Sorry.....

Aug 19, 2009 - 12:23 PM EST

We've been busy.......I hope this makes up for it:

Little Interview

Jul 16, 2009 - 04:09 PM EST

Andy from Eastern Boarder Leominster did a quick interview with me the other day....it's kind of funny. Andy has been working at EB forever he is great guy, they are a great shop. If you are ever in the Mass/southern NH area stop in and check their scene out
EB Interview

AMAZING

Jun 24, 2009 - 01:32 PM EST

Absolutely amazing.....this is one of the funniest things I think I may have ever read. I'm not sure if it's real, but I don't care, I haven't laughed this hard at something in a long time. This is an email exchange that was posted on someone's blog......I'm gonna leave the blog anonymous for now but it's epic:

DAVID VS HELEN

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009 10.16am
To: Helen Bailey
Subject: Pets in the building

Dear Helen,

Thankyou for your letter concerning pets in my apartment. I understand that having dogs in the apartment is a violation of the agreement due to the comfort and wellbeing of my neighbours and I am currently soundproofing my apartment with egg cartons as I realise my dogs can cause quite a bit of noise. Especially during feeding time when I release live rabbits.

Regards, David.

From: Helen Bailey
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009 11.18am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Pets in the building

Hello David

I have received your email and wish to remind you that the strata agreement states that no animals are allowed in the building regardless of if your apartment is soundproof. How many dogs do you have at the premises?

Helen

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009 1.52pm
To: Helen Bailey
Subject: Re: Re: Pets in the building

Dear Helen,

Currently I only have eight dogs but one is expecting puppies and I am very excited by this. I am hoping for a litter of at least ten as this is the number required to participate in dog sled racing. I have read every Jack London novel in preparation and have constructed my own sled from timber I borrowed from the construction site across the road during the night. I have devised a plan which I feel will ensure me taking first place in the next national dog sled championships. For the first year of the puppies life I intend to say the word mush then chase them violently around the apartment while yelling and hitting saucepan lids together. I have estimated that the soundproofing of my apartment should block out at least sixty percent of the noise and the dogs will learn to associate the word mush with great fear so when I yell it on race day, the panic and released adrenaline will spur them on to being winners. I am so confident of this being a foolproof plan that I intend to sell all my furniture the day before the race and bet the proceeds on coming first place.

Regards, David.

From: Helen Bailey
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 9.43am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

David, I am unsure what to make of your email. Do you have pets in the apartment or not?

Helen

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 11.27am
To: Helen Bailey
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

Dear Helen,

No. I have a goldfish but due to the air conditioner in my apartment being stuck on a constant two degrees celcius, the water in its bowl is iced over and he has not moved for a while so I do not think he is capable of disturbing the neighbours. The ducks in the bathroom are not mine. The noise which my neighbours possibly mistook for a dog in the apartment is just the looping tape I have of dogs barking which I play at high volume while I am at work to deter potential burglars from breaking in and stealing my tupperware. I need it to keep food fresh. Once I ate leftover chinese that had been kept in an unsealed container and I experienced complete awareness. The next night I tried eating it again but only experienced chest pains and diarrhoea.

Regards, David.

From: Helen Bailey
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 1.46pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

Hello David

You cannot play sounds of dogs or any noise at a volume that disturbs others. I am sure you can appreciate that these rules are for the benefit of all residents of the building. Fish are fine. You cannot have ducks in the apartment though. If it was small birds that would be ok.

Helen

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 2.18pm
To: Helen Bailey
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

Dear Helen,

They are very small ducks.

Regards, David.

From: Helen Bailey
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 4.06pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

David, under section 4 of the strata residency agreement it states that you cannot have pets. You agreed to these rules when you signed the forms. These rules are set out to benefit everyone in the building including yourself. Do you have a telephone number I can call you on to discuss?

Helen

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 22 May 2009 5.02pm
To: Helen Bailey
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

Dear Helen,

The ducks will no doubt be flying south for the winter soon so it will not be an issue. It is probably for the best as they are not getting along very well with my seventeen cats anyway. .

Regards, David.

From: Helen Bailey
Date: Monday 25 May 2009 9.22am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pets in the building

David, I am just going to write on the forms that we have investigated and you do not have any pets.

Helen

Confusing?!?!?!

Jun 19, 2009 - 08:20 PM EST

I don't know what to make of this:

and I'm really not sure what to make of this either TONY HAWK TWEETIN I think it's awesome that TOny Hawk is skateboarding in the White House and Obama is hanging with Basketball stars on the front lawn, but there's a lunatic over there in North Korea about to kick off world war three by lobbing some nooks around with the US and China playing chicken....I would hate to have that shit go down while TOny was doing a tre flip in the Oval office......then security guards would really hate us.

Bluebird is the shit!

Jun 18, 2009 - 08:42 PM EST

Just saw this video featuring two of my favorite humans: Kyle Clancy and Willie McMillon along with local Rome rider John Makens, Travis Rice and even Kevin Jones. It's pretty awesome, Support Bluebird, Snowboarding needs them now more than ever!

Unbelievable!

Jun 16, 2009 - 06:30 PM EST

Years ago I made series of movies called Iron Curtain......they were nothing fancy, they were just good snowboarding, friends, and the mayhem that goes along with it. There were three of them. I believe it was the first one that featured a section from Jolly Roger motocross track in NH that was all out anarchy. It was one of the better times I've ever had in the mud. There was beer, skateboarding, 50 racing, and just about every hooligan from New England acting up racing dirt bikes, and then bullshitting about it around a fire. It was a gathering of the good ones, long before things got crazy with corpo this and liability that. There was Deathmetal, there was fire, there was Carter Olcott, and there were just too many funny stories to tell.....and probably shouldn't. I thought those days were gone, apparently I might be wrong......

2009 Stimilon Motocross Challenge!!! - It's baaaccckkk............. from DB Studios on Vimeo.

Those who know......will be there

TIME IS NOW

Jun 16, 2009 - 01:51 PM EST

Will and Charles Demers from Quebec checked in with the teaser to their new movie and man is it sick.....There are so many burly tricks in this thing it's crazy! Rome riders Max Legend and Greg Desjardins are featured in it, and I'm sure there'll be some sneak shots of LNP and Will love in there as well. Great work guys! this movie is sure to be a must see this fall!

Hockey Night In Waterbury

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:44 AM EST

Tonight is shaping up to be a pretty epic Hockey night in Waterbury. It's game 7 Stanley Cup Finals, Penguins vs Red Wings. Although I could care less about hockey at this point (my only real care was the Bruins defeating Yan's precious Canadians...or whatever team our BC Rep Derek Hale was routing for to lose) our glove/bag/softgoods guy/all around dude George Eget is from Pittsburgh and seems to care very much for the Penguins.....on the other side of the coin our new intern Mike Forester is from Detroit and is very passionate about the Red Flings....he may be new but he's loud as hell so this is shaping up to be a really good night of shit talking....I haven't really picked a side yet, George still hasn't stopped talking about the Steelers winning the Super Bowl and that's annoying, so if the Penguins win we'll never hear the end of it.....but I just don't want to see the new intern win anything....anything, so I'm prolly leaning more towards PA on this one but I'll reserve my final judgement on which team to route for until I see who's winning. At least I know I won't have to watch another Pittsburgh team in the World Series. Ron's like me he doesn't care either except he's claiming he's going with Detroit strictly for the fact that he plays Detroit as his team in NHL 09 and is convinced that if they win the Stanley Cup in real life then they'll be better in the video world of NHL 10......not sure about that one buddy but keep hoping.

Also on a slightly more snowboard related topic, I'm not sure if you read Todd Richard's column over on Yobeat, but it's unbelievable this week....Todd really breaks it down on life at Mt. Hood in the summer time YoBeat

Here's a little Videograss edit with LNP in it....this took place a couple days after we were in Big Bear shooting for the Team Shootout contest, look for that coming really soon....

VIDEOGRASSaturdays Webisode 3: Bear Super Session from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

Finally, I found this gem on Eastern Boarder's site. It's a post from long time friend and Worcester manager Tom Oliver or TEO as most people know him as. I believe Tom is the second employee ever hired by Eastern Boarder one of the east coast's longest running and more notorious skate/snow dealers. Anyone that has been a part of the Worcester scene has been influenced by Tom.....Hell I worked for him for a long time and have spent many a good hang with him. He dug up an old picture of him skating a pool from back in the day from an old Eastern Edge. Yeah Tom! Check it out at EB WORCESTER

Have a great weekend - Cavan

Backyard Bash

Jun 09, 2009 - 10:32 AM EST

I think backyard parties at this place probably take on a whole new meaning.........Bucky's Backyard

AWESOME!

Jun 02, 2009 - 06:50 PM EST

I know you've prolly seen this but it's funny as hell anyway check it out HERE

This spread around the web like wild fire during the Cavs series, but it's damn funny:

Here's the song: cleveland

Imagine this song at an ungodly volume....now I bet this thing gets stuck in your brain we've all been humming this at work non stop......No disrespect to any Rome fans from Cleveland.