WILD RIDERS OF BOARDZ
MY NAME IS BISKUT. I RIDE A
E BAND. WE
SKATE. I'M IN A SKATE
ARE CALLED THE BIG BOYS. WE
MAKE A GOOD NOISE. WE CALL IT
MUSIC. WE ARE FROM TEXAS. THE
BIG STATE FOR BIG BOYS. THERE IS
ONE THING IN THE WORLD THAT
MEANS A LOT TO US. SKATE-
BOARDING. HERE IS OUR STORY.
The outskirts of Austin Suburbia
It's a Sunday afternoon and is
burly hot. On a comer house, in
the kitchen sits Biskut shoving
down a late breakfast of cold
down and sipping on a flat
leftover pizza e
a and sipping on o
warm coke with cigarette ashes in
it. The hardest
dest day of the week to
get your juices flowing after two
full nights of hard core Honky
Now he couldn't just s
Tonkin,
1st at
home all day vegging out in front
of the TV. He has to find something
to do. The phone rings Forcing
down the last mouthful of harsh-
ness he picks up the receiver. "Hel
10."
to?
"Biskut? This is Tim. Whatcha up
"Nothin Man, Just hackin' break-
fast. Whatcha up to?
"Not much either. We should
practice today. Wadaya say?
Zounds good to me. What
fime?
at
How about an hour from now
Chris place?
"Shore leave in a few and
skate on over. Later
Later
Biskut hung up the receiver and
commenced to search out his stik
After
Ar about ten minutes of o
he finally spied it in the
despair
the comer of
the washroom co
Tic-Tak, his cat had
been playing with it again and
must of stashed it there. Biskuts
keen eye confirmed to him that
Tic-Tak
had also mistaken the
board for the l
kitty-litter box
"Damn! As soon as he finished
washing it off he jumped on and
headed down the road towards
practice.
DOGS
THE BIGGEST BOYS ROLL
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Rolling through downtown
Austin, Biskut come by the fine
eating establishment called ETHYL
MAMAS HAMBURGERS His belly
screamed to him STOP STOP
Colangy he wheeled in. Imme
diately he noticed that the place
was empty except for a wimpy
is man in the e
with their sticks and they are just
as lethal if you know how to use
them. The smallest cowpoke v
a smartass and said something
about Tim's mother and how he
probably wouldn't be worth sour
cow dung on a hot summer's day.
Tim didn't think too kindly to this
wwwwcomer and recled in 9 defined
of the patio dining area who w
sipping on a coke and reading a
business paper. Biskut wheeled
over to him and stood before him
blocking all forms of reading light
with his massive 300 to bulkiness
The looked up.
"HI" Biskut said as
could you as loud as he
If you buy me a MAMA
BURGER be your friend forever
this the wimp imme
Hearing enged
diately recognized Biskut as the
guy who sits on you you don't
buy him food. Now, not
of wanting
the massiveness winding his
panatela slacks t
sinister voice. "Td like to shove t
skateboard through an open
couple of
up the street a
would sma note
car made its
way towards the group. The subur
ban fake cowboy geeks sheathed
their knives and pretended to be
casually conversing with the two
skaters they turned to watch and
made sure it was out of sight
before they resumed their ploy
Unsheathing and wielding they
tumed but only to see that T
cks he decided that had not bothered to
would be well worth his while to
buy
Biskut a burger and sove
himself some agony Two r
Two minutes
later found a MAMA BURGER in
s hands Ten seconds later
Biskuts on
was in his st
stomach Two more
seconds and he was skating away
saying "THANK YOU VERY MUCHO
Now Biskut was feeling really
good c
d and temorized the sidewalks
on his merry way Progre
been very very good 1
d to A
Biskut thought to himself as he
spied a banked brick monolith in
the r
Two
He L
fmes c
spood f
up the v
He square the goo
heavily on t
the s
his cos
or the c
five feet down to the surface
below. Three executive secretory
ypes were walking by
the tent and now work solching
where
at the
they were going and ran into a
hot dog stand on
don wheels. The
vendor was furiously yelling of t
types and they all made quite a
sily sight to behold Biskut rolled by
of the
and shad
dogs that w
lady's laps and proceeded on
towards his destination
Biskut was not about five blocks
from Chris house and e
d could see a
ure skating towards him down
figure
one of the side stroots. As the
figure neared Biskut could see that
was Tim on i
house also he way over to Chris
TIME Tm
sped up and was soon alongside
What's up Bekur? How
How ya doin
little buddy?
ay Biskut said with a big
smile. But before either of them
could reply, a fourve by and
a four-wheeler full of
young cowboys drove by and
chucked a beer bottle towards
the
innocent d
skaters
head and
arly missing B
smashing onto the pavement
behind them. Tim holled verbal
and hand gestures at the truck
and beckoned them to retur
They did Pulling into the driveway
behind them, they boled out of
the truck wielding buck knives Tim
wasn't scared and nether wo
Biskut because they were armed
in front of Child house they
in of
were rolling with laughfor over
how t
dumb
w they couldve had quite o
bloody scene. Chris came out
and inquired what had happened
Biskut explained and said. "We just
didn't have the time to mess
around with those c
drugstore, suburban type cowboy
dwids Chris agreed and said
Yeah, we need the practice more
than we need casualties Everyone
laughed Kicking his board into the
T
house
there was someone missing After
a few minutes of deep thought he
concluded that they were mesing
their drummer
Hey Chris Where's Steve?
เน
colled about ten minutes before
you got here. He was really excited
I think he's got s some good news
for us. At that r
tus. At that moment a violent
raucus drew everybody's attention
kitchen. Tim and Chris
to the
looked of each other and then
noticed that Biskut was no longer
in the room. They ran to the kitchen
Sprawled there on the floor was
Biskut, powering down dur
and wering g down d
Steve was hopping
madly, cuning af
about a stubbed
toe in between bites Biskut soid
"You should watch
where
could say
I words After he
Guess what fellas? We're goin' on
gained his composure he said
tour to San Francisco." Then there
was mute silence in the room
everybody
knew
and that they better start packing
for their trip. Bekut belched again
and Tim decided to bring along
an extra cooler
THAT WAS YOUR INTRODUCTION
TO THE BIG BOYS. THEY ARE GOING
TO SAN FRANCISCO. WHAT WILL
THEY FIND ON THEIR WAY? ONLY
FATE WILL TELL FIND OUT IN THE
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