108 THRASHER
CITY HALL
and the mom was occasionally throwing her
hands in the air in a thoughtless-frustrated pose
while dookie booty just stood there confused.
I got the photo I wanted, so I walked over to
them because it had been about 30 minutes. It
turned out the old hag wanted to hire us to back
up her son in a fight. She was willing to pay us
each 20 bucks, so as hired thugs we made our
way to the rendezvous. We figured if we were
outnumbered we would just let the guy get his
butt kicked, and if we weren't we would just not
let him get totally annihilated. Gabriel didn't
like the idea because in his neighborhood you
get killed for stickin' your nose in business that
has nothing to do with you.
We got to the park and there was a whole slew
of guys playing basketball; we were definitely
outnumbered and dork karate boy was nowhere
to be seen. We cruised around the park figuring
karate boy had pussed out when we saw him.
"he faked a cheesy eye-
poking technique, adding
a kung fu movie
sound to his
demonstration,
with an elongated
'Huaaaaa!""
Clockwise from far left: On February 8th, 1888 electricity first flowed through the streets of Pasadena; more than a hundred
years later Randy Chew uses it to boardslide a City Hall double rail after dark. Dan Tillman gets late with a shove-it over a Monrovia
sidewalk vent. Gabriel Martinez backside tailslides down 10.
COVE