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INK-QUERIES
Did David Hackett snap his wing and get
a cast on the opening day party of his new
home ramp complex? Is Johnny Ray Bartel
close to a DI band signing? Bartel, who is
now reportedly acting as D.H.'s rehabilitation
supervisor, sports a 1960 Cadillac Coupe De
Ville. (Have the TDK commercials all come
true?) Will Johnny and the DI's actually do
American Bandstand?
Has Jackson Browne taken to sporting
Christian Hosoi t-shirts and giving lectures
to international mags and national news-
papers about social responsibility and anti-
government sensibility?
Is Lois, the beautiful bartender from the
Public Domain premiere, now commuting
from LA. to SF. in her Delorean to meet none
other than Dr. Rick Blackhart for exotic car
driving clinics?
Has Chip "Limpie" Morton taken his
Snake Ranch disco inferno deal so far that
he (and certain associates) now run amok.
wearing pointed hats and setting fires? Did
Morton actually grow up in a hippie van next
to the Veteran's cemetery in Westwood, CA?
Did respected skate journalist Britt Par-
rott finally quit for real? Is he going to attend
journalism school in the Midwest "to learn
about real life and real writing"?
Has skate mag art director G.S.D. been
ordered to show up for work every day
promptly at 9:00 a.m. or else?
And from our home sweet home, stranger
than strange file comes this gem of empirical
wisdom: A letter sent to the National Polo:
Journal by Mr. W.T.A. Chin of Wallows, HI,
asked, "Have you seen him?" Jonah
Houston, editor of the prestigious polo press,
is reportedly looking and perplexed.
Was Spidey's last "official" Upland skate
series truly his last? Has Spidey been lay-
ing low with Grosso while NHS henchmen
such as Steve Keenan search for the pair?
Is Dickvack concerned regarding Grosso's
alleged continual avoidance of the Streets
of Fire video shoot? Is a certain big name
soda company overtly irate over Grosso's re-
cent "Enjoy graphics? Was Grosso really
hiding out with a Tahitian bikini model? Was
Spidey actually on tour with Lynard Sky-
nard? Were singer Petey Ritz and Artimes
observed tossing empty whiskey bot-
tles out of the Universal Sheraton's
16th floor along with a bolero-
hatted "former pro skater"
named Mr. Spide?
Did the ever-legendary
T.K. show up in S.F. driv-
ing the Johnny Winter
tour bus? Did not Mofo
compare beaver jaws
with Johnny back-
stage? Were not
Mr. Winter and
Tumbleweed
seen at the Fill-
more exchanging obtuse blues licks? Did
Tommy Kay roll long and hard, only to be
nabbed by over-zealous cops for the crime
of skateboarding? Did Mr. T.K. actually sign
the ticket as Jay Adams?
Did Ancell and Humpston con-
spire to discredit an illustrious pro-
moter/producer/art aficionado
named Pinky by concocting the
ridiculous "rumor" that the law
abiding Red Dog had used him
as a punching bag?
Did that ever-
offensive Cracked
magazine run a
"Have a rad-
off his superior 250-plus historical skate col-
lection? Did Jay "Boy" Adams and Ray
Flores show up early to buy all the vintage
collectables? Did McGuire loan Thatcher his
last dollar to finance the purchase of a perfect
Banzai? Did Lead-o-Bob Kitella buy every
Bahne board in sight? Did the elusive Tall
Dog spend over a grand in his effort to ob-
tain suitable X-mas presents for the gang?
Did Partain's brother get outbid on a pre-
Sims Lonnie Toft eight-wheeler? Was Lee's
the best collection in the world, or what?
Caleb Moore grinds a Santa
Barbara ramp immediately
after acting as an usher at
his sister's wedding.
Photo: Louise Beckwith.
Was Steve Saiz particularly nervous when
Phoenix cops visited the contest site party
at Jim Muir's hotel room? Why was Dressen
laughing?
Was Stacy Peralta actually "lost in Fiji for
a month" or did he film and skate a naturally
formed, perfect volcanic bowl located on an
obscure island?
Does NHS have another foreign model-
this time for Oztralia and Gregor Rankine?
Did Mrs. Lance Mountain recently clean
house and sell a couple of hundred of her
husband's duplicate shirts at one buck per?
Does Evette really send Lance's dirty T's to
the laundry in 40-pound bundles, thus quali-
fying for commercial rates?
ON BOARD
Did Gator recently acquire a Porsche? Is
Hosoi serious when he says he's buying a
Jaguar, a yacht, a Lamborghini and a house?
Did Lucero and Grigley fly as guests of
Poison out to film a video in Nashville, TN,
with Laugh-In's Ruth Buzzi?
-ISMS
Is Bryan Pennington about to bust out
with a high profile model?
Is Blockhead making a move?
Is Chris Miller married?
Is Caballero buying another house?
Is Jim Gray running another company?
Is Skipper Boy fronting a multi-national
corp. with Japan's Jiro Hanave?
Is Roskopp dancing on his broken ankle?
Is Warren Bolster, former editor of Skate-
boarder mag, now sporting a new kid?
Is the city of San Jose, CA, now referring
to itself as the skate capital of the world? Did
the local newspaper list all of downtown S.J.'s
best spots? Did Novak, Cab, Corey O'Brien,
Thatcher, Rick Moody and Mayor Tom
McEnery all speak up for skaters' rights?
Has Skate Time, home of the legendary
Jay Adams holds the old
and talks of
new designs.
In the
future.
TAR
VANS
The Serra twins, Shelter and Ivory, whose
controversial ramp has split the community
of Bolinas, CA, and will possibly set a prece-
dent for future backyard ramps, accepted
an invitation to skate at the Vans factory.
Clown and Blue ramps, acquired the Swatch/
Impact tour remnants? Does Creighton Yost
somehow know?
Has the city of San Francisco decided to
harass and bust any and all skaters at Em-
barcadero Plaza?
Did Ret Taylor, Ryan Wilburn, Damon
Morgan, Josh Montgomery and Chad Elliot
take the SK8HUTS
ditch series?
Right: Ray Flores
teeth testing a Sims
Snake II. "They still
taste the same."
Below: Dave Lee
humbly sold out his
enormous collection.
Is this the latest NSA streetstyle event, or is this local
shredder outrunning a Soviet armored personnel
carrier in ethnic violence-plagued Baku, Azerbaijan?
Did a certain high profile L.A. area manu-
facturer fire all of his employees and then
later offer to fight them all Dodge City style?
Were L.A. cops amused or amazed?
122
ical holiday and agnar-
ly New Year" cover featur-
ing King Claus riding his own
Santa Claus model? Were Santa's graphics
hideously reminiscent of a Santa Cruz logo?
Talking more legal rumors: Is the Geneva
Convention upset with John Lucero for the
use of the colors red and white and the cross
depicted in his recent logo? Is this why John
was booted out of the Sacto contest? Will
Lucero defect and change citizenship?
Did Ventura's Dave Lee actually auction
Mike Crescini and Eric Nash mug with a mannequin
in front of a thrift shop in Melbourne, Australia.
Dennis Dragon-entrepreneur, record producer,
philanthropist, philanderer, Frisbee flinger...
Is 9-year-old Jimmy Rotherham the best
skater in El Salvador? Is there a secret ramp
near La Libertad, where Salvadorian military
men session for hours?
Are Sepp Donahower and Jim Ganzer
working with the Santa Monica Police De-
partment to set up anti-drug skate demos?
Is the general tone "It's cool to be clean"?
Are parents in Grand Prarie, Texas, de-
manding that the local school reinstate
skating as legitimate youth transportation?
Has John A. Grigley returned from New
York where A) he did a poster for Duran
Duran, B) he did four watches for Swatch or
C) he did the art work for the Poison world
tour? Is he the Warhol of the 90s?
Has Salba been riding his illustrious,
obscene "F" model out at the Tim Payne-
designed steel ramp paradise in Gorman,
California? Have Chris Robison, Malba.
Grosso, etc. been there as well?
NOW