Trash
CANA-DUH
FTER AN EXTENSIVE VANCOUVER FREAK OUT,
Santa Cruz am Levi Marvin was released from the squad.
a stray board popped up and broke the powerhouse's nose.
Also at Slam City: Jamie Thomas' addition
to the Circa squad was celebrated by the free
distribution of hundreds of "Thomas" Circa
shirts by a sizable entourage, and Berra was
also present, rocking DVS.
The bummer was injected into summer for
Peter Hewitt after breaking his leg in Lincoln
City's massive tomb stone.
Kerry Getz will be carrying all his essentials
in Clive backpacks from now on.
CONTINENT DRIFT
In another rumored meltdown, Pontus Alv
dropped all his US sponsors and retreated to
Sweden in one flail swoop, joining the Cliché
crew in Europe with Manuel Palacios and
Jeremie Daclin.
Not-So-Lil' Stevie Williams, Mike Carroll,
Rick Howard, Eric Koston, and various other
Girl team members or friends were seen at all
the hot spots in Spain, Paris, and Italy, along
with esteemed other-mag editor Aaron Meza.
Stevie reportedly "would not stop skating" (one
wonders how literally to take this claim) and the
The weight of the world's
expectations for the Flip
video take their toll on
Ali Boulala.
reports coming back from the Girl expedi-
tion all seemed to suggest that "skate-
boarding is huge in Europe." Further rev-
elations are sure to arise from future big-
name tours.
Keep your eyes peeled for the TV broad-
cast of Chad Muska's "Skate Jam 2000,"
a winner-take-all best trick style event
that will include, along with the standard
contest props, the "super-secret obstacle."
Watch your ass!
Giving up hope on ever getting a decent
mongo-footed am, Toy Machine put normal-
pushing and handrail-attacking Austin
Stephens on the team.
Kenny Reed and Cairo Foster have returned
from their journeys eastward and are now back
in SF. Rumors of a slight not-even-an-alterca-
tion occurring between Kenny and a well-
known Love Park local continue to float around
the Bay, although nothing has
been confirmed.
Quiksilver's second annual rip-Marseille-as-
hard-as-you-can contest will have taken place
by the time these words are printed, and if
Wade Speyer's sponsorship ex-communica-
tion at all became a motivating factor, he surely
granted the gathered crowd a repeat perform-
ance of last year's ripride. Quiksilver, in an
attempt to create a much fairer atmosphere,
changed up their judging roster a bit, offering a
different array of seasoned experts a chance to
put in their two cents as to who ripped harder
than Wade.
Speaking of Mr. Speyer, he was offered, and
has accepted, a professional sponsorship from
John Lucero's Black Label. Wade fans
worldwide breathe a collective sigh of relief.
The new Vans park opened to thrills and
chills in Milpitas, California, at the Great
Mall, providing thousands of young,
screaming, kneepad- and helmet-
wearing rollerbladers a new
place to crumple in a heap at
the bottom of whatever bowl
may be available.
Rumor has it that the
beautiful seaside village of
Pacifica, California, is work-
ing on a new skatepark,
and Thrasher Advertising
Director Eben Sterling
has been deemed Co-
Chairman of the Design
DOWN FOR LIFE
His parents disapproved, his dog did too, but
Brian Foley isn't one to hide his dedication.
Subcommittee. What exactly that title entails is
anyone's guess, but his input is certainly valu-
able and the park is sure to be a welcome
addition to the rash of parks taking over
Northern California.
TIED KNOTS
the D.C. irregulars
including: the Discord
House janitorial staff,
Cynthia Connolly,
Fugazi, and Ian the
Spiv. A Jay Adams
flag flew over all.
Outside
the
in
rain, 100,000 motorcy-
clists got hot pipes and
wet leather.
The high-dollar luxo-
style brand Prada is
reportedly considering
making skate shoes
because their golf line
did so well. Will the
shoes also feature the
ubiquitous status-
screaming triangle so
treasured on Prada bags
in years past?
POSER
OF THE MONTH
Poser: Dustin Mench
Crime: Morning wood grind
Punishment: Erectile dysfunction
Bob Biniak just
returned from playing on the South African
Professional Golf Tour. The ex-Z-boy traveled
home to appear in the Stacy Peralta-directed
documentary on Dogtown. When asked what
his favorite moment as a '70s pro was, he
replied, "Telling Bob Skoldberg to gargle my
balls at the Skateboarder Poll."
Mike Frazier and his long-time girlfriend WAVE RAVE
Erin have tied the knot.
San Diego's Faye Jaime now rides for Vans
and Consolidated and placed second at the
Slam City Girl's Comp with her no-holds-
barred, roadhouse-style handrail attack.
Rising stakes in the E-dot.com universe.
Bluetorch has invested over one million dollars
to film a surf contest. Kelly Slater won surfing
only switchstance and laughed. A skate contest
is said to be next. So what is to be discerned
from the rumor that Bluetorch is in reality an E-
commerce venture that has already combined
Gotcha together with Quiksilver in Europe for a
sales/news site? Does that spell bad news for
dot.com entities such as hardcloud.com and
Swell.com and a full complement of thinly dis-
guised dot.com skate vendors? Will local skate
and surf shops be driven out of manipulators
who will undercut prices and offer more inven-
tory? Or will riders reject it all for the contact
with other riders in shops? Soon to be available:
the Bob Burnquist line of sunglasses made by
Oakley? Will this company be like Richard
Wolcott's Volcom? Is it an independent ven-
ture-capital effort or is it a subsidiary in dis-
guise?
Which shoe company is rumored to be quietly
investigating the purchase of the
Skateboarder/Surfer titles from the Peterson E
Map empire? Are their plans even more expan-
sive than this?
BOYS 2MEN
The Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C., was
the latest site of, yes, one more Glen E
Friedman exhibition. Present were over 500 of
All riot on the western front. Kevin Ancell
was embraced as a god-of-culture recently at
SF's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Ancell,
who dropped a couple of dozen dancing
human-scale hula dolls on the public, is said to
have spent over $65,000 in materials on the
endeavor. For a storage yard, Kevin also com-
mitted $190,000 to buy a lot overlooking the
big-wave spot Maverick's.
HALL OF MEAT
Chase Rollins almost gave himself a
spinal tap after stacking in Florida.
Is the new civilized Steve
Rocco so domesticated that he
now sneaks up on sleeping buf-
falo and tries to tip them over? Is
this why he spends most of his
California time on Catalina
Island? Does he skate the perfect
Island Company capsule pond
near Hamilton Cove? And not tell
any of his friends?
The offhanded gesture of Jerry
Madrid to make a couple of Ed
Economy longboards was
widely viewed as being the epit-
ome of economic foolishness.
Who could have ever foreseen
that these long sleds would be an
assiduously sought-out commod-
ity. Even Brian "Giggles"
Gillogly has one. Ed is so
successful that he's
collecting $30,000
Dick Brewer big-
wave guns.
And from Madison Avenue:
What beats surfing Maverick's
in your Xterra land yacht?
Why, it's being a dog-headed
boy with a skateboard. We
I will not even dignify this
company by identifying it
by name. Maverick's is
turning into the Bel Air
of Half Moon Bay.
Up there next to the
new infusion of
the wealth of the
land, the true
lore of the region
is being lost. Does
the
name
Maverick's conjure
up fantastic illusions of
heroism and intrigue?
Contrary to neo-pop cul-
ture, the spot was called
after Maverick the dog. It's
not about macho men, it's
about fleas.
Ian Rogers, the caretaker of the
Topanga Ramp, is now running the
Beastie Boys Grand Royal combine. This mid
career slicing and dicing has made his old
associates at America Online very queasy.
An initial foray into this new association will
be a co-tour with Rage Against the Machine
that will play before a million kids.
Mr. Lucky was filming a TV spot in
Malibu, where he was being trailed by a
camera-laden jetski while he surfed a
west Malibu shore pond. When a thresher
shark hit on a 16-pound tuna in the filming
area, the Hollywood types fled, leaving
Steve Olson to fend for himself. All
observers saw was the aftermath: fish guts,
blood, and a floating felt cowboy hat.
Olson then ventured to New York to wit-
ness the unveiling of his new giant bill-
board on Times Square. The NY press has
made some unflattering criticisms about both
"the former skateboard star" and the campaign.
Across from Condé Nast's empire headquarters,
the effrontery of a giant photo of Olson has
driven the bastards balmy. No one realizes that
Steve is actually really like that. The Mr. Lucky
character is more like Bulky than anyone wants
to admit.
Even more uptown is Ivory Serra, now work-
ing across the land with legendary photo ace
Mark Selliger.
HANG UPS
"Numerology is bullshit. I have my own system.
In that commercial, the numbers went all
wrong. I ended up looking very Elvis in Blue
Hawaii." -Steve Olson
"Life is a learning experience, not a
footprint."-Glen E. Friedman
"You have to find all the reasons
not to use drugs."--Fausto Vitello
Scott Pazelt celebrates
the fruits of his
mollie hardflip
labor.
FAZELT
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