If you're into gnarwhales, mermen, Dungeons and Dragons, romance and mustaces then you should keep reading. If you're not, then keep reading anyway, don't be a premature decisionator. Michael Hsiung is an LA based artist who has done some creating for Hurley, Enjoi and most importantly himself. He's brought to life some cool and creative creations; and he's a mustache aficionado, and very proud of his own. It is a pretty, pretty, pretty rad stache (read like Larry David says it). He's so proud of his lip hair that it's the logo of his website www.michaelchsiung.com, and he wrote the following of himself and his killer lipbrow:

"Michael C Hsiung is characterized by: large mustache (one of the few remaining facially hairy Asians surviving today) with all of the species capable of reaching one ton or more in weight; herbivorous diet; and a thin yellow protective skin, 1.5-5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; and a relatively small brain for a mammal of his size (400-600g). . Michael is prized for its mustache, sometimes his art. Not a true mustache, it is made of thickly matted hair that grows from the skull without skeletal support. Michael has acute hearing and sense of smell, but poor eyesight over any distance. Michael C. Hsiung will probably live to be about 50 years old or more."

So once again, if your into gnarwhales, romance, Dungeons and Dragons, mermen, mustaches, Asian guys or Asian guys with mustaches, you should cruise over to his site or www.hurley.com. Check out a few of his works and a little introduction video below courtesy of Hurley:


A shot in the ass is only a flesh wound, especially when you're half ass. Or maybe their half horse, I don't know it's not my art, and I'm not an animal ass expert. Although, I am an expert at doing things half-assed.


A dapper merman getting his drink, smoke and T.V. on.


A tribute to being passive.

And he has already gotten some play, even if their age is a little unlucky, cruise over to www.enjoico.com to see what I'm talking about. Now that Ben's on Enjoi, a company that makes some of the best ads in skateboarding (even without Marc Johnson), it leaves me in a pondering state. How are they going to fill this blank canvas of ad potential that they have with this new rider?

Since their ads are pretty much a very simple setup with a funny description, here are some possible routes, use you're imagination (they all suck I'm doing this in between beers at Crossroads):

1. "Welcome to the team! Here's a box of boards, an EBT card, a 'skateboarding ruined my life hat,' and directions to AA."

2. "No more issey from Enjoi, so here's Ben who's a carnivore that loves the Cure."

3. "Well, we already had a Jerry (Hsu), so it was only a matter of time before we got a Ben."

4. "You're gonna sign with us during a recession? There goes your career."

5. "Raemers! Damn near killed her's"

Here's an example of an Enjoi ad (if you've never seen one) so you can get the full picture:

A few months ago, I posted some of my favorite Enjoi ads to remind everyone how good they are, check them out here. Well, I got a lot of positive feedback, from not the most positive of people I know, but that's besides the point. Anyway, these 20-something-year-old losers, that still live with their parents, loved seeing these Enjoi-ments again, because their moms threw away all their old skate mags.

As a result, I have decided to post a few more of my favorites that didn't make the cut last time, except the waterboarding one, I just came across that. Believe me, I am by no means saying buy an Enjoi board, or that Enjoi boards are better, I'm just saying their ads are better, click here to check out their site.

Here's Round 2:


The brass at Enjoi swears they knew nothing of this. That's waterboarding kiddies, this
one couldn't be more timely, read a newspaper.


In case you didn't know, Rodney Mullen was involved with Enjoi early on, and that's
Marc Johnson doing what it says he's doing.


Yee ha! Everything's bigger where they're from.


Broke Back Skate Decks.


You can't run Skate Mental and not be mental.


Yeah she can.


Some guy recently sent me a message that I'm a "no-talent kook, sellout bitch." Well,
of course I am, but my car is neon green, I have a bigger spoiler (I think that's what the
wing thing on the back is called) and my rims are better.


This one is for Lakai.


A night of Budweiser, and a morning venti drip will achieve the same feeling. Believe me.

Slap has an interesting interview with Caswell Berry over on their site. He talks about his rough childhood, the rare disease that he is now living with, and of course, skateboarding. Click here to check it out. Photo above: Whiteley

Thanks to someone who goes by JonJonJon, I've been informed that I did not have the whole flyer. Above is the complete flyer and the point Enjoi is trying to make becomes obvious. This is going to be another skate art show, where a bunch of hipsters show up just for the free beer. Thanks Jon to the 3rd.