Can you really celebrate Halloween at The Tap if Smyth is not here?
Mini Top 5 with new Thrasher vid technician Ewan Bowman, also of April Fools prank call fame.
QUOTE:
“Poser of the fuckin’ month bro.”-Carroll
Clip of the Day. Today’s clip harkens back to a simpler time for the internet, when mpegs ruled the (Ebaums)world and something like a Dylan Rieder video part was way far off.
For those of you with a lady in your life (that means you Fred, Steven, and Joe) or if you’re a lady yourself, go to Ruby’s Facebook page and “like” some shit.
If we offended anyone with our Occupy Oakland post yesterday our apologies. And hoping for a speedy recovery to Scott Olsen.
Jacob Scheider did you (and us) the favor of making a cool edit from the Mini DV Drawer. Thanks Jacob!
Occupy Oakland. Note the shoes.
When Beardo and company have a cause the Tap gets down.
QUOTE:
Funny thing is that people believe what you say.-Roberts
Crankers up on that Couch, again.
Freshen up with the scent of Gonz.
Hershel’s Greatest Miss and Almost Masterpieces #46.
Mini Top 5 (trad.)
Hershel’s Top 5 places to find snacks around the office
1. Charlene’s cube, she’s usually got Clif Bars and energy drinks
2. The main coffee table for snacks left over from lunch
3. The freezer for abandon birthday ice cream
4. Veronica’s cube, when ever she gets up from her desk I eat her cookies
5. The Vermont Dairy, my daily oasis
QUOTE:
“I was meant to write women’s poetry.”-Hershel
The Fourstar site has been updated with their holiday line.
Clip of the Day. It was Spike’s berfday on Saturday. Why not a little surprise?
Our dear friend Mike McDermott hooked up a very nice Chocolate wall for his Green Apple shop in Winnipeg. Thank McD.
Lakai Shoes and Stance Socks got a prize pack going. Give it a Like for a chance to win.
BA Stencils by Girl.
Caption Contest Winner! Art Weingartner has been receiving all the transmissions and pulls them all together for his winning entry. Good shit Art, you’re getting the boards.
Today is the first day in since last Friday that I haven’t spent all day with Scuba Steve. Feels kind of weird.
There’s a screening, followed by a Q&A, of Ty Evans’ Unbeleafable tonight at the International Skateboard Film Festival.
Jon Buscemi has asked us to link this fundraiser below. And if he still holds his “trendsetting” credentials, then healing the bay must be what’s hot…or soon to be what’s hot.
Sorry it’s been Randoms Lite over hear this last week or so. Been doing some field work with the boys. Back to normal sometime around the middle of next week.
Clip of the Day. Elijah goes up and over the rainbow.
Who says we don’t have enough skating on the site?
Filming some of that weird shit this week.
How cool is Brian Anderson?
You! Us! Palm Springs! Hundred plus degrees! Let’s do this!
For a briefing on the first 15 years of Fourstar, Thrasher posted their Cut & Sew What? article. It’s a good one.
International Skateboard Film Festival is next week and Ty will be answering some of your questions.
Mini Top 5 (trad.)
Top 5 reasons for Reda’s daily call to Jim Thiebaud
1. To recite the lyrics from any 7 Seconds song
2. To recite the lyrics to any Business song
3. To remind me to make sure I’m keeping my ear hair in check (true friends keep each other in check, even when it’s hard on your self esteem)
4. To let me know that even if he’s not riding an AH Cardiel deck as his current ride he still writes CARDIEL big on it so that he’s ALWAYS riding a Cardiel deck
5. To check in on Jack
Nothing to do with his hairline, but MJ just got Chrome Balled.
Mikemo talks video, hot pockets, and loneliness in Simi over at CCS.
Our friends at the Skate Click posted a video of Eldy rifles thru the bag in his home town.
Caption Contest. Blake Gilley (any relation to Ben?) goes Lost on the boys. Read the post from 9/28 for details. Send your entries here and here is what you’re playing for.
Q&A
From: Dustin Snyder
Q: Smyth, I still read your Real World summarizations, shit’s golden dude. Anyway of bringing those back?
A: 1. My wife doesn’t like the show (‘wife material?’ I don’t know). So I can only watch it when she’s not around, like porn. 2. Waste of time. I don’t feel like writing that much and you don’t feel like reading that much. Look at @samsklub on Instagram. I’ll pull some instant classics from this season and comment. Much easier to digest for the Y Generation.—Smyth
Send your questions here.
QUOTE:
“My backyard has this ‘Ohio’ vibe, with a tinge of Mad Max.”-Staba
The Chocolate Art Dump Bomb series. Sometimes, kind of like naming tricks these days, it’s just easier to state what it is rather than come up with a clever name.
We’ll be trolling the gang’s Instagram photos for this weeks front page postings. If you like something give them a follow.
Caption Contest. David Newbrough is kind of like that one dude who won on Jeopardy for three months straight. It’s up to you guys to stop him. Read the post from 9/28 for details. Send your entries here and here is what you’re playing for.
He made it! Kinda of. Mini Top 5 with Hershel. We’ve been talking about doing this for two years. No bullshit.
I think that was our first ever “To Be Continued.” And what a cliffhanger it was.
The Randoms is in a meeting(s).
Mini Top 5 with Chris Roberts and the bad influence he’s been too many.
Caption Contest. Rick Rendon entry is only the latest in a pile of evidence that suggests that the Nintendo 64 should be ever referred to as the Golden Eye machine. Read the post from 9/28 for details. Send your entries here and here is what you’re playing for.
And don’t forget to Leisure ‘Til You Seizure with us on October 15.
Forgot to mention that our wonderful Front Page Poster, Jonathan Mehring, has a wonderful site of his wonderful work.
QUOTE:
“I’m not into bands with animal names.”—Hershel
Brian Lotti on Crail Couch with some old war stories.
It’s no secret that Girl’s Pop Secret boards are now available. And that’s about as cheap as writing can get.
Caption Contest. Dilbert Hernandez captions are cool, but I think his name is cooler . Read the post from 9/28 for details. Send your entries here and here is what you’re playing for.
Big birthday shout out to Raven who I think turns 19 today, or 18. Either way, way younger than me.
Our friends at Quiet Life are looking for friends.
QUOTE:
“Cleaned my office before I got on Hoarders.”—Staba
Chunk of Chocolate. Raven, Elijah and The Cheeks hit up Baldy.
