Chef
Pierre
Trash
ORTHOPEDIC STEW
In the doctor's office: Brandon
Turner with a broken leg, Dayne
Brummet with a broken foot,
Mike Maldonado with a torn
ACL, and Eddy Alioto and Neil
Heddings, both with internal
finally joins the
Thrasher team.
RIP
bleeding, Kanten Russell
snapped his ankle in a stuck
landing of a 360° kickflip
down a massive stretch of
stairs. Now he too is chillin'
with the wife and child.
Capital, Silverstar, ECU, Big East and Nicotine.
SWAP MEAT
Pat Channita is no longer just doing it and has
dropped his ties with the Nike corporation. Badtimes
are here for Jeremy Deglopper, as he was let loose.
from the Goodtimes stable. Jason Dill and Anthony
Van Engelen have escaped the wormhole that was 23
Skateboards and beamed aboard the Alien Workshop.
After setting the record for the most coverage as an
amateur, Cairo Foster has jumped in the Mad Circle
as a pro. As part of the ongoing regrouping process at
Human, Matt Moffett was shuttled over to the
Republic camp to take care of pro duties along with
Tommy "The Brain" Budjanec. The genius switch is
always on for Rob Mertz over at Zorlac. His latest
brainstorm is a new line called DNA that will feature.
Chris Livingston, James Riff and Jimmy
Chadwick as riders. East Coast menace Dan Tag will
also soon be joining Mertz at AZA to handle manageri-
al duties. East Bay punker Jake Tillman decided no
sponsor was better than being a Zorlac-noid and just up
and quit. Danny Montoya has caught the groove and
is now pro for Rhythm. Bucky Lasek has finally kissed
the tiny Woodbridge ramp goodbye and has moved,
with wife and child, to Carlsbad, California to partake
of the giant area vert ramps.
DEPARTMENT
OF THE
INTERIOR
CASUAL TEASE
Steve Cathey appears confused over
whether or not his picture is depicted atop
a certain Sector 9 deck. If it is, how is it?
Which mail-order vendor has infuriated
several premium manufacturers by con-
tinuing to use unauthorized photos of
their team riders in promotional materi-
als? Did not a major industry leader
order his manager to "knock those fag-
gots out or else I'll go over there myself
and drop ship them to the mortuary"?
Will Jerry Hsu be working closely
with management, and teammates
Chad Knight and Dave "Leaf Boy"
Coyne, to add some skater-minded
stimulus to the screenplay stylings of an
upcoming Maple video?
GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE
The 17th annual Münster monstership was the site of
major contest glory, with over 120 entrants and many
Cinderella stories to boot. Highlights include Brian
Anderson Smith grinding down a 20-foot handrail to vic-
tory in street. While the Hawk flew into vert history, Tas
Pappas and Danny Way went to blows over old news.
Mark Gonzales styled and cruised, Rick McCrank
50-50ed the big bar into the steep bank. Senn blitzed,
and Koston nollie nosegrinded the tall box. Seen in the
mix were Natas Kaupas, Tom Penny, Justin Ashby
and Titus Dittman, who was assaulted and chased by
the kids out of his own parking lot into the safety of the
Halle Münsterland.
PIG SHIT
The HBPD are on point and skate harassment is cur-
rently so bad that even local legends such as Herbie
Fletcher have been known to be rousted for skating in
the vicinity of the Huntington Pier. Fletcher is said to
have actually been harassed for skating over his own star
on the Surf City Walk of Fame. On the Saturday evening
of the aforementioned US Championships, the police
presence was so heavy that ten teams of patrolmen were
rumored to be taking down anyone in view under the age
of thirty. For example, the Trash clique was present when
Surf City's finest took down a carload of skaters for the
offense of erratic driving in a Taco Bell drive-through.
The cops complained to us
that many of the riders
being busted all gave their
names as Ed Templeton.
The real tweak here is that
the opening ceremonies of
the pier's new showcase
several-million-dollar-budg-
BRAIN BLEED Jake Rupp ain't losing any sleep
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while looking for a new sponsor.
et Duke's restaurant/muse-
um may not be reconcilable
with the overall proto-fas-
cist style of the town's hard-
ass police personnel. Duke
Kahanamouku, the restau-
rant's founder, was
course a skate manufactur-
er in addition to being an
Olympic swimming legend
and a surf pioneer. The fes-
tivities for the restaurants.
which bear his name tend
towards outright Hawaiian
bacchanals, which import
dozens of the island's most
overt pleasure extremists to
take part. T-Bo, the Duke's company chairman, is a
skater of considerable experience, and he has spoken of
the fact that the restaurant's location is the exact spot
where the old Huntington Beach banked concrete skate
spot was situated. Talk of skate demos permeates their
roll-out plans, as do an Ed Economy-Dale Smith skate
display collaboration.
DADAISM
Reproductive splendor came to Micke Alba in the
form of a son named Indy Scott Alba. Is Danny Way
running for role model as the father of the year? Not to
be left behind in this rage to replicate oneself is Steve
Sherman, who has been trashing his studio to convert it
into a baby room.
SOUL STRIPPER
Perry Farrell, Block, Christian Hosoi, Stryder, Jay
Adams, Tony Alva, Wes Humpston, Constantineau,
Muir and Muir, Jeff Ho, Skipperboy Engblom,
Fingers Murray and Scott Oster are all names being
tossed around Hollywood, where it is rumored that a doc-
umentary film detailing the Dogtown Epoch is in its form-
ative stages. Said to be a cinemagraphic directorial pos-
sibility is Glen Friedman, who, in keeping with his "I
Don't Do Media" persona, denies all even as he main-
tains his Englen Web site and appears on MTV as a
Beastie Boy spokes-affiliate. A more oblique stretch to
this item is that South Parkians Anna, Angie, Trey
Parker and Matt Stone, in conjunction with Brandon
Cruz and Steve Olsen, may also be involved with the
purported film project.
POSER OF THE MONTH
Flasher: Alex Brangers
Flail: Poopy pants roll-away
Felch: Public skidmark display
Signs of the demise? Universal Studio Tours are said to
be designing a Back to the Future Hover Board amuse-
ment attraction. Gabe Sullivan is being employed as a
strategy consultant at the Clasky Csupo animation group,
where word has it they are developing a "skate cartoon."
Disney Inc is planning a board plex to augment their
Florida wave pool. Watch for a massive version in
Anaheim as well.
DIE, MEAT!
The essentially anonymous arsenal of Argentinian rip-
pers has once again landed vicariously on US soil here in
Nor-Cal via Diego "the Butcher" Bucchieri. He's only
been here for three weeks, yet heavy slabs of spots
around the area have already been sliced, packed and
served. The Butcher has come to go to work. The blood.
and slaughter is inevitable.
COMING, GOING, DEAD
Skater, photographer, videbgrapher, one-time journal-
istic prodigy of domestic living, and suspected Castro
WARPED TOUR CASUALTY
The Bay Blocks scene ain't what it used to be. The
cops, having kicked the skaters out under the pretext of cleaning up the landscape, apparently overlooked this eyesore.
affiliate Mark Whiteley will take up the task of manag-
ing grammar guru of Slap after returning from an exten-
sively-planned road mission to as many skateparks and
whatnots between Cali and Colorado. Austin, Texas'
famously unknown rippers, Zac Martin and Jake
Nunn, landed stranded in Palo Alto, CA after baking in
Phoenix, losing in Vegas, viewing Larry Flynt's
antiques in LA, and finally getting shafted out of their
rental car by road buddy and anonymously infamous do-
it-yourself video pornographer Eric McKay. And the
possibility that North Carolina native and enemy mag
puppet Pete Thompson somehow cursed himself to a
fate of injurious trauma for as long as he continues to
reside in SF doesn't seem entirely
impossible, especially after the lat-
est link in his chain of misfortunes
came in the form of getting assault-
ed and dragged by his camera strap.
DRIVE BY
Kris Markovich has removed his
feet from Duffs shoes, citing design
problems. Meanwhile, Sal Barbier
and Alphonso Rawls will be start-
ing a new mesh-laden line through
the same offices. All this after
recently being purchased by a
Canadian boot company.
Citing low profitability as com-
pared to DC shoes, Circus
Distribution has licensed out the
Droors and Dub lines.
On a recent Fourth of July visit to
the concrete skatepark at Crested
Butte, Colorado, long-time Boulder
loc Than Brooks was delighted to
see a van roll up filled with pool-rid-
ing legend Alan Losi. Brooks' stoke
turned to sorrow, however, as Losi's
only runs in the bowl were scum-line
carves and the remainder of his time
was spent adjusting his trucks and
chilling in the van. How the mighty
have fallen.
Al Partanen and Peter Hewitt
have joined an exclusive club whose
only other members include Duane
Peters and Tony Hawk.
Presumably the watchmen must have pondered the
whereabouts of their conspicuously absent defending
champion, the irregular Joel Tudor. The missing
sportsman was actually in Europe with Thomas
Campbell, who is making a fine arts type film on some
other Japanese firm's tab. Tudor, who did manage to
capture the European crown while in Biarritz, quietly left
those championship rites to go skate in Rome. The boys
around Birdhouse are said to be claiming that Tudor
may soon join Tony Hawk on the Eurotrash luxury fash-
ion team Diesel.
ROYALTY
Will the assurance that the high court's counsel at
Kastel has finally concluded that
they should indeed take whatever
steps necessary for them to be
the first to unleash skate sneakers
that bear the design and personal
seal of their chief warrior, Jesse
Paez, upon the high-stakes battle
for the riches of the signature
shoe market realm prove trust-
worthy? There's no reason why
ye should doubt i
Gonz continues his highly
empirical shoe design process:
"What you need are practice
shoes that are sturdy and
won't wear out and light-
weight super thin-soled con-
test shoes so you can really
feel the board." The latest all-
consuming
interest of
Gonzales is the work of
German poets like Andreas
Gryphius. And what did he
see while in the Deutschland?
"I didn't see anything. No art,
no monuments. I only saw
people when they were stand-
ing in front of me." Mark
returned home to his quilting
as quickly as possible and was
seen sneaking towards the 81-
year-old Noah Pedafoy's two
acre art piece in the desert
Joshua Tree.
The announcement that the Steve HALL OF MEAT DIRT DEVIL
Caballero signature shoe is the
largest-selling model skate shoe of
Top: Todd Henry of Oxford, PA
hates homemade handrails.
Below: Jason Jackson tried to
eat some 'crete.
all time has instigated a boom in
both the old stock resale and the
speculative markets. Tokyo traders
say that vintage Cabs are selling in the
Air Jordan range, which is to say in the grander-plus cat-
egory of disposable discretionary capital. And those
extinct seventies disco artifacts, the Hobie skate shoes,
are making a move on the curiosity front. The presence
of such easily convertible assets no doubt had an effect
upon Neal Hendrix's recent defection to the Vans
camp. Van Doren strategist Jay Wilson was seen hob-
nobbing with Casio corp barons at a recent party held at
the Huntington Beach Arts Center. The free beer bash
was held in conjunction with the United States Surfing
Championships, which were sponsored by Casio.
After skating the skatelite-sur-
faced mini-ramp out at Half
Moon Bay's new wooden park
on Think demo/grand open-
ing Sunday cover-cowboy.
Wade Speyer went home.
expecting to see only his wife Kim, but instead found
all his skater buddies from the demo, and even some
of his countrytime Concord cohorts, gathered for a
surprise BBQ birthday bash. It was a curiously incon-
gruous combination of elements. There were skaters
civilly conversing with spur-sporting country gals,
Stetson men chuggin' beers from the wheelbarrow-
keg that was pretty close to the skateboards ridden to
the party, and hay bales for revellers to sit on while
tired from square dancing, playing with Wade's pit-
bull-or while listening to Too Short. Conspicuously
absent from that day's demo and party was Wade's fel-
low pro teammate Tim McKenney. Rumors of heated
exchanges regarding recent instances of non-participa-
tion in similar skating/promo-oriented events becoming
a disturbingly permanent pattern have been flying.
around Think ranks. But, at the other end of the stick,
who on the team or management staff would've been
instantly down-at the drop of an 11 PM phone call-
for a two hour drive out to the brand-new, un-opened
Modesto, CA skatepark, followed by another hour and a
half of shovelling and sweeping six inches of sand out of
the spine-bowl section of the park with tails of boards
and kitchen brooms, with nothing but a few runs and a
narrow escape from police search lights as reward?
NO TIME
"The peak of anything is only discernable after the
inevitable decline which follows it."
-Rich Novak
"Skating is just going fast, looking good and falling hard."
-Tim McKenney
"Gonz has definitely got that Peter Pan syndrome down."
-Steve Sherman
WHO AM I?
The first person to correctly identify this
infantile skater wins a Thrasher T-shirt!
Send responses to: Who Am I? PO Box
884570 SF, CA 94188-4570
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