"Can somebody give Luke a ride home?"
This is the story of the slow steady demise of my good friend Luke Broussard. Luke has been known to hit the bottle every now and again. On April 12th of this year, Luke woke up and began drinking. somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd 24 pack of pabst he decided that he was going to switch heel flip Trevi.


We got to the spot and Luke was feeling good.






After rolling up for about 45 minutes he flails the first attempt.


He landed weird and was flopping around on the ground holding his foot. We all kind of laughed thinking he was drunk and being dramatic.


He got a little upset at us for not taking him seriously.


This went on for about another 45 minutes.




Rorey, being the tender individual that he is, finally gave Luke the attention he needed.


And so it began. Without the one thing that distracted Luke from drinking, things went down hill real fast.


Several days later the foot was still looking rough, but he didn't have health insurance so he couldn't go to the hospital.


So he went to acupuncture instead.






The acupuncture helped ease the pain for a little bit, but once that wore off Luke turned to the therapeutic needle that never fails... No not heroin.


I don't think you are supposed to drink and get tatoos, but your not supposed to drink and drive either and that's never stopped him from doing that, so I guess it's straight.


Luke has gotten about 8 tats in the past 4 months.




This tattoo is supposed to represent everything that's wrong with Luke's skateboarding. You will have to have him go into the details for you.


I think this one is my favorite. Otis is the man.


Just another day in the life.








Most of the destruction happens after dark and I never have my camera out then, so I don't know if I have properly documented the extent of Luke's belligerence, but I think you get the idea.
Luke is still unable to skate and is still holding the tittle of "Asheville's drunkest dude" despite the honorable efforts by such people as Brunt, Molnar, Dylan, etc.
Get well soon Homie... Welcome to the Push team!
Posted on 04 Jul 2008 by mike
The mild midwest
I took a road trip out to Missouri with Kristen and her family for Kristen's grandparents 50th anniversary. We took two cars.


I started reading "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac during this trip. Our trip was kinda like that, but we only made it a third of the way.
Elliot (Kristen's brother) drove the "kid car".


When we got to St. Louis the first thing we did was went to the zoo. This Amish kid shunned me cause I was using technology and they are not down for that. I guess contraceptives fit into that category too.




I was hoping the giraffe would lean down and kiss the bird on the head. I could have totally one upped that famous shot of the giraffe kissing its baby. Whatever, I'm not patient enough for nature photography... not even in a zoo.






We were trying to find our way to the Elephants lord of the rings steez.


Gandalf even showed up and fought off some dragons to help us out.


And Kristen was bummed cause she lost her battle ax.


We went to the arch but it was raining.


We didn't even get out of the car.


It rained a lot and the Mississippi got really high.


After eating some ice cream and more of Kristen's grandparents food (not the anniversary grandparents, different ones) we headed to Columbia Missouri where everyone was hustling to get ready for the event. Kristen's mom was making hula skirts for their performance.


Kristen's needed a little more in the back.


They had a practice session in the basement. Samantha Mae and Alma were the only ones who actually knew how to Hula dance.


Grand kids chillin'.


I find four leaf clovers a lot.


This would be Kristen's album cover if she was on some Enya shit.


This would be Kristen's album cover if she was on some Marilyn Manson shit.


This bridge was just across from the Casino that the event was at.


You had to shimmy up a tree to get up to it and walking on it was pretty sketchy.










I told Simon to not look gangster and this is the face he made.


Whenever I decide that Simon is looking too gangster, I just take a picture of something else.


The last night was the anniversary party.


This is Kristen's grandmother aka lola.


I didn't shoot much because there was an open bar and there was some other guy shooting so I figured I'd let him cover it.
Posted on 02 Jun 2008 by mike

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