Yearly Archives: 2004

The park is closed today, dawgs. Better strap on that snowboard! Ha!

What was meant to happen many moons ago, is now official as of yesterday, Mike Langen has been added to the Tiki roster. Are you thinking “Who?”

Mike is also known as Crazyhorse round these parts. All it took for us to snag him was an offer of three Caribou skins, and six bowls of bannock. We had to add some color to the team, as Fernandez doesn’t really count as color. Welcome to the team, homeboy.

Thanks to everyone who spent their hard earned cash down here at the Tiki Room this year. We appreciate your business, and know how much you guys hate the big corporate scum, right Cee-cee? Ha! In all seriousness, you, the Tiki Room customer, are one bang-up individual. Give yourself a pat on the back.

The most recent addition to the Reverse Scavenger Hunt: teriyaki chicken with no mushrooms, two scoops of sauce and chopsticks from Edo in the Cornwall Centre. Also, if you come in with a West 49 bag, we will be squirting you with a watergun full of piss and bleach. Ha ha! Merry Christmas!

The Reverend Owl has added his Scavenger Hunt picks. Add these to the list, boys:

-copy of the Astro Boy game for Game Boy Advance
-”Purple Rain” on VHS
-Air Horn
-Your cute sisters underwear, delivered by her
-copy of “Classic Queen”
-Footage of James Harvey
-Salt N Pepa TAPE “Hot Cool + Vicious”
-A skate video C-Mac doesn’t own
-1 Case of Bud Light
-Video Evidence of Kool Aid landing a trick
-framed photo of B.G.
-Bannock
-Dubbed Copy of 101 “Snuff”
-Fake Rolex
-Autographed Donald Narcisse Card

Any 3 of these gets someone a copy of “Tha Block is Hot”, only 5 known copies in circulation.

Rumor has it that if you are the first on to bring a bag of Dad’s Goodie Rings to the Tiki staff on Boxing Day, you may get something special. We’re not sure what yet, though. Also on the “Boxing Day Reverse Treasure Hunt” list: a 2L of Hawaiian Punch, photos of Fernandez from his birthday party, an original copy of Video Days, a full pack of Matinee Slims Extra Mild, a bag of elastics specifically for braces, a pair of size 10 garment leather I-Path Grasshoppers, a pair of size 10 black/white/red I-Path Grasshoppers, evidence of our missing tree, Mario’s original rap CD (not the new one), an autographed photo of Michael Jordan, evidence that Noel actually skates, a burnt CD of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (but from vinyl- not from the CD), photos of backwards skate logo tattoos, brass knuckles, a Fin-s-tix doorag, Trent Moen, an original Spice Girls tour shirt from 1998, a Wu-Tang skateboard deck, an H-Street coffee mug, a “Bo Knows” t-shirt, warm cheese and bacon perogies with a plate and fork, Scooby-Doo meets the Harlem Globe Trotters on VHS, the first Tiki Room t-shirt ever produced, a Limpies hip pack, a 12 pack of cooked samosas from India House, a pair of es Chad Muska shoes, a piece of marble taken from “the Hole”, and a VHS (or beta) copy of the TV show Switchback with the Terry Fox drawing contest draw. There may be more stuff added to the list tomorrow. The person who brings in all of these items can have the keys to the store.

I was wondering where Noah had been all of this time. Fook ya, Holmes. Hope that was fun. Shit- I know it was fun.

Pinball sighting today!

There hasn’t been piss in the alley in weeks. I wonder if all of the guys who normally do that sort of thing read The Throwaway?

Quotes of the Day
“My son has a few things on his list. The first thing is Block Parent Tha Block is Hot. Do you have that?” – a mom on the phone

“Your copies of North2 are leaving today.” – Val from Centre

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS

Fern-diggity, and the Marteezy.

Keep it hustle, boys.

100% WENDT

Happy holidays from the entire Tiki crew including the most recent, but likely not last spawn of the Tiki Alumni, Koston.

MEMORY LANE #8

Judging by the shoes, I’d say this was 1997. The runway for this is pretty small. Everyone used to skate this church. Now there is a skatepark and skateshop within a two block radius of it. Who would have known. Ollie. Noel Wendt.

Quote of the day
“Indeed!” – Noel

MEMORY LANE #7

This was the winter of 1996/97. I think I was just fucking around taking photos in the store when one of the little groms that always hung out there happened to be a subject of one of my photos. How would I ever know that I’d still know him years later, getting obscure emails from him with photos attached of him in snorkel gear with some interesting plants behind him. Crunk-dog-Dana.

Quote of the day
“Woah! I had that board!” – Mario amazed after seeing a Tony Hawk skull and cross deck in the Disposables book

The Regina music industry follow-up:
The return of Sneernichiballs throws signals of hope! Here are the pics I had promised days ago: the first being that of Sernich Downey Jr. with front man for indie music giants Husker Du (now defunct).

Most of you youngins will be saying “Like, huh?”, but most of us old cats are thinking, “Woah, that’s crazy.” They had a song in some old skate flick called Video Days.

Now here is some really crazy shit. Nothing against Bob Mould, but this DWARFS the shock value of the previous photo.

Click the label above to be enlightened with the photos of Dr. Fernandez (the Godfather of the Eleventh Hour) and his recent expedition to Saskatoon in search of the Godfather of Soul himself, “the hardest working man in show business”, Mr. James Brown. We shit you not.

MEMORY LANE #6

The SkateCowboy. Ev’s ramp. Somewhere around ’97. The ramp actually used to be in the Moose Jaw indoor park that was run by the city of Moose Jaw in the late 80′s/early 90′s. Ev got it for a few hundred bucks. I always feel sorry for the coping on the other side of the ramp when I look at this photo. Look at the beat-down glare.

Quotes of the day
“Steve. What a fag.” – BGA

“Merry Christmas!” – James Brown after handing a glass of Dom Perignon to Danny Fernandez that James Brown himself poured

News from the Regina music industry:
Could we be providing you with documentation of a prominent member of Regina’s skate and hip-hop scenes with THE prominent member of soul music and tax evasion? Oh shit. Are we pulling your leg? Time will tell.

Sneernichifeet dropped us a photo of himself with a prominent 80′s indie musician the other day. Who Du you think it could be? We’ll let you know another day. From what we’ve heard, the Despistado guys will be home in a few days anyway due to Yoko Ono or some shit like that. Seeing how Sernich was the fifth Despistado anyway, this wasn’t a surprise to us.

MEMORY LANE #5

Cmac. The Moose Jaw private park, in it’s first inception, sometime in the late nineties. Note the DVS Sheffey’s, the Droors mesh jersey, and the Element board when the team was actually good. Cmac ain’t fuckin’ around.

Quotes of the day
“This guy sucks.” – Jenn while watching Billy Marks’ part in Good and Evil

Sernich Downey Jr. dropped us a line a few days ago, rubbing it in our faces that he is living the rock star dream, touring the States, meeting skanks at every stop, and skating one of the holy grails of skatespots.

MEMORY LANE #4

Mario. What can be said. Look at the little dude. Does he even have hair on his legs? The Strombolies are dope though. Summer 1998.

Quotes of New Year’s Eve 2002
“I’m so fucking charming, it’s unreal!” – Kater

“I would love to drink with a donkey.” – Noel

“Jules you fucking freak!” – Noel regarding Jules’ fingers

“I’m going to be wasted.” – Noel
“Thhhhhaaaaatttaaa girl!” – Kater

“Me and jizz are like this!” – Jenn with her fingers crossed

Damn. A few circumstances have left us away from the updates for a few days. The suspence was killing you wasn’t it? Well the bomb droppin’ will be done over the next few days. First up: a collaboration of minds has brought the best park clip that Regina has ever done saw. The “Honktown Indoor Buckdown” was submitted by none other than the Reverend Owl himself with financial backing from the former pro athlete, the Almighty Boy Genius (of the The 442nd Regimental Combat Team). To conserve our damn bandwidth, download the link to your disk, and watch it from there, as opposed to downloading it 30 times. Really, we’re rolling in something, but it sure isn’t money. Washed up ball players don’t earn much these days.

Shift-click, right-click or do whatever your computer does to download this to your computer. Virus free, guaranteed!

You had better believe there will be some quotes coming from the weekend. Likely some photos of a certain staff member whose name is like that of a pickle, who was damn pickled on Saturday night.

MEMORY LANE #3

Remember when Lakers wasn’t a whiny bitch? Neither do we. Corey is an OG park loc. Circa whenever C-mac and Gentles worked the park at the same time. Likely 1999.

Quotes of Last Week
“You are the worst and everest piece of junk.” – Noah to Noel

“Don’t WERD me!” – Corny to Noel

“Who’s that handsome devil?”
“Who? HYNX?”

“… and that better not be a quote on the Tiki website.” – C-mac

A huge bomb will be dropping late tomorrow in this column. We’re talking, mother fuckin’ HUGE. Stay tuned.

Why the hell haven’t you signed up for the skatepark info registry yet? I’m gonna start naming names. Do you want a new park or not, you little whiner?

MEMORY LANE #2

You likely saw this picture thinking, “Wow. Fernandez looks young there.”
Guess what. This picture has nothing to do with Fernandez at all. See the log he’s tre flipping over? The Log was a mainstay at the indoor for a long time. Here’s to The Log. Echo Lake, circa 2000

Quotes of the day
“People like you make the world a horrible place to live in.” – C-mac to Jared

“I just wanna punch someone.” – C-mac eating DQ

“I love Mario. If he were here, I’d hug him.” CH

“Is your brother any good at rapping?” – Wyatt to Scotty

“If I go back to school, I wanna be on some marine biology shit.” – Funky Fernando

“Yo, Jules! Would you tattoo shit on my dick if I asked you to?” – Fernandez

Esquivel is one bad mother fucker.

MEMORY LANE #1

Eggerman. EMB, 1996.

Quotes of the day
“Saskatoon skateboarders are whiny bithces.” – Owen Woytowich