Trash
FREEWAY FUSILLADE
POSER OF
THE MONTH
VICTIM:
Jesse Durrum
SYMPTOM:
Noseslidus falsicus
REMEDY:
New hairstyle
Cruising up an onramp at terminal velocity, thinking man Keith Cochrane was
fired upon in a minor roadway "misunderstanding." The culprit was an anony-
mous white trasher in a Camaro who cut Cochrane off in heavy traffic, and then
in apparent retaliation for a real or imagined social infraction, drew and threw
down. Fortunately, the angle of penetration of the bullet which hit Keith missed
vital organs, brains and Keith's pager. Perhaps it pays to drive those redneck,
high-riding, all-steel, early '70s Chevy trucks. Cochrane refuses to talk about it,
although he was seen skateboarding the day after he was released from the
hospital. His only comment was, "Think of it as a minor motoring mishap."
MODEL RUNAWAYS
The fashion forecasters are at it again. Most recently,
the New York Times Art & Leisure section, the LA Times
and the Detroit Free Press all did feature articles on skate-
boards as the de rigueur fashion accessory. Worse yet was
internationally acclaimed designer Nicole Miller's recent
NY salon showing, which featured not only the "street
skate look," but an entire line of "snow-
board prints. These snow scenes
were tastefully combined with
knee-high Chinese cowboy
boots for authenticity.
Meanwhile, surf/skate/snow-
board retailers in the western
United States were freaking
out when December hit and
there was still no snowfall to
speak of. Massive discounting
and industry buy-backs of over-
produced items resulted in
panic in the shop and manu-
facturers' rallies.
In an unrelated snafu,
Times Mirror report-
edly cut out fifty
positions in
their magazine publishing group, which allegedly created
havoc at the corporate-controlled TWS snow magazine.
Another widespread rumor has it that TWS pio-
neer publisher Larry Balma is on his way
off salary at the snowboard publica-
tion. Elsewhere, Tony Hawk's broth
er Steve assumed publishership
of Surfer Magazine's own related
snowboarding pub.
138 THRASHER
If you can't beat 'em, join
om. Trapped between
legendary bowl busting
N-Man Randy Katen and
eye-in-the-sky helicopter
pilot John Wiggins, Ricky
Windsor had no other
choice but to take it out
on the coping.
FAMILY TIES
The wide world of skateboarding's most eligible bachelor,
Salman Agah, got hitched with his beautiful bride Laura at a
ceremony in San Jose while his proud mother Annie looked on.
Meanwhile, longtime Hawk/Balma acquain-
tance Henry Hester set up shop and opened a
massive new snowboard production facility for
Rusty. Back in the south again, Hester, the leg-
endary skate slalom racer, has been seen rolling
near La Costa.
MUTTON CHOPS
Rodney Mullen is reportedly finally free from
all legal ramifications resulting from his "inad-
vertent" crimes of trespassing allegedly commit
ted on the nationally protected Catalina Island
nature reserve. Meanwhile, the Mutt has been
seen on the celebrity party circuit with mate
Yanna and such dubious types as Matt Dillon,
Kato Kaelin and Mick Jagger.
Glen "I'll never do publicity again" Friedman
is reportedly offering up another slice of vintage
sicate history for the Beasties Boys' Grand Royal.
Ray Underhill and Walt Teague have been
working with San Diego city officials for over
three years in an attempt to gain civic public
skateboarding facilities. El Cajon is repeatedly
mentioned as the most viable site.
The Skatepark of Tampa is the scene of an
upcoming East/West amateur skate contest. Wet
T-shirts are "promised but not required."
Robert Williams' art opening at the posh
Tamara Bane gallery in Los Angeles drew thou-
sands of people. The after-party at LSD guru
Timothy Leary's house included Kevin Ancell,
Mark Gonzales, Ed and Deanna Templeton,
Sean Cliver, The Pizz, The Faust, Coop, Shay
No, Kat O, Anthony Ausgang. Artie Shaw, J
Paul Getty III, Swenson, Otto Fokküs, and Gary
Leonard, the Weegee of the West.
FOOL'S FISTICUFFS
If you wore a clown suit all the time, you'd
probably get in a lot of fights too. The upcoming
Shaun Palmer vs Simon Woodstock snow-skate
grudge boxing match in is slated to go down in
Las Vegas. Sacramento's own Jeff Toland will ref-
eree the blows between the two contenders.
The preliminary bout will wage
extreme boarder and rap aficionado
Shawn Farmer against gothic metal
stormtrooper Damien Saunders. And
in other Simon Woodstockian pugilis-
tic news... While watching the recent
Thrasher video Donut Duty, Nanda
Zipp overheard Gershon Mosely calling Wood-
stock a kook. Nanda promptly relayed the news
to the killer clown who immediately called Gersh
out. At last report the two were set to put on the
gloves in the parking lot of No Control skate
shop in Los Gatos. Finally comes the purported
hook-up between supposedly aggrieved surf pro
Sonny Garcia vs non-Z Boy turned journalist
Matt Warshaw over alleged bad press.
NO ANSWERS
Did Christian Hosoi sever himself from Focus
while World emperor Steve Rocco was busy
buying into Channel One against the concern
of his cherished employees?
Has Bucky Lasek joined the New Deal? Did
Kareem Campbell sire an offspring with immi-
nent fatherhood in the future?
Was Chris Keefe fired from Element or did
he quit? Have Brian Chung, Doug Saenz and
John Deago declared War?
Have the extra-large over-vertical confines of
the Lake Berryessa full pipe seen
recent sessions by Curtis Hsaing,
Ruben Orkin, Royce Nelson,
Pete the Ox, Gravedigger, Coco
Santiago, Arco, Julien Stranger
and Jesse Driggs?
MUCK
TRUCK
Lo and behold, is this a vehicle of
wong hung lo wennabes or a legiti
mate personal business expense for
the writer of this column? And finally,
when all is said and done, would
you buy fresh poultry from this van?
THE STINKER
The aroma in most public out-stalls is bad enough.
but after commode commando Remy Stratton has
dane his business in there, you best forget about it.
MOD SQUAD
Congrats to David "Nasty Nastari for his
appointment to the SF police department. The
street skater turned copper will patrol the beat
in the lovely Hunter's Point/Potrero Hill district.
The much ballyhooed N-Men X-mas 20 year
anniversary bash brought past legends and rising
stars together. In attendance were Gary Cross,
Randy Katen, Steve O, Don and Danielle Bos
tick, KT, BK, Tom Bixby, Rich and Phil Mailhe,
Matt Pailes, Dan Drehobl, Frank Camp, Corey
Atoongh, Joe Sierro and throngs of others.
While the party was raging KT's parked Acura
reportedly found itself on the receiving end of a
hit and run fender bender.
NOTABLE QUOTE
"This isn't art, it isn't business, it's life." -Gonz
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