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I watched a bit of the street skating part of the X Games. It’s pretty neat, but the part that sort of stinks is that these dudes at times, miss maybe 80% of their tricks, maybe more. The course may be tough, who knows, but it seems to lend itself to bad TV. Maybe it’s more like soccer, but we’re all too spoiled by skate videos where they’re either eating shit over and over, or making every trick. The winner seems subjective, do you pick the guy who landing 2 tricks over the guy who landed just 1? What about degree of difficulty? What if you landed none? I’m not sure how it works, after watching this, and the lack of spectators, it’s sort of a sad event. The best of the best are there, and this event seems to get the least amount of attention, yet it’s the style of skating that’s the most prevalent.
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I watched a bit of the street skating part of the X Games. It's pretty neat, but the part that sort of stinks is that these dudes at times, miss maybe 80% of their tricks, maybe more. The course may be tough, who knows, but it seems to lend itself to bad TV. Maybe it's more like soccer, but we're all too spoiled by skate videos where they're either eating shit over and over, or making every trick....
As the last of the protestors were dragged away by police from Queen’s Pier Tuesday night, I could not help but feel emotions of sorrow, to anger, to helplessness. Hong Kong is losing its heritage, its history and its sense of self. We are stuck with a government that believes economics can solve everything but they are sorely wrong.Buildings and sites of historical importance help to shape and make a city. They remind us of the importance of our past and inspire visions of the future. They are the key elements in the making of a place. They are relics that our city can be proud of. They should be celebrated and protected, but instead we are witnessing their slow and systematic assassination by a government made up of businessmen that have become far removed from the people whom they supposedly represent.Chief Executive Donald Tsang claims that being overzealous in saving the past may hurt Hong Kong’s competitiveness, and has asked activists to take a more balanced view toward economic growth and conservation. It’s sad to hear our leader make such ludicrous and uniformed statements such as this. The Queen’s Pier area and the entire Central Harbor will be replaced with a new highway and shopping mall. Is it all worth the destruction of the entire Central Harbor front? The very “Fragrant Harbor” that made this city? Do we really need yet another shopping mall to maintain our “competitiveness”? Please tell me where is the balance?One by one we are seeing the places of yesterday being destroyed, demolished, killed. Star Ferry Pier was the beginning and now Queen’s Pier. Who knows what’s next? But as developers set their sights on projects that they can milk more government money out of, I’m sure this will not be the end. One by one they will go and pretty soon there will be no reminders of the past, no more history, only endless rows of interconnected, over air-conditioned shopping malls forcing us to consume, consume, consume and forget about the past.Star Ferry Pier now gone. To see where I stole these photos from and read more about Star Ferry and Queen’s Pier check out these Wikepedia pages:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen’s_Pierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Place_Ferry_Pier
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I took a trip up to the SF Bay area today to interview future managers. Yes, Myleen the SF manager is leaving us, sort of, she’ll be taking a smaller role, while he’s going back to school. I flew in via Jet Blue from Long Beach. Let’s start with that first. I drive past LAX to get to LB sometimes. Why? It might be a bit faster in the end, but LAX is the biggest hassle ever. Flights get delayed, cancelled, and you have to deal with dicks. Dick everyone. Dick cops, dick parking people, dick counter people, dick security, and dumb fucks working for the airlines. Long Beach is a bit better. I swear, even the police are nicer there. Getting in and out is pretty easy, and the stress level is nil. The drive actually turns out to take about 35 minutes from Long Beach to West LA, it’s not bad. The day in SF was decent. I walked in the door at 12:45, and left the place at 6:10pm. Up and back pretty quick. But I have an issue with the Bay… and don’t get me wrong, I do like the place. But today, I got a ticket. A ticket for coming out of the Muni without a transfer, which actually doubles up as a receipt. I came out of a train and got “Carded”. Imagine, how many times have you been carded coming out of a train? or a bus? or a cable car? It doesn’t happen, well, today, it happened to me. The guy was cool about it, but I thought he’d let me go when I proved and explained that I was from LA for the day, and didn’t know that the transfer is also receipt. When the driver handed it to me, I refused, thinking that I’d save paper. An eco-thing that’s in tune with the Bay area… right? But no. I got a ticket. While I stood there, the other “cop” let a woman and two kids through with a warning when they didn’t have their “receipts”. I now have to appear in court, or call and present my case and see how much of a fine I have to pay. So today, I’m a marked man and right now, I’m sitting on my sofa relaxed with my crotch presented to the bay. You owe me one.
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I took a trip up to the SF Bay area today to interview future managers. Yes, Myleen the SF manager is leaving us, sort of, she'll be taking a smaller role, while he's going back to school. I flew in via Jet Blue from Long Beach. Let's start with that first.
I drive past LAX to get to LB sometimes. Why? It might be a bit faster in the end, but LAX is the biggest hassle ever. Flights get delayed,...