I’ve gone to hit post on this multiple times. It doesn’t do justice to you or our friendship... So I’m going to just let this fly You had about 50 nicknames & aliases (& you had a shit ton for me too, luckily none of them ever stuck apart from Pip.) You were always Mike, 100% carrying an iced coffee & normally sweaty from skating a gap, but somehow GQ fresh, seriously intense, but also methodic & able to snap into a ‘Wire’ ‘Wu Tang’ or ‘Dipset’ reference ending in your goofy laughter everytime. We met in London working at the same spot, within 5 minutes of meeting we were thick as thieves. You put me on to orange bandanas & Jeezy, multiple times in fact, until I would actually listened to him. You moved back to RI, bounced to NYC & we talked most nights you were in the studio cutting patterns & sewing, normally every possible surface was also covered in WW2 watch parts! You put me onto that too. You came to visit me for a week in Portland when I wasn’t doing too great, while there you drank 6 shots of coffee for breakfast & ate ice cream for dinner & we thrifted, hit the bins, estate saled & antiqued for a week. You bought so much crap that I had to send 2 huge boxes of it back to New York. That time you came back to the east coast from HK for 2 days & you jumped straight on a train to come hang for a couple hours in Boston. Your journey to success took you to LA then across seas to HK, I was really proud to watch you grow, you transformed from knucklehead street skater to tailor, seamstress watch nerd to self made businessman. I’d remind you to be proud of yourself most times we spoke & you’d wave it off like it wasn’t a thing. You were always a generous friend, the last time Han went to Hong Kong you sent her home with that USMC watch for me, still my most treasured thing, you even seriously tried to get me to move out there a couple times. You were the first person to skate to a Fleetwood Mac song 🤣 #nocranberry #ongoldenponds2 #goyourownway It’s been 3 weeks since I heard & I’m still in shock. I hope you found eternal peace in a better place my brother, I’m forever heart broken 🖤 Uno #Number4 #cutfromadifferentcloth #restinpower (at Beat Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHs_HTuDGEK/?igshid=2lwylfb7bzdo
