alas, the love affair between our hero (uh, that's me) and the sweetest shoes on the planet was cut short when the customer service chick on the vans website told her they were a limited-time only type shoe that had already been discontinued.

if any of you out there find yourselves at a vans store (apparently there's not quite enough of a skating community anywhere in wisconsin to create a need for a vans store) where they still have some in stock i'm desperately in love with the red ones and i wear an 8.5 in that brand. the website i linked to has light blue, but they're nowhere near as cool so i'm not spending my monies on 'em. suck it.