Archive for the ‘Randoms’ Category
Nothing To See Here
May 20, 2012Boyz N Da Hood
April 23, 2012
Oakland is as tough as it gets and my eternal hatred towards the city burns strong in my blood. We’re talking about a city that literally shits on every opportunity to get back to some sort of normal decency. For every one good thing that happens here, it seems ten bad ones occur.
But it is that one good one we really have to shine a light and show awareness to the people around us. Welcome to Town Park, West Oakland’s one and only skatepark where they are hosting Hood Games 2012 on this beautiful Saturday afternoon.
Greg “P-Nut” Galinsky artwork at the park.
Hood Games is a community effort but lead by local art teacher Keith “K-Dub” Williams and EMB’s own skate legend Karl Watson. With donations from the city and even skate obstacles from past X-Games, Karl and K-Dub managed to create a park in the warehouse district known of West Oakland. The event it is a blend of art, music, skateboarding and most important of all, the love of the Oakland community.
The task is simple…”SkateOakland”. It’s a small effort but sometimes the best stand is any positive one.
Off The Grid
April 11, 2012
Stussy SF x Us Versus Them window collabo.
Throw up piece by Picture Machine tattoo & graff artists Derick Montez.
One of San Jose’s finest (Shorty Fatz) left his big mark in the big city as well.
We’re at Off The Grid in the Haight and Ashbury district on this cold Thursday afternoon. The food truck epidemic is still in its lime light and SF embraces it with open arms. Sometimes you just have to stand in one of these god damn long lines and see what the big hoopla is for yourself.
Verdict #1: Common mistake for new age Chinese places is to make shit expensive. This is what you call a $6 & $9 bun with meat. No different then your $2 buns in Chinatown but because it came out of a truck, it’s suppose to resemble something close to gold. From what my girlfriend said, it was “meh” and probably not worth really checking out again. On the upside, it’s probably the prettiest bun I have ever seen assembled.
Verdict #2: This is the truck of all trucks from what I hear. Filipinos doing it right and combining a common ethnic food to a not so commonly eaten ethnic food. This is the sisig chicken taco for only $3 and three of them should wet any person whistle. Unfortunately today was so cold that my taco literally turned into last nights meal because the meat literally froze up. Good nonetheless.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
March 27, 2012
Miraculously out of no where on a Sunday, Mother Earth decided to stop pissing on everything in sight and decided let the sun come out to play. I had to take advantage and scour the city before hell froze over once again.
You would never know from looking on the outside but this building houses some of the best tattoo artists in the industry. This is not your typical walk in shop with a neon sign glowing in the window. These guys are as professional as they come and pride themselves in only taking custom request that could take months in the making. Know when you get tattooed at Skull And Sword that you are getting something no one else will have in the world.
And of course there is Grime, the man responsible Skull And Swords. He has a 2 to 3 year wait list just so people can pay him thousands of dollars to stab them with needles on their skin.
Green Day
March 18, 2012
This is what you get when you pay about a good $70-100 for lower floor seats to a Golden State Warriors game.
This is what you get when you pay $30. See the difference? I think Celtic basketball players tend to be mistaken for actual nose boogers from here.
Lucky for white people, St. Patty’s Day landed on a Saturday this year. It pretty much gives people a chance to heal before going back to work on Monday.
I consider myself a pretty truthful guy and I don’t get off on telling things that make me more flattering then I actually am. With that being said, this in no way is a falsified story from what actually happened when I decided to go to a gay club with my girlfriend’s friends.
For my non-San Francisco readers out there that don’t know, the Castro is gay. I mean gayer then a bag of Skittles. When gay people fart in public on the streets, an actual black dildo ejects out of their butt. I kid you not, this place is makes straight men’s buttholes quiver. It really is that gay.
This isn’t even the place where my man card got violated. Add about four practically naked male go-go dancers in speedos, videos of naked men in the showers and you almost have something that represents the Edge bar. So I am minding my own business trying to get a drink when one of the go-go dancers comes up from behind me and asks if I want to take some shots with him. I religiously point to my girlfriend and tell him I can’t but he politely buys drinks for the both of us. So I shoot the shit with this Channing Tatum looking guy and I realize, this mother fucker doesn’t really know what it means when a guy has a girlfriend! I honestly don’t really get where this dude thinks I might be gay (well aside me being at a gay bar), so a sense of discomfort quickly comes over my body in wondering what the hell I am projecting to the crowd. I know wearing a A’s hat doesn’t get you far in SF but it was St. Patrick’s Day after all.
Our conversations quickly go from, “So what are you doing here?” and I tell him that I am with my girlfriend’s friends (you know those straight bitches that think it is a riot to go to a gay bar) and he gives me that deceiving nod with those rolling eyes and says, “Sure…right”. Mind you, this guy had at least 60 pounds more then me and looked like your average Joe that worked out at 24 Hour Fitness. Any God Hates Fag jokes could have put me in a coma where I am sure he would have stuck his dick in my mouth just to teach me a lesson. After our shots, I get the invite from him that he will be dancing at another club and if we still want to drink, to meet him there. Later my girl would tell me that he did in fact think I was cute and did question if she was with me or not. Saddest part of all, my girlfriend was pretty attracted to him and out of us two, I was the one that could have taken him home. Talk about your ego being stroked the wrong way.
I will have to say I did learn something. If I was to ever be single again, I know one of the keys in approaching someone is just plain confidence and taking control of the situation. Go for the gusto and if the girl doesn’t bite, move on to the next fish. It’s as simple as that and oddly, I learned this from a gay man of all people.
Sunday brunch at The Grove on the Fillmore. I think I had enough liquor for one weekend warrior. Time to do some laundry and shit on the toilet.
