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I'll start this off by saying the same
thing everyone else says when they
write you a letter: your magazine is
mad cool. But on to a more specific
subject: what is the deal with people
and their remarks about the "disap-
pearance" of Tom Penny? He's awe-
some and a true skater; he always was
and he always will be. A few days ago
I was flipping through the pages of
some old skate mag and I came to an
article about the és tour to Australia.
about
tour to
It had a little profile on everyone
on the tour, and Tom Penny was
included. The dude who wrote
the article was saying he thinks
there will be a new Tom Penny
era and that a comeback is
coming. Either this dude
was completely wrong or
it just hasn't happened
yet. I'm just hoping that Tom
will get his ass back over here to the
States and pick up a skateboard and
have a good session with his old bros
and see what happens from there.
Dave DiBella
Warren, CT
Tom still skates and Tom still rips. T-ed
FROM SCRATCH
What is the most important thing in
your life right now? For me there are
three: writing, DJing, and of course
skating. Forget all that "skating is life"
crap. You are life, not skating, and what
you choose to do with
with it up to you.
quote Thrasher when I say, "Live to
skate; skate or die." This is the correct
saying, and I do live to
e to skate. I don't
if I lost elat
know what would happen if I lost skat-
ing. I probably would become a junkie,
then bill
then kill myself. Essentially, if I didn't
have skating I probably would die.
Right now I'm trapped in this barren
prison of thought called school, where
Transmit all hits, spits, and
my-scene-sucks hissy fits to:
Mail Drop c/o Thrasher,
PO Box 884570,
San Francisco, CA 94188-4570
they do challenge you but screw you
blind if there is some thought or action
that doesn't slide smoothly with their
"bright and nurturing" conformist pile
of horseshit. The only reason I'm still
here is I want
me
Here is I want my parents to think I left
their grasp the way they wanted and
undamaged. If you truly believe skat-
ing is
s your thing, you don't want
hear people telling you that when
you're skating you're wasting away all
that great potential you have. Simply
shove your finger i in their face and tell
them that all your poten-
tial is helping you to ac-
complish is getting
sucked into their worshipped
system of
of unchallenged con-
formity and rotting recy-
cled ideals. Stop letting
them rape the bull and
telling you how to live
your live, and instead put
them into their collapsing
hole of authority rotting from the in-
side out. This relates to anything you
believe in, whether it's skating or
picking your nose.
BLAH BLAH
I
Dan Primmer
Peacham, VT
and
Every month there are at least four
letters in your magazine that basically
say, "Forget image, skate for fun."
Before I started reading your maga-
zine, I
I was a a loyal reader of a different
skate mag. You see,
e, one day in school,
I heard some beautiful girls telling
group of f kids, "I like
your shirt a
shoes." I automatically started hanging
out with them and noticed they were
"skateboarders." Man, they were so
kewl! I got my dad to drive me down
to the local shop to buy me a skate-
board. I was a natural. Every month I
would see the new tricks and go learn
Adam McNatt
makes a
Backside 180
to Switch
Frontside Crook,
easier done
than said.
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