, so perhaps I'm only partially off the ball.

People have told me that making lists might help, but when I get sidelined in the middle of three other things, which admittedly I am barely keeping focus of, writing anything down on a piece of paper might be enough to send me into a full blown meltdown.

Is this that whole 'being on the spectrum' thing I keep hearing about, or am I just a colossal dinging with an attention span of a gerbil? Maybe both can be true.

Anyway, now that we've handled a little bit of all of that, it's come time to handle a little bit of this;
You get what you pay for. I believe we chat for an over an hour, and though I realize inspiration comes in many forms, I don't think we ever even broached the topics of New York OR saxophones
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