Yes, you’re seeing that right. It’ll cost about $24 to ship a $9 item (that weighs less than one pound) to Hawaii. Luckily, Hot Topic allows you to ship to a local store that’s at a more reasonable cost.

To commemorate being 28 years old, good old TS let go a few more pairs of his Cactus Jack Air Jordan 1. I thought I had a chance but no, that top tier stuff still eludes me. I was in queue to checkout for so long but now that I think about it, I should have used several browsers to increase my odds. That’s my bad, and my bad looks like this.

I didn’t realize this was my third strikeout on the Cactus Jack Jordans. There was the initial drop then the Grammy drop, now this birthday surprise. There’s one opportunity left on May 11 and even though there are a lot of retailers, those familiar names didn’t work out with the FOGs.

Will these Jordan CP3.VIII AE make @gquiks487 faster than he already is?

Found these Chris Paul signature kicks line at Ross, and @gquiks487 was looking for this Multicolor Rainbow colorway. Pretty comfortable shoe for guards although it has an awkward name. For the record, CP3 is for Chris Paul who wears the number 3. This is CP’s eighth (VIII) signature shoe under the Jordan label, and the AE? I think that stands for Artisan Edition which are special colorways made for th playoffs.

Since I happened to be there, you know I had to enter just because.

If you entered the raffle but weren’t chosen, there’s some nice Adidas Fluxes you can buy for consolation.

I wonder if these tall Asian ballers entered the raffle?

Back in the day, I remember the P-Rod with the Jordan elephant print. This was the days before online kicks buying went crazy and just finding this shoe was super hard. I managed to see it in person once. Then came the Air Force 1 hybrid with the AJ3 which I managed to get a pair of and wore while watching President Obama leave in Air Force One.

I wasn’t so lucky with the Vapor AJ3. Just gotta hope a restock happens while you’re online so you have a chance of getting these. Or how about a black version of the Vapor AJ3?

But getting an apology from His Airness is pretty cool.

What surprises me more is the amount of time it must have taken to sift through all this footage! Now that’s passion.