Portuguese Breakfast

February 12, 2009 @ 11:39 AM

Wait a minute, 5boro rider Jimmy McDonald just got done wasting 4 years of his life at college getting a visual anthropology degree so he’s gotta know something about Portugal. I called that dude up and the only bit of info he had for me was the slang term “Portuguese Breakfast” which after long hours of research we found it out to be a crude sexual act involving scrambling eggs in the unholliest of orifices of the human body. Informative? Yes. But not really what I was looking for. So I thought what better way to go into a trip overseas then completely blind. What you don’t know can’t hurt you right? The rest of the 5boro crew was down as always and we managed to kidnap Finland’s Father of the Year, Deeli for a week or so to come waste his time pointing his camera at us. So in true ignorant American form we boarded the airplane at JFK Airport in NYC in search for the real Portuguese Breakfast.

Danny Falla sw heels

The first thing anyone thinks about when waiting at the baggage claim is “what if my bag doesn’t come out of that hole that all the other bags are pouring out of?” “What will I do?” I dunno, but the crew and I could think of a couple things to keep us occupied. A little part of all of us sometimes hopes that just the boards will end up missing at our destination. Hey I love skating as much as the next guy but lets spice it up for a change. We skate on every trip right? What if they just sent us to other countries to get drunk and pile out for weeks at a time? Now were talking. Maybe we should start to book the flights with more layovers so there is a better chance of our shit getting lost? We might be onto something here.

Joe Tookmanian fs nosegrind

Sure enough when I saw those 7ply planks appear on that conveyer belt our champagne wishes and caviar dreams that our boy Kool G. Rap speaks so highly of were instantly crushed. Maybe next time. Actually, the airline did loose Deeli’s camera bag for the first few days while the crew was shaking off that jetlag which really didn’t make much of a difference on our productivity. Oh yeah, he did miss a 39 stair kinked handrail session we had right off the plane where every trick in the book went down including some that weren’t in Fully Flared. Did I mention the footage glitched too? Yeah the whole tape. Too bad, looks like you are going to have to take my word for it.