STORMFRONT COMING
Walls of roaring water race down cement culverts during flash
floods, kidnapping everything in their path. Dogs, boulders
and the occasional little kid get caught in the vicious tumults.
For the moment, the ditch is dry, and Tom Peha reaches for
higher ground with a wall clutching Kiwi slide. The clouds
pause and smile before releasing their imminent thunder.
44 THRASHER MAGAZINE
JUMPIN' CATFISH
Before the ollie, the
disaster and the
hurricane, back when
wheels were wider
than trucks, air was
something you
breathed. It's safe to
say that the whoever
put the catfish pond.
extensions around
the original Carlsbad
bowls never imagined
Eric Ricks would one
day stroke their cre-
ation with a blunt,
surrealist brush.
ESCAPED
GARGOYLE
A contorted apparition
named Mako Urabe
escaped from his perch
above St. Vincent
cathedral one August
morning. He seized a
skateboard from a
passing youngster and
discovered its four wheels
gave him the wings he
never had. Alive and
liberated, Urabe roams
freely in the streets.
floating above gnarled
planters with phantas
magoric grace.