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toddapalooza-friday nov 30th at breckenridge

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:19:23 -0500

ok after much thinking and actual planning, toddapalooza...
will now be friday the 30th of november. seeing as how im supposed to be somewhere else during the actual dates i threw up yesterday. this is an official snowboardmag sanctioned event, which means there will be an intern there with stickers.
so this is how it looks as of this am:
toddapalooza 07
breckenridge colorado
peak 9 beaver run at 10 45 ( or 10 at clints for coffee and shit talking )
we will go to the little jibby jump line and have fun
there will be giveaways and a bull horn
people will laugh and cry
we will have fun

the japan wave pool

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:33:43 -0400

HOLY SHITTTTTTTTT !!!!!!! yesterday was one of the best days of my life so far. the myiasaki wave dome is legit. overhead waves, barrels, racy sections, all over cement bottom in 6 inches of water. i have a bunch of videos and shots that i need to attach to this story. for now , i am still in japan on this sweet trip. i surfed the japan sea and the wave dome with benjii weatherly and kalani robb. skated this fun park with tony hawk. chad bartie and tosh townend and shreded the big air park in fukuoka with jp walker. all and all this has been my best trip to japan yet. baller hotel rooms, days filled with gut wrenching laughter and nights with asahi.

indoor tour

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:57:44 -0400

i will be surfing this next week : http://www.surfline.com/mag/pulse/2000/nov/11_8_japan.cfm

my friend is doing a surf movie and it kind of has that whole surf skate snow thing going on. we are going to japan to shred indoors at the fukiyoka ( poor attempt at spelling ) indoor ice chest, surf this death wave, then skate indoors at japans best skate park. should be fun.

the crew:

me
jp walker
tosh townend
chad bartie
the bird man
benjii weatherly
kalani robb
g-love ?

if i dont fracture my dome in the wave pool i will post shots from that piece.

hey bros, peep this scam that a snowboard-mag user is trying to pull on me!!!!!! SCAM SCAM SCAM

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:53:44 -0400

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Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:06:21 -0400

http://www.audiworld.com/news/06/paris-audi-r8-debut/

transworld ride my pole

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:31:04 -0400

ok so i went to the riders poll last night, for some reason i thought it would be different from the years past. dead wrong. you cant hear shit, no one really cares about whats going on up on the stage including the presenters and the drinks cost as much as a used 86 civic. i gotta say the getting dressed up thing was kind of rad though. i was in a suit, and not at a funeral or some shit ass wedding, that was a bonus. people were looking sharp. there were a few attempts to polish turds both male and female. note to some ladies out there, if your hideous by birth, no ammount of mascara or receding hem line is going to solve mother natures little gift, blame your parents.

top 5 days to fly ever

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:12:17 -0400

just went through security at the reno airport, they took my purell, chapstick, deoderant, and the friggen gell soles from my shoes....BUT THEY WILL NEVER TAKE MY FREEDOM....unless they ask nicely, im a sucker for please.

i like the ollie, it is very useful

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:54:30 -0400

probably one of the most useful things that i have ever learned, that and sitting on my hand until it falls asleep and doing a "phantom jack"

we got louis vito

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:21:22 -0400

louis vito is my team mate, this is bitchin'

lance bass the first man to land in, no wait, on uranus !

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:37:08 -0400

drago told me.

ok, so im doing my graphics for 07/08 need ideas...

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:27:43 -0400

hey bro's and brozettes, i need graphic ideas for the next season. i am at a loss. this seasons graphics are based on the office and office space the movie. i thought that was pretty clever. so now it's time for another round of stuff, what better way to get ideas than to go straight to the heart of the consumer. i like creepy crawly skull type shit, but i think that i have done that for almost 20 years. i need a new fresh start. i was thinking polka dots, just like fuck it im doing polka dots, who cares if everyone hates it. then i remembered my children. i was thinking of having "im with stupid" on my base with an arrow, so when you jump next to someone and your friend takes a sweet photo, ya know where im going with this.

why the b5 rs4 is better than the b7 rs4

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:52:35 -0400

ok so i am an audi fan, maybe more of an audi nerd but who cares. i have always been a fan of the rs series of cars that audi produces near the end run of a chassis. they are limited in number and powerful. ok so for the first time the rs4 is being offered in the states. the b5 rs4 came out in late 99 and was based on the s4 avant. the body and engine were tastefully upgraded and thus a sleeper super car was born. the british racing firm of cosworth technology took the 2.7 t engine of the s4 and gave it a good case of the 'roids. the car is bitchin', believe me. did i mention it only came in a grocery getter body style.

my summer vacation so far....by todd richards

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:55:55 -0400

hey dudes and duddettes, i am on summer vacation. that means, surf sun and sand. or in my case, hanging out with the kids while the surf is going off. you know, i get bored in the summer. i always complain about traveling so much, and all i want to do is get home. you know what, i think that i am addicted to the stress of living out of a duffel bag. well here are some things i love about summer in no particular order:

1. sunny days in so cal. ok so you really have to wade through may and june till you get one but when you do , oh boy!!!
2. south swells, "going left"
3. f - side reverses in 2 foot high gutless beach slop

oops i blogged my pants...i wish ( a constipated olympic blog 2)

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:11:33 -0500

ok so another look into the scattered mind of a higly caffinated 36 year old child. kelly clark does good 900's. like crazy good, i want to learn that. we werte in the announcer poition for 48 hours( no the announcer position doesn't have you bent over holding your ankles, thats the atheletes) from thestart of the men s tube riders to the morning after the chicks. i have never been so tired. you know when your body starts shaking and shutting down and your head is still functioning from all the red bull and sugar, well my limbs were going on strike and my head felt like i was working full time on the snow removal task force in newport beach. bad combo. i think that tina dixon is really sick of me making fun of her, i would be. her husband rob got here yesterday so she is happier. although we all went to vd dinner togeter ( me, sully, stats mc'gee, and rob and tina) talk about romance. i explained to the table how i had once convinced a girl in a bar that narwhales are the direct descendents of unicorns. how the unicorn was persicuted on land that it went to the sea to escape. i can just picture the darwinian illustration, unicorn, horse with flippers, whale with horse head and horn and finally, narwhale. the restaurant we ate at last night has the raddest owner, he came to our table and asked " do you know whadda the fuck you wanna eat?"

he was sweet. he then proceeded to walk around the restaurant with a machete asking people if they enjoyed their dinners, sweet tactic ! tina said she didn't like olives and was almost given the mossulini. the owner then gave us some sketchy ass liquor as a apre dinner drink, dude it was white and creamy, much like the milk from a unicorns horn, the reason they were driven to a oceanic lifestyle. anyhow it tasted like hairspray, body say eject. not so sweet on top of 8 days of cheese. sully and i are going to eat pizza every day we are here and have a weigh in the last day. although he has the models diet thing going for him, smokes and cokes. advantage sully. we saw the king of norway yesterday, he doesn't look anything like i thought he would, i kinda pictured thor.

tom green was doing some show with the american bob slead team, they seemed cool. although one of them had these jeans on that would lead me to believe there are no mirrors in the athelete village. zippers all the way up the sides=gfr (gay for real) i dont even think that astephen would be cought wearing those things, and that says alot. so toms having a meeting with the bobs, they are causing all kinds of contrived hijinks. i am in the other room haning with torah brights little sister abby. she is the shit!!! total pile, ala bozenuts, no actually more like the femakle dingo. she haden't slept all night, was covered in dirt, and her pants were split all the way up the leg, although this wasnt a 1k fashion addition. she was amazing, smelled like a barmat, did i mention that her parents are mormon? classic.

jon stouffer (stats mc gee, he is our stats guy in the booth) is looking fof love. lots o hugs and long pointless conversations have been observed. there are alot of bargoyles here, mostly from the uk on holiday. pat parnell is having a hard time looking for quality relations material. he says it's research into the mind of the audience, actually he might have said into the behind of the audience, i cant remember. so today is snowboard cross practice, look for much carnage. this course is gnar gnar. popy tables into corners into overshoots into icy uphill spleen removal sections, sounds fun, better them than me. i dont know if it's just me but i feel safer hitting a 80 foot kicker than going at a 20 foot table with six dudes that want to see me eat shit. look for seth wescott and nate holland to give the racers a fast track to the woods. so how have parnell and i been doing so far on the whole announcing gig? my wife says i have announcer voice and then normal voice, i cant tell. i really wanted to announce each compeditor in their countrys accent, although that would be bad for relations, and every thing just ends up sounding japenese after the first minute. i have this bad habbit if speaking spanish to the locals, not a good response. the breakfasts in our hotel are the worst things ever. the eggs over here are orange...blech. i get home from here and go to the vans cup in northstar for a little slopstyle action, wonder if i will take a crap before then. seriously it has been a dangerously long time since my last project tootsie drop. i think that i am going to taste poop in a day or so. i need fibre. i think that i will just eat lawn clippings and go straight back to nature on this one, desperate times take desperate measures. in conclusion i will leave you with a question, does lindsy jacobellis perm her hair, cause that is some tight ass curls, and if they are real....

my big bloated olympic blog

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:13:08 -0500

hi i am in italy, for the olympics n shit. things are pretty sweet so far, we all know the men already did sweet in the half pike so i will entertain you with things that i have been doing and stuff.

so this guy shawn, he's like as big as a sasquatch, has been chilling with us. it's funny as hell since i really like harry and the hendersons. he's like a shaven big foot. so i call him shawn kong. skong has this friend come over to italy to chill and watch mens figure luging. well shawn says that he won star search or american idol or something, turn out he is gavin degraw, yeah still dont know who he is but i bet he makes girls on trl moist.