The Funk Chubby isn't ideal for taking down a vert ramp or trying to master the elusive kickflip.
The Funk Chubby's other components were selected for ease of handling as well.
So while you may not be able to solve the cause of the funk, you can correct your behavior in the mean time.
Unlike many longboards, whose decks are made of plywood, the Funk Chubby line uses solid wood salvaged from local furniture companies, including Mr. Moyer's.
It was the introduction to the "hard" side of the funk spectrum for all of us who who were rediscovering old records before eBay.
Byrd began moving toward a more commercial sound with the funk-jazz fusion album "Fancy Free" in 1969, taking a path followed by fellow trumpeters Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Chris Temple, editor of The National Investor, agrees that the U.S. could end up with something similar to the funk that has enveloped Japan for more than a decade.
Stack's sobering perspectives force investors to consider the unpleasant possibility that U.S. equity markets are doomed to follow the lead of Japanese stocks caught in the funk of a 13-year bear market.
As longboards go, the Funk Chubby is on the shorter side, but its deck extends a few inches wider than most for added stability, according to the board's designer, Brooklyn-based furniture maker Daniel Moyer.
The standees of the title are a group of men known as the Funk Brothers, superlatively gifted instrumentalists who, in the 1960s and early 1970s, created what came to be called the Motown Sound.
In a sprawling, though somewhat disheveled studio, the two young gentleman that have adopted the moniker Lemaitre, play and produce until the wee hours of the night, creating the funk-inspired electronica that is catapulting them from the small town of Oslo, Norway, to worldwide renown.
They also include Matthew McConaughey, who in the small role of a talent agent obsessed with providing TiVo to his client, all but walks off with the picture, and an uncredited, wholly unrecognizable Tom Cruise, playing a large, bald, obscenity-spewing studio head who in the privacy of his very large office shows himself to be lord of the funk.
The market funk was the more troubling since a Spanish government with a lot going for it had appeared to be getting a grip.
Drummer Shannon Powell represented the city's Treme neighborhood with a panoply of rhythm and a kick drum that bumped the metered funk of Zigaboo Modeliste, the early stomp of Baby Dodds and the bamboula beat of the Caribbean.
The economic funk in Europe and America has meant that the industrialised world's equity markets have been fairly moribund.
They hardly sparkle with the sunshine pop of the Beach Boys or the gleaming funk of Dr. Dre, but Feist's pleasant brand of melancholy strikes the right mood for winding in (Unintelligible) city, feeling comfortably lost and alone.
Roach is largely correct in stressing the importance of deleveraging in the current economic funk, and the impotence of standard policy tools in overcoming that.
The musician was identified as Victor Conte, a bassist who toured with Herbie Hancock and the seventies funk band Tower of Power.
Prince has been on the comeback trail this year, releasing a series of well-received singles online which recall the blues funk of his 1980s heyday.
Several times in the first half of 2008, it looked like the Federal Reserve and the Treasury just might be able to pull the U.S. economy and financial markets out of the enveloping funk that began to gather in earnest about one year ago as stocks topped out.
Background is brought to foreground in a wealth of reminiscences, interviews with surviving members, film clips from the distant past and superb concert footage from the recent past, when the reunited Funk Brothers played at Detroit's Royal Oak Music Theater behind such singers as Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Meshell Ndegeocello.
In the 1980s the country was in a funk about the rise of Japan and its own vanishing competitiveness.
As we are seeing in Japan, once elected politicians making necessary and popular promises to change the system, funk it when they have to actually fight the system they now lead.
On the second count, there is room for guarded optimism: although American recessions have usually sent the world economy into a funk, this time the slowdown need not be so severe especially for the emerging world.
They wanted to preserve the U.S. from a Japanese-style funk following the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000--01.
Twenty-six-year-old Cameron Wynne is a champion wakeboarder and fan of the electro-funk band Chromeo.
Let's give her a round of applause. (Applause.) I have the Deep Fried Funk Band. (Applause.) Yes!
But one of the most anticipated guests is someone who might or might not show up, which is kind of how it's always been for the '70s funk rock icon Sly Stone.
Jokinen beat Henrik Lundqvist with a wrist shot 32 seconds into the third period, and then one of the NHL's top shootout specialists slipped a wrister over the New York goalie in the first round of the tiebreaker as the Penguins snapped out of a two-game funk that came on the heels of a 15-game winning streak.
Watching fans dancing to the hybrid of punk, funk, soul and electronica, it's hard to describe the scene any other way.
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