midwest average.

5.17.11 thirteen

2011-05-17T16:35:00.002-04:00

KX60, CR80r, CR80Expert, KX100, RM125, CR125, KTM125sx, KE175, RM250, YZ250, KTM250sx, WR250, Husky430xc. yup.

4.19.11 OIR hare scramble

2011-04-20T13:09:00.001-04:00

It was a rough race.

4.14.11 ohio international raceway

2011-04-14T22:59:00.003-04:00

Race day Sunday!

3.10.11 chi

2011-03-10T14:16:00.002-05:00

"Chicago, my kind of town."

2.14.11 tundra

2011-02-14T14:25:00.002-05:00

Finally got to ride on the icy Portage lakes two days over the weekend. Now everything is starting to melt.. yessss. Not sure when this happened, but I cant feel it!

2.6.11 ice

2011-02-06T19:39:00.002-05:00

Today Jon and I went to my grandparents house on the portage lakes for my grandmother's 80th birthday. The entire lake, and surrounding lakes were frozen. We were jealous of the dozens of dirtbikes, quads, and snow-mobiles racing around. We decided to dig up some old ice skates and give it a try. We didn't last very long needless to say. After that failed attempt, a hockey game with brooms, and boat oars took place. Today was excellent.

1.31.11 thoughts.

2011-01-31T23:01:00.000-05:00

I feel like I'm ready to move.

1.23.11 summit indoor

2011-01-23T15:19:00.000-05:00

fun.

12.24.10 christmas eve

2010-12-24T21:35:00.002-05:00

Mr. Bunny says "Merry Christmas!"

12.19.10 cr80

2010-12-19T20:09:00.003-05:00

This winter is going to be fun. I bought a cr80 so I wouldn't ruin my race bike. My moms yard isn't going to be very green this spring... haha

12.13.10 footprints

2010-12-13T12:46:00.002-05:00

This.. is all i want to do. Winter is not going to let it happen. So... I'm going to drive up to Lorain and check out a bike I can ruin in the snow. Lets hope it works out.

12.12.10 R. Johnson

2010-12-12T16:03:00.002-05:00

This happened last night. Where were you?

12.5.10 winter street skating

2010-12-05T19:10:00.003-05:00

Trying to skate to the Baho for some drinks. It didnt work.

11.11.10 Bay Village

2010-11-11T12:51:00.001-05:00

Oldham's oldman.

10.29.10 dust off your pressure flips

2010-10-29T20:40:00.004-04:00

This is Patrick. He has a workey job that gets him all the cashy spendy money he needs to stay looking sharp. ...Lookin fine in there! Any who.. its Halloween weekend.. size 50 jeans, 40mm wheels, and big sweaters.. its the early 90's this year in Akron ohio... all weekend!

10.18.10 wing nut

2010-10-18T14:22:00.002-04:00

Getting hurt... again. Broken wrist at the motocross track has left me sitting at home. But, as Patrick once said, "Down time is wing time!"... Hot wing adventures have been the agenda for Jon, Patrick, and I. This photo is of Jon right as hes finishing the triple atomic challenge at Quaker steak and lube. Needless to say, they were terrible... but we got free t shirts!

6.27.10 megaoctopus.

2010-06-27T14:35:00.001-04:00

melting behind the counter.

6.13.10 lowville second round

2010-06-13T18:09:00.004-04:00

..Another all night drive with Danny, Jonny, Petrie, Don, Andrew, and the Oldman...

We arrived just in time to basically get arrested for stealing a shitty car while we waited for our motel. ..but I don't want to get into that. The days remained the same... sleep all day, skate all night. I'm ready to go back already... minus the thunderstorm.

The following are a few important documentations courtesy of cuntshit. ....Enjoy!

The motel was strictly business.

free shoes!... with a little help from the locals.

Hellbelly.

6.4.10 lose crew field report

2010-06-04T21:14:00.003-04:00

gettin' wet and wild....
courtesy of cuntShit

5.12.10 diary of a madman

2010-05-12T00:43:00.002-04:00

Look into his eyes... you'll explode.

5.4.10 crack attack

2010-05-04T13:57:00.003-04:00

Oh, you silly hipsters.

4.25.10 Joe Boneless sighting

2010-04-25T21:29:00.003-04:00

After enjoying some early waffle house... Jon, Danny, and I went up to the Akron Park. Little did we know, the one and only Ben Shuber would be playing his accordion on top of the bowl... Eventually, we wandered down to check out all the goodies he had in his van. Souped up Nerf guns, hundreds of Nerf darts, the makings of a whole bluegrass band, and of course a chicken suit. After a little fun with a baseball bat, the rain came and we pack up to check out some thrift stores. As goodbyes were exchanged, his last words were... "good luck, I already cleaned them out." Joe Boneless.. one step ahead of the rest.

On another note, our evening concluded at Ryan's buffet.... Win!

4.17.10 freebeer

2010-04-17T21:29:00.002-04:00

Spent a day over the weekend at Bernie's... and since Bernie is so nice, we wanted to return the favor... so Andrew and I cleaned out his fridge. Thanks!

4.13.10 macho taildrop

2010-04-13T14:48:00.002-04:00

Danny Cartwright.

3.31.10 Blood wizard

2010-03-31T14:53:00.004-04:00

Thrasher just announced Drew is riding for BloodWizard.... which gave me an excuse to post this visual of the Restricted Master Copy. ....and so it begins....

3.30.10 insulation

2010-03-30T00:39:00.003-04:00

Oldman and myself as usual. Took out 18 forty-four gallon trash bags of old insulation from the little crawl-space in the left top corner. Itchy fiberglass... Killin it.

3.24.10 a few minutes on friday

2010-03-24T15:46:00.003-04:00

...not much else has been happening...

3.16.10 hibernation

2010-03-16T14:32:00.001-04:00

The toads have awoken...

3.2.10 twenty-third birthday

2010-03-02T00:30:00.002-05:00

Birthday party was a success... until I tore the ligaments in my other thumb. This is a photo courtesy of cuntshit. CamoJon in full effect.

2.22.10 SPOD II progress

2010-02-22T00:16:00.003-05:00

Ready to rip! Birthday sesh is going to be excellent.

2.14.10 POLYSICS

2010-02-14T14:17:00.003-05:00

Friday night Patrick, frontside Jon, and I went to the Musica for the Polysics show. I don't have much to say about it... except that I am sorry if you missed it. It was intense... DIE!

2.9.10 bunspace

2010-02-09T14:51:00.003-05:00

BunSpace.com

2.6.10 foot and a half

2010-02-06T18:49:00.004-05:00

Yesterday the streets were dry. It never fails. Ohio.

photo: oldham

1.27.10 the cold part

2010-01-27T00:20:00.003-05:00

Tent + space heater= excellence

1.22.10 florida

2010-01-22T18:17:00.002-05:00

re:located- Florida. Ill keep the updates coming.

12.31.09 New Years

2009-12-31T23:36:00.001-05:00

I had no photo to update with... so im using this. Enjoy.
... and on another note... Good riddance 2009... 2010 can only be a better year.

12.29.09 fixed bunny

2009-12-29T23:36:00.001-05:00

...Bunny had his surgery this morning...

12.9.09 down for life

2009-12-09T16:32:00.002-05:00

Breaking a vertebra is the worst.

12.7.09 Spod II continued

2009-12-07T00:12:00.003-05:00

...The weekend in Cleveland lead to more ramp building...

11.27.09 it begins

2009-11-27T20:48:00.002-05:00

....SPOD II....

11.26.09 Elvira

2009-11-26T00:18:00.002-05:00

Last weekend was HorrorHound Weekend in Cincinnati. Jon and I made the drive down early Saturday morning... still feeling the evening's drinks, we arrived in confusion. This confusion led us into the dealer room. I scored an original Creature from the Black Lagoon movie poster for a few bucks... and Jon basically bought some pornography. Excellent. Elvira chatted with us longer than most, and we waited in line twice... getting more autographs and polaroids. After we went to the screening of The Black Waters of Echo's pond... we met Elvira at the place she mentioned when she was done at her booth... Neadless to say, this is the short version of the story, and we saw the hotel's bar quite a lot...

11.20.09 meanwhile II -downtime

2009-11-20T00:13:00.002-05:00

A couple weeks ago, I tore the ligaments in my right thumb skating at work. (Don't ask) Since Im stuck in this cast thing untill Decmber 17, I cant do much. While compiling footage for Don Hammersley's video, one of my hard-drives died... which made me want to move to Alaska because I lost half of my existance. So as I am hurt, I have been going through all the old tapes I could find. 58 all together I think. Writing down every "important" thing from each tape is driving me out of my mind. To make things even better, my computer is not letting me capture anything. ...So its all going to have to be double-ended from camera to camera. Hours, hours, hours, hours..... no fun.

On another, not so terrible note... Ill be driving to Cincinati this Saturday for a HorrorHound Weekend convention... Pretty siked to meet Elvira and Michael Gross.... ill update when I return...

11.12.09 meanwhile

2009-11-12T00:59:00.004-05:00

Its been months now and Jon and I are still stuck in the dungeon...

10.15.09 Sig

2009-10-15T00:40:00.002-04:00

Minnesota!

9.14.09 one foot in the grave

2009-09-14T04:28:00.005-04:00

Woke up this morning in a cemetery with a bag of beer, a focused board, and blood all over me. Rough night I guess.

9.10.09 work

2009-09-10T14:43:00.000-04:00

Working way to much lately. Not making enough money. Dying.

9.2.09 Cedar Point

2009-09-02T23:35:00.002-04:00

A few weeks ago Emily and I randomly got the chance to go to Cedar Point.... for free. Oh yes,.. so we called off work that morning and killed it on rides all day... front seat. Good thing it was NASCAR day. It made for some excellent people watching.

8.29.09 It begins

2009-08-29T14:31:00.013-04:00

Live Updates from the 540 contest... stay tuned.

2:44 pm Beer City's TANKED vhs has been watched. going strong. Thrasher Beer Series is up next.

4:57 pm We have to skip all Chet Childress parts. sorry.

6:11 pm "har from it."

6:16 pm ....Refresh.

6:40 pm Jonathan Oldham.

8:17 pm we went to drop off some film at the local walgreens... asian girl.... "Jon Oldham,.... how are you?" "Wasted" said Jon.... And... she walked away. fail.

10:53 pm 40oz high five.... broken glass all over the carpet. lose crew. look for the video.... coming soon.

Sunday morning...

1:14 pm I made it. Woke up dead. ....bout to go skate. hellyes.

8.28.09 540club

2009-08-28T23:25:00.003-04:00

Tomorrow, Saturday August 29th: Jon, Emily, and I will be trying to get into the 540 club. I mean.. five 40oz club. We have discussed having five different forty's... As of now, the drink of choice will be nothing but Cobra. 5 Cobras each.. As soon as we get up in the morning, it starts... and shall be an all-day event,... until our lights go out. Updates coming tomorrow.

Also... please support the cause.

8.22.09 louisville kentucky

2009-08-22T00:07:00.003-04:00

Drove down to louisville kentucky at the beginning of the week with Devin, Matt, and Kfc. Here are a few random happenings from a long the way...

The ride down consisted of King Cobra. We beer-ported the whole way there.

Our most frequent hangout ended up being the local Kroger just over the border of Indiana. Gallons of water, fried chicken, cream cheese, monster sandwiches, and ice cream were killed in the parking lot. Matt filmed a few hammers on his new ride the first night. Doing wheelies and donuts over mustard packets, chicken bones, soda, cream cheese, and ice cream was his specialty. After we won the lottery a few times with scratch offs... we eventually got the boot on the last night.

Strictly for the ladies.

When we first arrived at the park, skating was too blurry. We set up camp on top of the vert ramp. Got a couple hours of sleep and woke up around 6am to a terrible red-headed over-weight girl thing trying to start conversation. We ended up pissing her off. She tried to "boost" our car.. according to some kids... so we packed up and slep in a Hardee's parking lot. Motel 6 held it down for the next few days. Sleep all day, wake up around 7pm. Skate the park. Swim till 930. Head to the liquor store/Kroger. Then skate downtown till it was light out... and repeat. mmmm power thirst.

8.15.09 half cabs

2009-08-15T22:17:00.003-04:00

I have a terrible habit of skating shoes for a long time. This was taken at the beginning of last month when the Epidemic team came out. Today I finally put on a new pair of half-cabs. Bone matter. Skate till you bleed.

8.14.09 Jonathan Oldham

2009-08-14T18:00:00.004-04:00

...caught a giant beetle after he did a fully clothed slip-n-slide around 1am, while groups of ladies cheered. ...But that,.. that is besides the point. In fact, its not even near the point. Actually there is no point.

7.30.09 SPOD resurrection

2009-07-30T00:41:00.003-04:00

..Quite possibly the last SPOD bash went down Friday the 24th..

It happened. If you missed it, good.

4.14.09 Paris

2009-04-14T14:37:00.003-04:00

Elly checked in from Paris today to let me know the Race Pony has been traveling....

4.8.09 house-sitting makes me smile

2009-04-08T09:11:00.003-04:00

Its weird how time loops.. Its possible to find yourself years later in the same spot... that you never thought you'd return too. Or maybe its a figure eight.. but what ever it is, I found myself inside a mansion, sitting on a huge leather couch, watching America Beauty while listening to Wu-tang,... and all with a familiar smile on my face. Thankyou life. ..now back to reality..

4.7.09 tea party

2009-04-07T18:41:00.005-04:00

A couple weeks ago, an excellent "tea party" was held in my apartment before Elly moved out and went to France. Tea cups, invitations, and proper attire was required.. and the record player spun the sweet sounds of Herb Alpert all night. Devin and Elly where there to take photos since my camera was not functioning.. here is a link to Elly's photo sequence... Enjoy! (click to enlarge)

Corey.

April and Nikki.

"i sell you a car"

Matt was the life of the party.

Don, Matt, Corey, Dave, Bill, Devin, Patrick, Nick, and myself.

Becky, April, Nikki, Elly, Jnet

End.

3.21.09 first day of spring!

2009-03-21T15:10:00.002-04:00

The warm weather is here for now, so get broke! ...Because it could snow tomorrow.

3.17.09 Langhorne @ the grog shop

2009-03-18T00:47:00.008-04:00

Crew'd up and went to the Langhorne Slim show the other night. Not much to say except it was excellent. The opening band The Woes held it down solid too. Enjoy some photos courtesy of Elky.

The meet spot.

bigpad was there

Bunny is ready

looking for the car...

Ellyvator.

Crew-wise.

Sparks-wise.

Ran into April and Devin...

Devin is excited!

Patrick and Nikki showed up

Don and Becky

Siked!

Shoe-wise

waiting....

Slurm sighting

Guys pizza shop!

Matt went and had six slices or something like that before Langhorne came on... and camera battery died. Ohiiiio.

3.13.09 friday the 13th

2009-03-13T23:30:00.002-04:00

Danny Cartwright has lost his mind.

3.10.09 polaroids

2009-03-12T13:52:00.006-04:00

Two Polaroids taken at the Paintbanks.. Andrew Unger takes a long walk off short dock. "What are you going to do when you cant skate anymore?" Andrew replies.. "kill myself." No half-stepping im sure. The top photo is Andrew wasting my film by bailing... and I can't show you the photo on the bottom.. so you'll just have to wait for Don Hammersley's video to surface.

By the way,.. check Dave Carulli's blog for a nice story.

3.9.09 parting of the sesnsory

2009-03-09T16:26:00.006-04:00

.....................A life long walk to the exact same spot......................

2.27.09 rubber city ghost

2009-02-27T23:20:00.001-05:00

Who wishes for this to exist? There has been a wrinkle in time.. we are all off the grid.

2.22.09 convenient parking

2009-02-22T23:13:00.003-05:00

Its been years... and I'm still stuck in this time loop. Know that I'm praying on leaving.

Waiting for winter to end. Ohio is a trap... Since my car got totaled, i have to find my way to work by other means.. Ill arrive, its dry, and when i leave, it looks like this. How am i to skate home?

2.15.09 epidemic

2009-02-15T02:50:00.006-05:00

July 1st. Epidemic will be making their way to Ohio... www.epidemicskateboardshop.com

2.9.09 this is real life

2009-02-09T02:27:00.005-05:00

Mistakes were made and I ended up in Florida.. Things were not right, I didn't care though. What you do, and what you become.. Either way you end up all dumb.

Nothing New.

2009-02-09T00:11:00.002-05:00

new updates soon.

its been three years of nothing...
maybe this will last for awhile.

unless history repeats its self..

who cares.

12.1.06 doug brown

2006-12-01T01:13:00.000-05:00

Please take this into consideration before letting this man sign your child's skateboard...

11.21.06 kitten

2006-11-21T21:44:00.001-05:00

There was a constant noise that bothered me when I was outside. It wasnt untill I got home from work that I realized it was a kitten meowing, and a new friend found me.

11.21.06 creeper

2006-11-21T21:41:00.001-05:00

Tonight at work I was feeling a little under the weather, so i hid in a dark room and watched Jazzercise. I work hard.

11.18.06 spod

2006-11-18T17:09:00.000-05:00

This is whats going on tonight @ the SPOD. Family is out of town, so a session will consume all.

11.18.06 window

2006-11-18T01:25:00.000-05:00

Ive been staying up for days and not eating. I used the zoom on my phone to get a close up of the window in my room just as the sun was coming up. TVstatic.

11.10.06 the cube

2006-11-10T01:27:00.000-05:00

The night before our trip to the cemetary, Jacob and I drank some beverage in the spod and passed out. This is a photo of Cob on the phone for some reason, and the cube we got to fall from the attic. We put the cube together.. painted a bit... and that's pretty much all I can recall. Four corners of mystery.

11.10.06 cemetery

2006-11-10T01:17:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, Jacob and I had to venture to a few cemeteries to collect data for our archaeology class. The day was perfect... overcast, chilly, with a light mist. The dead leaves made for an exciting view. This photo is of a grave I came across at random. I said "I want to look for my name.".. and the second I turned my head to look, I saw this creepy headstone. Henry Hauenstein is my dad's name. I was pretty sketched out. ...Turns out that this is the grave of my relatives on my dad's side.. who i've never met, nor knew anything about. That made the day worth it.

11.8.06 cicis

2006-11-08T19:50:00.000-05:00

Here is a picture of Sid eating his way into a "Food coma".. as Don called it. Cicis Pizza is the key to time travel. I think Sid could have the new Osiris Ad.

11.8.06 voting day

2006-11-08T18:00:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was voting day. Did you vote? I didn't. Don, Sid, and I went out for pizza instead. This is a photo of some voting booths at the church where I work. Voters are messy, and I really did not enjoy cleaning up the mess they left. Hanging chads.

11.6.06 sid

2006-11-06T22:52:00.000-05:00

This is Sid getting geared up at my house before we tried to ignore the cold in the SPOD at 2am. Luckily Jacob Mothersbaugh left his camera in the SPOD the night of the Halloween party, so I was able to take a photo of this. Just for the record, Sid is not his real name... but I wont spoil the mystery. Remember Hollywood?

11.6.06 game of life

2006-11-06T22:42:00.000-05:00

There isn't very much to tell about this photo. It was taken at Jnet's house before Sid, Jnet, and I played the Game of Life. We kind of made up our own rules based off of prior knowledge... and my strategy of buying all the stocks took me and my car full of people to Millionaire Estates... which made me the winner. Maybe we'll do a 1000 piece puzzle soon.

11.3.06 fortyeight hours

2006-11-03T17:24:00.000-05:00

I've been awake going on my third day now. Once again a phone photo... taken just before 7am this morning. Suffer the joy I guess.

11.2.06 summer

2006-11-02T02:28:00.000-05:00

Dug up this jem.. when I first glanced at this, i almost wanted to say "I don't do that anymore." Oh how times have changed. Very Proper.

11.1.06 halloween

2006-11-01T18:12:00.000-05:00

This Halloween I ended up doing more skateboarding than photo taking, so I decided to put up a good one from last year. This is Sloppy Joe being himself at Brandon's house in kent... which was completely destroyed after we left. I dont think that Halloween will be topped. Lets smash some fruit.

10.31.06 archaeology

2006-10-31T23:51:00.000-05:00

I am in need of a new camera, and or scanner. So untill then, my phone will have to do. This is in my Archaeology class right before the projection sceen sucked us in. I was having a hard time listening to the discussion of bones, and I guess sneaking a photo took my mind off the subject. I wish I had time to compose this.

10.31.06 skylark

2006-10-31T01:10:00.000-05:00

It's been so long. This photo has so much meaning...

10.27.06 why

2006-10-27T03:27:00.000-04:00

Tonight at work I had too much to think, so I asked a question. Its pretty much like that.

10.26.06 rim

2006-10-26T01:34:00.000-04:00

Last weekend while driving to Canton, my tire exploded neer Akron Park. Once the spare was bolted on, it too went flat while in Canton. Trife status for sure.

10.25.06 t-shirt

2006-10-25T20:10:00.000-04:00

My life constantly revolves around something I love to hate. Thank you Jay Croft for this t-shirt. Its true; I just need to realize it.

10.25.06 marthas

2006-10-25T11:37:00.000-04:00

hype: noun. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion.....

10.24.06 leaves

2006-10-24T20:11:00.000-04:00

The leaves have changed colors, the temperature has dropped, and we're on our way into another long Ohio winter. As you can tell from the tree outside of my house, the tumults just begun.

10.24.06 kfc

2006-10-24T15:33:00.000-04:00

Since this is my first post, I figured I might as well start with the most recent photo I have.. and maybe if there is a time when I have no new photos, I'll put up some old stimuli.

Kyle Skotnicky in his living room the night before a game of S.K.A.T.E/best trick competition. I envy him most of the time on his randomness and creativity. Always serious.