What you are witnessing are the Dee&Ricky x PONY collabo coming out in december. Dee & Ricky are NYC designers/taste-makers and twins!) probably mostly known for designing the Lego heart brouch famously worn by Kanye during his "808" days. Now they are coming out with these bad boys as well as a multicolor low top leopard pair. The ones picture above the canvas is made of velcro and comes with letters to stick on and customize your sneaker. AMAZING! I know these are going to cost an arm and a leg and I probably won't get them, but I'm definitely trying to get back in my PONY game. I was into it heavy in high school.
When I was growing up in New York almost every saturday afternoon was spent at the Skate Key (a roller rink in the Bronk on 138th, right up near Harlem). It was the highlight of my pre-teen life. At times my mother would take me and a number of extended family members. Sometimes I would go with this kid named Troy whom was my best friend at the time and I had a MASSIVE crush on (I didnt tell him this until 2 weeks before I left NY to move to VA, we used to do everything together, we were in the cadets, went bowling, movies, ahhh youth...moving on) Of course it was fun, a lot of people, great music, good times. Well, it was good times. One unassuming Saturday afternoon in 1995 I go to the skate key with my brother, cousin Jennifer and God-sister Chasity. Everything was going fine, I was skating along. All of a sudden I felt some grab me, then they proceeded to push me to the ground and fall on top of me. By the way this was a grown man! So the skate officials clear the floor, I pick up my dignity and move to the bench. I sat down, I felt fine at the time but they said they had to send me to the hospital. That's when I started to freak out. So they put me in the ambulance and I am at the hospital, in the waiting room, by myself, for HOURS. My mom finally shows up and that's when they take me in to examine me. I fractured my right wrist (good thing i guess cause im a lefty) I had a cast and everything. It was pretty cool cause all of my classmates wrote on my cast and I had a story to tell. Needless to say though, we never went back to the Skate Key. Then we move to Virginia in the summer of '97. Around this time we discovered this place called Plaza Roller Rink in Buckroe. On friday nights this was THE place to be. If you weren't at Plaza on friday nights, you were no one! Plaza was the place to go to see your crush, meet up with your friends, put on your freshest FUBU, Nautica, RP55, WU Wear and Tommy Hilfiger gear, and plan to be a part of or watch a fight. Man it was great. Well, it WAS great. Back in the day I used to super duper stunt on them. I always had the "name brand" jeans (that were really from the chinese beauty supply from across the street) the best "name brand" shirts (that my aunt Linda was selling from the trunk) and the dopest pair of Air Force 1's with the coolest colorways (now those were real!) oh with the NY fitted to match. Anyways one xmas my parents got me these Baby Blue Suede low top AF1's with a matching sweater vest(LOL). Those sneakers were my pride and joy and everyone at Lindsay went Oddles a Noodles on em. So one day I go to Plaza with my bestie Shawquana and we switch our sneakers for skates. Me being a dummy I put my brand new sneaks in a cubby instead of a locker. BAD MOVE. The night was fine until I went back to the cubby and seen that my sneakers were not there. I lost it. Mind you at this time (in 1999) I was super hood. Im running all around yelling "WHO THE F@#K STOLE MY SNEAKERS!?" I wound up walking out of Plaza in my socks, my mother yelling at me, and walking on a gravel parking lot. Needless to say I never went back to Plaza. Actually I probably went back twice while I was in high school, but the thrill was gone. One good thing though is that my birthday is not that far from xmas, so I got a new AF1's all gray high tops,
but they were not the baby blue suede joints, ugggh. All in all I had fun as a kid, and I look back at those times fondly. I decided the other day to dedicate a mixtape to my time at the Plaza. It was a time of fun, laughter, questionable fashion and antics and the beginning of my journey here in Virginia. I'm calling the mixtape "Plaza Roller Rink: Class of '98-'99". It should be here soon....enough. Although this post was lengthy I hope you enjoyed it. This was probably the most fun I have had writing a blog post. PS here is a bonus video from my days at the Skate Key
Ok so Hello kitty and Doc Martens are collaborating! I've always wanted a pair of Doc's but they are too rich for my blood. However; I will save up my pennies for these babies.The boots will be making their debut in the fall. They are too friggin dope!
Last Saturday I turnt (yes turnt) 25, go me. The celebration started the night before at Red Lobsters ( yes Lobsters) cause we classy like that. It was my Grandmother, mother, brother and myself. It was nice, I got me some Lobster tails honey! Bright and early on my actual birfday I visited some Dominicans to get my scalp burned and Vietnamese to get hair ripped from my eyebrow region, then I brought me these babies: I like to call them the "Mu Phi's" in honor of Mu Phi Epsilon, Purple and Black, yeah buddy. So after all that saturday evening I prepared myself to go to Norfolk for the Crowd Control Tour feat. Donnis, Izza Kizza, 88Keys, and Kidz in the Hall. This was my birthday suit: So we finally get to Norfolk to see the show. And this is the summary of the show in so many words: About 50 people showed up but every performer put on a show as if it was sold out, I was upset not many people showed, but I had a good time. The best part of the night was meeting Double 0, the producer, DJ and brains behind Kidz in the Hall. He was very cool, and very hot, lawd. So here are some pictures to wrap this post up. All in all it was a cool birthday, yay.
So friday was my day of birth and I turned 24 woohoo. I dont feel 24 but I dont know how a 24 year old is sposed to feel cause I never been 24 so I digress. My mom bought me this sweet a$$ cake as shown above, and it was yummy. So the big plan for the night was me and a couple of people to go out to this place called Jillian's which is basically like Dave and Buster video games and booze equals yes. As always with plans and what you would like to happen they never really follow through. So me and a couple of people just turned into my cousin Alexis and I, which is fine I just wish some more people would have came out. Anyways we went to Jillian's and it was really fun. We ate had some drinks (the bartender gave me a free drink yay!) and afterwards we played some games. At one point we played this one like interactive bowling game and when choosing levels I was a dumb dumb and chose the expert level eventually we got the jist of the game. So around 12:15ish Alexis and I made our way to the Wave for some dancing, some being the operative word here. We went in I got a drank, we danced for like 5 mins, we sat around talked for bout 10 mins then left, we were there like 20 mins. So we went back to hampton and said our goodbye's cause she left to Connecticut yesterday with her BF.Saturday me and the rents went out to dinner for the bdezzy but my brother wasnt there cause he was hanging out with his friend. I got back home and he got me a gift! Check out these babies! Nike Low Dunks Black with powdered blue stitching and check with the gray stripe on the back and a splash of purple on the tongue. These babies are bonanzas! Now I guess I have to be nice to him lol, no im a nice sister, sure I have a mean streak, but im the older sister im supposed to have a mean streak! So all in all it is always good to see another birthday cause we all know its a crazy world, I wish more people would have came out but whatever it is what it is.
So on friday I was planning on going out to Richmond to see my boys Frontside and The Avengers perform. During the day I had the urge to buy some sneakers. In paticular I wanted high top black and red checkered vans. So I go in the mall see these suede black and 'brilliant magenta' Nike SB's so I got those instead Yeah they're sexay. So around 8:30 at night I headed out to Richmond. I got there in about an hour and it took me damn near an hour to find the place. Mapquest is shady as hell son. So I get there and it was like this small japanese restaurant and stuff. It was nice seeing all my peoples reppin Beat it Up all day. Frontside and the Avengers killed it for sure, they did it so hard chicks start the fightin, no really. So around 2 in the morn I drove back home. Was it worth driving to Richmond for a few hours? Yes and no. Yes to see and support my people's no to driving to and from Richmond. If I would have crashed overnight there it would have been better. But it was a friday, that's what friday night are made for eh? I tried, keyword tried to take pics of them performing but yeah, i failed.
