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AS TURTLE BOY, ANDREW REYNOLDS, REALLY
gone under the gun for a Piss Drunx tattoo? Has he also
been spotted rocking sleeveless shirts, riding Spitfires,
and seen in the company of (gasp!) girls? Will Ed Templeton's
cartoons of hot tubs and exploding heads soon become a reality
for the '98 Skater of the Year? Only time will tell.
While his ex-roommates are cutting off the
sleeves of their shirts and not washing their
hair, new Birdhouse pro Brian Sumner went
and got married. Congratulations to Brian
and his wife, Tracy, as they are expecting
billabong
Willy Santos
and the only
bird he knows
their first child.
SEWER RATS
A couple of skate rats got to slash the sewers
under Birmingham, England, before the shit
came down.
Another skater tying the knot is Idaho's Daxter Lussier,
who married his longtime fiancée, Amber, in May. Good
job, Dax!
As Warner Ave continues to disintegrate, Mike
Maldonado and Shane Heyl are moving back to Mike's
hometown of Philadelphia, where they'll be living in the
comfortable home of Mike's grandmother.
After a squabble on the Element Australian tour, Kris
Markovich has pulled up a stool at Foundation.
HURT ME
In a cruel rail-riding incident, Lethol pro Justin Reynolds
somehow managed to snap his femur.
Buster Halterman will now be getting all his surf trunks
and beachwear from Redsand instead of Hurley.
Canadian menace Mark Appleyard has flown the coop at
Birdhouse to ride for Alien's sub-sect Habitat.
Jerry Fowler liked his FKD bearings so much that he
went ahead and signed onto the DNA team as well.
Sadly, Canadian thoroughbred Justin Bokma was put
out to pasture.
Former Duffs videographer Ricki Bedenbaugh is
now working for Element and is presently with
Barley and the boys in Japan where they're work-
ing on an upcoming Japanese Vacation video. "Oh,
dude!" he's reported as saying in regards to his
new job.
Rumors of a new mongo-footed ama-
teur on Toy Machine are false and
should be ignored.
Hold onto your hats, because both Flip
and éS are working on videos to be
released in September, much to the
delight of éS and Flip rider Arto
Saari, who, as you can tell by his
interview, has plenty of energy
and tricks to go around.
Colt Cannon removed him-
self from the Think roster,
which should give him plenty of
time to give Clyde Singleton
the beating he owes him. In
other Think moves, Marseille
3 STRIKES
Cops are cops, and when
they hand out $500 tickets
for not having an elbow pad
to 10-year-old kids, they
become dicks.
champ Wade Speyer was let go.
Is Rodney Torres on Zoo? Is
Mike Frazier on Santa Cruz?
BAD NEWS
In a distribution mix-up, the
youthful subscribers to a certain
Larry Flynt Publications skate
usual
magazine found their
monthly delivery of mislabeled
tricks and Hollywood goings on
replaced by copies of Taboo, the
POSERS OF THE MONTH
Poser:
Mireille Séverine
Wildman-Berry
Crime:
Two-day-old
bedpan one-foot
backside tailslide
Punishment:
Growing up in France
Poser:
Isaiah Tyran
Crime:
Frontside 5-0 with
parental guidance
Punishment:
Overprotective
upbringing
gnarliest porno mag in the LFP family.
While apology letters are already being
quickly distributed in the interest of damage
control, this latest error raises a valid ques-
tion: Are photos of enemas and midget-fist-
ing better of worse than some of Kosick's
skate photography?
East County am Chris Dobstaff removed
himself from the Osiris roster as well as high
school at the prompting of video dude/for-
mer Voice skateboards CEO/guru Dave
Schlossbach. Rumors of a new Schloss-
driven company (through former 2-Fish
backer Avia) and truck company (through
Tracker) have all been floating around, which
may also include fellow undergroundérs
Kevin "Hair" Davis, Dayne "Bondo"
Brummet, and Adam "Hardflip" Louder.
Other sources indicate Dobstaff, Davis, and
Louder all back on Osiris, with an unprece-
dented am-shoe model for Dobstaff. Whether
or not any of this is true does little to detract
from the fact that these San Diego ams are
rippers, as the upcoming Manual Labor video
promises to attest.
After a long sponsorship dry spell, former
H-Street rider Charlie Thomas has boarded
the starship Kingdom for what promises to be
a wild, wild ride.
The Nude Bowl is back in business, thanks
to Dave Ruel and the deep pockets of a ran-
dom extreme sports-oriented dot com. With
new coping, a restored death box, and prom-
ises of live Web casts straight from the bro-
ken glass-laden decks, one can only imagine
which will last longer, the bowl or a dot-com
company that thinks spending a bunch of
money to restore the Nude Bowl will some-
how translate into profits.
Lance Dawes is the latest skate jour-
nalist to be aggressively courted by a
dot.com entity.
Rodent Mullen recently got married in
the red rock canyons of Sedona, Arizona.
With characteristic aplomb Rodney had
two separate and distinct services. The
first was for the families and the second
was for friends.
In Lake Forest, California, Pierre André is
designing a skatepark to be sited in the Sole
Technologies that will reportedly be open to
all comers.
JUST SUPPOSE
HALL OF MEAT
(Ladies Edition)
Christabelle Lambright
took a spill on a Reno,
NV, hill and learned
the hard way to
always use protection.
Another downhill vic-
tim, 13-year-old
Ashley Tago of San
Pedro, CA, wants her
stepdad to know that
Samoans don't eat
monkey, but they do
on occasion eat 'crete.
Lawrence Jennings of Boerne, Texas, is
finishing off his paper for a class in contem-
porary painting at UTSA. His topic is
"Painting and Skateboarding." As per
request: Mark Gonzales observes, "Skating
and art are really the same thing. In skating
you are drawing lines and in painting you are
drawing lines." And for further reference,
some painters of note who skate include:
Russell Crotty, Ed Templeton, Sandow
Birk, Barry McGee, Aaron Rose, Ned
Evans, Margaret Kilgallen, Ashley
Bickerton, Rodger Doucette, Julian
Schnabel, Kevin Ancell, Jack Barth,
Jeremy Henderson, Lynn Coleman, Ken Jones,
Pushead, Mark McKee, Tommy Guerrero, Aaron
Marshall, and Jim Phillips. All readers should feel free
to turn this research in as their own work. For an even
better grade, toss in a couple of foreign words. Try ges-
tamkunstworken (German, means "all over art") or pisto-
let (French, means "spray gun, airbrush").
COCK TEASE
Ozzy has landed a book deal in New York for his
exhaustive tome on the history of skateboarding.
Recently he has been out doing research funded by his
publisher. The most innovative is his use of a helicopter
and a overlaid street map to locate pools from the air and
to instantly identify their ground coordinates. The new
high-volume pump Oz is running with is another adroit
tool of scholarship.
Surreal sessions pop up time and again. On a Saturday,
in a pool in Simi located on a street named after a woman
with Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Jeremy H, Viki
Griffin, Avalon Alva, Peter Pilafian, Oz, Agi Orsi,
Richard Van Der Wyck, Lance Mountain, and the reg-
ulars were all hanging with Steve Olson down the block at
the Skate Lab and Hall of Fame. Just another day near
LA, you say? So, right out of the film Skateboard, who
shows up to session with Tony Bluetile but Stevie
Monahan. The onetime cinema skate star and Sims rider
arrived with what he described as the "product of the mil-
lennium," truck-mounted headlights and taillights.
Monahan then offered to cut Alva, whom Stevie hasn't
seen in over a decade, into the deal for a couple million.
LAST GASP
"It's going to have an edge to it, that's for sure, because it is
skate and it is young. But it's not going to have swear words
and daggers."-Buzz McKnight on Tony Hawk Clothing
"Now you can see the cracks at night."-Steve Monahan
"I said I do and I thought that I really did."
-Rodney Mullen
"You want to know who's huge? Steve Olson. I looked at
160 KO
OWEL
that snake and said get that thing
away from me." -Unidentified
girl at Ken Of Japan Sushi Bar
"Is that the old Olson or the new
Steve?" -Tony Alva
"Skating changes so fast that it
makes you wonder how these
people think a computer is ever
going to be able to keep up with
it."-Lance Dawes
I'm кnоT WORTHY
Brian Sumner's married now,
so girls, please quit writing the
mag for his vital stats.
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