Trash
ACTION JACKSON
lex Chalmers will now be launch-
ing out of concrete bowls on Flip
ing
at the Black Label.
propositions. How much? Try
1.8 million dollars for a single
solitary Super Bowl spot. So you
know when the bright men of
advertising spend their money
they want to make it count. As
everyone knows, Business Week
magazine has been claiming
things as of late like "modern
youth is no longer satisfied with
playing such traditional main-
Filip playing sy
stream sports as baseball and
So the rationale
behind Honda's new skate-bash-
Muska back on és. Repeat, Muska ing ads is all too apparent. The
back on és.
Philly's son Ricky Oyola is on lock-
down and facing possible prison time
in Australia following a poolroom
brawl with some Bondi Beach locals.
Pat Duffy was seen showdogging up
in Canada. Mike Carroll was seen in
the Miami area with Eric Koston and
Rick Howard filming some big guns
on handrails.
Back in the LA area, Joey Suriel is a daddy,
and Fabian Alomar
has two kids as well.
Congrats.
NEW DE
copy in the auto maker's ad
depicting a skateboard appear-
ing in such intellectually elite
rags as Smithsonian is proof
enough. "Sure there are cleaner
vehicles than a Honda. But how
long is your commute? If the
idea of sitting in bumper-to-
skateboard traffic doesn't
appeal to you, we have a better
idea." Honda's better concept is
obviously to put down ecologi-
cally efficient, clean transporta-
tion devices like skateboards
while touting their archaic, over-
priced cars which many allege
produce dangerously poisonous
byproducts. Honda asserts.
"we've always been committed.
to balancing your desires for fun
OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW
Justin Herman Plaza hadn't even been demolished yet when
another location stepped up and started drawing skaters from
all over SF. Pat Duffy samples the ledges at the New New Spot.
Spanish secret
weapon Ibon Mariño
laid it down at the
Richmond Pool and performance with society's need for
and convinced cleaner air and fuel economy. Which can
many that he's a be just about as difficult as balancing on
prime contender. a skateboard. With a briefcase. In a suit.
HOG WASH -HONDA Thinking" The only thing
Commercials harder might be escaping the security
are expensive
Pool shark
Ricky Oyola
will have
plenty of
time to think
about his
game while
on lockdown
in Oz.
guards at Honda
corporate head-
quarters while attempt-
ing to balance your skateboard
performance desires on their perfectly
surfaced front steps.
Filmmaker Wing Ko went to India in
a purported prelude to his Mike
Vallely documentary, who was seen
recently with Ed Templeton on his
way to South Africa.
HAWK SQUAWK
Recent X-Games communications
from ESPN that appear to be signed by
Tony Hawk have created further con-
troversy. Is Hawk now an network.
employee? Will he continue to com-
pete? What constitutes conflict of inter-
est? Was this potential career change
motivated by the recent lack of interest
in vert as evidenced by the recent con-
test fiasco where only a dozen or so rid-
ers out of approximately two hundred
and fifty entrants bothered to ride the
vertical terrain? Conversely, people
wonder that if Tony is now running
things, will ESPN finally institute a real
street course rather than using the BMX Bladish
plywood monstrosities that they have been using?
The feminine vibe was observed the other day
at Monterey skatepark where Jessica Krause
was skating. Ms. Krause was minding her own
business and riding when some rollerblader cut
her off and then screamed at her for daring to
be a girl and for riding a skateboard. Defending
the honor of skaters everywhere, Jessica quiet-
ly bopped both of this idiot's ears and pantsed
him, which made everyone present loudly laugh
at him. The blader left just as soon as he could
pull up his pants.
Some person named Titus has supposedly put
out the word that no one is ever to mention it. So
we're not going to talk about the big party that
Titus did not throw at the skatepark that was not
Münster in a country that was not Germany. There
were not a lot of bands, nor skating, and unknown
agents did not place a cake there shaped like a
skateboard. Nobody ate the cake, nor did they
know that the dessert allegedly may have con-
tained 150 grams of hash. But since there was no
cake and no one ate it and no one knew there was
stuff inside it, there was absolutely no problem.
There fortunately were not any injuries nor freak-
outs. There are no lawsuits regarding this non-inci-
dent. Nor did Titus get so upset that he threatened
to fire everyone who worked for him if they knew
anything about the cake that never existed at the
non-party. This is not funny. The city is not con-
sidering tearing down the park. And the Titus who
is not in our story does not exist and any relation-
ship that this fictional character does →
have to any person living or dead is
entirely coincidental. If there were an
actual Titus he would be in a world of
shit and we would be genuinely sorry.
But we couldn't talk about that either.
VAN TIME
Were the backwards-mounted trucks
in the Vans skatepark proshop at the
Block an anti-theft measure as
claimed? Or is somebody clueless?
Since the boards are bolted down,
does anybody really buy into the secu-
rity precaution crap? Also the article
on Vansworld in Bikini that identified
Salba as Steve Alva actually is
humor of the first order.
The Los Angeles Police
Department's crack elite Venice Metro
squad came down on a couple of
thousand weekend boardwalk visitors
in yet another heavy-handed de facto
declaration of martial law. Members
of a UCLA-hosted hip-hop confer-
ence, skaters, surfers, senior citizens,
and graffiti writers were harassed,
intimidated and forced out of the area.
Venice locals received more than their
fair share of abuse in this the latest
LAPD Gestapo-by-the-sea exercise.
International media reported on this
outrageous overreaction and many
termed it "a police-induced riot."
Reportedly, bystander's videotapes
are being sought so that the cops can
ascertain the identities of a number of
those present. Presumably the tapes
will be used as evidence to justify fur-
ther arrests. Skaters around the
Venice Pavilion seem to be particular-
ly popular targets in this current wave
of harassment. Apparently possession
BIG WILLY STYL
The master of tech or the gangster of
love? You decide.
HALL OF MEAT
Josh Palmer finds an unlikely location
to hide an Easter egg.
of a skateboard is tanta-
mount to committing a
crime in the estimation
of the power elite.
'70S STUFF
Just up the beach
from the riot squad's
party, former world
champions Danny
Bearer and Steve
Olson skated in an
oceanfront attempt to
convince the Santa
Monica government to
fund
a public
skatepark. Bearer, the
quirkily charismatic
skate activist, is also
lobbying for similar
parks in Malibu and
Culver City. The Los
Angeles Times and sev-
ICA wants to represent "all of Dogtown as a whole"
in the process of making a movie deal. Everyone
and their mother from the old DT scene is presently
involved in negotiations for their "life rights."
LAUGH LINES
"So they put a skatepark in the middle of a shopping
mall, which is fine. But what no one ever mentions is
that a lot of kids would rather skate the mall."
-Paul Schmitt
"They are over. They are over twenty."
-Steve Sherman
"Who will they get to play Tony Alva in the movie, the
kids from Dawson's Creek?"
-Old Steve Olson
"We're looking towards a more mature audience
because they have to be 21 years old to quaff
our nectar."
POSERS OF THE MONTH
Poser: Marc Roberts (former SSBS owner)
Crime: One-foot groin grind
Punishment: Vaginal warts
eral television stations have
taken to featuring Danny as a
forthright example of civic
involvement. Even such promi-
nent politicos as Tom Hayden
are said to be in awe of Bearer's
power. Olson's leopard-skin cow-
boy hat and black leather bron-
co-buster outfit seem a little
more difficult for the boys and
girls of media land to decode.
The free fire zone of the
Dogtown movie project deluge
expands once more. The latest
front-runner to emerge at the
forefront of the mad spectacle to
"capture the grit and reality of
ground zero of the board sport
movement" is Greg Beat.
Rumor states that screen rights
for Beat Dog's highly touted Spin
mag story on the life and times of
Alva, Adams, Peralta, Muir,
etc. is being purchased by the
powerhouse International
Creative Agency. It is said that
Stoners rule!
Well, sometimes.
Hanzy Driscoll
shows what's
left of his cave
after leaving
a candle
burning and
spacing out.
GALLI
-Cash McAnlis
Poser: Chris Stone
Crime: Grind on GG Allin's grave
Punishment: Listen to the entire
GG Allin discography