I wore a mesh wife beater to the bridge tonight, and it made my nipples painful. I heard this happens to marathon runners. I bet they don't drink TB while they do it.
RMJ found this blog. It's a seachange in approach to think that someone might read this. He mentioned Burroughs, which I will use to wrap up this post.
It was 27 degrees at the bridge. I drank a stack of beers last night, since Lzyk was gone, and since I wanted to, and I ate nothing but garbage shui bao. It shouldn't have been a good session, but it was.
I try to warm up with every flatground trick I know, but if I can't get one in about ten tries, I give up and move on, because I am a lazy slob without standards of perfection that make a good skater. Today, I got them all, and a couple of new ones. New tricks aren't that meaningful anymore, since I've learned a few, but it's always a nice feeling to land somehting for the first time.
Soon after, my first Taiwanese homie showed up, I'll call him ZW. He is one of the best people in this country, and it's a country full of good people. He rides a scooter for 45 min from well outside of Taipei to skate at the bridge on Sunday nights. ZW is, to put it charitably, the second largest man I have ever seen ride a skateboard. I am by no means skinny, but I'd have to wear a large backpack with two cases of TB in it to make a game of skate fair between the two of us. If I understand correctly, he first started skating about the same time as me, around when Jump Off a Building came out. I include that caveat because his English is only marginally better than my Mandarin, which he only speaks when he's in Taipei anyway. Everyone here knows him, and everyone is happy to see him.
Tonight, there were only a handful of us there. It was basically empty. This meant a lot more skating, and only time to catch your breath if you make the time yourself. As fatigue set in, it became more of a Taiwanese language lesson than a skatesession. Most importantly, I learned that the word I thought meant "pussy," actually means "pussy and asshole together." Pussy is another word entirely. Happy Birthday Mr. Burroughs.
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