Last weekend I was lounging about, sipping on a Pimm’s Cup, and settling in to the Spring 2010 issue of On Wisconsin. I wanted to count the photos featuring people with beards. But I was like 6 pages in when I came upon this photo meganess:

My first reaction was “Well, BindingmanBloggerman is going to be pleased. That’s a Capita deck.” My second thought was, “It sucks to be the dude crashing in that pic.” It looks like if he did hit one of those features, he rode out of it, only to sit down before he ran out of snow. But somehow this is the image—him slipping out—that lands in the alumni mag. Dude’s pist.

Then, to make it even radder we get a little blurb in the corner. Check the wrong-up:

It seems that what we have here is:

• Phat air
• Freeriding
• Writers without a clue
• A snowboarding event called the Rail Jam
• Tough sledding for the pros, like Peter Limberg
• Grommets who cratered to liptricks
• Photo claimed by Jeff Miller. Write-up goes unclaimed.

Seriously, Madison, I love you but just stick to the isthmus jokes. I think the editorial staff of On Wisconsin should issue an apology to their readers for this installment of “Scene.” And Peter Limberg should get some sort of tuition reimbursement.  This whole ordeal was painful. And now all those dudes from the class of ’72 are writing in, because they have sacrificed anyone close to themselves for success, to boast about their greatest acheivements in life can now reassure themselves, “Oh, I saw this snowboarding bullshit in the Olympics. That Sean Blanco kid has good Badger hair, but it’s all a little too wild if you ask me. Did you see what the Scott Lagos kid did with his medal?”