Sorry All!

I don't know how this site gets hits.. but I guess it likes some google!

I can't really find time to post here anymore since I have BMXunion.com at full time, along with my job at Dig magazine keeping me extra busy also.

So if you are into what I had going here, check those sites. Sure, you might not be into BMX... but! I do a few random blogs here and there on BMXunion about stuff.

Thanks!

-Kurt Hohberger

What the Bitty?

As much as I want to stay on top of writing stuff for this blog it is weird to think about what runs through my mind in a given day. I think this might be a good time to just give a little update with some projects of mine...

Numero uno, like always is BMX union. I need to start hustling on that to keep my stats growing. I love it.

Dos- This past week has been fairly exciting. I had been asked to do another contest at Renegade Skate park. I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to then I realized how many people were into the last one and wanted me to do another. I have been talking to Red Bull about the event and I think it could be badass. Also, I had been talked to breifly about getting involved with another contest with Bawls which would be really badass from the details I had been informed of. As much as I get stressed out organizing things like that.. I like to do it because the end product usually ends up being real good.

Trace- I am pretty sure I am going to San Diego January 5th-10th.. I just need to do it.. I know it will be a good time too so I really need to follow through with it. I would be going down there to chill and ride bikes with some buddies who live down there. Once again like Vegas, it is all convincing.


Quatro- School has been going well surprisingly enough as is.. I am getting all A's and B's which I didn't expect at all. I didn't realize how little homework there would be this semester too haha. I guess I got lucky..


I seriously just lost track of what I was going to say so I will just call this quits for today...

Economic Rebound Theory

I am no economist or stock broker. I am probably not even qualified at all to be saying this... However, I think this little theory (idea) of mine should hold true.
Seeing as I have had stock literally all my life thanks to my mom, I learned at a young age how to follow the stock market.
Now that I am 20, a business major in college, and well aware of where my money has been going these last few months. I think it is time for a little positive motivation for how long it will be till the economy and stock market comes back.

When the Great Depression first happened in the 1930's it obviously had a huge toll on the country. When I think of it personally I see the images from all the history books I read in grade school. Pissed off farmers in a dusty cloud (no, I am not mistaking for the dust bowl.. even though that would be a similar image).
The biggest difference is technology, just compare the technologies of then to today. We were a national market at the time, now it is a global economy. Telephone service was weak and nothing. The word computer was basically a made up word, and the Internet is about 40 years away from becoming a word. People wrote letters and it took weeks for it to get across the country and to get a response sometimes. To get away from that depression it took years to fix. I doubt it will even take half the time to fix what we have gotten into this time.

Now fast forward to 2008, the global market is in crisis and people don't know what to do. People are going crazy because they sit and watch the stock market channel where they literally know exactly what is happening the very second it happens. People are making trades from their computer over the Internet every second, the United States government has groups working around the clock to figure out how to fix this financial crisis, and the world is following suit. Why is it that you can be having a conversation with somebody in Australia on AIM, while chatting with old friends on Facebook like they are sitting there with you but, it has taken a few months for this economic hic-up to even begin to be figured out? We have the technology to connect people, the brilliant people we need to make the discovery of what the hell is causing this downward spiral!

Sure, 98% of us are uneducated enough to make these big economic decisions, but don't you think that if the whole world is connected things will be happening a little more rapidly? Somebody is bound to have an answer, or at least a piece to this puzzle to fix it. Why don't we have a place to put all these ideas together? If we know the exact reason for why big businesses are failing and banks are hitting the shitter than why hasn't there been any solid solutions besides a great "bail out" where the government throws up this money that can be printed and made up that shouldn't even exist?

All I am saying to sum up these blasts of words is that this depression/economic crisis or whatever you want to call it is not even that bad. For the majority of the people who might read this, answer this question. How much has your life really changed because of this? Do you still go out? Do you still buy food and gas? Have you been running around on fire or being shot at for your wallet? Okay so it isn't that bad. I am saying that because of the technology we have, everyone should be coming together to figure out what the problem is... I am saying that because of technology this shouldn't take 5 years, shit this shouldn't even take until 2010 to be fixed. The world moves at a million miles an hour and isn't slowing down. Why should business? Get on it.

Halloween is Dead

Technically it is November 1st, but that is just because it is 12:30 and Halloween just ended.
Did it ever begin?
Growing up every year Halloween kicked ass. I remember the great snow storm of 91' when there was a crazy blizzard that came through this city, and I still went out to fill my bags with candy.
I remember being Power Rangers, Scream, G.I Joe, and a ton of other things over the years. With age I obviously grew out of being able to trick or treat which is a bummer. The sad thing is, it seems like the Holiday has really died.
I was driving home around 6:30 tonight, and I remember seeing about 3 groups of kids out running door to door. I thought to myself "Well, that is a good sign.. it's early and they are already kicking ass" thinking that was just the beginning.
After a bit of screwing around the house, getting stuff done, it was time to go back out. I knew I had to drive slower and be extra careful because kids are not always the brightest and could bolt out in the road at any second.
At least, I remember when I went out there was so many people on the sidewalks sometimes the street was the best route.
Instead, I spent most of my time driving slow because I was trying to find out where all the kids were! zip, nadda, none. I didn't see a single kid in the 5 miles I drove! What is wrong with that?! Why am I so disgruntled that there isn't kids out running around raising hell on a sugar overload? I should be happy that it isn't happening and I don't have to worry about my car getting scratched or egged.
Where has the tradition gone!
I remember easily running 5 miles while trick or treating growing up. The theory that kids just aren't being born in this area is completley out the window and useless. So, what exactly is it that causes this? Are kids not allowed out past 5 p.m on a Friday night? I mean yeah, candy is bad for you.. but not so bad that you can't go out once a year and eat way too much of it. Where has this holiday gone!?

It seems like every year my mom buys less and less candy, and has more and more left over. It just doesn't seem right how all of this candy can exist to be given away for FREE and nobody wants it! Why?! Why!? Halloween is DEAD. Which it shouldn't be!

Someday, when (if) I become a parent I am going to make my kids love Halloween more than their birthday and Christmas... Simply because they will be the only kids who will be out on the streets going door to door past their curfew! I don't care if the people are sleeping, we are still ringing every damn doorbell on the block. I mean, that is if people even hand out candy by then. It seems pointless to buy any if nobody will come get it in the first place.

As I get older, I start to realize why the older people always tell you their old "war" stories of walking both ways up hill 5 miles in the snow to get to school with no shoes. It is because as you get older things change so much from when you were a kid that you almost feel like you had it bad! Maybe kids don't walk the sidewalks because their parents drive them door to door? I don't know! Maybe they are afraid some creeper is going to jump out of the bush and get them. Wasn't that suppossed to be expected on Halloween? Scary people jumping out at you.. That is when you kick their ass with your awesome powers you obtain when you put on the masks.

All I am saying is that if Halloween is dying, at least let it go out in style and not fade away. I would much rather have the government prohibit it because there are too many riots, and crazy stuff happening than to see it just go out of style.

Maybe, that is just me, but maybe I am right? I sure as hell hope not.

I am going to be God

So... I am pretty sure if this blog ends up getting read someday, and somebody see's this somebody will be offended. Why? because people take religion way too far. Why? well, I have no idea. To be entirely honest I am not the most religious person simply because I feel like everyone has a different view on what is right and that in reality we are all aiming in the same direction.
With Halloween a few days away everyone keeps asking me "what are you going to be?" I respond with "what am I in 5th grade?" since I am soooo mature. Then I got thinking about it and I kind of sort of made up a joke.

With all this trying to figure out what I want to go to school for I got thinking, what kind of a degree do I need to become god? haha.
Somebody had asked me what I was going to college for the other day and without thinking I said "everything". They had a puzzled look on their face and immediately after that, still not thinking, I responded again with "I am going to college to be God"... "I am going to take every class ever and know everything, so then I can be God." LOL, anyone offended yet? If not, I am glad you aren't pissed.

Then after that I got thinking about it, the perfect costume for Halloween! I am going to be God. Walah! funny, interesting, and cheap! Why cheap? Well what does God wear? Can you prove it? Who says he doesn't wear what I wear everyday? Well, since you can't prove me wrong then why can't I wear what I wear and be God? ZING.

So, if you see me stumbling about on Halloween (actually I won't be stumbling at all due to this thing called being sober on a holiday) and I am not all slutted out like every girl out there, or dressed up all cool, well it is because I am just a little more ahead of the curve.

Happy Halloween. ZING!

What to be when I grow up?

So today was interesting... Not only have I slowly been losing intrest in school.. I have been getting some major confusion on why I should go to school, as in what for. I had a little push from a teacher who I think made school the most fun for me. Next to my english teacher, it would be my graphic design teacher. He basically told me do what your into. You can't get to your senior year and change majors. Obviously.
However this is my delima...
I want a business degree because I like business and I get it. Plus, the jobs out there for those degrees are great. However, I just never see myself working for somebody all my life, and that is where I start questioning if I really want that degree. However, the things I learn are beneficial to that ideal goal.

Then I got thinking, what do I wish I could do. That is where it gets rough. I love doing artistic things like graphic design, video editing, photography and editing. Then I love to write. I may not be amazing at it, and I have two different sides to things. On this side nobody really reads this, and it is pretty much an available to the public private journal. Then on the other side my other site is hitting about 25,000 page views a month. So obviously people are reading my stuff.

Okay, so this means I want a degree in Business Administration, Graphic Design, and Writing. Shit. Haha, I mean obviously once I have my generals out of the way it would be so easy to get associates degrees in all of those. It is just associates degrees really don't do much these days. So, now I am just sitting here wondering what it will take for me to really figure out how I want to go about college.

Where will I go in life, what will I do. I don't know. Everyday something new happens and every decision I make leads me in a new direction. So, what happens next.

This is just the thoughts going through my head right now and it is so rediculous. That would be that.

A Sober Man's Thoughts are a Drunk Man's Words

Have you ever heard that before? A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts? I remember when I first heard that saying. It was from somebody pretty close to me. When I heard it I was young, and sober. I didn't believe it. I just believed "Oh, they are just drunk and angry" and never realized what exactly it means.
Obviously, I drink. It is a very rare ocassion though. So, if you get the chance take advantage of it. It litterally is about twice a year. Well... maybe 2 or 3 more occasions than that even. But that is it really, I rarely ever drink.

However, I was thinking about it and realized how tempting it is to text and call people when you drink. You just want to express how you feel about somebody and before you know it you are getting a soboer response where you just know that they know you are drunk. It sucks because it is always that "okay" or something that you don't want to hear. I realize then why I never drink.

It is because when I drink I make a complete idiot out of myself and then I end up getting into stuff I really shouldn't be digging into. It has happened to all of us, well... At least all of us guys who drink. We always want to be right and win so we aim for our ex's.

I need to delete those numbers for sure because it ends up getting me in trouble everytime. I always find a way to get them involved in my night and why it ended as badly as it did.

Don't get me wrong though, if I am at a party or something, nobody can tell I am making this idiot of myself. I tend to do it on a silent un-noticed level that just semes to always tempt and remind me of my past. I hate it. I wish it was something I couldn't remember even if I tried. It is just hard when you aren't this amazingly good looking guy who works all the time and cares way too much about school. You tend to lose track of time and before you know it, it has been 2 months and you haven't even had an oppertunity to go on a date.

I won't lie, I am sure it is obvious of my state that I am writing in right now. It just sucks becuasue we are trying to revamp this website. It just isn't as smooh as I like.

That is all. I doubt this will make sense in the morning.. but whatever.