I am in Barcelona right now. It’s fun and if you’ve veer been here you know what I mean! Anyway…It’s been an eventful past few days but tonight was the craziest yet!

Went with my boy Kish to the illest dinner spot. There was hanging Serrano ham and an insane paella! They also had this rotisserie chicken thing happening outside which we passed on.

This isn’t our party but I just wanted to illustrate how large and wild the place was!

This was the hottest kitchen in Barcelona.

I told these guys I was going to write a 1000 words about this picture, but I lied. We all went to the Vice party which was on top of this mountain. While it wasn’t a big deal getting up there, we just all knew it would be a bitch to get back down after a night of partying!

So here we are, its the end of the party and there is no way to get home! No cabs, no more booze and no more fun… or so we thought…

The going back down the mountain crew! I am not even gonna attempt to point them all out, we just need to get home!

That’s right. George Carlin passed away last night at the age of 71.

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker & Tits. R.I.P.

Oh, and best mugshot ever.

What’s up with the grannie chest shot at 01:17?!

3 Desolate teens accused of digging up a corpse and then using the head of the corpse as a bong! Holy fucking awesome!(and GNARLY) METAL!!!!!!!

Yo Ease,

Is this your kid?

This dude plays Guitar Hero.

P.S. There are too many categories. Proceeds from this picture will go to all the charities and benefits found on the bloglin.

P.S.S. Feel free to protest. :D

I discovered Trevor Paglen’s book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World some time ago and picked it up because frankly it was awesome design inspiration. A collection of mysteriouso Black Ops military patches. Patches that looked so ridiculous I just assumed this was a design book that had a slew of artists invent these patches and try to pass them off as real but I didn’t really give it much thought and filed the book away on our office bookcase. Well how wrong I was!

After taking a nasty spill on my bike yesterday afternoon and being forced to spend the rest of the afternoon/evening indoors I comforted myself by flipping through whatever few cable channels I have. And of course at the most unexpected of channels, C-SPAN’s Book TV I found my evening’s entertainment. Trevor Paglen was discussing this very book at a very small reading (even though the book had little to read) at Brooklyn’s Melville House.

I was amazed to find out that all the patches were indeed real and he had been collecting them for quite sometime. Paglen makes his living as a military journalist specializing in reporting on all things that should be classified! So trying to decipher the clues of the symbols and iconography on these patches plays heavily into his reporting! Most of the talk was spent pointing out how certain graphics can easily now be related to recently declassified operations, programs or ships. While others were probably hinting to military programs or organizations still under wraps! It quickly started turning into some real X-Files level shit and was quite eye opening and amazing! If any of this remotely interests you (I know it does most of us at Mishka) then you should check out this book and see if you can catch a repeat of his talk on C-Span’s Book TV. Or better yet just frequent his excellent website for all sorts of details and updates!

Like Mulder… I want to believe!

**UPDATE 4/1/08**

The NY Times has a great article on Trevor Paglen and his patches in today’s Science Section! 

The Japanese government has recently appointed it’s first ambassador of anime, and yes it’s Doraemon! or ‘Ding Dong’ as I know him as. The purpose of this is to help widely promote Japanese animation. So weird but cool, read all about it HERE

So I know it’s a week late and that seems to be the growing trend here but I really really really wanna recap last weekend. So yes, Monster Track was canceled on the internet. That doesn’t mean that the side events were.

Thursday was my weekly event, the Peel Sessions. A bunch of SF and JP cats were in town, including the legendary Shino. We just fucked around all night and learned some new tricks.

Friday was Goldsprints. Rather than explaining the significance of Goldsprints, I’ll let you read the Wiki entry.

I’ve never done this before. I’ve ridden rollers before, but not raced on them. I got a 16.53″ in the 250 meter sprint. Which was 4th for most the night, until some people beat the time. Ultimately I took 6th out of about 80 people.

Saturday was the King Kog side events. Skids, sprints, footdown, trackstands and freestyle. Tony Fast (D.A.R.T) won the Freestyle competition and I got 3rd!

While we were at the Side Events, selected people got a text message with the secret location for Monster Track. To give you guys an idea of what Monster Track was like last year, here’s a Youtube clip and the infamous “Monstertrack in 5 Minutes” video is here.

We didn’t get any pics of the race. It was rainy and nasty out. All I know is Austin [Brooklyn Machine Works] got first, Crihs [6 Racing] got second, Yatika got 3rd and our own Wilis (D.A.R.T) got 4th!

Of course partying ensued at the Wreck Room in Bushwick and we woke up Sunday to head out to the track for Cyclehawk’s VeloCity. Kissena Velodrome brought in about 80 people to race in traditional track races. There was a Messenger heat, a New Jacks heat and a City Bikers heat. Overall we all had a lot of fun. It was about 35 degrees out with 20mph headwinds between turn two and turn three.

It was my first time racing at a track. I got 2nd in my heat. Luke Stiles (D.A.R.T), the fucking trackstar finished first in multiple events and got 2nd overall.

Thanks to Jose Martinez, Demoncats and Blake for the pics and Jacobs from Boston for the MT .gif!

My homeboy Erock just sent me this excerpt from an Ohio newspaper. I’d like to know what exactly the perpetrator in this crime was thinking when he not only started videotaping a dude jacking off, but then proceeded to feed ’shrooms to the dog. Were they magic mushrooms? Was the dude tripping out himself? Was it a hi-8 or digital camcorder? Is it possible that this video could end up on youtube? Or better yet, redtube?

Dennis (Glamnation) put it best when he said “thats the kinda criminal peeps should aspire to be.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Fun times coming in Brooklyn!

It’s Funny and very sad that just yesterday I was talking about Bully and recommending it as Larry Clark’s best film, and today Brad Renfro is sadly dead. Besides Bully he gave was also in Ghost World & Apt Pupil, all of which are great watches.

This is ridiculous…

Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said. Rest of the story here.

Hello, so we’re back and running. You may have noticed the lack of posts this past week and a slew of glitches here and on our site. The reason for those was that we chose to update to new servers this past week. With so much focus already on the Warehouse Sale and Christmas coming up, we felt that this would be the best time for some scheduled downtime.

Unfortunately, we lost about 2 days of posts during the move, some really awesome ones by Prolly (which perhaps he’ll re-post), photos from the 10 Deep Christmas party, info on the new Doombox and I forget what else! We also lost a few photo sets from our gallery. Our online shop is also experiencing a few glitches which shall be resolved soon along with International and domestic shipping rates.

Stand by as we try and bring back those missing posts and a host of new ones over the next couple of days!

So, my boys alerted me that Kanye West went into Trackstar and bought a Cinelli Vigorelli frame. 6 hours later, he’s getting skidding lessons from the DQM guys.

Just sayin…

Why is Marc Jacobs against camel toes? I have no damn clue, i find em quite intriguing dammit. ” Hey Hoe Hey Hoe Lemme See Ya Camel TOEEE!!!”

I was doing my daily blog browsing and peeped TMZ when I came across another passing of a legend

I may not know much about Ike aside from the fact that he was married to Tina Turner and had her on smash, but it’s sad to see him go. What’s the world gonna be with one less drug-addict/wife beater? Word is he died in his sleep which is better than dying from Tina receiving some payback, or did she?

You’ve been waiting for it and now it’s in. Holiday cut and sew is now in the Mishka Pop-Up and is shipping to other accounts around the globe. We have it first so come cop.

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