Dear Diary,

I promised pictures of the Mini kitty and here they are:

Dear Diary,

This is Angela Brown, she's the editor of SLUG Magazine here in Salt Lake. She was smoking these tiny cigarettes at our meeting.
More images from the meeting:


Tim helping Glenn get gnar (i.e. Glenn almost dying) in front of Jovi's house.

David Law looking posh on his birthday:

Three ladies.

The ladies in my life on a night outing to Red Rock.

For Weston, Zach, and Isaac MR,

Double Exposure with Zach Corbin on the half frame camera.

Dear Diary,

Been thinking a bit about the cancerous hell I went through this time last year. I craved Greek food and fresh salad like you wouldn't believe. I couldn't eat salad because of bacteria. I'm glad that I'm done with chemo and still here living. Crazy to think how different my life was a year ago.
An old photo of Kar from those days:

Dear Diary,

I have a thing for frontside ollies lately.

Ethan Fowler By Dennis McGrath (scanned from Skatebook)

Look at how rough the ground is on this and how small his wheels are!
Jason Lee by Tobin Yelland (also scanned from Skatebook)

Hey Weston, let's go shoot some more of these!


Changbang and Tyson hanging out while they were in town (photo by me...not stolen other than the moment)

Summer's over.

Another boring pushing photo.

Baby kitty still needs a name. And she isn't cross eyed....just in this photo.

Dear Diary,

I've got a ton of negatives scanned recently and most of it might end up here. Here's some recent photos of Karlee.

Karlee reads Vampire Porn constantly.

Karlee loves cheese! Even in Wendy's Chili.

Guess what? Now this is happening.

NEW KITTY!

She doesn't have a name yet but she's Sausage's niece so Sausage is now Uncle Sausage.

Another Frontside Ollie.

I shot this one with Weston's camera. It's better than the one below.

Frontside Ollies and photos.

This is my friend Weston Colton. He pretty much taught me what an f/stop is and all the other things one needs to know to operate a camera. As you can see, only one of my flashes worked in this photo. Weston fixed that too.

Below is another frontside ollie photo I stole from police informer. It's Julien Stranger and pretty much sums up what I think skate photos should look like. This photo was shot by Gabe Morford.

Random Stuff from the last few weeks.

Dear Diary,

Sausage can be a real dick sometimes.

David had a party at his house and the neighbor kid made a fake ID so he could get in.

Spoiler Alert! James F/S flipped some shit and I poached it. Sorry Bob! I want to thank Tri-X for being the best film ever and the sun for working as a flash for me.

Lizard and James.

Troy Johnson was the best skater I had ever seen in 1995. He will nollie backside flip your house! For real.

Sometimes I like to pretend I'm Ed Templeton. Teenage Smokers!

Lizard bends it like Beckham!

Dear Diary,

Why Karlee is the best:

1. She puts up with the fact that I'm 31 and still act like I'm 15 (skateboarding, trying to be cool even though I'm too old, etc."

2. She's not afraid to put me in my place...like seriously, all the time.

3. She says incredibly rude things about people she doesn't know (and sometimes people she does know). It's nice to know someone who's not afraid to have an opinion once in a while.

4. That look she gets on her face when she's grumpy (see childhood pictures for reference).

5. When she says she doesn't care about something, she means it. Not like "I don't care" and you know she really does but wants you to "read between the lines".

6. I secretly like it when she's bitchy.

7. She's cute (token cliche reason).

Alex Davis aka Al Buttars, never heard of him? Time you did. Cincinnati is like the new Ogden or something.

Dear Diary,

We went to Rockport for a "Lake Day".

Chicks got boozy.

Karlee needed to dry off.

Unrelated photo of Lizard scaring tourists.

Danny Sargent.

Anyone want to go skate a curb?

Dear Diary,

I really should have posted something on Go Skateboarding Day but I didn't. James was in town shredding all week.

Here's a photo I shot on Go Skateboarding Day of G. David Law stomping a switchstance three hundred and sixty degree flip at the Murray Bump. I love natty light (as in natural light, not the cheap beer).

One year ago today, I woke up in severe pain. Went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with cancer. I had surgery the very next day. Today, I had a CT scan for a routine check up and (as far as I know) I'm still cancer free. Also, today is me and Karlee's eleven month anniversary. Today is already a better day than it was a year ago. Here's a crappy scan of a self-portrait on "Cancer Day 2008".

Dear Diary,

Every skateboard video has a pigeon in it. It goes back to Memory Screen probably and all that random found super 8mm footage. Swainston and I were talking about how pigeons (rats with wings) are a metaphor for travel. They're everywhere you go. Hemingway used to catch them in the Jardins De Luxembourg in Paris and eat them. 17 grams of protein. Hemingway was on the Atkins diet long before anyone I guess. Here's a photo of a pigeon at a spot Dave, Weston and I were skating a few months ago:

"If people could skate as good as their personality, Joe Brook would be skater of the year." -Aaron Meza, Slap Magazine 1997