As most of you regulars know, I’m typically only consistent with the blog on trips, so in this slow time of blogging, I had RVCA’s own, Alan Garcia help me out with a little fun…all directed towards me as well. Cause after all, I’m not above making fun of myself. I know what you’re saying, “but Jimmy, you usually make fun of others, like Chili (aka, Rosie O’Donnell), Anthony Acosta, and especially Cricket.” Don’t worry little buddy’s, I’ll always give you that entertainment as well, cause in reality it’s just to easy, and more importantly to god damn much fun. Anyway, long story short. We’re all very fortunate that Alan hates working, and more importantly that Shannon let him put down his gym bag long enough to create these beautiful pieces of art. So with that, here’s me looking cool.

Russia’s own, Vladimir Putin.

That’s right, that’s no ordinary sasquatch. What, or is it? A little Harry and the Henderson’s for ya.

I’m sure most of you jerks were way to young to even know what this is, but rest assured, this Grizzly Adams was kick ass. I mean come on, how many people do you know out there that roll with a bear? Told you so.

And last, but certainly not least, Chewbacca. Boo-yeah, I’ve always wanted to be Chewbacca, thanks Alan.

Yup, it’s that time of year again…beautiful man, modeling day, but this time it’s personnel. Thats right, we pulled out the big guns for this one. Keegan Sauder, and Kevin “spanky” Long. In order to get Kevin there, we had to fly him in on a redeye from Milan. And all we had to do to get Keegan there was tell him that he could camp out in my backyard for as long as he wanted, and to sweeten the deal, I informed him of the new Trader Joe’s that just opened up within waking distance from his camp site (AKA, my house). Anyway, check out the good times.

Moments before the big shoot, Keegan gets in a little yoga action. Just one of the many rituals he has to help him get in the right mindset for a big time photo shoot.

Just one of the sweet moves Keegan laid out for the photo shoot. He learned this move modeling in, South East Asia when he did a campaign for for UNICEF. When done properly, no can defend.

Now we’re talkin’. It’s the K-man, direct from Milan.

Kevin goes through some of the outfits he’ll be modeling.

This ones for the ladys. Aw, who are we kidding, and some of the guys.

Casey from our art department was there, but he had to stand at least 100 yards away from the models due to his criminal record.

Word of the photo shoot spread like wild fire, cause within minutes we already had a crowd gather.

Julian’s mind was blown so hard by some of the moves, Kevin and Keegan were laying down that I had to give him a couple laps on the bike just to calm him down. Luckily for him, my bike comes equipped with a baby seat.

Now back to the shoot for some more sweet moves by Keegan. He calls this one, the angry Sumo.

This ones called the ass munch. If you look close enough at his ass (no homo) you’ll see why…it’s as if his ass is eating those pants.

Now off to the warehouse. We recently had our van wrapped with cool lifestyle photo’s of some of the team. If you look closely, you’ll see within that “caution”, you’ll see what we’re all about.

See, just like the photo on the van…”Strong, Smart, Bold Girls on Board.”

That’s right jerks, our favorite latino, Leo Romero is starring in a feature film. Well, maybe it’s just a college movie for his old friend, Ryan? But then again, maybe it’s not? Ether way, the bottom line here is that he’s in his friends movie, and by the looks of these photo’s it’s going to be kick ass.

Leo stars as a young, Willy Kraken who breaks both his legs skating, and Doctors tell him that he’ll never skate again. So upon hearing this, Willy signs a deal with the devil and gets his mojo back.

Obviously not the young Willy, but you can tell that he’s still got it.

Apparently this is what Leo’s going to look like when he’s older. Boo-yeah, can’t wait to kick it with that guy.

This is Leo signing his life away to the devil. Take a look at the Devils feet. That’s right, he rollerblades. I wonder how Mike Plum, I mean Lizard King feels about this? I know if I found out that my hero rollerbladed I’d be bummed.

Here’s a behind the scenes look for you.

Something tells me that Leo’s not in this movie for his acting, but then again, I could be wrong.

That’s right, the daily’s were looking nice.

A very proud, Willy Kraken doing what he does best.

As most of you all know, we had a signing at the Victorville Pharmacy over the weekend. But what none of you did know, is that about half of the team couldn’t make it out do to last minute, conflicting scheduling issues. Here’s the excuses. Julian was out at the Tampa Am, Ed was drawing penises for some upcoming art show, Spanky was at Max Fish, and Leo was on the set of the new Steven Seagal movie. In any case, we still pretty much nailed it, cause I brought 300 posters, and we managed to run out at the very end. Now how’s that for a signing? I’d have to say pretty good. Anyway, here’s some photo’s.

Cairo likes to release some stress before any signing, so he brought some toys over to my house to do just that.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Reading is boring.

Told ya so, cause about a page and a half of doing so, Keegan decided to take a nap.

DAMN! This is going to be a good one.

For some reason, when ever we do local stuff, Austin and Josh never want to drive out with us. Maybe it’s because the rest of the team is hideous (me included), and they want to spend as little time as possible with us? I know if I were them two gorgeous S.O.B’s., that’s how I’d run it.

Cairo modified the flyer.

Here’s a close up of Cairo’s handy work. Nice job, buddy. Maybe after your skating carer ends you could come get a job in the RVCA art department. After all, we did have Nolan Hall up there.

And, we’re off!!!

This kids actually lucky that there were only four of the bros there, cause by the looks of things, he’s already run out of room.

What happen to the good ol’ days of just getting a poster, or your board signed? Oh well, it doesn’t bother me none, cause it makes for good bloggin.

Cairo finally found that one dude who bought his shoe. Funny thing about that though, cause the kid was there to return them, but Cairo misunderstood and signed one. In the end, the poor kid was stuck having to buy them.

This handsome, young couple made the trek out from, Barstow. Actually, I ran into them out in the Mall right before the signing, and they were super excited about the signing. Sucks I had to break the bad news to them that not everybody was going to make it. In any case, they were still stoked and hung out the whole time we signed, and even managed to get a group shot with the bros at the end. Thanks for coming out guys, we really appreciate it.

His schedule might have conflicted with the signing, but there was no way that Leo was going to let it interfere with our mandatory, Claim Jumper dinner immediately following most RVCA events. Even though we missed you at the signing, it was still just as good having you at dinner, Romero.

Just in case you didn’t know, we’re doing a Pharmacy signing in Victorville today. That’s right, so you better be there.

Also, we’ve been having a sample sale at the RVCA, HQ and there’s been some good times.

It’s no fixed gear, but it does the job…Bobby is willing to sacrifice style for function here. Hopefully none of his fixed queer friends find out though, cause bikes with gears is a no, no. As a matter of fact, he’s libel to get demoted in his fixed gear gang for a move like this.

Also, this a-hole came up to me and said he reads the blog on a daily…loser. I guess I should probably start updating this thing a little more often…ah, we’ll see. At least this jerky got to meet me, so now his life is finally complete. Oh yeah, you’re welcome.