New feature: Missed it MondaysWhat is it?Well…This one time I was watching this funny TV show.. it was.. I can’t really remember it but it was really funny. Then I had an idea for a dream vacation. I mean I had the spread, OK. The beach, the hotel. Then I wrote all this all of this down.  Wrote it all down, really wrote it, like 5 pages. Fucking lost it.Here’s the first installment. Get ready to weep.

1. Un-Taiwans, almost as cool as taiwans. Not all patent, but a gradient swoosh, and white, and crispy. These shoes don’t even have a price since you never see them. People drop coin for the real thing, but these guys are sleepers. Some guy meanwhile got away with them for $70 shipped, less than the price of the pair of dunks in any heavy tax state. If these were my size, I’d be crying in my Diet Pepsi.–2. New Balance MT580s. I’m not even sure what year these are from, or what series. There are definitely more of these than there have been Governor Generals. These are definitely loud, but they also go for about $300 new, so whoever copped these - they’re real, and rare, at size 11 - made out like a thief. Good for you, heatman!–

3. DS Air Jordan IIIs, but from 1994. No one got a deal here; that’s not the way it works. But god damn if this isn’t a hot purchase. See that NIKE AIR on the back? Because I don’t see no damn Jumpman. If you told me in college that Jordan IIIs would be going for $400, I’d have spent my paychecks on Athletes World’s Black Cement IIIs that got returned  to Nike HQ (three pairs sold). As it stands, I don’t own any IIIs any more, and at this rate, I might not. But damn if I don’t get a law degree one day just so I can buy boxes like that whenever I want. If you have $400 to drop on sneakers, you might as well ball like a dogg.Look for more of these, every Monday. Get your games up til then..

2 pairs of Purple Nike Co.JP’s (here’s the second pair), from I think 2002. These were some of the hottest joints to drop that year - never mind co.jp’s - although looking at them now I’m not so sure they’d be able to go toe to toe with Hong Kongs or some of the city attacks. But there were some fine pairs of canvas vandals in those days: red and gold, black and gold, the berlin vandals (which TIGA reportedly owned), and later some Junya Watanabe canvas vandals (only avail. at his army store in Tokyo, for about a week at $500 or something stupid). It’s a gentleman’s call as to which is the best of the bunch.The red and golds were pretty ill at the time, and certainly get better with age. Although canvas Vandals, Berlins or otherwise, are ignorable shoes: they crease easy, white midsoles, you can never get the straps done up, they look like air forces but with a narrower toe. Vandals are a lot sleepier than the promotion behind them would garner. Not that they had any real promotion, besides that schizophrenic foray from england in 2004, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, all done up with bold helvetica caps lock (or was it aardvark bold?).A worn vandal might as well be a terribly beaten up (shredded) air force.With these though, the purple might be the best purple on any Nike ever (in real life they look more like the first pair), and the silver swoosh calls up the stainless steel wash-basins in the Vatican. That said, it’s hard for a high-top, never mind a purple one, never mind a dogg with the biggest swoosh in the game* to be subtle or understated. But what are you going to do, cry about it? Yeah, it’s purple, yeah, it’s 2008, and everyone with a T1 line looks like an asshole from the ankles down. Yeah, God didn’t intend for good Nikes to be worn with Cheap Mondays. Yeah, if you were cool you’d stick to Jordans XV throug XVIII, go to the gym and not ask any questions. Yes, the wrong side is a skinhead band. Yes to all these things. But, really, when you buy a shoe of this caliber, you’re doing nothing if not trying.

*these vandals have bigger swooshes than anything besides those retro’d up Blazers** At least the only games i get are Nets and Knicks games. COOL. Real fucking cool. Hope this entry wasn’t too incoherent..