HAPPY BORNDAY JUANeats!

The RIF LA Crew would like to wish JuanEATS a Happy 16th Birthday and ofcourse many more to come. 2 more years we can hit the strip club! Since it was his birthday, we had the homie J Cole come down and surprise him.

Juan lookin a lil nervous!

Mannyankee also came down to surprise Juan with fatty cake ...awww so sweet...

Carls birthday was a few days ago, so we had Cole come down for him too, why so CRUNCHY though Carl?

Handful of shoeheads came down during ALL-STAR weekend to break everyone's necks. Always good to have you guys over!

circle of heaters:::

Even our good friends all the way from Mexico came down to make it a Throw It In the Bag Day.

a few sneaker shots of the day:::

sb pigeons...

sb sbtgs

svsms $OLD

Murad steal $180 from Heffe...

Shouts to Ryan for hooking the whole crew up with some bomb @ss Red Velvet Cupcakes from Auntie Ems.

6 for me and the rest for yall

Edouche and Eric chopping it up, sounds like Archrival might of found a new spot...details very soon!

LA. AVENUE. stickers!

1 of our many RIF pocket tees, you know we gotta keep it G.

R I F

We got too many good friends, shouts to Christian and Justin for blessing us with IN N OUT...double doubles for everyone!

yes it was a good day!

Vinyl Therapy: Tenderness, Thunderballs & Tears

A few items from a recent Salvation Army smash & grab.  Five bucks total.

Happy Birthday, Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Whether Maggie The Cat or Gloria Wondrous, we love you Dame Elizabeth.

Happy Birthday.

Where Do You Keep Your Oscar?

Mine is in a walk-in closet where my DVDs are kept... because I like to be modest.

Driving Rain

Two drive-by vignettes from a rainy Friday.

Instagrams: @Work @Home @Play

Candids from the last seven days using the iPhone Instagram app.

1962: Crownings, Communions, Christenings, Etc.

Oftentimes, May Crownings and First Communions were held on the same day at Saint Joseph Hill Academy.  I discovered this when scouring image after image of this hybrid event in carousel after carousel of slides that stretched across many years.  By the time I attended the school, First Communion was a weekend event on its own and the May Crowning was relegated to the afternoon of a school day.

Here we see my grandparents with my mother, my infant Aunt Susan, my Uncle Kevin and my Aunt Karen on the day of Susan's Christening. Cousins Dianne, Ricky and Lois are pictured with Susan below.

And then, of course, we have an AWESOME motherlode of Christmas toys...

Ghostly Birthday Girls

Another piece from the family slide archive, circa 1960.

Sneaker Heads Dream Cake

You ever sit and wonder what kind of cake you would have for your wedding or birthday? Actually, I'm pretty sure most people don't do that, but I came across this beautiful cake that would be perfect for any sneaker head. Peep what shoe it is after the jump!

Chocolate Nutella Hazelnut Cake ...

layers, layers, and layers of cake...

can you already guess what shoe this is?

If you can't figure it out by now then you shouldn't be a shoehead lol..

The details on the cake is just beautiful, from the laces to the patent leather, from the soles to the upper mesh.

Check out the finished product, too bad its not suppose to be an orange Nike box, maybe its a B grade? sike...

details, details, details ....

If your interested in having 1 of these cakes made, head to Carved Cakes in Long Beach. I'll tell you now, this cake below is probably as much as a pair of deadstock concord xis ...eeek! By the way, my birthday is on April 5th :)