Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
If you read this blog and remember my Slam blog a few weeks ago. I should have taken that as a cue to retire from the sport forever. Two tuesdays ago I was skating to class as I’ve been doing everyday for the past month and a half. My trucks were loose and I kept telling myself to get a skate key and fix the problem, but I didn’t and I ate shit and I broke my fucking ankle. Never having broken a bone before, it hurt pretty bad. I laid in the road for a minute trying to get my mind to get my body to do something but I was frozen there. After the initial shock, I dragged myself out of the road and in between two parked cars. My left ankle bukled outwards, so much so that my inside of ankle bone scrapped the ground and dug a good piece of skin out. I was hoping I didn’t break it but when I tried to rotate my ankle I saw it flop and buldge under the skin, I knew I was fucked. After catching my breath, I called my girlfriend, Lisa who was still sleeping and she ran over to my rescue. She got me a cab and got me to the hospital. I finally got to experience the problems with the American medical system first hand. I appreciate Hong Kong medical services so much more now. There was almost no one in the emergency room but it still took six to seven hours to get me out of there.I ended up seeing a couple more doctors and in the end I had to have an operation this past tuesday. Now I’ve got a bunch of pins and plates and screws in my foot now. Half of which will be removed a few months down the line. Aside from all the pain I was more bummed out I was not able to finish my last week of class. Oh well. Here are some pics. Don’t worry nothing nasty, although I could post those too.That’s the x-ray of the front view of the left foot. That’s the break circled in red the fibula is trashed. The blue is the direction my ankle went, not natural. Notice how the x-ray techinician can’t spell. Or maybe it’s German? That’s me in the emregency room right before they reset the leg. Can you see the look of anticipation?That’s them setting the leg. Not fun. Somehow taking the picture reduced the pain.Post op pic. My roomate was a 78 year old guy who fell and broke his hip in three places. He woke up in the room in the middle of the night freaking out. He thought he was in his home and told the nurses he was going to call the cops. He pulled open my curtain divider and said “why is there a woman in my room?” I guess my long hairless Asian legs confused him. Turns out he was...
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Time goes by quick doesn’t it? Happy birthday Shari. You’re still here.
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Time goes by quick doesn't it? Happy birthday Shari.
You're still here.
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You're still here.
Aside from winning our softball game once again by 7 runs, and still hitting away… I’ll still make more comments about Punk Planet. It was mentioned in a comment, that’s it’s too bad we have to make a brand to survive… but we’ve all heard the words, “there’s no money in publishing.” Well? What the heck does that mean? It means, there’s no money in it. So a brand developing out of a magazine is important. If it’s not a brand, then it’s some form of consulting, it’s throwing parties, it’s becoming a design firm, it’s more than just a magazine, and as Paper magazine’s art editor, Carlo McCormick once asked me, and a group of publishers, “What’s your scam?” He did preface it with saying that for a small mag to make it, there’s more than just publishing the magazine. Well, that’s what it takes to make it, and we’ve all been warned. But! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just make a magazine and not worry? Can it be done comfortably? I’m still not sure. It would be nice if GR was retail $10, and we were able to sell each copy direct to customers. Then we’d still need to get ads, but a plan like this would be nice. Business sense counts in this racket, and I think that’s something you have to consider if you’re going to be in publishing.
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Aside from winning our softball game once again by 7 runs, and still hitting away...
I'll still make more comments about Punk Planet. It was mentioned in a comment, that's it's too bad we have to make a brand to survive... but we've all heard the words, "there's no money in publishing." Well? What the heck does that mean? It means, there's no money in it. So a brand developing out of a magazine is...
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I'll still make more comments about Punk Planet. It was mentioned in a comment, that's it's too bad we have to make a brand to survive... but we've all heard the words, "there's no money in publishing." Well? What the heck does that mean? It means, there's no money in it. So a brand developing out of a magazine is...