check this Mag Minute out.
Dude has some skills.
http://theskateboardmag.com/watch/nick-dompierre/
late.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
MONDAYS SUCK
This is the first Monday of the new year... we should still be keeping up with our "resolutions" and still working out, not smoking and only eating "healthy foods", right? Well, most of us are keeping up and some of us have fallen off the wagon.... it's not to late to start over.
This edition of MONDAYS SUCK is about the current economic status of the action sports industry... namely Skateboarding.
This was quoted from an industry business website that I like to look at.
December 30, 2008 09:02 AM
"December has been a brutal month for the industry, and for all of retailing, as several key reports released today and this week show.
It was the worst Christmas week for retailers since 1970. Consumer confidence is dropping, not reviving, as some economists predicted as recently as yesterday. And a new report predicts that 73,000 more stores will close in the next six months...."
(If you need the source of this information, send me an email and I will give you the link.)
Just based on this comment alone, you gotta wonder how in the world any businesses will last. Just the other day I saw that Applebees, here in town, closed their doors. I can name at least a handful of "local businesses" that have closed there doors in the past month or so. It sucks. They poured their heart and soul into it... and they gotta shut down.... total bummer.
Why is my blog just doom and gloom?
Well... unfortunately it is reality. Turn on the news, read a newspaper, look what's going on in the world. People are getting "downsized" and layed-off. Real Estate is in the tank. Even giant corporations are in trouble and closing down... Circuit City just closed a week and a half ago and the auto industry is looking for the government to bail them out. That alone, pisses me off... why do they get help and the little "mom and pop" stores and restaurants don't get any help?
Basically the answer to that is: if there are no big companies are around, then that means less jobs and no money to spend at the little mom and pop places.... it's deeper than that; but that's the short answer.
With that said, it is more and more difficult for the little guy to stick around. Mostly it's because there is no loyalty anymore (I'll save that topic for a different blog).
Admit it. You shop where you can get it for less... not where you know you'll get good service. Wal-mart is loving the economic woes.... people are flocking to the "cheap" guy.
Now that the rant is out of the way.
The weather should hold up great this week. So... go ride that skateboard!!!
Ride it because it's what you are.
Ride it because it's what you do.
Peace.
This edition of MONDAYS SUCK is about the current economic status of the action sports industry... namely Skateboarding.
This was quoted from an industry business website that I like to look at.
December 30, 2008 09:02 AM
"December has been a brutal month for the industry, and for all of retailing, as several key reports released today and this week show.
It was the worst Christmas week for retailers since 1970. Consumer confidence is dropping, not reviving, as some economists predicted as recently as yesterday. And a new report predicts that 73,000 more stores will close in the next six months...."
(If you need the source of this information, send me an email and I will give you the link.)
Just based on this comment alone, you gotta wonder how in the world any businesses will last. Just the other day I saw that Applebees, here in town, closed their doors. I can name at least a handful of "local businesses" that have closed there doors in the past month or so. It sucks. They poured their heart and soul into it... and they gotta shut down.... total bummer.
Why is my blog just doom and gloom?
Well... unfortunately it is reality. Turn on the news, read a newspaper, look what's going on in the world. People are getting "downsized" and layed-off. Real Estate is in the tank. Even giant corporations are in trouble and closing down... Circuit City just closed a week and a half ago and the auto industry is looking for the government to bail them out. That alone, pisses me off... why do they get help and the little "mom and pop" stores and restaurants don't get any help?
Basically the answer to that is: if there are no big companies are around, then that means less jobs and no money to spend at the little mom and pop places.... it's deeper than that; but that's the short answer.
With that said, it is more and more difficult for the little guy to stick around. Mostly it's because there is no loyalty anymore (I'll save that topic for a different blog).
Admit it. You shop where you can get it for less... not where you know you'll get good service. Wal-mart is loving the economic woes.... people are flocking to the "cheap" guy.
Now that the rant is out of the way.
The weather should hold up great this week. So... go ride that skateboard!!!
Ride it because it's what you are.
Ride it because it's what you do.
Peace.
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