I could watch that guy ride and talk about snowboarding all day and still be stoked. “What is snowboarding? ….who cares?”

glad you liked the pizza and beer. good to see you again.

come to Baldface this March on the Frequency trip so we can shred.

get yr 3-straps and your super 81 all tuned up.

will the aurora borealis really start to be visible in massachusetts soon? that’s going to be awesome. thanks for letting me know.

Figured you, of all people, would have righted yourself with the “state of snowboarding today” versus your own riding.

Hoped that you, of all people, would have understood, if not accepted, as Justin points out, the difference between the athletes and the rest of the world.

You can’t get into the snowboard industry and expect to survive unless to separate your little part of snowboarding from Snowboarding™.

And you can’t get OUT of the snowboard industry and expect to get on with your life unless you do the same.

You took too much time off, and it’s making coming back in that much more jarring.

Even your example of Winter Waves is odd…relatively speaking there’s no difference between stealing a Russian helicopter and buying one. The fact of the matter is that you don’t need a helicopter, bought or stolen, to ride. These people are selling A dream…not THE dream, but one of many. You need to get back to the golf course and the sledding hill and the nose ropes and the porch jumps and the layback log slides on a Super 81.

Don’t believe what they say…sometimes you CAN go home again.

XOXOXO

Cris

everything is pointless.

we only have very basic cable right now, but we have four different channels of public television. i think it’s really the only channel that actually allows you to get more intellegent as you’re viewing it. all the others have the opposite effect. the american experiences, novas, and frontlines are truly great shows. there’s a new frontline about iraq and you see explosions and situations that troops have to deal with that you never see in the news. it makes it seem so much more terrifying and stressful.

i guess it’s hard to tell you not to be so bummed out about the state of snowboarding because i think about how long you’ve been doing it and how close you were to it at the beginnings. popular culture has a tendency to ruin many great things. snowboarding is where it’s at because it’s a very marketable activity. it’s also very popular because it’s one of the best activities that i’ve ever experienced. i’m going to try to ride as many more days as i can until i’m gone.

we pay athletes and entertainers however much money people are willing to give up. they wouldn’t get paid those amounts if it wasn’t feasible for those paying. i thought the experience of going to watch the blazers play was silly when you think about the fact that you could easily pay $100 to watch people playing (at a very medicore level) a sport and getting tens of thousands of dollars a minute. it doesn’t make much sense. i hope you didn’t buy a ticket for that burton movie. you just contributed to a rider’s new “whip.”

i do hope you consumed a pork sandwich and the tater tots.

i also hope you’re very well and enjoying life. sorry for the long post.

get yr azzz up to ski bowl for some night riding.

peace,

J