TRASH
ALIEN NATION
Josh Kalis and Lennie Kirk were car cruising through the
Fillmore section of SF when they were robbed at gunpoint.
The crooks took the wallets but left the car. Then the cops
came to get fingerprints and impounded the car. Unfortu-
nately for the skaters, the cops demanded registration of said vehicle
to get it out of the impound yard, but guess what? It was in the wallet.
Julien Stranger, Eric Jay, Tobin and Dune
were all seen in Portland for a quick session
or maybe a love scene for the Dunester.
Could it be that a new company called
Anti-Hero is in the works? Is it possible
that the bad boys of skating will finally
get their due? Will Bob Burnquist
and Sean Young be first to blow up?
DOWN TOWN
Luke Ogden and Dom Callan were
involved in a head-on collision on the
infamous blood alley stretch of the
Golden Gate bridge. The bad news
for Logden was that his
insurance was
SUENOS
nil and his new truck was
totaled. Will he now have
to skate to Marin to tend to
his landscaping duties?
Was not the infamous.
Jay Adams seen on the
KILL KILL KILL
After years of talking about a fight till the
death, Steve Rocco and George Powell finally
got down to business in a field in Santa
Rosa. At last hack, both had lost some limbs
but neither was prepared to call it a draw.
west coast of Amerikkka? Are he and fellow instigator Jason Jessee hit-
ting the road? Is Jessee in the close proximity of nailing down a few
mill courtesy of Melvin Belli?
Jay Moore of Eagle Rock ramp fame is now pumping the
scene in Bozeman, Montana, where he runs a skate/snow empo
rium. Neil Blender is said to be back in Huntington Beach
where he talks of selling the house in Ohio and permanantly.
returning to Southern California.
The latest entrant into the Lollapalooza art tour sweep-
stakes is Steve Sherman. Giant mural-size blow-ups of
Sherm shots of Tony Hawk, Willy Santos, Mike Frazier and
Benji Weatherly are said to be going up on the rockfest's cir
cus scale art tent. Rumored to have pulled out of the tour
because of "corporate fascism" is Glen E Friedman. Also said
to be out of the show is skate/paint/surf motivator Stash. For
Ex-San Francisco resident Carl
Shipman couldn't decide if he
wanted to eat healthy or die
young. In the meantime he
is back in England after
being deported from Canada.
SCARS OF THE STARS
When I was thirteen years old, I was skateboarding at a Val
Surf demo in Los Angeles on the Powell fold-out ramp, which
was made out of metal. I was doing a frontside lipslide when
I leaned to pull my tail in and my board connected with some
one else's truck. I therefore slammed with full force onto my
unpadded elbow. When I realized what had just happened.
I looked at my arm and noticed the deformation and rushed
to the local hospital for pins and surgeries. The point is: Watch
your fucking boards hanging over the deck! -Omar Hassan
the record, Stash was last seen hooking up
Twist and a dozen other impromptu street art
creators with the opera in Berkeley, California,
and Paris, France. Steve Sherman's got nothing
to say, either, as he's laying back in Hossegor,
France, courtesy of Surfing Magazine editor
Nick Carroll, who flowed after Sherm declined
Surfer Magazine editor Steve Hawk's overtures
to come on board at that mag. On Sherman's
way out of the US, he was seen with Christian
Fletcher at Cotton's Point. Another surfing
media skate crossover was seen in H30 mag's
excellent historical/current Jay Adams profile. In
this piece, which probes the roots of surf skat-
ing, Jay Boy flat-out said that to understand
one, you have to do the other
MAN WOMAN
When Jeff Tremaine was allegedly seen sport-
ing full-on drag attire under the LAX Metrorail
station, it sparked rumors that Big Brother was
begetting a new mag called Little Sister. Mean-
while, clean scene snowboard industry types fret
about World's takeover of Blunt.
Tod Swank was evicted from his plush Del
Mar oceanfront digs and is now dwelling back at
the Foundation laboratory.
Laura Thornhill, one-time women's skate
champion, is said to be a front-runner for the
ESPN Extreme Games skate announcer slot.
Creature as we knew it is now rumored to be
officially history. Mainstream man Russ Pope
is reportedly in at CCS. His departure caused
a plethora of rumors over whether he quit or
was fired. Also gone is Jason Adams Denike
says Creature will continue on undaunted
while the Pope project could be called
Fiend and based out of San Luis Obispo.
BURN OUT
Jim Gray, Jeff Klindt, Chris Miller, Greg
Carroll, Paul Schmitt, Steve Douglas, Chris
Carter, Per Welinder, Reggie Barnes, Frank
Messman, Tod Swank, Rick Howard and
Steve Rocco are all said to be vying for spots
on the elected Board of Directors of the
newly formed International Association of
Skate Companies. Director Jim Fitzpatrick
SHOE BIZ
The war of the skate sneak-
ers was temporarily put on
hold when Steve Caballero
married his sweetheart Sue
last May in San Jose. At the
service, the pint-size ripper
wasn't concerned with
insoles and ollie patches
while Salman Agah was
seen jumping for joy upen
hearing the news that his
new Full Elephant was in
stores and selling briskly.
claims that association members
spent well over $300,000 in contest
sponsorship-related costs in sixty
days. He estimates this year the
industry will spend more than 1.8
million dollars on the same. The
IASC will allegedly establish guide-
lines for contests so members can
begin boycotting events en masse
which the group deems unworthy
Larry Clark's film Kids is finally out, showing a
number of New York skate types in their natural
habitat. The not-quite documentary depicts the
lads and their flames living their more or less
"normal" lives. The film has a happy ending
where everyone contracts AIDS. The high point
of this cinema epic is the unscripted beatdown
of a basketball player by
skaters. Clark now is said to
be making a new film about
Visalia, California. Other
players include Harold
Hunter, Lavar McBride
and Nick Lochman. After
the showing at the Cannes
film fest in France, Sharon
Stone and Uma Thurman
have both expressed inter-
est in ol' dirty Harold.
The Universal film Mall-
rats, featuring Jason Lee
and Shannen Doherty, is on
the way to the big screen.
Lee reportedly has signed
on for two more films with
director Kevin Smith.
WHICH HUNT
Which two company own-
ers wouldn't go to the wed-
ding reception of a longtime
UNSOLVED
MYSTERIES
Darby Crash poses with his trusty
steed in a Hollywood apartment
shortly before his death in 1980.
Proving powers of perception
beyond mere mortals, the Trash-
men have figured out why the king
of punk killed himself at such an
early age: He rode Trackers.
AGE
PiL)
team rider if they were both required to sit at
the same table?
Will Steve Berra and Rob Dyrdek go for
round two of their recent punchfest? Berra was
claiming to be training with outback outfitters in
Australia when last heard from.
Which magazine editor's girlfriend bailed out
in favor of a producer's slot on the top-rated
Hollywood TV program Seinfeld?
WORD HEARD
"Visalia's the perfect place, massive suburban
sprawl with nothing to do."
-Jeff Klindt
"I knew that she was artsy because she said shit
like ciao."
-Steve Sherman
"Second is just the first loser." -Mark Hubbard
"Fuck those guys"
-Lance Dawes
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