MONSTER MAGNET
THATCHER
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THRASHER
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GOD SAYS NO
IN STORES APRIL 10
INCLUDES
HEADS EXPLODE
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plagues you all will now deal with.
Meanwhile, we have woken up,
immune to BSE, and now must
return to human conversion/
consumption to thrive. I write to
offer your readers ranks in our
massing legions before it is too late.
You can choose death or everlast-
ing life. Only blood lust will lead to
true salvation. We are Vampires.
Langhorne Calavera
The UK
It's good to see that the Vampires are
still dead. T-ed.
GOD SENT
I'm writing to you
to plead my case of
being deprived of
the sanity that only
your magazine can
supply. I'm 31 and
have been skating
religiously since '79. I
had never written to Thrasher, only
because everything was perfect.
But now, things for me are far from
perfect, and I'm hoping my years
of devotion to skating and your
mag (which go hand in hand),
along with the Thrasher tattoo I
got on my arm at age 17 will pay
off. I've been through all of the
changes like most older skaters,
from concrete bowls to halfpipes
and warehouses, launch ramps to
mini ramps, curbs to grind boxes,
land lugeing, and even being
pulled by pit bulls at mach one on
my longboard. It don't matter; I'll
be skating even when I'm sagging
Depends instead of Levi's.
Here's the point. I'm in prison
right now for having a little too
much marijuana. I haven't had any
contact with your mag for a year-
and-a-half, until the other day
when I met Josh Swindell, a
Pro-Skater-In-Hell also here in
Soledad. He slipped me a couple
back issues, which snapped me
back to reality and made me
realize that wherever I'm at, your
mag is the cure for loss of sanity.
acquired from lack of skating.
My mom always thought.
I should have been a
jock, so she's
not down with
Thrasher and my
wife is too busy
financially with
my four-year-old
daughter for me
to bother her for
funds. I'm at your
mercy. Do you have a Thrasher
welfare fund or a Red Cross
Thrasher Committee to aid people
less fortunate and unable to get
the mag? Could you possibly find
it in your heart to send me a few
issues or maybe a subscription?
I've got 10 months left and when I
get out I'll catch up on the bill.
Thank you.
Scott Rainey
Soledad, CA
PS- I enclosed a picture for you to
do as you wish. If it's not with
this letter, the cops took it. Fuck
the police!
It sounds to me like yer dick is in yer
hand. T-ed. ◆
ENVELOPE OF THE MONTH
freshjive
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