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around dozens of bladers, and they
never cut me off or give me any shit. All
these skaters call them posers for being
influenced by skateboarding like with the
vert ramps and the baggy pants and the
handrails. The skateboard
..MAIL
community should be flat-
DROP
tered, not angry. You
rollerblade-hating assholes
are just looking for some-
one to hate. I've met a lot
more jerk skaters than
bladers. Skaters that hate
rollerbladers are just pre-
tending that bladers give
them shit. It's stupid.
Rollerblading is a sport. It
has as many rights as
skateboarding. Punk
to lear
skaters who are always beating up on
bladers should try to learn something
from them. Instead of turning
skating- -any l kind of skating, whether it
be blades or boards-into some kind of
angry political debate (God knows we
have enough of them), why don't you lay
off and accept rollerbladers as they have
accepted us?
Len Gutkin
Baltimore, MD
You are an idiot. T-ed
MIND BENDER
My teenage son has become an avid
fan of skateboarding and your magazine.
He bought his board at the Green
Barrel in Woodbridge, VA. It was
recently featured d on N MTV. I encourage
my son Jon in his attempts at skate-
boarding, but do you think you could
consider cleaning up the language in
your magazine? You have a tremendous
influence on young people, why not use
it for some good? Not too many years
ago, obscene words were left blank. I'll
bet with a little forethought, you could
do even better than that.
Marvin Merjundi
Woodbridge, VA
No. T-ed
MORE CORE
What is punk? Punk is not how you
are, it's what you make of it. Not how
you dress or what you listen to. Punk is
doing something totally insane, or saying
"Fuck off" to the authorities. Punk is not
buying expensive clothes so you can rip
them to look rad. Punk is living on the
streets, "squatting" in a run-down house,
stealing money for food, eating out of a
garbage can, wearing the only clothes
you have day after day. Punk isn't a
hairstyle or even a hair color. It's not a
piercing you have. Punk is not a fuckin'
characteristic, it's the way you live out
on the streets, "squatting," being afraid
of what might happen to you in the
night, freezing in winter, trying to sleep.
but you're so damn cold, you can't.
Having people walk by calling you a fag-
got and throwing shit at you, telling you
you'
're a sorry ass piece of
shit for a human being. A
big "Fuck off!" to people
who think they're punk
and live in a
live in a rich neighbor-
hood and drive BMWs and
Mercedes. You're not
punk. If you ever went out
on the streets, you'd be so
Se fuckin' scared, you'd go
back home less than 2
hours. Quote by TA: "You
can take the punk off the
street, but you can't take
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the street out of the punk."
Anonymous in Arizona
RICH LIST
You're a bunch of money-grubbin'
hypocrites who hide behind your image
of anti-establishment just to make a
buck. You're scum. How much did you
buck.
get paid to put the Gap ad in your mag?
Probably a lot. What's next, Calvin
Klein? Think big, you idiots. Keep telling
those skaters that are taunted by Gap-
wearing preps to stand up for them-
'selves. I'm sure they feel great to open
their skate mag and find this shit. I'm
going to burn your mag with my
American flag.
Skater In Portland.
In fact, our ad rates are very reason-
able. T-ed
RAW MEAT
What the fuck is people's problems.
with skaters? Not long ago, I was at a
mall with a friend of mine, skateboarding
around. We were behind some bowling
alley when I heard, "Man, we're gonna
kick some skater ass tonight." I looked
around the corner to see where it
came
from, and I saw these four, huge, steroid-
junkie preps get out of a car. I grabbed
my friend and we darted. We stopped at
a restaurant to get some munchies, and
the manager told us to leave, because we
were disturbing his business. On the way
out, these grunge/punk rockers followed
us in hopes of a fight. Well, they were too
high off their ass to know what they were
doing, so we just walked away. What
ticked me off the most was these dudes
are supposed to be on our side. There
are hardly any places to skateboard with-
out having about 15 of your friends there
in case you run into trouble. Why does
the public hate us so much?
Clayton Tanner
Wichita, KS
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