"You ever eat cookies and take a shit at the same time?? Yeah me neither." Courtesy of Mike Mo and Twitter.

Here's a funny little Thrasher video of all the Ask the Phelper outtakes from the Wallenberg shows. It's like when The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air used to show all the botched lines at the end. It's just these are better. I think Jake is Will, and Burnett is Carleton. As Smolik would say, Check it son:

The day after Back to the Banksunder the Brooklyn Bridge it was on to Red Bull's Manny Mania under the Manhattan Bridge. That's what's so cool about New York City skate events, the city just has so much history, which creates epic scenery around the contest area. The course was sick, the crowd was huge and the talent showed up. Names like: Brandon Biebel, Mike Mo Capaldi, Stefan Janowski, Stevie Williams and Eli Reed all were there getting their two wheeled tech on.

So here's the jist. There's all sorts of different boxes set up into a course, and the object is to put together the craziest combo of tricks into and out of manuals. It gets pretty technical, probably one of the hardest contests I could imagine having to announce, my hat goes off to you Jeff Pang (NYC skate legend and the event announcer).

In the end it was a toss up between Mike Mo and Eli Reed. Jeff had the crowd vote by cheering for who they thought won, even though the judges had already decided. One of the judges pro skater, Dan Pensyl, walked by me when all that was going on and said, "Eli won." The Top three were as follows: Eli Reed $10,000, Mike Mo Capaldi $5,000 and Kelly Hart $3,000. For full results go to http://www.redbullskateboarding.com/. Here's some pictures I took from the day:


Mike Mo smooth as ever.


Stevie Williams always down for a manual.


Zered Bassett fresh off his part in the Zoo York video.


Skate legend and Manny Mania judge, Donny Barley.


Mike Mo again.


Nick Diamond showed up.


Big crowd and amazing New York scenery.


The crowd swarming Jeff Pang right before the winner was announced.


Some Russian girl must of really made this guy's day one time.


The bridge it all went down under.

Just like a lot of people predicted (not me I had MJ) Mike Mo won the Battle at the Berrics, and $10,000, when he took out Benny Fairfax. Don't feel too bad for Benny he pocketed $5,000 in the losing effort. Not bad in these hard economic times, I heard AIG lost $62 billion last quarter. What? I listen to public radio when I'm in the car. Click here to check out the battle.

Here's a list of ten of my favorite lines that have appeared in the Quote of the Day section of my blog this year. They're in no particular order and will not make you smarter. The picture above is one I took of Mike Mo at the Downtown Showdown, the lighting was odd and the picture came out weird, so I thought it would be perfect for this session of weirdness.

1. "What's Are Kansas? - Mike Mo after reading an Arkansas liscence plate.

2. "I dropped out when I was 16, but had already given up 4 years before that." - Mike Mo on school, which is probably the reason for number 1.

3. "My friend Kamalei fell asleep at the wheel with five of us in the car and we flipped and rolled in the middle of the street on Oahu. Kamalei's head went out the window and he scrapped a whole bunch of hair off. That was a wake up call to never get in a car with someone who's going to go to sleep." - Bruce Irons

4. "See ya!" - Bruce Irons after he won the Search and was asked if he'll take back his retirement claim.

5. "I told you I was gonna flip the truck." - Bruce Irons after flipping the truck in Dude Cruise.

6. "Would you rather smell shit for a couple of minutes, or be sick for a week?" - Rudy Johnson on why it's more considerate to fart than sneeze.

7. "I pissed his couch twice and just flipped the cushions. He doesn't know until he reads this." -Neck Face about Spanky's apartment in LA.

8. "I wanted Dustin Dollin's puke on my board" - The Gonz

9. "I know, I've shit in that hallway so many times." - Rick Howard on the lack of a bathroom at the Berrics.

10. "The best contest would have to be the 2002 Bong Olympics in my kitchen" - Lane Knaack on his favorite contest of his career.