Weekend with Gilley.OK DUDES Dudes may refer to:
Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean ." And by "real skateboarding" I mean the stuff that most magazines write about. You know. Professional skateboarders (or ams who are soon to be pro). I don't write about pro skateboard tours, I don't write about pro skateboard fashion, and I most certainly don't write about what pro skateboarders are listening to on their iPods. Is it because I'm above all that? Hell no. It's just that I live in Austin and there's somewhat of a shortage of professional skateboarders in this neck of the forest (Jake Nunn excluded). So when I found out that Ben Gilley was going to be coming with me and my friends on a weekend trip to Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm I thought to myself "Finally Sieben. You're going to show all those other fancy skateboard journalists that you're ready to move on up from the farm league to the majors." So I welcome you to my first "real skateboarding" article. Big time, I have arrived. What better way to start the weekend than with Sparks. Have you ever had Sparks? It's sort of like over-the-counter crystal meth meth n. Methamphetamine hydrochloride. . I think it's made out of Malt Liquor and No-Doz. When I drink this shit I limit myself to two a night. But since Ben is pro, he easily knocked three of them down in about 30 minutes. No crap. I honestly think he could have polished off the whole sixer if we hadn't been plucking Plucking describes the process of removing human hair, animal hair, or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's body. In humans, this is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with tweezers. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker. from its vine. Half an hour into the weekend and I was already pretty blown away by Ben's professionalism. About halfway to Oklahoma City we came across a large fiberglass tiger at a gas station. We had only been out of the car about a minute before Ben pulled the "drop it like it's hot "Drop It Like It's Hot" is a 2004 hip-hop number-one hit single by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams. Snoop performs the chorus and the second and third verses (of three). Pharrell performs the first verse. " move on that tiger's ass. I think he did it first try. Man, it would have seriously taken me half an hour to bust that trick, but since Ben is pro, he fucking manhandled that shit. If this road trip didn't have a pro skateboarder in tow, I would have just ended up with a photo of one of my dumb ass friends standing next to that tiger giving a thumbs up or throwing a chaka or some lame shit like that. By the time we got to Oklahoma City, it was too late to go out to a bar or anything of that nature, so we just went to our hotel and drank beer and talked shit. Somebody found this Cowboy Teddy Bear on top of the television and before we knew what was going on, Ben had grabbed the Teddy Bear and was holding it while he was drinking his 24-ounce Bud Light. Holy Cow Holy cow or sacred cow may refer to:
A stuffed animal is toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton or other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old – home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the and gotten his fuzzy little hat in my face. But not Ben. He's fucking pro, dude. I think we stayed up until about five in the morning that first night. When we were all going to bed Ben decided that he wasn't finished getting drunk and he headed out into the Oklahoma night (morning) to see what it had to offer. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how late he stayed out, but when I got up I found Ben sleeping on the floor next to the front door of the hotel room. "So that's how pros sleep," I thought to myself And there was my suck ass sleeping in a bed with two pillows and an extra blanket. No wonder kids don't want my autograph. The next day we didn't skate at all, so I don't have any skate photos for you. But if I did I'm sure they would be pretty awesome because my digital camera is pretty expensive and Ben can skate really gnarly shit, so you can imagine how freaking freak·ing adv. & adj. Slang Used as an intensive: Traffic was a freaking nightmare. [Alteration of frigging, present participle of frig.] rad those photos would have been, right? But I do have a photo of Ben doing a trick called the "double fist." When the bar is about to close and they yell "last call" you go up and order two beers at once. Ben made it look real easy, so I gave it a shot myself. Unfortunately I tried drinking both beers at the same time and ended up spilling them all over myself. But not Ben. He's pro. Act like you know. This last photo is how Ben looked when we got up on Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
NOTE: DEAR CHILDREN (AND MOMMIES), Please don't use my articles as any basis on how you should behave, because me and all of my friends are ... what's the word? Oh yeah, fuckups. Sincerely, Michael S. |
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