Hi-Fi New York

While out fetching lunch, I just saw some dude rockin’ a tank-top that said, simply enough: “I (Heart) SPORTS!” It looked homemade too. Hilarious. I’m feelin’ ya, crazy.

Dens posted this on his Flickr today. Brilliant.

As an aside, did you know Wikipedia lists Bert and Ernie as “roommates”? I always thought they were kid brothers chuck-chillin’ at home while the ‘rents were away. Now the whole setup just feels sorta seedy. And maybe a tad inappropriate.

I’d imagine these team reels are flooding the nets like mad, but here’s Plan B’s coverage of P-Rod, Sheckles and Sherm at the Maloof Money Cup …

And for posterity’s sake, here are the final results:

Street:
1 Paul Rodriguez
2 Nyjah Huston
3 Chris Cole
4 Ryan Sheckler
5 Darrell Stanton
6 Jereme Rogers
7 Terry Kennedy
8 Andrew Reynolds
9 Greg Lutzka
10 Dennis Busenitz
11 Adam Dyet
12 Tommy Sandoval
13 Billy Marks Corona
14 Kurtis Colamonico
15 Sean Malto
16 Bryan Herman
17 Eric Koston
18 Mike Carroll
19 Jake Duncombe
20 Sierra Fellers
21 Chris Mendes
22 Ronnie Creager
23 Erik Ellington
24 Peter Ramondetta
25 Alex Mizurov
26 Nick Dompierre
27 Corey Duffel
28 Marc Johnson
29 Stefan Janoski
30 Braydon Szafranski
31 Alex Olson
32 Zered Bassett
33 Brandon Biebel
34 Leo Romero

Vert:
1 Pierre-Luc Gagnon
2 Shaun White
3 Bucky Lasek
4 Danny Mayer
5 Sandro Dias
6 Andy Macdonald
7 Bob Burnquist
8 Lincoln Ueda
9 Rodrigo Menezes
10 Buster Halterman
11 Rune Glifberg
12 Rob Lorifice
13 Neal Hendrix
14 Alex Perelson
15 Jake Brown
16 Josh Stafford
17 Darren Navarrette
18 Jean Postec
19 Max Dufour
20 Adam Taylor

DVS posted a top-notch video recap of the 2008 Copenhagen Pro. (On a side note, it seems that just about every video DVS posts online is straight-up high-quality stuff.) Watch it here:

Spoiler note: Here are the final results. Looked like a fun contest.

1 Danny Cerezini
2 Diego Oliveira
3 Eero Antilla
4 Jereme Rogers
5 John Rattray
6 Eric Koston
7 Elton Melonio
8 Daniel Viera
9 Matt Beach
10 Rob Gonzalez
11 Pontus Alv
12 Willian Seco

I’m sure I’m way behind the curve on this, but I recently came across this Dubya voice simulator. Too funny. Repeated phrases seem to work best. For instance, “apple apple apple banana” cracked me up pretty good, as did “where is your face going to be be be”. It also says “barack obama” with a slightly mocking lilt, which seems appropriate enough. Minutes of fun.

I scanned in a bunch of old-school skateboarding ads from the 80’s, so I’ll post them regularly as time permits. The first one is a classic Christian Hosoi ad from 1986. It was one of those early ads that was all about image rather than the act of skateboarding itself. What I find pretty interesting is the dot-com-era abbreviation of “Skateboards” in the ad as “SKTBRDS”. In this age of eliminating extraneous vowels (Flickr, Tumblr, etc.) in the name of edginess, Hosoi and his pop were way ahead of the game.

According to NetsDaily, the Nets held a reception for about 40 season-ticket holders Tuesday night in Manhattan and assured them that “Brooklyn is happening.” The team expects to play in the Barclays Center to start the 2010-11 season. Color me excited. Read the full report here.

Despite its unfortunate title, Adio’s latest online video offering is definitely worth checking out. It features Danny Montoya, Kenny Anderson, Nick Dompierre, Ernie Torres, Joey Brezinski, Ryan Bobier, Ed Selego, Steve Nesser, Brian Brown and Nate Broussard, and the quality is top-notch. Strangely, quality is becoming increasingly important to me these days. Go figure.

Either way, check it out below, or download it for your iPod here.

(Oh, by the way, sorry for the dearth of posts lately, but I was away on vacation.)