Trip to the Bathroom

Our friend Walter posted this up on Facebook the other day--or I guess maybe it was today. Either way, this would be a session at an indoor skatepark I've never seen before, but presumably is in Austin, Texas, so let's not ask in a fit of delusion which third-ring suburb this park is in and whether they're True Ride ramps or not. Truth time: this edited like horseshit and the filming is AWFUL, but it features Seth Peterson, sole Team Dilly--So Cal chapter member Dan Shea, Devon Lampman, and the rarely-seen Chris Hudson. So if this is indeed a pile of turds, then IT MUST BE COATED IN GOLD AND RUBIES. Meet you down below.

CAPITAL ASSES from Walter Horton on Vimeo.

Let's pause and appreciate the fact that Chris does what look like normal tailwhips and then surfs them in the rawest way possible. SO SICK. That might read as sarcastic, but I mean it. Chris could easily not surf tailwhips, but chooses to. A Butcher homage, perhaps--Chris is a pretty art-enabled dude.

Thursday Night Dinner

Look, I know that this is purportedly a BMX-related blog, but we need to talk about the MINNESOTA TWINS here! If you aren't into baseball, this is going to suck for you, and you should probably just look at Chrix's new fishing pole down below.

Yesterday I posted something about how the Twins had been disappointing me with lackluster off-season moves because I am an occasionally-paying customer that deserves to be catered to, and here comes today. BAM, DENARD SPAN gets shuffled off to Washington DC for what appears to be something a little better than the bottom of the barrel, pitching-wise.

Once more: appears to be.

The new fella's name is Alex Meyer. If skill level, club needs, outfield depth (we have more than we need, okay?), and just about every possible metric suggesting that Revere is a cheaper and better option for center field were negated it would be INSANELY hard to justify getting rid of a dude named Denard for a dude named Alex. It's not even close to 1:1. You know who's named Alex? My half-Asian roommmate from my freshman year at the U.

But I digress. This new pitcher with the vanilla-Jennifer-Aniston-khaki-Dockers name looks like this:

Looks like a right-handed pitcher to me, I guess.

I wish I had him here to confirm, but supposedly Denard Span was (is?) Brandon Morcomb's favorite ballplayer. Sorry dude!

Meanwhile, I expect his spot in center to be filled by Revere and then one of the lackey's from the 40 Man will shoot into right. Mastroianni, maybe? Who cares--none of them can hit, they field on an "ehhhh, okay" level, and that's all I really expect or care about. Plus dude, PITCHING. PITCHING!!! It's that big of a deal. So let's all celebrate and drink to our (probably temporary and fleeting) positivity to a not-90+ games-lost 2013 season!

To celebrate I'm going out to dinner with my girlfriend tonight. Not only that, but it's at some kind of fancy place out in Inver Grove Heights. Pool and Yacht Club, maybe? Something to that tune. We're going out to eat (AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, DRINK) tonight on her father's dime. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

ROD CHECK

WFO Signature Series CK Bream Blaster:

7ft Lamiglass 3 weight fiberglass honey colored fly rod blank
Pacbay Minima spinning guides
Handle consists of: Ebony wood, holly wood, copano cork, burnt cork, birch bark, AAAA cork, and cork checkers.
Pflueger President reel with Trilene XL 6lb test.
Kinglsey's bandana

Team Dilly--Texas Chapter Update

Haha, it's been a while, hasn't it? No excuse, really--this is going to take me 10 minutes to update and it's not like I'm a busy man. Since I've lost my job, I mostly sit around my girlfriend's apartment checking to see if the Twins have signed anyone that might give me anything to be hopeful about come April 2013 (if you're wondering, no, they haven't). Anyway, since it's cold and on-again/off-again snowy ALREADY AND IT'S ONLY NOVEMBER GOD, let's see what I found on Facebook that might clue us in on what the numerous Texas chapter members are up to since, y'know, it's nice down there--Texas and all.

Oooookay. Perennial favorite nacho chef, Chrix Kowaleski, moved out of The Woodlandx and craxhed on couchex for a while before moving to Xan Marcox. That'x Auxtin-lite, if you were wondering (though it'x alxo home to the watermelon miniramp). Not only that, but he livex in what I'm axxuming is hix own houxe. Doex he, himxelf, own it? Beatx me, but I've HEARD there might be a pool in the back yard. Not like a pool you would ride in, but one with water in it. For cannonballx. (UPDATE: To my bitter disappointment, Chrix has corrected me: "hahaha yeah man, no pool here.)

Clint Peterson Zabodyn quit his job, put brakes on, and supposedly rides all the time now. Check out THIS:

Clint, Ruben Alcantara, and Ol' D flashing the Team Dilly brotherhood gang sign. I'm assuming this means Devon put Ruben on the team, and that we're all getting Etnies and Fox Clothing flow now.

Also, here's Devon Lampman, one of history's great team managers, doing a ??? over a rail. I guess it's a railhop. Why this guy isn't sponsored is baffling. #YOLO #SWAGG

Man, it's been a while since I've heard from Forrest Burkey. Anyone have an idea what this dude is up to? This was on his Facebook, but he just doesn't seem like a guy who would ride a red frame. Am I wrong here?

Photo: Rudy Rodriquez
This is pretty much the only riding-related thing I could find from anyone else down there. Skinny doing just about the sickest roaster to fakie I've seen in a while. I'm guessing he landed back wheel first and flipped ass-over-teakettle backwards at least once before this worked, but hey, I'm not saying I could do any better. Look at that thing. Sheesh.

Key management skill

You guys, this is Team Dilly TM ol' D giving Austin's absolutely worst wallride a roast and a half. With purple pedals. Sheesh.

BIG BLUNTZ. GET BLARTED

MN TO NM video

A few dilly members and associates recently took an excursion down to New Mexico for god knows what reason. If this video were any indication though, it appears as though they had a pretty dang ol' good time. Here is Miguel Masberg, Chad Uthe, Erik Elstran, and Seth Smiglewski killing it in the southwest. Enjoy.

NEW TEAM MEMBER SERIOUS NEWS

HEY GUYS-

So we're a big team and all, but I figured we could get bigger and maybe put some other dinguses on the team, so here's a new one! His name is Chass Uthe. He looks like this when he jumps over his homeboys:




WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So hell yeah, welcome to the team, guy!