On tonight’s episode of LOR, our sk8r boi played the part of encouraging big bro, forgiving friend, and, uh, himself on Jay Leno:
Oh my god. How happy am I to have that stinking Razor scooter out of my house?! Man, I never thought I’d see the day that Kane would stay on a skateboard for more than two minutes, and now you can’t even get him out of his helmet. Kano being so excited about skating came at the exact right time. While I was all up in this drama since Casey and Tay’s breakup, my little brother is falling in love with skating. Turns out that Mom was taking the spider monkey to Vans every week. Kane’s still getting the basics down, but I swear he’s picking it up fast. The kid did a pop shove-it on his first try and he’s close to landing a kickflip, I can feel it. And I’ll be right there to see him grow as a skater and help him along.
Oh, and to the person who bought Kane’s broke down, crappy little Razor (I know who you are). Are you kidding me right now? It’s a scooter. It got beat up by an eight-year-old. You paid $100 bucks for that thing? Please do me a personal favor when you get it – trash the damned thing. I offered Kane $20 to buy it so me and Shane could set it on fire, but he said no. So now it’s on you to finish the job. I have a hundy waiting for you if you prove you trashed it.
For anybody wondering where me and Casey really are since the gnarliest fight we’ve had in a long time, we are good. No need to change the opening to the show – Casey most definitely is still in the house. We are still friends. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s done. I wish I could say the same about the mess I was dealing with after he and Taylor broke up. Most people probably get a little room to breathe and get themselves together after a big breakup. But when you’re as close as we all are and you keep seeing each other around it gets weird. Our group is tight, but if one person’s messing up the flow for everybody else, that person might need to be phased out. For a while, that person was Taylor, but she’s just a chill girl to have around. Casey keeps telling me that he and TB are friends and I have to believe him, right? C-Feit’s about to move into a house with me and we’ll see if he can still be chill with having Tay around.
Being up in L.A. was just the break I needed. Don’t get me wrong, going on Leno was stressful. Jay was totally cool, even if they didn’t want the cameras from the show in there. I’ll admit, I was a little nervous. It was like 3 o’clock and it really hit me how many millions of people watch his show and it’s live and you don’t want to sound like an idiot, so I was trippin’ a little bit. More than on Seacrest because you don’t really see the audience. But on Leno, you see the people in the crowd and my head knew how many people would be watching. I had fun and it was cool to watch the show later with my family and friends.
After this crazy week, I promised that I would make more time to just skate. No cameras. No drama. Just me and my board. When I went up to Los Angeles, I got to hang with Jereme, Hoops, and even though you didn’t see him, P-Rod. We skated in this sick warehouse space that Paul has and Hoops was right there covering it all. We were even hanging with Jereme’s brother, Kane. Good name, right? When we went out for sushi, Jereme did the funniest thing, he ate this like, tempura popper thing. It was jalapeno inside and he wasn’t ready for it. We all laughed, but then Jereme bet Hoops he couldn’t eat three of those things. Hoops took the bet when money showed up on the table and Jereme was harassing him the entire time Hoops was eating. He kept saying “let ‘em simmer.” Hoops’s face was red. Then he was sweating. It was so worth $100 bucks to see him suffer like that.