Top 10 Shockers of the past year...or from years before last year

With the coming of the new year, actually were well into the new year but I've been really slacking, comes new beginnings and a chance to reflect on the people and events that helped shape the year of 2009. I've created a best of or a "greatest hits" of sorts in order to celebrate and recognize such events and people in the classic top 10 form.

1. Snowboarding is some what excepted -In an attempt to be taken seriously, snowboarding is inducted into the winter Olympics and the games have never been so stoned or neon colored. For the first time in years, the state of Colorado is pushing out Olympic athletes thanks in part to Satellite board shop, which is a change of pace from pushing out free energy drinks, mediocre skateboarding clips and shitty board graphics.

2. Clay keeps growing his hair- Not to be out shined by the snowboarding news, Clay Kessack continues to grow his long locks of hair and holding a place in the record books of "an Asian guy from Colorado with pretty long hair" amongst our group of friends.

3. Peter hits the 500 mark- Peter Goldberg went big in 09 by smashing his previous record of 410 to a whopping 500 hospital visits in 2009 all from illnesses and disorders completely fictional and insane. From having a bad case of the chronic hungries to a serious tummy ache, Peter battled through 2009 with spirit and intensity of an over mothered man child convinced that his own body is working against itself, which ironically enough sounds like he should get checked out.

4. Dr. Stienburg- Thanks to Peters daily trips to his ER room, Dr. Stienburg has finally saved up enough money to buy that Island he always wanted made completely of gold and diamonds.

5. Katz visits NYC- In what had been rumored many times before, Mike Katz flew not to New Jersey to sit around watching tv but actually straight through to NYC to hangout with friends and drink at bars that are not on Pearl street. When asked about the trip he replied that he had an "ok" time.

6. Rich Duff's his way into 2010- In what's become an on going joke, friends of Rich have come up with the term "Duffing" to describe Rich's behavior. When asked about the new term Rich reportedly ignored the interviewer.

7. RIP Alex Haskin 1989-2006, hello Mcshwilly-In the course of three years Alex or "Mcshwilly" has ran away from home, train hopped to every crappy town in the us, gained 94 pounds from alcohol abuse, suffered a mild heart attack, slept on Pearl street, had one dread lock, became a construction worker and a direct blood relative to gg allin, acquired some pretty terrible tattoos and emits an awful odor. To think all of this could have been avoided if two immature teenagers didn't give him the nick name "suds" and cause him to spiral into an complete oblivion in order to out live the the nickname, all because he could do really good 360 flips and we couldn't.

8. Yabo the inventor- in 2009 yabo invented both Dickie's and Levi 501's, pool skating, frontside grinds, made drinking beer cool, painting boobs, starting a blog, wearing halfcabs and not showering. I know he really likes ground beef now, so I think he invented that as well.

9. Weed is legalized in Boulder-Distribution centers upon up near skate shops that used to sell weed on the hill, which I can only see the business further suffering from trades of skateboard products for weed "products". Local pot enthusiasts Jari and Sean are super hyped, but may be a little too stoned to realize this might effect their business...

10. Unique group of friends keep social network site running- Skateboarders from Denver, Co are literally keeping myspace.com up and running. With nearly every other member leaving the site for facebook.com or even twitter, these determined young men are in for the long haul, along with Tilla Tequilla.