Regardless of what the nerds in labcoats may say about solstices and all that nonsense, in my book, the first day it hits 90 degrees, summer begins. It’s hotter than a muhfuckah outside, and I am currently in the midst of recovering from a hot-pocketed ankle and sitting out this first mini-heatwave, so here’s an update if you’re waiting for the sun to go down…

It’s pretty safe to say that skateboarding has essentially become a homoerotic art gallery, so as apart of our “Bringing Sketchy Back” movement, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to start lowering standards for all of your favorite New York spots — in hopes of making it acceptable to film there when you’re not capable of switch varial heel noseblunts. First up, is the much beloved Flushing Meadows Park, which Pryce, Zach, Skinhead Mike, Isak, Brengar and I recently ambushed with a barrage of “below-average” and “not serious” tricks in order to get the art fags all uptight in their slip-ons. You can observe the nonsense here.

Anybody in the market for a Century Optics Mark 1 lens for a VX1000? I’m selling mine.

Normally, I don’t post spot updates that I can’t confirm from firsthand experience, but this is coming from a reliable source. Lenox Ledges (AKA the only decent ledge spot you can skate during the daytime in Manhattan) is now officially a bust. Just in time for summer.

I’m about a week late on this, but Steve put up a new montage over at Square Films.

Now that the most known unknowns have become pop culture darlings due to their MTV show, most of you are probably going to get all riled up with your insecurities insiting that they “sold out” or how “they used to be better before they became mainstream,” but as far as I’m concerned, this new song with Lil’ Jon and Pat is one of the greatest things ever recorded (and it has, bar-none, the greatest hook in Hypnotize Minds history). This song with Pat and Paul over the “Hustlin’” beat is also bound to put a smile on any hater’s face as well.

I’ll see you when it goes below 80 again.

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The 57th Street ledges got knobbed. I guess there’s only so many times you can go to a spot between a bunch of apartment buildings in the middle of the night before people really start complaining. Normally, I reserve spot updates for small blurbs in bigger posts, but when you go to the same five spots every time you go above 14th Street and one of them gets knobbed, it is a pretty big deal.

More details here, here, here, here, and here. The knobs are basically the cheapest ones you could get, so some of you with no warrants might want to get busy with liberating that.

Breaking News: Mooney can read.

Even though we might be sitting around doing nothing, some people are out there doing big things. 5Boro has a new, six-minute long promo. Edit: Quicktime version here if you don’t want to put up with Youtube’s nonsense.

In spot related happenings, they are putting the finishing touches on completely removing anything skateable from my favorite spot.

As skateboarding becomes less trendy to include on your photoblog, The Green Diamond still actually posts skate photos.

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A few nights ago, we went to one of those spots that you can pretty much never skate. We got about three minutes there, and that was a blessing. Hopefully, next time there’s a blackout, or a city-wide wave of security guard kidnappings, we can go back there, or here, or maybe the outside of here, but until then, we’ll have to deal with skating those places for twenty-five seconds at a time. Here’s a brief clip of what we accomplished in three minutes.

I told you so. Square Films VS. the Chinatown Bank & Big Apple Skate VS. The Chinatown Bank.

Curttttiiisssss hates the children.

Guess which one of these two needs to stop going drugs. (Hint: It’s the one on the left).

Although this isn’t really the QS specialty, we like to look out for our 50 cent snack brothers. And recently, the 50 cent snack community took a blow. How are you going to reduce it from 24 to 20 ounces and add another ten cents to the price? Inflation sucks.

I have more shit for sale: 1. (Fake) mint-chocolate chip dunks perfect for matching your Bape hoody. Opening bid, $250. 2. Lightly used dunks with a “W” on them. Opening bid, $100.

Honestly, nobody cares what you think.

If you want to give me money or anything like that, let me know. We can set up a time to make the transaction as it best suits you. And if you were planning on robbing me anytime soon, as you can see, it’s probably not worth your time.

The Alex Mosley Relapse Clip: [Download to your harddrive or stream / YouTube] starring Alex Mosley, Lou, Zared and Thando. Be sure to visit Watermelonart.com.

My father said Rogaine doesn’t work.

“How long did it take you to achieve a look that was that vintage?”

Somebody probably did something stupid at Riverbank recently, which would explain why they decided to start enforcing a No Skateboarding rule there. Now, you can’t walk in through the 137th or 145th street entrances holding a skateboard.

Old Jeezy stays doing it for the hood.

With this crazy-ass weather, it’s doubtful we’re going to be seeing any consistent warmth soon, so this may be worth a $200 investment.

More unrelated than usual: This is why Duke sucks. Miles Marquez co-signed.

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Speaking of YouTube, you can pretty much say goodbye to it as we know it.

New Flipmodeism.