Category: Me Myself&I

Tidying up drives. This is the most ab-surrrd and most annoying and most bizarre and most amazing and creepiest and dopest graphic design I’ve ever seen. This shit haunts me from time to time, like Chucky so I had to share it if you hadn’t seen it before.

I don’t know man.

Sometimes I look closer to see what’s going on under Issa cracking up… Harriett with a big ass phone???? With Sonic doing his best Michael’s impression??? Goku in Thriller mode??? On anything you want, goddamn. Brilliant.

This piece just straight shoots rainbow darts randomly into your psyche. Fascinated and repulsed at the same time, you might even want to sit down to look at it. So gross. Hilarious, I love it.

I can’t remember where I left off:

One Piece (manga). Something in the snow level or something like that?

One Punch Man (anime). Somewhere end of season 1 I guess.

Attack on Titan (anime). I—

Orange is the New Black (series). Can’t recall.

The Walking Dead (both comics and series). Absolutely cannot.

Berserk (manga). Wow sorry Guts.

Audio player through randomized playlist:

Me:

I only like drinking when I celebrate something which is never to a couple times a year these days.

Alcohol deprived my foster dad from a good ten more years on this planet.

Alcohol definitely didn’t help when I was married. You’re not supposed to drink a bottle of wine a day with your SO.

Alcohol started so many fights in my life, physical or not. Truly humbling when I think about it.

Alcohol has decimated tons of people in my fields like game development, music and skateboarding. I keep reading, listening to stories. “what happened to this prodigiously great musician?” “he has dementia from decades of drinking”. “why did this brilliant person quit? Drinking problems? Oh wow”. Because alcohol is so pervasive, it’s always surprising to realize how it can and does obliterate lives.

Alcohol is always the number one fuel for people to sexually harass others. Alcohol opens the gates of stupidity and complacency. How many service workers abused by drunk customers, probably all of them.

I’ve been lucky to be blessed with a “will quietly sit his ass down away from noise” type of very drunk behavior. Harmless. Quite rare, it turns out.

I’ve helped drunk people. I’ve talked to them, took care of them. Had a date vomit on my shoes once, while I was holding her to make sure she throws up correctly. I’ve fought with drunk people, calmly arguing to go to fucking bed. Drunk people are the most annoying, violent toddlers in the world. At first it’s kind of cute but you reach a point where you just want to slap the shit out of them to send them to sober land. This is so not fun.

Alcohol ruins bodies like crazy. You drink regularly and your body looks 20 years older, easily. Easily. You think your back hurts, that you’re getting old, but it’s just your kidneys and liver working OT to dissolve this poison.

And for some reason alcohol is super legal, available everywhere, at any price, any quantity. It’s wild.

Obviously with the pandemic, tons of people started drinking more and probably many became addicted and won’t tell a soul.

It’s not too late. Drink water, quit those relationships, start running etc.

Kelsey Plum is super dope, a left-handed basketball player with intensity rivaling the sun’s.

I just love the “I see your lil stupid comment” look, drinking straight out of the bottle with impeccable eyebrows judging your dusty ass.

Good for you, Kelsey.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if I just uploaded my fancy, clean and readable one-page resume, do not ask me to fill out forms the next page so that the HR robot can tell what’s going on.

You already know what’s going on. You’re hiring and I’m applying. There’s a .pdf upload for a reason.

It’s exhausting, inexplicable and honestly quite disrespectful. It’s 2021, robots dance and imitate our voices. But they can’t correctly parse a text file? C’mon now.

Reading a conversation about cars, with so many people demanding that cars don’t exist anymore because they’re bad, “boo” etc.

Chill.

Cars are necessary anywhere outside cities, aka, most of the world. And you still need them in sprawling suburbs. And when you move furniture. And when you need to water your friend’s plants up high on a hill after work. Or when you need to go to a random location for a vaccine or a skate spot.

Cars are rather essential, period. Stop arguing about this.

People forget one good thing: cars have made tremendous progress on efficiency and cleanliness!

The MPG we get today was complete science-fiction in 1983. 80? 100? I see hybrids at 133 miles per gallon! No one believed that it was even possible 30 years ago! That’s how much we got better. It deserves a smile.

That progress hasn’t curved pollution much because while our cars got far better at energy consumption, we’ve started to ship stuff around the world ten times more. Ten times more cargo ships, ten times more gross fuel being burned (a cargo ship burns the equivalent of thousands of cars’ gas tanks *every hour*), ten times more pollution. And a whole lot of planes in the air too.

Connect the dots, y’all.

In terms of vibes these days, it’s no contest. The WNBA league is so wholesome, I don’t know.

Maybe that’s why they’re playing well together as Team USA in the Olympics compared to the men’s effort or that basically all WNBA players got vaccinated a while ago —women are far too good at understanding that something’s not just about themselves—or that they were truly unified around social justice work, before the NBA last year (how both leagues were not together on this is beyond me though).

Right now in the NBA it’s me-too season, who’s going to get “fleeced” losing a multi-million contract for another, all of that for tall dudes to buy expensive toys and brag about it.

Sure.

I think we never mention that but,

Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Mark Gonzales. Three “half” Mexicans.

Probably the most influential skateboarders ever in the way that they elevated that pass-time activity in California to a full-on lifestyle all around the world. They did that.

Those three dudes were immediately followed by super awesome riders like Tommy Guerrero, Steve Caballero (who was a main influence to the goat Tony Hawk) to today’s Vanessa Torres, Paul Rodriguez, Vincent Alvarez, David Gonzales, Jesus Fernandez (this part is unbelievable, peep the editing with the music, Ty is the best), Tiago Lemos. And so, so many more. Hey Enrique Lorenzo! Forgot about you bro, my bad.

All so fearless and RIPING every street, every skatepark, every sidewalk out there. It’s a joy to see.

Thank you for all the love, creativity and slams, y’all. We owe you so much.

Shoutout to Momiji and Yuto for winning gold in street skateboarding at the Olympics last weekend!

I’m re-reading The Sellout —probably the best fiction I’ve ever read— and in chapter three Paul Beatty writes:

People eat the shit you shovel them.

In a way of saying, “regardless of the context, people will just have to, might even be content about it”.

Me, looking at society at large right now: