See, we told
you. This is
Mark Roach's
better side, but
wait till you
see him skate.
Right: ahh, no
this is not
Youssefpourin
drag, but we
didn't ask
Mike to
explain what it
really was
Rumor has it that Brian Pennington,
Kele Rosecrans and Eddie Elguera
were all outside of Chicago rolling for,
the Cornerstone '90 Christian Music
Fair. A skate demo it certainly may
have been, but exactly what is Chris-
tian music anyhow?
Disastrous fires rolled through
Santa Barbara destroying bil-
lions of dollars worth of
property, etc. Naturally,
the civic-minded skate gen-
tlemen of Team Effigy were
on the scene documenting
and assisting wherever
possible. The skaters had
located twenty newly
opened pools on the first
day of the fire. Recall that it
burned for four more
24-hour periods. Think
of the possibilities.
Think of over 500
ruined homes.
Can the emergence
of vintage British motor-
cycles among skate eli-
tists be a mere coinci-
dence? Let's see now:
Jason Jesse got a BSA. Hogan
has a Norton. John Palfreyman
has a Norton with a sidecar.
John Dettman has a BSA. Don
Vitello is crafting a Triumph cafe
racer while Mr. G. Powell sports an
almost virgin vintage Triumph.
Was Miki Vuckovich actually
observed street skating on San
Diego's skid row wearing a repo-
Rolex? Is this Mischa's attempt to ele
vate the lives of the downtrodden?
In a non-related action, sometime
Dogtown artist Ken Jones was found
BOUNCER
OF THE MONTH
Name: "Big" Ed
Occupation: Bouncer
at City Gardens in
New Jersey
Ht: 6'10" Wt: 285
Age: Old enough
to see through the
bullshit
Quote: "You say
you're on whose
guest list?
Big Ed always has a
smile, but he can and will
bust some serious moves
when the need arises.
Beware if Ed has to wade
into the pit after you, but
he's one of the few
club bouncers,
most everyone
gets along with
wandering with the coyotes at night in
the desert during the recent record
122-degree heatwave. Affiliate artist
Kevin "Tumbleweed" Ancell claims
to know: "It was an art action."
Equally artistic was the show featur-
ing Tim Bessell and Nisi Masanori in
lush La Jolla, California. Masanori,
who at times wonders about "the
American sense of humor," busted a
few B's off-site, promptly cut off all his
hair with a butcher knife and then went
off to Japan and Europe. The show,
quite logically, was deemed a success.
Down under the new rage riders
concentrate intensely on the street.
Blokes like Simon Higgins, Brent
Fellows, Brian Jacobsen, Alain
Bogilio, Chad Ford and Mungo
Steele are said to be carving new leg-
ends out of existent terrain.
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MISFITS
Will Mike Conroy join the manus or
is it just another Conroy training tactic?
Is a certain highly prominent team
manager being secretly set up for the
sack by management? Could he pos-
sibly have offended certain bank offi-
cials who seem now to be running
things?
Did Chip "Limpy" Morton miss the
boat and actually swim two miles in
the Torrey Pines regatta? Do Swank,
Kevin Wilkins, Sherman, Reese
Simpson and Bruno know the
details?
Is John Grigley now doing fine art in
an L.A. loft?
Be further forewarned. This is real.
So look again. Is a certain internation-
ally ranked art critic, skate aficionado
and general human, now doing five to
seven years in a Mexican jail for the
"crime" of wearing an S. Clay Wilson
t-shirt? Several skaters have reported
severe Mexican harassment for wear-
ing the right skate graphics in the
wrong places (which apparently can
include anywhere).
QUOTES
"Give me a good bicycle and I can
beat any Corvette or Ferrari."
Jeff Grosso
"Lake Cachuma's dry as a popcorn
fart."
Dettman
"I don't think anyone skates for free."
Steve Sherman
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