badmigraine

Pet hate: I like pets in general actually. Somebody had to say it, just so we can get on with this thread!

Heh, just trying on an Xtreme opinion for size to generate some discussion and more posts. I don't mind an onslope rail here and there (on a rental board!). I do think riding flatland staircase rails where there is no snow (they bring in a couple buckets of it for the takeoff and landing) looks, well, stupid. After reading Ocean's post I had a look at this month's Snowboarder mag. Sheesh! He's right. Almost every snowboarder is flying...not a little off the ground, but soaring way overhead against a backdrop of sky and clouds. I wonder why nobody has yet sued the manufacturers for mi

Isn't this "X-treme" thing just about 20 notches past played-out at this point? Is anyone else as bored and cynical as I am about yet another Mountain Dew - Chevy Truck - PlayStation 2 - ESPN corporate marketing fair that dupes ten or twenty more amazing riders into blowing out their knees, and tells the latest generation of impressionable kids that the "Dude Bro Brah" big air huck-and-spin and rail-riding scene is the ultimae shizz-nit to which they can aspire? I watched a lot of the X Games live net feed and when you see that much of it all at once the whole thing appears as a cari

Hey NoFakie I'm just starting to info-up on alpine boards, so I don't yet know what is good, bad and/or tweakworthy... I wonder if somebody else on this board has good first-hand info on this topic? After learning about the boards, I'll move on to the bindings and the boots. The bigger companies (i.e. Burton) are phasing out of, or have already quit, making alpine stuff. Their main market sweet spot has become wannabe-corestyle kids/teens of suburban parents who'll drop $1000 on gear to set up a PS2 junkie rail/big air punk. Good for them. Keeps them off the real slopes whe

I've seen brownish blast holes in the snow in Japan, just like the ones you describe. They are normally caused by Mogski's post-prandial flatulent discharges. I believe Mogs' gaseous effluent itself is what causes big air jumpers to flap their arms in the "rolling down the car windows" motion. They are vainly attempting to get some fresh and breathable air at the apex of their trajectory.

In my opinion, Italy is the best country. They have everything. A jaw-droppingly beautiful land, eons of history, fantastic food, style, attitude... If Italy was loaded with Shibuya girls, I would never leave the place! By the way, are there any Italians on this board? I'd love to know where to ride in Italy. I've only seen magazine articles about how rich people go to Cortina d'Ampezzo, but there must be great little towns where one can stay cheap and ski advanced terrain. The Alps? Dolomites? Si parla italiano.

You can talk to Mogski about the special kind of bum sliding he does with his girlfriend...

I hear you Ocean, the soul element really matters. And you don't find it in a hardboot-plate binding-racing board setup. But on the other hand, part of me wants to go faster and faster and carve sharper and deeper...while still being able to hit the moguls and powder and tree runs. I was a skier for almost 20 years, before I took up snowboarding. You can ask Mogski for confirmation, but I think my favored terrain and style of boarding is more what you'd expect from a skier than a born snowboarder. That explains the speed and the moguls. That explains my high stance angles (33 front,

Another name for it is "insulation".

That's because none of you has seen how she unzips those bumps faster than a porn star unzips her black latex rubber catsuit...and sucks up the hump smoother than a honey-lubed piston!

It only happes for about 6 hours each day... I had it going all day...it ended about 2 hours ago. It's 6:13 p.m. in Colorado, man! They don't do the Winter X Games in the dark. Try again around 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Colorado time. Japan's 16 hours ahead of Colorado, so that's 2 a.m. to 8 a.m., Japan time. I think.

For a taste of true smooth Italian espresso, try Lavazza espresso mix in a proper maker. Or go to the Lavazza Cafe near the intersection of Meiji-dori and Omotesando-dori in Tokyo. My brother's Brazilian co-worker gave him some real Brazilian coffee...it was called "Tres Coracones". She said Brazilian coffee never tastes right unless you actually buy it there, then bring it over. Maybe the export mix or beans are different. When I drank a cup of this stuff, it was a like a new drug to me...and this from a man who often starts the day with a triple espresso. This stuff was amazi

Almost too good to be true... I spent most of today watching it happen on my computer screen...men's ski slopestyle, women's boardercross prelims... X Games live feed on the Net for YOU You get to hear the announcers swearing and talking to each other and re-doing botched commentary over replays. You get to see almost all contestants and rounds, not just the edited few prime-time runs in the finals. The live feed only works during the daily competition, Colorado time (subtract 16 hours from Japan time to get it). At other times you can still view archived feed from

Yeh...my vote is "Anybody seen Cheeseman?"

Any coffee that I am drinking right now.

How can we mere mortals--we obscenely bulging, rutting bags of fluids leaking the gases of corruption from more than one hole...mere pipes of flesh ramming in dead flesh and vegetation at one end, then blowing it wetly out the other--how can we even begin our worship prior to any divine apparition? What does it all mean? What is meaning itself, what is "is"? What is "what"..? And we cry out in the darkness. O what transcendent being will appear to guide our pathetic slavering lives?

Many have reported good results after keeping slices of cheese warm and soft in their underpants while on the snow.

Would it help to eat more cheese during the work week..?

20 minutes from sick Alpine Valley, located right in the center of Carhartt territory. http://www.skialpinevalley.com/ I'm trying to track down the perfect used snorkel parka, jeans/snow gaiters look in surplus stores around here. The preferred look is to bomb straight down the hill on rental or garage-sale skis, bent/lit Marlboro Red in your mouth, with dirty parka unzipped to reveal a can of Budweiser in the breast pocket.

Here's a Quicktime vid clip of the Canadian Freeskiing Champeenships held at Whistler on January 11. It's a larger download...the payoff is about 3 minutes of play time including music. Apparently the conditions were awful. Whistler's snowpack is low this year and everything is hard ice and rocks showing through. Bad light made it even worse... I read on another thread that one of the skiers took a bottle of blue Powerade up to pour on avalanche rubble in one of the runouts, uh to make it easier to see... A French skier won it all. The line that Daisuke Sasaki took made me chok

Marz, the answer to your prayers: http://www.townsquare.jp/ Click on Beer House in the middle of the page, then sigh in anticipation of the foamy payoff... You can toggle the whole site to English by clicking the word "English" on the very upper right of the screen. Some fine brews indeed!! They sell snacks too for those as likes to eat with their drinking.

Yeh Ocean...it's liver damage! Just finished din, now off to board all 150m of Alpine Valley. It is dumping in Michigan!! Over 2cm today alone... All hail great Ullr!!

I can't beat 507... Addictive PC Game

Probably even less of you will believe that the first time I saw her, she was in a skimpy black bikini, hanging out at Fuller Pool in Ann Arbor. She had transferred in from New York and was living in the Markley Dorms for the summer session. Had lunch with her and she talked about water fights in the dorm and some other stuff. Sorry to disappoint, but it never went further than a couple of lunch dates. And now comes the part even fewer of you will believe: I lost interest in her because I met a much better girl.

I doubt many will believe it, but I dated Lucy Liu in the late 80's, when I was a law student, and she an undergrad, at the U. of Michigan