Fire’s best friend
by Ryan Fudger | Sep 23, 2008 |
About a year ago, October of 2007 actually, about 2,000 homes burned up all around southern California. I sat there watching the news (from Florida, at the time), twiddling my thumbs thinking about empty pools. Yes, yes, houses in shambles, lives ruined, families torn apart…all that, too. Right. As things died down, my friend Paul Alessio went around scoping pools and marking spots on maps, but it was still way too early. Cars burnt down, foundations at every spot, nosey people driving by every minute or two (we weren’t nosey, just motivated)?it was still too early then, and even a small part of me felt like an asshole crawling through people’s burnt lives. I went back again a week or two later with my girlfriend, but it was still more of the same. Fast forward about ten months and schralp-dog Dean kicks Paul into overdrive, and with my little map and a web-link of every burnt down house (with associated Google satellite link, too), they went and found a bunch of pools. Then a couple weeks later I went down and reaped the benefits of all their work with Francis Delapena. I’ve been trying to get this blog done for two days and haven’t found the time, so I’m over it. Here’s some photos of the day. We rode eight pools, by the way. There’s probably a couple hundred of them lurking around…
I got a new technology box, so timing on a few snaps is pretty off. I didn’t feel like being a real photographer…besides, this is a blog, it’s supposed to have bad photos in it.
Annnnnnnnnd, Vegas.
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DELAPENA! DELAPENA! DELAPENA!
September 24th, 2008 on 4:13 pm[...] Ryan Fudger and Paul Alessio let me tag along on a pool riding expedition. We rode a handful of pools that day, which is a very rare thing since they’re usually pretty hard to come by. Anyway, he wrote up a little blog post about it on the Ride site. Read about how it came to be. [...]
September 24th, 2008 on 5:26 pm
that was amazing. This should be in the mag. So sweet.
September 24th, 2008 on 7:15 pm
The bean and I were lucky enough to do the same in San Bernardino when we were working at Point X camp back in 04′. There was a huge fire that took out several neighborhoods and we rode as many pools as the daylight would let us. It was sad and awesome at the same time. The thing is most of the houses were in the hills and those people were fucking rich and we’re probably staying in their winter homes while the new one was being built, so fuck it get a sesh while you can. Great post Ryan! Every pool brings a story.
September 26th, 2008 on 8:41 pm
From the ashes…
Sincerely,
John Dale
September 28th, 2008 on 9:28 pm
What a well thought-out, informative and entertaining piece…..if your readership happens to be in the coveted 5 to 8 consumer age demographic! The only half-interesting points you made in this piece of shite are that fire’s hot, and don’t ride pools in burned-down houses too early. Nothing I didn’t already know. I agree with Ben, though. This should be in the mag. Ryan’s ass-ramblings on colored glossy are never any better than this, so you can kill two billion brain cells with one stone, right?
For anyone that’s tired of being pandered to and treated like a blithering idiot turd with eyes who wants to read a decent pool riding article, check one out that I wrote at http://www.psychicflyingmonkey.com/new%20pages/aseasonforpoolsarticle.htm just like Ryan did a couple months ago. (Bonus article info: I haven’t ridden Ryan Fudger’s Vagina yet, but I will after I clean it out. It is so, so stanknasty.)
Up yours, Ryan!
September 30th, 2008 on 7:53 pm
oh man not this again. Why? Why? Why? I guess for me being an outsider and an acquaintance of both of you, this is humorous at times. But, it always ends up going too far.
October 1st, 2008 on 3:36 pm
Thanks for your thoughts, Jason. I found them entertaining as always.
October 2nd, 2008 on 10:35 pm
Of course you found them entertaining, Ryan. It’s too bad you haven’t the ability to entertain me or anyone else, though. In fact, the only creative bone you’ve ever had in your body is that one time when you pulled down your pants and “accidentally” shuffled backwards into Naked Gonz.
October 3rd, 2008 on 1:19 am
See too far, I told you.
October 3rd, 2008 on 2:29 am
I really just love the idea of you pounding away at your keyboard. How’s your hate-you-mentry coming about me?
Don’t sweat it, Mike. I stopped caring about anything Jason does/says since he actually baited me into responding on SWBMX.
October 3rd, 2008 on 4:00 pm
Yeah I saw that one too. you guys should do one of those rap battle things and I’ll host it on my site.