Back from the Dead

[MarkStalcup]

Hey everyone...I dropped off the boards for most of the summer because I've just been really busy...life's been hectic. I'm working what are essentially two full-time jobs...lawyering and journalism...plus I DJ on the weekends, plus I organized my class reunion, plus I'm dating someone who lives 30 miles away...so that's a drive.

And the summer was rife with injuries, etc. - torn rotator cuff on my right shoulder, fell and scraped up/bruised my arms, bloodied my nose and hit my head, had a clogged ear due to sinus infection...all kinds of fun, basically.

I think at age 39, I should learn not to skateboard anymore. Recovery time is not as quick as it used to be.

Nearly got mugged two weekends ago in Terre Haute. Two guys and a girl, rough neighborhood, 3:25 a.m., stopped for gas. The girl came up asking for money and started hitting me in the side of the head. Then the blonde guy started throwing elbows at the side of my head, while the brunette guy tried to grab my shoulders and pin me. I swung on them, and would up bloodying the blonde guy's lip and blackening the brunette guy's eye. They ran when some friends of mine came out of a nearby bar, and the cops have apparently learned who these guys were.

Otherwise, the summer's been good.

I still owe Slip and a few others some Megomuseum cards, and am trying to sort out who gets what. How has everybody else been?

Mark

[toys2cool]

holy crap dude

Glad you're ok man

[wayne foundation 07]

Wow looks like you need a vaction.

[Hector]

Good thing your buds happened to be there in a bar that's still open at 3:25 a.m., just in the nick of time...small world.

[MarkStalcup]

Actually, Hec, the bar was closed...Indiana pubs do last call at 3 a.m. and the bar itself shuts down around 3:30 a.m. So the bar manager, Dan, and one of the bouncers, Brian, who are friends of mine — I used to DJ at that club — came outside, saw the fight and headed my way. So yeah, it was a lucky break...three on one, and as messed up as my right arm is...that would not have been fun alone.

[toys2cool]

Actually, Hec, the bar was closed...Indiana pubs do last call at 3 a.m. and the bar itself shuts down around 3:30 a.m. So the bar manager, Dan, and one of the bouncers, Brian, who are friends of mine — I used to DJ at that club — came outside, saw the fight and headed my way. So yeah, it was a lucky break...three on one, and as messed up as my right arm is...that would not have been fun alone.

man you must be a bad *** to pull off something like that

[MarkStalcup]

I'm not remotely a badass. I walked away with a torn rotator cuff on my right shoulder, a bruise on the side of my head, a bloody nose and a scraped elbow. And if my friends Dan and Brian hadn't happened to walk out of the bar, I might have been toast.

As it was, I got confronted by the three would-be muggers, asking for money and cigarettes, and I said no, I didn't have any smokes nor money - didn't feel like giving them any - and then the girl started punching me on the right side of the face as the brunette guy grabbed me from behind, while the blonde guy started throwing elbows at my head...if you've ever been elbowed in the head, you know it kinda hurts. I pushed backwards, knocked me and the brunette guy down, then tore loose of the brunette guy - just pure adrenaline, more or less - and that's how I messed up my shoulder and elbow by hitting concrete. Then I threw a few punches at the blonde guy, and split his lip and blackened his right eye...my friends showed up, and the others ran off. I had no idea I even connected well with my punches because the first elbow strike messed up my contact lenses, and my eyes are bad.

I was a boxer when I was a teenager and in college, and I used to get into a lot of fights, but when you're jumped and it's 3 on 1, the odds of taking a shot to the back of the head - which probably would have happened quickly in that instance - increase a lot. And they could have messed me up quite readily and taken my wallet.

So, badass? No. I punched back and I scored a few good shots. The end.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

G'day Mark. . .long time no type. SO who got the black eye, I thought you said it was Brunette guy you said first? Must have been in a well lit area was it? Where they mugged you that is. You said you were getting gas. . .was it at a petrol station? Did they have any camera running of you beating the crud outta these loosers. . . .I hope you went and asked for a copy of the video tape, if they did!

[huedell]

Hey Mark---glad to see ya stop by when you do----

Interesting crazy stuff----cool you're doing alright anyway in spite of it.

[Bill]

You'd think we would learn, but 36 years old and still skating too. Maybe it doesn't work out like it does in my head but I still have fun. Team Pain just did our town's park last September and I've been damaging myself on a regular basis since then.
Now that you have the money and you're not a kid mowing lawns for a new deck, splurge and pick up a set of Rockin' Ron's bearings, worth every penny.