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We believe that the current standards of ethics in the media have alienated the artists, developers, and creators who perpetuate the things we love, enjoy, and enthusiastically build communities around. KotakuInAction is a platform for open discussion of the issues where gaming, nerd culture, the Internet, and media collide. Occupy WWW Street - Internet Activism and Media in the Age of Social Justiceīlame GamerGate’s Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy JournalismĭeepFreeze (Cataloging ethical failures in gaming media)Įpic Game Store Wall of Shame Our Mission And sure enough, he re-constructed the whole bottom-end, stitching the setup together through the welt like a proper Goodyear Welted boot should be put together.KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry, and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture, including sci-fi/fantasy, comics, and animation. So I instructed señor Victor accordingly. This is in sharp contrast to Red Wing where you can actually even send your boots straight to Red Wing in Minnesota and have THEM resole 'em for ya' for around one hundred American!Īnyway, I had decided on the Vibram 430 mini-lug sole and heel. But I gotta' tell ya' - loving my boot's and not lovin' the thought of going with a new, completely unknown-to-me guy, I felt like a drunken gambler at a rigged card game giving him those walkers.īut lo and behold, I just got my boots back from him after only a couple days time, and I'm as happy as a teenager after his first whore house visit, 'cause he done good - real good!Īs alluded to above, 'O Swami, it’s been a long process of me investigating and researching what all I can put on them Chippewa’s 'cause Chippewa wouldn't sell me the original soles as they don't furnish a service like that. In any event, after my flailing about for a bit, this new guy, Victor, in Santa Ana (Victor's Shoe Repair) came highly recommended by my buddies at the Red Wing shoe store in Lake Forest, so I went with that 'cause I figured they wouldn't give me a bum steer. Or maybe he's in Havana conferring with Raul Castro over a good cigar about the benefits of joining the Union. Either that, or he's down Mexico way endeavoring to talk the national assembly into payin' for da wall. Maybe he's roamin' the country tryin' to dig up the old Captain America bike in some barn in the mid-west. Had been in that game for eons but still seemingly not close to retirin' age.īut what the hell do I know about how much someone has hidden in the mattress. No, smartass, I didn't mean that in an "alternative lifestyle" way! He was an original and a damned good cobbler with mega gnarly hands to show for it. And he always spoke my language, whether on jackets, boots or bags anything you wanted made righteous, he was your man. He rode a molded Road King and had a past in an M/C in Arizona. He was a cool guy, an old-school Harley rider by the name of Denny who had a little shop right on PCH by the name of Cobbler's Corner. But, my old cobbler who used to be in Laguna Beach, vanished out of thin air. I know, too much time sunk into that endeavor when there's wrenchin' to be done and parts to be chased down at swap meets. I can't resist the temptation to brag to you about my new cobbler which I found after reading a zillion Yelps and asking around and researching the shit out of everything boots and boot repair.
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