Photography by Brooks Fritz

So my daughter has been sick. It was my wife’s birthday last week and she has been sick too. My dog had a tumor in her mouth and had to have surgery this past Monday. Luckily it wasn’t cancerous and just expensive as hell. I’m pretty sure I cracked a rib trying to do a  dumb stand up backside 50/50 grind around the boomerang at the new Oceanside park with Burnout Burnett last week. I also got broke off farming a good fish the other day as well…  Sorry no story time this week. Instead enjoy some randoms and  rejects. Keep it real even if it’s real shitty.

R.I.P Lux Interior. You will be missed.

David Presley, rock N roll, North County San Diego: Another pool you will never skate. Not like you would really want to. Thing was all tile and slippery as hell. Pretty cool looking though.

David Presley, frontside grind, Buttlicker bowl, Riverside, California: We showed up only to find goons having a “pool party.” We drank their keg beer. Pretended to like socializing with the goobers and watched some gay emo punk band play a few hurting songs. Then we Oside dipped. Good times.

Dom Johnson, Front blunt slide, Miramar, San Diego: This spot is more blown out then the ASR. Matt Daughters could probably retire strictly from all the photos he shot & got ran from here. Dominck front blunts just for fun.

Willis Kimmel, Backyard hip grind, Holiday Bowl, San Diego: Speaking of blown out. This pool couldn’t of got any more blown. If you were in San Diego and didn’t skate this pool I dont know what to tell you.

Russel Grundy, Backside Nollie heelflip 180 attempt, San Marcos, California: Poor Russel was sleeping off a long night of partying only to be waken up by the Biz telling him a photographer is in the car waiting. No warm up, straight to the spot we went and Russel just started jumping over this gap trying to nollie back heel it. I felt bad.

Ryan Harris, backside door way tailslide, Orcas Island, Washington: “people” said they didnt like the kid in the photo. Well I do. I hope I get to go there again.

Luke Girling, Backyard backside grind, Angry Negro pool, San Diego: Permission to skate with only the crew. Soon enough it was over. Loose lips sink ships… Thanks a lot fuckers.

Vista Square pool, Vista, California: Another pool that should still be a go. All because of what? Oh yeah you retards didn’t pick up your trash. Ever heard of common sense? Pack out what you pack in dummies. Prince Foreskin and I walked up right before the demo started. It was quite a depressing site.

CHOWDERD

The Revolution is coming! Go buy guns & lots of ammo. Your going to need it!

Have a good weekend - Brooks

Dominick Johnson, backside smith grind, North County San Diego: What can I say? Or more like write? Dom is good. Before noon back smith down a 11 stair? No problem.

My kid’s a handful. Amazing, but a handful. Not in a bad way, just in a 9 month old baby way. All over the place. So with my little bit of time today away from feedings, diapers, naps and all that rad dad stuff I decided to just grab a few discs and pick out some random photos…..

New York City Nomad: This guy is homeless because he wants to. Not because he’s a drunk or a junkie and is forced to live on the streets to get a fix, but because he just wants to cruise and doesn’t like how today’s society is. Simply, he just doesn’t want to conform to the every day bullshit rat race so he chooses to live the life of the streets. And he’ll be asking you who’s the one “struggling”? …

Dominick Johnson, Jefferson Middle school: This school is right down the street from my house. It’s also the school where my friend Brendan Klein got all his photo equipment jacked. Luckily this day there weren’t any problems and I managed to shoot a couple photos of Dom doing some back smiths…

Luke, WSVT: Average day at the park 4 years ago or so. For the clueless, you wouldn’t even recognize Luke from this photo these days….

San Diego Zoo: Yeah, these creatures that aren’t related to humans what so ever are pretty smart. They put their sticks into these holes and wait for the ants to load up on it. After that they got a meal to grub down on. Pretty cool to watch, but come on….. we’re special, we’re humans…..

My dog, Ollie: The best dog ever! Of course right? Every one’s dog is the best dog. But seriously, Ollie is one of a kind.

Fred Tiblin, Mammoth lakes, California: Old friend Fred doing a lipslide at the Wave Rave mini ramp. Every Spring this park would be constructed and then torn down in the Fall. Now the town has a Grindline park. And people still complain. Go figure….

Sperm, Firepools, San Bernardino, California: Such a ridiculous amount of pools to skate when those fires destroyed alot of homes in San Bernardino a few years back. I remember someone telling me to be careful because that’s “Salba land”. Gimme a fucking break! Here’s Sperm with a tail block .

JC Hargis, Pala pool: I remember when this pool used to be fun to skate. I mean, we actually used to look forward to skating it instead of dreading the goon parties. We used to light it up once a week usually on Wednesday’s night and it was great. Super low key, just a few friends and a few hours of some grinds and laughs……. Listen to me getting all sentimental about the pala pool. Then it just got blown out so hard……Random kooks coming to just hang out and poach beers and stand on the deck. I begun to despise this place. Hate on me all you want, But I was and still am stoked this pool is buried…….

DOGDICK, Olympic size egg: Pool was so good I don’t even want to talk about it. John Cardiel’s body double with a possessed late night front side air.

Prince Foreskin, aka Richie Lipz, aka King of Dickville, aka Luke Girling: Don’t even know when I took this photo. I’m guessing this was a few years ago probably around 7 pm. Luke’s old standard operation. Actually what am I talking about? This could of been taken last week. Shit, maybe last night……

 yeah it’s a kickflip. Dom catches them that good. Too bad he’s doesn’t skate for Adio anymore. -skates for DC now. Might of acutally been able to sell this for an ad maybe? Well I’m waiting for a copy of photoshop to come in the mail so I can start posting again. The new computer is the shizzzzzzzznit. Just need some programs and it will be on….