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MORNINGS
HOTTEST
STAR
BOOB TUBE PEPE
Skateboarding is hot now and
TV Guide is right on the money
with its Pepe Martinez cover.
The embryonic Association of Skateboard Companies and Manu-
facturers (ASCAM, get it?) held its first meeting at the recent Action
Sports Retailer Trade Show in San Diego, CA. The gathering was well
attended. In fact, the convocation of industry notables probably rep-
resented the largest turnout ever for a skate organization meeting.
Most of the top companies were represented with the notable
exception of World Industries. The absence of Rocco and Rodney
was so apparent that meeting organizer, Jim Fitzpatrick, asked an
ASR Kingpin if World had been excluded from the trade show for
past transgressions and art statements. Anyhow, the assembled
multitudes agreed to meet again to pursue formation of an active
industry/sport/contest organization. At last word, the latest name for
the group is USA (Universal, United, Unified Skateboard Association).
Lurid quotes that seem worth remembering from the affair include:
WHERE ARE
THEY NOW?
Jumpin' John Schultes can still fly like
an eagle if you let him ride your
ramp and sport him some pads.
"If it's good for the amateur kid out in
the suburbs, then I'm in support
of it." -Bruce Walker
"Either we do something or
we're not doing any
thing."-Paul Schmidt
"Since kids spend a
lot of their time in
school, why don't
we as an industry
work to get them
to recognize/
allow our sport?"
-Jim Fitz-
patrick
MARTINEZ
ELEM
Lil' Stevie
reacts to
that Ricky
found out
he got with
Leslie.
ENX
ESXD
SKATEBOARDS
"We could spend the rest of our lives trying to
decide what name to call it."
-Jim Gray
"If you don't have confidence in your companies,
yourselves and your riders, then get out of this
room, you don't belong here." -Greg Carroll
Skateboarding doesn't need surf and snowboard
companies riding on its back any longer."
-Kevin Thatcher
The worst part of the trade show was the vert
ramp blowfest. Some of the world's best verti-
calists were left off the guest list. Danny Way
was not permitted to ride and Colin McKay
was denied as well. Even more brutal was being
forced to suffer through Tony Magnusson and
Adil Dhyani's "Euro-power training" runs.
TAG TEAM
Which prominent skate artist is being sought
by police for piecing on the virgin walls of the SF
Museum of Modern Art? Is not this same artist
currently involved in a blood feud spray-off with
another piecer? Does he now have sixteen.
pieces on public display? Wasn't this same guy
POSER
OF THE
MONTH
DEFENDANT:
Andrew Moore
CHARGE:
Bail-Grab
SENTENCE:
Suburbia
run out of a South-
western state for art
FX rendered?
Which skate manu lost 300,000 dollars in
orders at the ASR Trade Show on his way from
his booth to the bar?
Which Philly boy left Element to hang
with the Profile crew?
BULL FIGHT
Greg Noll, the legendary surfer, surf
and skateboard manufacturer, is now
rumored to be involved in a legal dis-
pute with a certain sportswear company.
Apparently at stake is the namesake
"Da Bull." Ironically, Noll, who has been
referred to as Da Bull for at least four
decades, now needs proof of identity.
No one asked Noll for such identifi-
cation validation when he rode what
is generally considered the largest
wave ever ridden.
Brian Brannon saved a drown-
ing kid from a serious rip current
at Ocean Beach in SF, proving
that all that JFA lifeguard train-
ing in the Arid 'zona desert
was worthwhile.
Stacy Peralta, former
manu and skating world
champion, was recently
observed at the NBA All-
Star game performing a
parking lot simulcast.
Tod Swank has
recently mutated into
an E-Mail hedgehog
and re-invented the
business in cyberspe
cian terms. Any com-
ments can be instant-
ly wired to his World
Wide Webb address.
David Hackett is
now apparently living
in Solana Beach, CA,
where he daily surfs
at Cardiff Reef and
skates down Soledad
Mountain Road. DH
TOESETTE
OF THE
MONTH
PODIATRIST:
Daisy Broon
SUBSERVIENCE:
Foot Felatio
PUNISHMENT:
Tongus Fungus
claims he is working on the fourteenth level Kun-
dalini Yoga Postures so that he can have sex with
women without touching them and thus tar-
nishing his essential spiritual essence.
Recently appearing on the tough man compe
tition series looking for an 80,000 dollar grand
prize was Dennis Martinez. The once and future
pro advocates curb carving as
the ultimate training method.
Those ubiquitous collegian
athletes The Shroeder brothers
are about to acquire master
degrees. Also on the degree
trip is Steve Salisian, who will
graduate as a psychiatrist.
SNOW TIME
Extreme verticalist Dave
Hatchett is rumored out with
a busted femur amidst talk of
legal action against an alleged-
ly incompetent doctor.
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Mike Carroll seems to be
walking around LA in a make-
shift sling while he skates with
fully dislocated shoulder.
Dan Field was seriously.
injured in Oz on the Ministry tour in a boat acci-
dent. He was laid-up for days in Queensland,
Australia, and is now convalescing in the US.
SPIKE SPEAK
And just when you knew that it wasn't fashion-
able to be a skater... First skate fashion is high-
lighted in concurrent Vogue, Mirabella and Inter-
view magazines, among others. Then Danny Boy
showed up attired in Think wear during a video
performance (of course, he did have a skate
model). Then ex-BMXer Spike Jonze gets inter-
viewed in Details magazine with countless ques-
tions about "slacker capitalism."
Jason Lee is reportedly working on a movie in
Minnesota with hyper-
bitch Shannon Doherty.
Girl is said to be creat-
ing a children's book divi-
slon called "Lunch Box."
DODGE
SLEEPS
While the ski resorts build
halfpipes for powder
hounds, the locals over at
Dodge now have their
own snow park going
Herbie Fletcher tore up his groin muscle at
the San Clemente Pier going for a cover shot on
an eight-foot tube. Paramedics were dispatched.
Son Nathan, who's grown a couple of feet taller
in the last nine months, is seriously training for
pro motorcross.
Reigning world longboard surfing champion
Rusty Kealauno and former multiple world title
holder Joel Tudor were rumored to be training
for the sweet science together. However, follow-
ing Tudor's burn down of Pipeline on a long cue,
he and Russ are alleged to have traded blows.
Artist Kevin Ancell and Deluxe are being
harassed by the lawyers of a certain art star
who feels that a Tumbleweed-drawn art piece is
a bite. Apparently the original Ancell execution
on a board bottom was meant as a homage to
the art great. Furthermore, photographer Geoff
Van Dusen witnessed the art guy giving Kevin
the rights to the same piece. A Greg Carroll/
Keith Cochrane designed graphic is now on dis-
play at the SF Museum of Art, where it is pre-
sented as the work of conceptual artist Larry
Clark. Will they, too, sue?
BAITED BREATH
"No matter what I say, it will end up in Trash."
-Steve Caballero
"I started skating because I had no friends."
-Tommy Guerrero
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