Remember when you were a kid are you were out in the yard swinging the broom around like a longsword or trying to perfect ghostriding your bike and you thought to yourself “I’m gonna practice this shit everyday until I’m awesome at EVERYTHING!” and then you remembered GI Joe was coming on in like 5 minutes so you went inside and sat in front of the TV and ate Burger King and grew up to be a talentless slob who has a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time? Yeah well, this dude picked up the slack for you.
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Joining the ranks of legends like Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, Chris Cole and pretty much every other skater whose mattered in the last 20 years, Leo Romero has been officially selected as Thrasher Magazine’s 2010 Skater of the Year, more or less the highest honor in the professional skate world. Check out the video above for Romero’s fittingly nonplussed reaction to receiving the award. Not only is Romero an amazing skater, he’s also something of a clothing designer too. Working with RVCA, he has a full line of Leo Romero signature apparel, such as the Romero Stretch Cord II pants and the Romero Rigid Jeans. Find Leo Romero x RVCA signature apparel on TruckerDeluxe, and hail the new king of skating, Leo Romero.
You ever feel like you suck at pretty much everything? Like you can’t hardly even walk down the street without tripping and falling, or do even the most basic of tasks without screwing up? Like when you go to the dentist and he tells you that you “haven’t been brushing correctly” or you try to microwave a pizza and somehow fuck it up even though it’s made for stupid people? If you feel like that, you probably shouldn’t watch this video of 2010 Yoyo World Champion Jensen Kemmitt from this weekend’s World Championships because he not only makes yoyoing, which is a pretty silly activity, actually look pretty badass, but he does it without even really trying, like “Oh this thing? Yeah I just picked it up a few days ago, pretty neat huh?” He seems like one of those guys who could probably beat you at your favorite board game without ever having played it before, the dude who you introduce to the girl you’ve been pining after since childhood and later that night he bangs her, and the next day is like “Yeah it was alright…but I’ve had better.” Fucker
Rioting these days is so passe. In my day, we only rioted when some dude got beat up by the cops or when capitalist powers tried to enslave the global population in an untenable economic model based on artificial scarcity. You know, important shit. But these days, people will riot over just about anything. We had a couple riots in Chico last year, just because people felt like it; maybe they’d seen people do it on TV and wanted to try it out, who knows? But probably the stupidest variety of riot currently en vogue is the “Victory Riot” where fans of a sports team who just won a championship take it upon themselves to celebrate in the form of rioting in the streets of their home city. “YAY OUR TEAM WON, WOOHOO I LOVE THIS CITY! LET’S BURN IT TO THE FUCKING GROUND!!” Such was the case in LA last night, following the Lakers’ victory over the Celtics in the NBA Finals. Even though Police were expecting a riot, and showed up in what they thought was sufficient numbers, fans rioted anyway:
Crowds hurled bottles and other objects at police, smashed marquees, jumped on vehicles, broke windows, and set rubbish dumpsters and vehicles on fire along Figueroa Street north of Staples Center and on Flower Street.
Police fired non-lethal rounds to disperse the crowd at Figueroa and Venice Boulevard after several small fires were set, as well as at 11th and Hope streets. At 7th and Flower, a car believed to be a taxicab was engulfed in flames.
It being 2010 and all, there was also, of course, copious video footage of the riots, including this one showing police trying to disperse the crowd with tear gas:
The best, however, is this description, from the LA Times, of the dialog taking place in the heart of these riots, evincing the sheer passion at play in the heart of the rioting:
A group of overzealous fans began smashing the windows of a black Honda and trying to turn it over. Others protested the violence: “You isn’t from L.A.! This is L.A. No burning!” one person in a Kobe Bryant jersey shouted. The YMCA at 11th and Olive Street was vandalized as taggers marked graffiti up and down the side of a wall. Another person upended a traffic sign and bashed in several windows. That was too much for two men. “It’s getting too hot, dog,” one of them said to his friend. “Let’s bounce!”
Yeah dog, it was definitely getting too hot. We’re all gonna be sorry, next time we actually have something worth rioting about, no one’s gonna pay attention. And that’s exactly what THEY want…
Our homie Cliff Chen is at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles getting up on all the new hot shit from the wild world of gaming and he was kind enough to check in with a few pics to show us all what we’re missing. Of course the big news from this year’s E3 was the debut of Sony’s Move Motion Controller for the Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s 3DS, which alongside Sony’s previously announced foray into 3D, marks the beginning of what many feel will be a 3D revolution in gaming, to which I say: about damn time! Check Cliff’s photos after the jump and stay tuned for more news from E3.
American Apparel is apparently in some deep shit:
American Apparel announced a $17.6 million loss for the first quarter of 2010, a figure that puts the company in danger of defaulting on one of its loans. If it can’t refinance, you’ll have nowhere to get striped tube socks!While revenues were up almost 7 percent during the first quarter compared to the same period last year, AA’s operating loss was a lot bigger than the $3.9 million the retailer lost during the first quarter of 2009. The company is now more than $91 million in debt, and the most recent losing quarter could put the company in default of one of its loans.
Maybe they should stop fucking with gold man thongs and florescent scrunchies and focus on just making badass shirts and super deep v-necks for dudes with those sweet cursive writing tattoos across their chest. Of course, it’s probably hard to find the time to think about business shit, when your CEO is too busy jacking off in front of everybody and getting blown by employees:
In her article, Ko said she witnessed Charney masturbating at least eight times in the course of her research. She also saw him ask an assistant to perform oral sex on him. The assistant obliged, and Charney explained: “I’m not saying I want to screw all the girls at work … but if I fall in love at work it’s going to be beautiful and sexual.” Ko didn’t object to the peep show she was treated to – she kept thinking what great material it was for her article – and even professed afterwards to thinking fondly of Charney. “Dov Charney is a mad man and I like that,” she said
