rain rain go away

I dunno why but lets start this blog update with Tony Colabraro handling some waffles.


Before getting his job at KCDC Falla was forced to sling crills like this to put cerviche on the table for his familia.
With a little less pressure on the nose that trick goes from good to uncalled for.
Bautista giving his post meal interview.
I gave Allen Ying my phone and he shot a way better photo than i could have ever shot. Fuck that dude.
Wastings, Caddo, Fala-la-la, Bautista, and Ying-yang.
Big Germ has it all figured out.
Falla is always the last dude out of the car. I dunno why he's just lazy as fuck i guess.
Clifton's Finest
Woke up one morning and within 10 minutes i crashed the 5boro van. Sweet.
Joe Took took me out to a Chicken Dinner to make me feel better.
Took got his money's worth as always.
Livin the fast life with fast cars....
The fast life also comes with fast tickets. Took is a cop magnet.
Finally got to Delaware 5 hours after the demo was over. Sorry Ben and Brandon we blew it.
Bakers
Think that chicken dinner was enough for Took? I think not. He handled a huge piece of Mama Akers' Lasagna with no shame.
Akers is the kind of dude who grips his board on his bed. Gross.
By the looks of this calendar Willy is really up on the times.
Akers was a childhood hero to all his bros and won a bunch of contests. 
Pitts is really tall.
newspaper rig.
Akers in his A.M. gear.
Pledge allegiance to the slag.
Bakers making breakfast.

Jimmy boiling with hate reading a new mag.

Fuck the rain.
If you saw a car with this as a license plate on it who would you think would be behind the wheel?
exactly. Willy Akers and Bill Akers. Two of the best people to walk the earth.
Since is was raining we watched Taxi Driver.
Akers is an art student. Cool.
We got back to my house later that day and Took decided to take out his anger on one of my frying pans.
thanks bro. 
Since i don't have a car I've been forced to ride the train everyday.
Met up with Doogal in the city just in time for another rain storm. Perfect.
Yup Jimmy still has that phone.
oh yeah we met up with Zach in between rain clouds.
Jimmy broke the tiles off this spot because he is fat.
Jimmy, Brad and Zach wait for the train
Grandpa and Doogal.

waste of skin.

Our bro Brad from Indiana is staying with us for a few weeks. We tried TAB soda one day and it wasn't very good. Cool story.
The bossman with a midnight snack attack.
Who knew they had a photo of Barnes above all that candy. I guess Barnes is the patron Saint of FOB.

Im gonna end this one with Nar Nar. later.

JB is the new JC

Here's what's going on in our uneventful lives in NYC. Enjoy.
Jimmy killing it.
dipped
Bob Lim, like most traditional Koreans, start their day with Ham and Cheese Lunchables. Talk about staying true to your roots.
This stuff isn't supposed to happen to normal people. My karma is still fucked from stealing those baseball cards when i was 7.
Mikendo is was in town for a week. 
Pensyl and I went on an early morning mission in the BX and stumbled across this immaculate warehouse. You could eat off the floors at this place.
Big Germ is the hardest dude out on a fixed gear bike.
SteveR was mic dude for a little bit at the Deathbowl to Downtown premiere.
Darren Baskinger always aims to please.
always.
I tried taking photos at the party but they all came out pretty shitty. Here are some ones that are kinda bearable. i guess. 

Frankhouse and Barnes.
Megan, Falla and Akers.
15 cheeseburgers deep between the both of em. SteveR and Willy.
Luis, German, Ivory Bakers.
once they turned the lights on it was all good. Marino and Buddy.
What do you do when it rains all day and you come up for the weekend to film? Pack them pounds on with some Cluck U Chicken.
Hollywood Willy Akers. 
Rocket Science. 

Had a demo at SFNJ last sat. Steve Wolfe and his newborn were there to great us.
Love it our leave it....Patriotic Mallgrab.
Pensyl and Barnes eye up the mini ramp while this kid holds it down in the background with a mallgrab.
What do you do when you don't have grip? Just peel the grip off your last board and put it on your new one. Why not right?
Brendan crooks.
Barnes with this groundbreaking smith grind.
After a long night of bs-lipslides why not throw one in the demo as well.
Nothing clever for this one sorry. Brendan BSTS.
NJ Legend Juddy Schmitt with a nasal truck slide down the hubba.
After smith grinding the shit out of that inch high flatbar the kids swarmed J. Barnes for autographs. It ain't easy being a legend.

oh yeah Jesus was there.
SFNJ's finest with Him.
"cmon Pensyl do something sick you pussy" JC 3:15
On the first day god created crooked grinds.
Air Jesus
I kinda felt weird about taking this photo. I dunno why i just felt kreepy.

After a few Christ Airs God got on the mic and let the crew shine.

Another BSTS. Learn a new trick Brendan. 

Pensyl ensures his place in heaven with this disaster.
God giving Akers the strength to skate the demo.
Juddy got all nervous skating in front of the big man upstairs and just sat out the rest of the demo.
Nobody is safe with God on the mic. He's got dirt on everyone.  

"So close to jesus he got his cell number"

On the second day god created product tosses.

Holy board toss

JC was a big hit with the kids. If he plays his cards right i might invite him on summer tour this year.
Pensyl putting in some brownie points with the big guy. Gotta start making up for those 30 years of sins sometime right?
God cursing the day he created the guy who invented the Sharpie. Autographs for days, even God's hand gets tired.
Akers is really good at multi tasking...Not only is he signing a kids shoe he is also being a great roll model for the kids and smoking cigarettes. What a hard worker.
The Northern New Jersey napkins shortage has effected many.
apparently friends do let friends mallgrab.

Leave it to Pitts to make a spot look small as shit.

innovation is the key to success. Later.

Throwback Blog Poland 2005 Edition

I found this old disc in my room the other day with some flicks from our first trip to Poland in the summer of 2005. Like all trips there are ups and downs, Good times and the Bad. The way i see it is if you live to tell the story its all good.

The crew was Myself, Willy Akers, Joey Tookmanian, and the departed Brandon Westgate. Pensyl was supposed to come on this trip but he broke his hand filming a hippie jump a few weeks before(not a joke but looking back it kind of is).
"i think they really like us"-those dudes.

yup
You can tell Akers shot most of these photos...who else would take a flick of this clown bike situation?

Only eating Vegan food for 2 weeks? They gotta have some dead animals in this country lying around?
"wanna pass that weird shit?"
"Sure"
Took on the phone with the infamous Big Took.
Pit stains....a Willy Akers tradition.
We were gonna kill ourselves but the bars on the windows made us think twice about it.
Weird how the happiest day of someones life is also the worse day of someone elses.
I can imagine this is as fun as it looks......
some sick fuck had the AC cranked for a 4 hour drive.
Demo Time.
Akers just started giving out his package the first 10 minutes. What a kind soul.
Akers and the driver. Besides the constant fear of death this guy was pretty cool.
Gaybor was there to take skate flicks in a basketball jersey.

psyched.
Are Snickers vegan? i dunno ill just chew on his blade of grass. I'm good.
where the smiles at?
Young metal head took the joke to far.
Young Took and a younger Westgate.
Gaybor, Piotr(Main Man@Soul Distribution), Michal Juras and Marcin.
Chris
Like the dollar to the euro, the polish currency doesn't have shit on a 5boro sticker.
polish youth.
Urkle Stance
Took was psyched on this old dudes leather jacket so he bought it off him for a a few 5boro stickers and an orange Fanta.
Lookin sharp.

baby whip
our home for 2 weeks.
I think Cairo skated that handrail. What a maniac.
Brandon.

No clue whats going on here.
They made us some apple juice type drinks to calm our nerves.
Took waits patiently for his food.
Much like the morale of this trip this ditch was bone dry.
Akers in front of some abandoned run down shit.
Insert some cool shit in the backround and a Willy Akers smile and we got a way better photo then the last one.
Perfect timing on this flick. Props to whoever took it.
15 apple juices deep

"Take my photo infront of this dog while i pretend its real, this will be sweet!!"-Akers
Thanks to all in Poland who hooked it up and made the trip happen. Piort, Gaybor, Mical, Marcin, Chris,Cymbal,the sketchy driver and all the vegan places we ate. Gin-koo-ya.

More and More.

phone photos again? my apologies.
Darts have never been so fun.
Falla likes to stop in the middle of filming a trick to text his booo. What a good guy.
Pollen Palms
Andrew opened a bar in our kitchen the other day.
Bob Lim, Jimmy Mcdoogs and Chris
Bakers skating our new back yard ramp.
Remember this guy?
Tookmaniac, The bossman and Hiroko
Bob Lim takes a second to check out the 5boro Wall at Oil City Skateshop.
What do you do when your bros are skating a demo? play guitar hero.
Barnes on the deck? The mood is about to change.
J. Barnes and our bro from Oil City.
The Iphone doesn't really take good skate flicks. This one is pretty harsh.
SteveR has a megapgone sponsor. No joke he just got bumped up from rep flow to full factory flow last week.
Product toss mayhem
Luke 8:48am: Hello?
Lim: 8:48am:Hey Luke, Its Robert.
Luke8:48am:Hey Robert, whats up bro?
Lim8:49am: Not much man are you wearing that new 5b Lines T-shirt today to the demo?
Luke8:49am:Yeah......
Lim8:49am:Me Too. Sweet.
I dunno who really wants Ed Driscoll's autograph but whatever.
Stony Bologna

Fuck it, Why not right?
autograph hungry Mall Grab
Check out Luke's shitty autograph on that shirt. 2 things to practice for next week..... Flip tricks and signatures.
This dollar isn't worth shit compared to the Euro.
This lady taking a photo of the mystery debris in Akers' beard.
the moment we have all been waiting for.
Rich and his wonderful fam.
The -itis in full effect.
hmmmmm
They keep rollerbladers caged up at Oil City Skatepark.
Weird you didn't see Danny Falla at the demo right? That's because he finally got a jobby job at KCDC.
Falla was a Custodial fine arts major at Queens community college.
Puke, Pitts and Doogz.
Akers thought it would be cool to get hurt at the first spot of the day.
Jimmy had time to get a new haircut but no time to trade in that pink phone for something presentable. Get your shit together.

Banana Republic bound mall grab.
This is what Took would look like if he went to College.
Ran into this Tatonka looking bum at a stop light the other day.....
He showed me his sweet new ink
Then the crack wore off and he got all bashful....See you next week.

Iphone update #2

So until we get this new cam we are stuck with phone photos......enjoy.
i always wanted to buy one of these pies but i figured they had razor blades in em.
I take the bad photos and Zander takes the good ones. we got a system all worked out.
Jimmy Mcdonald is the streets
nothin like telling a jealous cat what time it is while eating some Griladephia.
Jimmy invited us into his home for a few days.
Spa like shower situation
Apparently Doogal caries around a purse during the week. Who knew?
Poor lighting situation=Poor photo
8:40am-Jimmy post walk of shame
Elvis drinking a mystery liquid that rhymes with Beer.
Brendan
As you can see Akers got one of his fellow art students to cut his wig. I give this project a D-.
Pensyl asked for my keys and i figured he was going to set up a new board but instead he came back with a huge cheese steak. Talk about having your priorities down. That's why hes pro.
Took and this Fishtown artwork
This kids folks just so happened to be named "Most Negligent Parents on the Block of 2008". This is what happens when your parents are also cousins.
shitty hall
I don't care what anyone says...Bob Lim is way cooler than Robert Lim.
Back to NYC. Pensyl finds a 4 course meal at the dollar store.
Rodent drove his caddy up the east coast to bail out this fullpipe.


Pensyl doesn't know when to chill out.