Get-to-know: Mike Cerka

If you don’t know him and love him, or have never had the chance to enjoy his company, you are among the few missing out on this lovely blonde character. Michael Cerka will not shock and appal, and can converse with anyone from children to the feeble and elderly.

In the first of a series of interviews with movers and shakers that the HotClique writers come in contact with, I explore with Mike cigarettes, flying the coup, the footwear industry, and other shit.

(As the photo above shows, I was unprepared for this and wrote on shoe stuffing paper, and only kept brief notes. Some creative license has been taken.)

Ali: So uh, living alone. Like/Dislike?
Mike: It’s a’ight.
A: Duh. Tell me more.
M: Not paying rent is definitely dope.
A: Cool. What about school? You like?
M: …(Talking to someone else about some other shit. The setting for this impromptu interview is Michaels 14th floor prim and proper swinging bachelor pad. We’re drinking.)
A: Yo Mike, school.
M: Yeah, it keeps my mind growing. I enjoy what I’ve done.
(What have you done Mike? Mike went to the moon once in 1969 and got sent forward in time to 1999. That’s when I met him.)
M: The opportunity, chance to go to school for free, and a few more years of living free, on the parents bill.
(That’s why his rent is free. What a deal.)
A: And?
M: And yes I like it and yes I’m doing it to get a piece of paper.
A: Same here. Goodness gracious the papers/Where da cash at?
M: I’m finding out, learning, in my business classes.
A: Now Mike, you’ve been in with the skate/snow industry for a while. You’ve worked the retail end of things and the distribution bit as well; do you dig it?
M: The most popular… the best selling shoe made by a skateboard company is one that is considered to be very fucking gay by all reps.
A: The industry is a new whore that loves fucking. The skateboarders, ones who live from the sport need that prostitute to continue on I suppose.
M: Love-hate relationship dawg.
A: Cheaaaaa I hurr ya.
M:Word.
A: What are you drinking right now?
M: Dude beer.
(I didn’t make the Dude beer joke, fuck yeah. Some things don’t need to be said.)
A: How many supreme shirts do you own?
M: ….(Pauses, counts on his fingers.) One, two, four. Four shirts and four hats.
A: Fuck I like those hats a lot.
M: Same.
A: You smoke and why? What brand?
M: Cuz it’s cool. Whatever comes my way man.

That’s all. Stay tune for more fascinating character sketches as deep and revealing as mug shots.