CHRIS
"KAOS"
COOK
ALVA
Aler
32991-F Calle Avindar
San Juan Capistrano, California v2675
(714) 496-8330
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ROLLING OLDIES
First of all I would like to tell you
that your mag makes my mom cough
up lint balls every month. That means
it's good.
One day I was skating over to the
mall to impress some hot chicks who
flock there for mating season. As I
was passing an old folks home, one
of the residents yelled "Yeah, sonny
boy, let's see some tricks!" I did 360
ollies, caspors and some handstand
maneuvers and got a standing ova-
tion. One guy asked, "How do you
do that?" I replied, "Just practice.
Hey, you could do it too. Maybe not
the tricks, but just cruise. I've heard
of you guys climbing mountains and
I saw you running yesterday. All it
takes is balance, skill and grace."
The next week I saw about five of
them cruising down the sidewalk on
old Nash two by fours!
with oil and poured it all over the
asphalt hill. I took my skate down
sideways. Oh it was fun until my mom
made me scrub it off the hill.
Jason Wilcox
Ridgefield, WA
Next time try Crisco, it's bio-
degradable. Ted
FETUS ELITIST
Pregnancy is a beautiful and more
than wonderful experience. To make
it look obscene and commercial is
truly tactless! (Sept. 88 issue, p.20)
Are your photographers really that
desperate to find female skaters to
photograph? Try again!
SBJP
Newark, OH
I don't know what you mean by
obscene. Should the advertiser have
covered up her navel? Ted
BODY COUNT
Have you ever noticed how
whenever people write in to complain
they say all they see is death in your
mag? I counted the actual number
of dead people in THRASHER-two
In Newsweek I counted thirty-seven!
You decide who's right.
Joshua Dresdner.
Portland, OR
Not only that, we run beautiful photos
of babies and pregnant women. Ted
MID-LIFE CRUISES
Interesting to read your comment
on "senior division" skaters in the
September issue's letter section. I'm
thirty-eight and have been skating
again after a few years absence. Let's
see, the last time I was on a board
it was a two by four with steel wheels.
Or maybe we chiseled the wheels
outta stone. I forget.
I don't know how good I am, or
really care. I skate an average of eight
miles a day on streets and the kids
don't laugh...too much.
I thought I'd mention to any "old
person" interested in skating that it
requires a little attitude adjustment.
Mainly, do you want to be thirteen
again and be treated that way by
everybody? It's a good way to relearn
humility. If I had a quarter for every
time I've been called a Goddam kid-
punk-ittle asshole in the last few
months, I'd get that new deck I want.
Mostly, I hold back what I'd like to
say to these squids because I figure
Zach the Ripper they'll just make it harder on the kids
REREHPICED REFICUL
I was fascinated by the onslaught
of letters regarding satanic innuen-
dos in THRASHER. I decided the on-
ly way to prove this was to read the
magazine backwards. I wound up
with a headache.
Dac
Sixton Falls
Think you have a headache? Try
reading fifty self-righteous, anti-
THRASHER letters a week! Tod
SMOOTH MOVE
When I was first learning to skate
downhill, I couldn't get my skate to
slide, so I sprayed WD-40 all over my
Slimeballs right before going
downhill. It was a five second thrill.
My wheels slid all over the street. I
thought again, then took a drum filled
who skate. Like the old bitch this
morning who "knew my type"
Well, one thing. I can take a fall bet-
ter than most of the kids I see. I
always knew all those parachute
jumps would come in handy for
something. Yeah kids, there is life
after twenty! See ya
DUH!
Steve Turchet
Capitola, CA
I like reading Mail Drop. It makes
me feel really smart.
lan Rogers
Goshen, IN
If you read the ones we threw away,
you'd feel like Albert Einstein. Ted
HE-MAN WOMAN HATER
I hate you for printing that stupid
Lita Ford ad in your mag! What's
Cafter
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