so you can get as illy as you want in Homestead…..

just get her done …errrr….yeah!

next year…KYLE BUSH…….

Jupiter Paddleboarding

My first Hi Def Video…just a a quick test of the system and a funny backyard sequence that should have you chuckling or sweating..

The Ultimate Ninja Squirrel Ab Workout from genwhy on Vimeo.

We at why need to take a break every so often…and it doesn’t help to run into technical hurdles either.

We are back…Paddling our way in your hearts…

Get up, stand up..and paddle, paddle, paddle!

Battered By The ShamWow Guy – March 30, 2009

ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust

TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl

MARCH 27–Meet Vince Shlomi. He’s probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she “propositioned him for straight sex.” Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly “bit his tongue and would not let go.” Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you’ll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. “Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons,” police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi’s occupation as “Marketing,” but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop.

The Smoking Guns has the rest of the scoop

Decorated big mountain skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey was killed earlier today in a ski-BASE accident in the Italian Dolomites.

A member of the Red Bull Air Force and pioneer of the ski-BASE-ing phenomenon, McConkey experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute canopy and then gliding down to the ground—as he had done successfully some 700-plus times before.

“He did a double backflip off the jump and he has these releasable bindings so they come off in the air and then he flies off in his wing suit,” filmmaker Scott Gaffney, a longtime close friend of McConkey’s, told ESPN Action Sports in an interview this afternoon via phone.

“But one ski did not come off. And when that happens the drag on the skis causes you to flip over, so the skis go over your head. So he was struggling with the one ski. Then he also got into a bad spin. So he may have never even pulled his pilot chute. And that’s coming from JT Holmes, who Shane was with in Italy and who reviewed the footage of the accident. So the combination of the ski, the spin and the pilot chute, apparently. Because you can’t throw the pilot chute like that; if you throw it while you’re upside down and it wraps around the ski, you’re done.”

McConkey was filming with Matchstick Productions and Red Bull at the time, according to Gaffney, who said McConkey apparently died on impact with snow on the ground below the cliff. Gaffney was not clear about the size of the cliff. “But it had to be a sizable cliff, at least 400 feet, for him to be planning on flying his wing suit away from it,” Gaffney said.

McConkey, 39, of Olympic Valley, Calif., is survived by his wife, Sherry, and their 3½-year-old daughter, Ayla.

Graeme Murray/Red Bull Photofiles

This afternoon Gaffney was at home in Squaw Valley, Calif., with his brother, Robb, also a close friend of McConkey’s, reeling from the news. “With what Shane does,” said Scott, “it’s a call you always picture getting at some point, but you realistically don’t ever expect it to happen.”

Added Robb Gaffney, “Shane’s been a part of our lives for quite a while now. I’m just sitting at Scott’s house processing the whole thing. The texts and calls are coming in, and you can really even feel it in the air in Squaw right now. I’m thinking about Sherry and his little girl. But in this area people have always loved Shane, so Sherry and Ayla, they’re going to have an immense amount of support around them. That’s one thing for sure; that’s Shane’s legacy.”

Also See: Retallack Rip-Fest, a 2008 photo gallery featuring McConkey and friends.

Making a little research, an interesting question showed up: When is a brand really strong? When we think about that, it’s really huge the number of possible answer we might get. The most intriguing one? When people start faking it.

Yeah, you may think this is stupid, but if you only think about it for one moment, you’ll realize that only solid brands are copied in industrial scale. Adidas, Puma, McDonald’s, Panasonic are among the brands that are so famous that people will even get absurd copies of their products.

Fake brands clearly supply a basic demand for low cost items that the consumer can associate with less affordable, scarce premier brands. However, psychologists have looked far more deeply into this area of consumer behaviour and a wealth of research has been published. A very basic finding is that despite the low price factor, fake brands are regularly bought by relatively high income households in developed countries. – Sarah Boumphrey

But looking through another perspective, what if a percentage of these people buy fake products as a kind of protest? It’s pretty clever, but if a brand is expensive and represents a bad thing to a group of people, they just might buy it so that other people see they won’t spend 100 bucks for a shirt, a purse, a shoe or whatever.

Once fake brands were sold from suitcases on high streets and back-street market stalls. Then trend-setter, gap-year teens and early twenty-somethings began returning home wearing their knock-off brands with pride. Now they are more pervasive, and are attracting buyers from across the consumer wealth spectrum. Are fake brands becoming chic and fun, and are luxury brands in danger of being undermined by a consumer trend towards ironic purchasing? – Sarah Boumphrey

And of course, here are some examples of what we get to see in the streets. Again, we’d love you to tell us what you think is the sign that a brand is really strong and solid. Cheers!

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gotta love a little chingy from the dark side….

Heard this osprey way before I got my camera on him. The squirrel was way up at the top of the tree for some reason…but fish is best when fresh…

Another Segway show-off bites the dust…most falls are great, this is one is glorious!!

Segway FAIL face plant

and heres another…

Segway Wipeout!

a compilation no less…

How can you not chuckle at this pic. Yes..Segways maneuver by tilting the neck in the direction you want to go..but squatting with a semi-automatic at ready…The Olympics is gonna be one crazy show this summer…

“Members of the Jinan Special Weapons and Tactics team use Segways during an Olympic anti-terrorism training drill in Jinan, eastern China’s Shandong province, on July 2.”

“In recent years, each of China’s 31 provinces have set up SWAT teams. On July 2, the Jinan SWAT team in eastern China’s Shandong province held an Olympic anti-terrorism training drill that featured armed police riding Segways. Officers in precision clutched the vehicles’ posts between their legs while aiming guns at cars and other targets.”(Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY”

Read more at USA Today

It took a fireman I know to turn me onto this puppet comedy sketch series of videos that poke a little fun at the police while giving the post 911 Fireman the benefit of….well…just watch episode number 2..

Then go check out the whole set of video clips at

Its All Good…

Bring on the meth-heads….weeeee!!!!!!

A whole bunch of MJ grow houses were snared in Florida’s new campaign against the evil scorge of marijuana. Bill McCollum’s battle cry against Reefer Madness and Latino Criminality has hit homeruns with a string of grow houses….with all the accoutrements(guns, drugs, money…santeria candles..) going down to the local police.

Houses in Brevard and Dade were also shut down as well as large grow ops in Polk County and Highland County.

Lets summarize…

Police said they found the pot plants being bathed in classical music from wall-mounted speakers and lit with high-intensity lamps that moved along tracks in the ceiling.

Severn Georgia has alot of clay…and alot of time to play with it..in it ..and on it.

Floor it, turn left, Repeat til dizzy!

Click on he pic for all the photos from A day of racing in the seriously dirty dirty South!!

Transcending and Including with Fr. Thomas Keating. A Cistercian monk from St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado…Ken Wilber, Mr Integral Naked gets down and dirty regarding spirituality, happiness and enlightment.

Wilber is one of the worlds greateast post modern theorists and his work weaves all of the worlds conundrums into a palatable picture that guides those who pay attention to a more direct path that leads to Happiness. YUP…

smoke a phat one before you dive into this mini lecture on how to get to the home of OM…

Big Ups to Sam Choi and the Sticker Together Team for taking the WHY to the streets with some of the best sticker folks in the world.

Always up for a trade, collaboration, installation..and inhalations!!!!

…and sam …we might have to share a hotel room together..but at least we know we have a room…

Green Valley Speedway ASCS TJ Winegardner

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GEN=WHY’s resident leadfoot, TJ Winegardner gets some at Green Valley Speedway.

As our first Motorsports ambassador…TJ has gone from bumper cars at the Fair to Leading the ASCS Rebel Regional Series!

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