Monthly Archives: August 2007

Boss Hogs Full Effecting What What ? Thanks L-Boogs !

-JR Ewing of Seattle

Days 3 and 4 in Vegas were a blast as well as productive! Pheed and Jason Coffins rolled around with Ray and I to United,Project,Pool and Magic (those are the names of the diff trade shows). We met up with some old friends as well as made some new ones. I cant wait to open the new store and show everyone our new lines we will be carrying in 2008. Got some real heat coming your way and its nice to finally be in control of what we want and don’t want to carry. The retail biz is a dirty game and unless you have been through it, you don’t realize how slimy these reps from company’s can get (not all but some). Its mad funny when some herb with no cred and no substance reps some shitty brand and wants to help out his bank account so much that he or she doesn’t even take time to do the research on what the line they rep is about and what stores that carry them are about. I can tell you from experience dealing with this type of industry BS that there are a lot of corny stores that get brands simply based on how much money they have and who sucks there reps dick so to speak. In my opinion that’s the biggest let down and no matter what if a brand,person,store etc.. has no cred or no substance I boycott on GP because I worked way to fucking hard for my stripes to give someone my support who hasn’t ever hopped the fence and experienced life without training wheels. With that being said we will not be carrying a couple brands we have stocked in the past and I’m hyped off that!

Anyways enough raves and rants here are the pics from days 3 and 4:

this is the uber nice and expensive new breed to own called a bully. Google it
look at the stash so chimo
Coffins giving the universal fist greeting
right before the ALIFE fiasco
my girl Jules owner and designer of Bijules (sooo pretty)
check out these funny womens samples that will never hit shelves (thank god) i flicked
day 4 began with Margaritas and pagan T’s
Ray treats every cabby as if they were his friend for years with his signature all on your seat move
Ray and the homie Alfred from Huf Set
Big Rick (Flavor of Love ) and I getting jiggs
Ray and ol girl who used to work at Capitol
Our good friends from the Hecklewood gang (Portland) w/ WC
hot as fuck in the cooling tent rolling doober’s peep the sweat brow
old town Vegas on the strip
ever wonder what Grampa Ray looks like with 2 hours of sleep?

Thanks to everyone we saw on our trip for helping us have a great time ! Be on the look out for the new Hello Minor dropping soon ! If you dont know about my dude Dave’s brand you are sleeping.

-JR Ewing of Seattle

Day 2 was by far the best ! I got to meet one of my favorite artist Mike Giant who was the most down to earth guy ever, as well as got to meet one of my skateboarding idols from when I was a teenager Sal Barbier who was also one of the most humble characters you will ever encounter. Throughout the day Ray,Jason (Flying Coffins) and I stumbled into many other cool displays and street wear celebs. Peep the photos:

Sal Barbier
Mr.Cartoon
Estevan Oriol
Homer Simpson
64 Impalla

Mike Giant
68 Deville
SE Racing fixxy
Check out the label
Gabbi from Mama
Adam and Eric from Manik

Thanks to everyone we already knew and got visit with as well as thanks to those we just met !
Special apology to my man Ari and the ALIFE fellas for wilding off the JD at the telly.

-JR Ewing of Seattle

Ray and I left Seattle yesterday for the Magic trade show in Vegas and ever since our plane took off it has been a non stop party let me show you in pictures:

here is Ray right after take off on our first flight to Reno
the view from the window
Ray on our flight from Reno to Vegas
Ray at Josh D’s house getting wild
Ray getting his drink on at the BBQ
Ray got dropped off a lil early but here he is on the ride home
and last but not least when I returned to our hotel last night Ray was all partied out and sleeping like a baby !
ed note: uhhhh why is Ray naked ?

Stay tuned day 2 should be even more exciting.

-JR Ewing of Seattle

As you know Trash Talk has been on a US tour all summer and have been leaving a lasting impression on every state they play. It’s pretty apparent that our fam is about to blow. They just got signed to Deathwish/Malfunction Records and are getting ready for a full European Tour! If you haven’t already added then as a friend on myspace make sure you do. Her are some pictures I stole from Manny Mares of the boys playing at This Is Hardcore Fest this last month.

Congratulations fellas and hurry up and get home so Gary can work the new store.

-JR Ewing of Seattle

TJ (Actual Pain + Book Of Black Earth)and his GF Val have a new band called KING DUDE! They just released their new album entitled:Dracula’s Beard and lets just say that shit is hot just like a bearded Dracula ! Sounds like some acoustic physcadelic yum yum for your ears ! check there myspace and listen to some of their tracks and watch some of their videos. My personal favorite is the track True Love in which Val shows off her beautiful voice over a very echoy and eery acoustic ballad. Nice work dudes!

-JR Ewing of Seattle

The United States coastguard says it has found a homemade submarine packed with cocaine worth almost $500 million.

A spokesperson says the vessel was 15m-long and painted blue to hide it under water.

It was discovered just off the coast of Gauatemala in Central America.

Its crew sank the submarine shortly before officials arrived who then arrested the four men found floating in the water.

Nice hand. Meet the owner of the biggest hand in the world, Lui Hua. Hua has a medical condition called macrodactyly, AKA Freak hand. Doctors did a little nip/tuck on this little fella and deleted 11 pounds out of those massive grabbers. Yea! Aow Hua can play his Nintendo Wii!

- P H E E D

I was reading the SLOG the other day and came across this really cool entry from a Ghost Hunter named Christina who is studying the Wah Mee Massacre . She went to the location of the massacre and took some really cool pictures of the club which re sparked my interest in researching this event and location. Read her entry here.

Here is an overview of what took place at the Wah Mee:

February 18th 1983
Just before midnight, as Chinatown celebrated the Chinese New Year, three Hong Kong immigrants barely into adulthood entered Wah Mee, an exclusive social club that orbited around high-stakes gambling and attracted the upper crust of Seattle’s Chinese community, including restaurant and other business owners. The three young men hog-tied the 14 occupants with nylon cord, robbed them, shot them in the head and left them for dead. Thirteen died, but a dealer at the club miraculously survived, broke free and sought aid. He eventually identified the perpetrators and testified against them.

Here are some photos I took of the spot

the lonely and ragged alleyway of Maynard

the entrance to the Wah Mee speak easy has stayed untouched since the horrible event took place in 1983

paint above the entryway slowly chips away, reminiscent of residents memory’s from the terrible massacre

ironically the address of another forgotten store front on the same block bares the number of the beast

More Info Here

And Here

Thanks Christina !

-JR Ewing of Seattle

We haven’t updated in a few as we have been mad busy getting our new store in order as well as getting ready for Magic. We will be back with some updates later today ! Thanks!

JR Ewing of Seattle