Whats up everyone!!!!

Been a while huh?? Here is a video some of you may have not seen showing a recap of 2009. Things change and so does life and the date we put on our checks but somethings remain the same, somethings that are gone, aren’t really gone, and some things you knew would be there could be right around the corner…

What do I mean? We will just have to wait and see.

Joe

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I first contacted Joe back in 2006 to let him know that I was a big fan and that I’d love to help out in any way that I could. Being in Kentucky, I was limited to doing online promoting and I made a few attempts at direct calling to shops, resulting in a couple of stores picking up the FRSH line. I suppose that in whatever way I helped, Joe figured that I was doing something right and decided to fly me out to Orange County to hang out with the FRSH crew for a week. They taught me many lessons while I was out there. For example, I learned that Joe, Jeremy, and Tui are all neat freaks, as you can tell from this picture:

I learned to work for my free clothes (I suppose that made them not free then):

I learned the value of spending time with your family, even when that means going grocery shopping:

I learned that Joe loved to see how much meat  he could wrap his mouth around:

I also learned that you don’t mess with big, scary Samoans:

I even learned about educational TV shows:

Eventually my trip to FRSH headquarters came to an end and it was time to return home back in Kentucky.

For the next few years I just continued to help Joe and FRSH through online communications and promoting them wherever I could. I even got things together for the Franco Shade x SlamXHype t-shirt collab:

I was so happy to be involved with FRSH, no matter how minor my role was, that I decided to wear one of our shirts in one of my senior pictures:

Then, back in March of this year (2009) I decided to take another trip out to Orange County for my spring break. Of course Joe had learned his lesson by now that I am not fun to have around for very long so I had to stay with my cousins out there. Fortunately for me, Joe let me crash at his place one night during my trip (I had to beg him for that much). I was so happy to be there and all I had to do was take Bronx for walks and pick up his poop!

I was even privileged enough to chauffeur Joe around while he ran errands!

I loved getting to be out in California and actually feeling like I was there to do something more than just writing blog posts and stuff. After a while it came down to just Bronx and me hanging out while everyone else got their daily duties done.

It was time for me to return back home to Kentucky. I haven’t been back out since March but I do hope to make it out there again in the future. I will no longer be hanging out at the FRSH offices, but I do feel that I will be welcomed back by everyone there who have treated me like family throughout this whole adventure (your family is supposed to make fun of you and be annoyed by you, right?).

So yeah, it is kind of sad to see FRSH go but I’m excited to see what will come in the future for Joe, Jeremy, Tui, Thomas, Chris, Monch, Derek, Bronx, and everyone else who has been a part of making FRSH the greatest thing since frozen bananas.

Birdfeed

“FRSH”

As you all know I hate Shabu Shabu, but yesterday I was invited to eat at the Grand Opening of Shabu Shabu in Santa Ana right next door to Which Wich?! who would of that. Well anyways from my experience with Shabu before I didn’t like it, everyone said I probably made it differently or added too much sauce I mean come on when you go to restaurants aren’t they suppose to just come out good? As for this place I give it my approval since I usually hate everything this was actually pretty good and will definitely come back. So Thanks to Arthur for the invite and Joe and his family for having us.

Oh Hi Thach! He made sure I made it the CORRECT way.

Shabu Shabu

1945 E. 17th St.

Santa Ana, CA 92705

Thomas

“FRSH”

The Friday coming up is Future Tense Fridays! Our good friends over at Zlogblog.com is throwing it and will have FRSH Gear!!! So come out and try to win them because their will be no more. You’ll be wearing a piece of history that was a part of 7 years in the making! Can you believe that so come out and ride!

Thomas

“FRSH”

I really can’t say how much I appreciate everyone who was involved, I can’t even begin to name everyone but you see them on the blog on a daily basis you know who I am talking about. Our staff, like most staffs in the street wear industry worked for pennies. Thats one thing that most people don’t know is when you are seeing peoples blogs and they’re poppin’ bottles the truth is most of them all chipped in with 20 other people to buy that bottle and its a industry wide practice to just be broke and act rich. I will be starting a new personal website where I will still post videos and information about my friends brands and anything related, also I will be documenting my travels and transitions into the next chapter in my life. I will also keep you updated with all of the FRSH crew and what they are up to. I will post that site on twitter so if you want to know it, just follow me @teamfrsh if you aren’t already and I’ll get you guys that link. 

Again thanks so much for your support and I am sorry we couldn’t stretch it out a bit longer for you but sometimes you just gotta move on.

Joe

“FRSH”

I just went and saw Inglourious Basterds the other night. Sure, I’m about a week late but it was still awesome and still deserves to have me recommend it to you. If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to quit putting it off and go see it now! There are a few parts but Lt. Aldo Raine and the Bear Jew more than make up for it!

While I’m on the subject of movies, I also want to show you the preview to another awesome movie that is getting ready to come out.

This is for the upcoming movie, The Men Who Stare At Goats. The movie looks hilarious and if you’re into movies being funny and stuff then I think that you should see it. Whenever I watch the preview I can’t help but be reminded of Burn After Reading, one of the funniest and best put together comedies in recent years. It comes out on November 6th.

Now time for my rant. I was browsing Facebook again today and I came across more pictures of people being idiots. Well, they don’t know that really, since the people themselbes believe that they are actually being really cool or something. Take this picture for example:

Sure, she’s wearing a skimpy little dress and she’s got her cigarette to make her be the shit, but does she really think that it’s cool to pose on a Beatle, at a gas station…in front of a RED BOX? That just screams classy to me. But what, there’s more:

Not to be outdone be her last picture, the girl then decides that it would be an awesome idea to allow her friends to post up pictures of her on the toilet. Again, are people supposed to think anything positive about this scenario?

Fortunately for me, she has no idea that I’m putting these pictures on a blog for the world to see (because everyone in the world reads my posts, right?) but I’m sure she’d be ecstatic to know that her fancy modeling pictures are up on the internets.

I should probably stop now since I’m a wimp and I’m sure that most of the cool facebook cats could beat me up pretty badly.

That it all.

Birdfeed

“FRSH”

I sit here and think to myself “wow alice in wonderland is really singing along to Crunchy Black and Juicy J”. Yeah I know, she ain’t really singing along..

I dont care. This is must see TV.
Click here to view the embedded video.

Bert and Ernie do Casino

Classic Material

This song is still the undisputed champ at the club. How priceless is sit to see your beloved Dora the Explorer recite the words “Pussy Niggaz wanna hit me with the heat, real recognize real, real niggaz dont speak”

This one is my favorite so far. MOP’s Ante Up BERT AND ERNIE STYYYYYLE!!!

My Life is Boring,

-Jide

Stay up G-Unit

Jason T Battle

“FRSH”

With all this fuss about the Mcdonald’s Big Mac vs. Carl’s Jr’s The Big Carl, Jeremy and I had to try it out.  As you know wherever Jeremy eats he says its BOMB–even though its not most of the time. He did throw it in the beginning of our meal but as we got into half of the burger there was just too much meat. Maybe because the meat was charcoal who knows but as a result the Big Carl took the L(Lose) something about Big Mac’s middle bun with the shredded lettuce just adds to it. Sometimes too much meat isn’t all that great right Jeremy?

Thomas

“FRSH”

(Click the Links in this post for further reading on the various topics)

(Also, to make up for people who are going to be offended by this post, I do have some good news for you; now you can recycle your sex toys for credit towards a new one! I hope that helps.)

I’m sure that most of you all have heard about the billboard that PETA recently put up in Jacksonville, Florida but if you haven’t, well then now you have. Check it out above.

Of course this billboard has caused a lot of commotion and has offended many people. But what can you expect in today’s world where people seem to get their panties in a bunch over just about everything (remember the silly Transformers 2 incident?)? To be honest, I’m surprised more people didn’t complain.

Personally, I find this ad to be hilarious and an effective way to get a point across. I mean, let’s be honest…there is DEFINITELY an obesity problem in the US (and most of the world for that matter) and almost everyone could should change their eating habits.

PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman made an intersting comment about the whole situation: “Trying to hide your thunder thighs and balloon belly is no day at the beach.”

I must admit that I giggled after reading this.

Before you all start hating me, let me say that I do agree with many people’s complaints that they could have chosen an advertisement that was a little less distasteful but I DO NOT think that they went too far. People need to get over being offended by everything.

What do you all think? Hopefully I’ll get some comments this time. 

Birdfeed

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