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Archive for May, 2007
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
NIKE killed shit last year when they released several different styles of kicks to honor the Negro Leagues of baseball. This year they turn back the hands of time and show love to the Cuban League teams and represent for their historic contributions to baseball. Word to LUIS TIANT Sr. and this other dude from that island who used to play baseball. I forget his name…
Baseball is truly a global sport and Cuba has a long and rich history with their love for the game. There are so many legends that inspired past generation to love the game. The Negro Leagues and the Cuban Leagues were both on the fringes of mainstream recognition, but anyone that followed the game knew all about the ridiculously talented players that existed in both leagues. NIKE’s first tribute to the Latin legacy of baseball is a pair of Dunks for the Cuban Almendares club team. Almendares was a little town outside of Havana and they were the chief rivals of the Havana club team. There is a legendary story about an Almendares pitching ace named JUAN MANUEL PASTORIZA who pitched both complete games in a back to back doubleheader. The first game he used his right hand to pitch, and in the afternoon tilt it was with his left.
The second pair of kicks that NIKE is releasing for this program represents the Azules de Veracruz which was a team based in Mexico City that played during the winters in the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol. It was in the Mexican Leagues where the stars of the Negro Leagues would mix and play with some of the stars of major league baseball. Players like SATCHEL PAIGE and JOSH GIBSON were international baseball legends and they were respected for their talent and sportsmanship. When America finally decided to legalize intergration of their greatest pastime it was unfortunately passed the time for a superstar like GIBSON.
The NIKE Air Max ’90 is one the their most comfortable shoes and the colorways really pay homage to the tropical aesthetic. NIKE along with the Negro League Hall Of Fame keeps hitting grand slams. Word to BUCK O’NEIL.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Don’t think that I went to Miami and I didn’t copp something to remind me of the trip. I am calling these my ‘Stussy Air Max 1 World 1 Love‘ joints.
I makes my own names up for these kicks based on how they inspire my style. Stussy replaced Ocean Pacific for me back in 1988 when my homeys from BTHS caught an afterschool job at Soho Skates. Shouts to HARLEY and SETH for keeping the kid laced in Stussy every day.
Stussy’s brand has seen the popularity come up again with the resurgence of the skate culture aesthetic and I ain’t mad at them for not making tees that might allow me to wear my joints as anything other than a scarf. I did it already so that you could do it now. Don’t look at me like I’m running behind these young niggas. I’m on my fourth lap while these fools is just getting in the race. Nah’Mean?!?
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
While in Forty Laudy I found a deal on some kicks for my favorite hula girl. I actually got them from the NIKE outlet for twenty cent (‘hoodspeak = $20.00) so I had to copp homegirl two pair. They’re called the NIKE VaporFly and they are so fly that I hope you don’t catch the vapors. Okay, that was corn crunch of me, but dig these kicks. They weigh only like an ounce or something crazy like that. It’s like walking around barefoot without getting crap on the bottom of your foot.
C.S. isn’t a sneakerfiend like your boy, but she makes up for that by rocking that exclusy ish. Nah’Mean?!?
Requiem For A Ghetto Amusement Park…
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Unless you live under the proverbial boulder, or you just don’t give a shit about the ghetto, you must know that Coney Island’s Astroland theme park is slated for demolition after this summer season. Generations on top of generations of ghetto denizens have enjoyed this theme park since it’s inception in 19-whenever (I’m too lazy to Google right now, and face it who the fuck cares, this gotdamned amusement park is old as shit).
Coney Island is interesting because it’s attractions are barely above the level of a traveling carnival, and everything is operated by folks that seem as inbred as carnies can be. There is still the Cyclone. America’s oldest wooden rollercoaster, or some shit like that, and the Wonder Wheel, America’s first Ferris Wheel that hasn’t been demolished yet. Coney Island gives off the vibe that it has been around to long. Like when a magician becomes so old that he doesn’t care if you see how he does his tricks.
The Good Times Gang decided to spend a sunny weekend afternoon walking through Coney Island, actually we wanted an excuse to cop some chili cheese dogs from Nathan’s Famous. While we were there we rode on the bumper cars several times (El Dorado is the shit!), we looked at the freaks, we danced with a stilt lady and we reminisced on a part of New York City that won’t ever be the same again. And maybe that’s a good thing?
DP x Astroland
The Good Times Gang – CHOCOLATE SNOWFLAKE, THE JOHN, GENEVA JONES and DP
Buccaneer operator (the pic with him smiling was too blurry to post. but dude had the dental work of a pirate – three rotten teeth left in his mouth)
Bumper cars and random attractions. I was intrigued by the kids with their hair in prison platts,
What is the whole thing with Puerto Ricans and snakes?
DP with the stilt lady and later some Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME. Woo hooooo!
DP is a big ass prize
Goodbye Wonder Wheel, I barely even knew ye.