Jake Phelps persona non grata

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They killed phelps and monk!!!!! Wonder whatever happened to her

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I know I mentioned this before but I saw this woman fall into the deep end of the local skatepark bowl and break her ankle. I called her an ambulance and we hung out until they carried her away. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her that I didn't have one.

I love this whole scene. Thank you. hippocratic oath for message boarders, distant stare in your eyes as they cart her off...hero or enabler, who really knows...

when our kids are with their dad they spend a lot of time in that backwards mossy town. I think about it a couple times a month: "I wonder if they've ever had to interact with that sorceress woman into boardsports conspiracies"...

[TheWineClub]

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Always blows my mind how he managed to maintain respect in the industry. Also Very surprised that people like Rowley etc still speak highly of him but i guess he was thier mate. Thrasher may as well be under the same umbrella as the Berrics for me. All just commercial bullshit

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Regardless what you think of Jake’s persona, I think some people just miss having an editor who wasn’t motivated by the (disproportionately large) paycheck.

So did Burnett absorb Jakes salary and it’s why he gets such a big paycheck ?

[Pete]

Yes. Plus most of Jake’s paycheck was spread pretty thick between all the babysitters finding him drugs all over the world. He wasn’t living lavish because being a functioning fentanyl addict (dosing every 30 minutes compared to maybe a few hours when real heroin bc of the shitty half-life on modern dope) costs alot of money. He didn’t have to use to avoid getting sick, he had the bread to just keep going. The old man must have been slamming a few bags at a time by the time he took that last hellride.

Dude really sucked, but somehow overdosing made him even MORE untouchable and loved because everyone in the silly skate industry wanted to beleive “he just died with a guitar in one hand, a Harley in the other and a confederate flag in the other” or whatever bullshit these idiots that never had to deal with him write on their THE OLD MANS WATCHING bookbags they push around sf wearing.

Rest in peace Van Wastell.



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[radcunt]

So whats the story with the Thrasher paycheck?  how much is it?

[Newphone]

So whats the story with the Thrasher paycheck?  how much is it?

Let’s not get bogged down in #s, it’s too damn much is the point.

[lokuspokus]

The spaniard jaime Mateu punched his face hard  in an after party event,

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

Dude really sucked, but somehow overdosing made him even MORE untouchable and loved because everyone in the silly skate industry wanted to beleive “he just died with a guitar in one hand, a Harley in the other and a confederate flag in the other” or whatever bullshit these idiots that never had to deal with him write on their THE OLD MANS WATCHING bookbags they push around sf wearing.

Rest in peace Van Wastell.



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Motherfuckers still love jay adams (and blood sausage) too

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The spaniard jaime Mateu punched his face hard  in an after party event,

Is this fact or gossip? If fact, why did he punch him?

[ok boomer]

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Dude really sucked, but somehow overdosing made him even MORE untouchable and loved because everyone in the silly skate industry wanted to beleive “he just died with a guitar in one hand, a Harley in the other and a confederate flag in the other” or whatever bullshit these idiots that never had to deal with him write on their THE OLD MANS WATCHING bookbags they push around sf wearing.

Rest in peace Van Wastell.



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Motherfuckers still love jay adams (and blood sausage) too

Here's his version of events on it also..
PB is Dennis "Polar Bear" Agnew. And as far as I am aware... "JB from BR" is Jay Bentley from Bad Religion

"Anyway, we just cruised across the street to hang out on the corner. Then these two homos came walking by hugging and kissing and shit. Of course I had to say something. One of 'em was a tall white guy and his boyfriend was a short, stocky black guy. He must have been the manlier of the two cuz he started talking shit back. They were both walking backwards talking at the same time saying, "Fuck you, punk rock assholes." They were right, we were assholes, and we were out to ruin someone else's night. So we attacked 'em. I kicked the white guy, then the black guy punched me, after that P.B. hit him. He went down knocked out cold. His other friend was standing there looking at him so I ran and kicked him in the face. Now he was down too. So me and P.B. walked away toward our car to bail. The guys who were watching-J.B. from B.R. and this guy Arnel and their whole bunch of friends-started kicking the guys on the ground while they were down. It's really stupid but that used to happen a lot in the punker days. People who weren't involved became involved, like sharks moving in on the wounded. Stupid, huh? Well they beat 'em up pretty bad. I guess somebody got their license number of the car and they got arrested later. They instantly put all the blame on us. So about two days after somebody told me the cops were looking for me. I was thinking, "Yeah right. No big deal. We just beat up a couple of homos. Nothing too bad." 6 o'clock the next morning I'm in bed. I hear a knock at the front door. I look out the front window. Like 10 cops or something. Shit. I yell to my roommate I'm not here and I hide in the closet under the dirty clothes. They come into the room and I can hear 'em. Where's Jay? We know he's here. Look, his bed is warm. Where's he at? My roommate Billy, he's freaking out, told me they got their guns on him. He's just saying, "I don't know where he is." So they check out the whole house. They look right over me, I'm not even breathing, thinking, "Yeah, they didn't even see me." I could hear them going through the rest of the house. Finally about 5 or 10 minutes later this other guy comes in to double check and he finds me. Damn. I thought they weren't going to get me but I guess it's better they did cuz I didn't even know how serious the charges were. I thought we just got into a little fight, nobody's supposed to get hurt, not that hurt anyway. So they take me down to Venice to look for P.B.. They get him too. They take us to the station and charge us with assault. I think I didn't know any better so I told 'em what happened and that's the worst thing you could ever do cuz they ain't out to help you. When you're in police custody the cops hate you. You ain't "innocent until proven guilty"; you're "guilty until you get out of jail"

After I told 'em what happened they recharged us with 187 p.c. MURDER. 25 to life. I couldn't believe it. Life is over; will I ever surf again? Or skate? How old will I be when I get out? Did the guy really die?

We didn't kill him. But no matter what I say I started a fight and a man got killed. It's hard to think about but I don't feel like me or P.B. were at fault. Those other guys kicked him in the head with steal toe boots on and the guy who died never got kicked by us. Well that's what really happened. . .We finally got charged with Assault (felony). 6 months in jail so you do 4 months in jail. That's the truth, the whole truth, so help me god. I don't think that's a cool story but that's the way it was, like it or not. And it's definitely not the way to treat other people. Who cares what people are into? All people should be treated with respect.

[who da thunk it]

Yes. Plus most of Jake’s paycheck was spread pretty thick between all the babysitters finding him drugs all over the world. He wasn’t living lavish because being a functioning fentanyl addict (dosing every 30 minutes compared to maybe a few hours when real heroin bc of the shitty half-life on modern dope) costs alot of money. He didn’t have to use to avoid getting sick, he had the bread to just keep going. The old man must have been slamming a few bags at a time by the time he took that last hellride.

Dude really sucked, but somehow overdosing made him even MORE untouchable and loved because everyone in the silly skate industry wanted to beleive “he just died with a guitar in one hand, a Harley in the other and a confederate flag in the other” or whatever bullshit these idiots that never had to deal with him write on their THE OLD MANS WATCHING bookbags they push around sf wearing.

Rest in peace Van Wastell.



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This is the type of shit I've been waiting for. None of this sweep it under the rug, tip-toeing to somehow respect the family bullshit. Phelps had the spirit, but that was about it (and it seems he was injecting the spirit every half hour or so, so even that is questionable) and it always seemed silly to me that anyone felt the need to "protect" him after he died

[Fartknocker415]

I used to make him ice cream sundaes at st Francis fountain. He used to sit there at the counter and eat them so fucked up on pills. Glasses crooked mouth agape, holding the spoon high up in the air as the ice cream drifts off the spoon and cascades into his gullet. And then sometimes if he wasn’t getting his ass kissed he’d go “do you know who I am??!!”. Definitely also heard him yelling the hard R at Potrero. Loveable fellow.

[jakeumms]

I used to make him ice cream sundaes at st Francis fountain. He used to sit there at the counter and eat them so fucked up on pills. Glasses crooked mouth agape, holding the spoon high up in the air as the ice cream drifts off the spoon and cascades into his gullet. And then sometimes if he wasn’t getting his ass kissed he’d go “do you know who I am??!!”. Definitely also heard him yelling the hard R at Potrero. Loveable fellow.

That's wild. I used to eat so much ice cream when I was thwacked out. It was one of my favorite things to do.

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

He used to sit there at the counter and eat them so fucked up on pills. Glasses crooked mouth agape, holding the spoon high up in the air as the ice cream drifts off the spoon and cascades into his gullet.

shout out to fentanyl for atleast doing some of the lord's work goddamn

[IUTSM]

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I used to make him ice cream sundaes at st Francis fountain. He used to sit there at the counter and eat them so fucked up on pills. Glasses crooked mouth agape, holding the spoon high up in the air as the ice cream drifts off the spoon and cascades into his gullet. And then sometimes if he wasn’t getting his ass kissed he’d go “do you know who I am??!!”. Definitely also heard him yelling the hard R at Potrero. Loveable fellow.

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That's wild. I used to eat so much ice cream when I was thwacked out. It was one of my favorite things to do.

melting all down the hand and shit...

[fergus]

https://sfstandard.com/public-health/the-killer-of-a-skateboarding-legend-went-unnamed-for-years-could-deaths-have-been-prevented/

I haven't seen this article posted too much but it's an interesting albeit sad read.

[Rocuronium]

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I used to make him ice cream sundaes at st Francis fountain. He used to sit there at the counter and eat them so fucked up on pills. Glasses crooked mouth agape, holding the spoon high up in the air as the ice cream drifts off the spoon and cascades into his gullet. And then sometimes if he wasn’t getting his ass kissed he’d go “do you know who I am??!!”. Definitely also heard him yelling the hard R at Potrero. Loveable fellow.

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That's wild. I used to eat so much ice cream when I was thwacked out. It was one of my favorite things to do.

The IHOP I would study at in college would start pulling all the syrup and honey and sugar packets after 11pm because junkies would come in and gobble it all "to lengthen their high". Something about more dopamine released....
You'd only get your syrup if you ordered appropriately. They would ask for one cup of coffee and 8 packs of sugar.. The waitresses called them "rushers".

[ok boomer]

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I always wondered why he bad mouthed Van for being a junkie in that one article I guess it was because he had the same issue. The skateboarding industry really needs to open up about the opiate problem it has and has been having for a long time now.

[j....soy.....]

It could also just be because he was quite opinionated and at times an asshole…..

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

The skateboarding industry really needs to open up about the opiate problem it has and has been having for a long time now.

And it needs to be less centered around the text book glamourous addiction recovery porn-style content---where dudes decide to allow cameras into their lives under the guise of "i'm done drinking cuz that was my whole problem and i'm fixed and like to skateboard now." Some people know better.

[Frank]

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The skateboarding industry really needs to open up about the opiate problem it has and has been having for a long time now.

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And it needs to be less centered around the text book glamourous addiction recovery porn-style content---where dudes decide to allow cameras into their lives under the guise of "i'm done drinking cuz that was my whole problem and i'm fixed and like to skateboard now." Some people know better.

the classic "oh yeah, i'm sober now, i only smoke weed and take opiates to treat chronic pain issues" type sober.