
Whole Lotta Howard.
CURRENT ENTRY
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Evan from Owen Sound, Ontario did the detective work to reunite these brothers separated at birth. NBA player Mike Miller and Rick Howard demonstrate that a gnarly facial is all in the genes. They're gonna have a lot of catching up to do. Send in your "I know of a dude who looks just like one of the dudes" here. It could be another star or your Woods and Metals teacher, just send them in.
Yesterday, Rickk climbed another rung on the ladder on his way to being nominated for Boss of the Year. I bet the NBA wouldn't let Mike Miller get away shit like this. That's Rickk's idea of testing out a new concave, seeing how it can launch a bottle rocket across the building and three inches above Larson's head.
I think Rickk is conning Rudy and me into doing some manual labor at his house during our lunch our tomorrow. He sweetened up the deal by book ending the moving of furniture with the statements, "You wanna throw a jam in the band room" and "We'll eat tuna melts."
QUOTE:
“Did I email you that poem about farts?” Rudy
“Soft drugs? That's probably like soft porn. It's crazy but not too crazy.” Eric Anthony
CURRENT ENTRY
Monday, May 2, 2005
As promised, the heaviest of the EMB heavies has blessed us with a Top 5. Ladies and germs we give you James Kelch.
Mr. Koston celebrated his birthday this last Friday. Without giving away too much, after all it is taboo to giveaway a young boarder's age after 25, let's just say that Frost would be 40 in skate years.
Raymond plays Dr. Frankenstein with Biebel and Paul and comes up with B-Rod.
Greg E. from Jersey discovers a striking resemblance between famous ear-lopper, Van Gogh, and our own, MJ. Without a doubt Marc has been has occupied that same mind frame Ol' Vincent was in when he decided have two ears was played out.
Too bad this column doesn't get updated on the weekends because I was really funny yesterday.
QUOTE:
“You gotta be creative about your retirement in the skate industry. That snack machine is Smyth's 401k plan.” Burnett
CURRENT ENTRY
Friday, April 29, 2005
As always our inboxes were ablaze with emails from our huge Canadian following after we mentioned Dan Bohart's pilgrimage to Hollywood. Young Canuck Doug Hamelin sent in his I-knew-Bohart-way-back-when-photos. He had the foresight to catch Bohart's "aerial attack during his misspent youth in Brockville, Ontario."
Go to Skate
More to enter the I Wanna Eat Hot Wings with Gav Contest, a.ka. Win Two Tickets to the Skate-More Premiere.
Raymond Photo. And you thought Nate could only do pressure flips?
The Ringer didn't want any skate talk at lunch today so here's what was covered instead; steamers, F.B.I. hostage crisis footage, missing F.B.I. hostage crisis footage, Johannes consoling a distraught sibling in the parking lot, hiring Dorothy, Rickk assisting a suicide watch, and why River Joe will always have a job here. Oh, and Staci G. kicking a girl's ass in the bathroom stall when they were in high school.
More later. Bird and Charlene are discussing screaming dolphins and chilidogs and it's kind of distracting. We'll also have a new Top 5 on Monday with a guy who was once described as looking like a young Burt Reynolds.
QUOTE:
“I have to keep my finger on the pulse.” Callaway
“It makes sense when you think that you just took your finger out of someone's butt.” River Joe
“I thought a Chili Dog was something else.” Carnalag
“This is crazy lady hair.” Jamie, on her new very fitting hair do
“Look how it moves!” Rudy on his four-year-old Girl shirt
CURRENT ENTRY
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Smyth was quizzed on the Frisco glossary yesterday and claims he only got two wrong. Apparently Sam didn’t know the “Penelopes” are the cops or that “Nickel Shot” was a building in the ’Moe. That six years in LA is taking its toll on Mac Res. Damn, imagine if we had like Mike Burnett take this thing. We’ve decided that he’s our whitest friend.
Raymond’s Fun with Photos is back. He banged a few out yesterday. Here’s the first in a series of gems.
Print this out and bring it to the Beauty Bar, the Fish or the Phone Booth. First person to get Bingo never has to watch “Garden State” ever again.
See you tomorrow, Rickk’s waiting for me to film him brushing his teeth.
QUOTE:
“Somebody MySpace Alex Olson and see where he’s at.”Staba
CURRENT ENTRY
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
In their never ending quest to inadvertently bum Rickk out, the higher ups at transworld went ahead and nominated Chocolate for best team. Basically, Rickk is being a bad dad and playing favorites with his kids. I guess Girl will always be Rickk’s little baby. I bet Gino would be stoked that is if he even knew what the transworld Awards are.
One of his friends wrote in to let us know that Bohart is going Hollywood. Dan don’t get too Hollyweird and not stop by and say hello.
There’s this rager going on at Active tomorrow night in Burbank.
From the Biebel files: “Got tints, tired a people looking.”
Larson returns to his duties as a blogmentalitst with an interview with Andrew Pommier, your man if you need illustrations about your life story and a damn fine artist.
Crail Store update has been updated with some tripped out graphics. Wowwwww!
We forgot to mention that Steven Theisen was the Tapper who sent in the still of Jereme and Ms. Ringwald yesterday. I’m not in the mood to lose a fan. Jason D. Graham took the initiative and sent this Bizarro “Questionable” era Carroll in. Send in your look a like photos here.
Jamie, if you don’t send us an advanced copy of the new Zero video Carroll’s going to upload Chris Cole’s part tomorrow. Do the right thing.
A hearty congratulations go out to Friend of the Tap, Paul Nett on the arrival of his new son, Logan..He was born yesterday at around noon. Apparently he's inherited dad's personal etiquette of never missing a lunch date. On that note, little Logan was 10.3 lbs. at birth. Look for another big, pissed off local in the lineup of North County's prime surf spot's in about 12 years. Congrats Paul
QUOTES:
“It’s not like a Dungeons where you rip off the legs they and grow back.”The Gav on fishing for crabs
“I got some shit that will ruin your whole day, if you want”Carroll
CURRENT ENTRY
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
I went to SF this weekend and had to use this as a reference just to decipher what Smyth was spittin’.
The Gallery that Larson ruined is up again. I think he sabotaged it just so I’d mention his name again in my column. He loves it when I do that.
The last of the Spain Clips. Beebs wake up call. I didn’t want to call it Mike and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day because in reality Ty was responsible for most of the clips. Better late than never.
Did you know that Jereme Rogers enjoyed another lucrative career prior to skateboarding? No, I’m not talking about rollerblading! I’m talking about his tenure as a young thespian. That’s right, a young J-Rog graced the silver screen with the leading ingénue, of the era, Molly Ringwald. Look for other standout performances from Jereme in “Weird Science” and “The Breakfast Club.
QUOTE:
“He needs a ‘yes man’ around him just to say ‘no’ to him.”Staba
CURRENT ENTRY
Friday, April 22, 2005
>>
First
of all, this is Lardog. Meza's surfing in Oakland. I need to clear
some shit up. Last week there were, like, 18 posts about me and it's
not my fault. Meza is super enamored with me because I lived the coastal/metal/suburban/burnout
life he always dreamed of. You can't blame Meza, but then you
surely can not blame me.
>>
Alright,
it's Earth Day.
Enjoy it and go and try to find some fine goats.
Admire them. Possibly document them and send the images to:
Sam Smyth / Team Manager, 22500 S. Vermont Ave. Torrance, CA 90502
>>Rudy
Johnson is in a really good traditional ska band. Check 'em out.
>>That's
all I have today. I have to go work on some new graphics based on
Aesop's Fables. It's Rickoo's idea. Brian Anderson and I are both
Irish-Norwegian. We win. Late!
CURRENT ENTRY
Thursday, April 21, 2005
>>
Last
weekend Spike and I went to New York to film the Gonz for something
or other that’s coming out sooner or later. A lot of what I
had to do was follow Mark on my board while he skated, biked, and
roller-skated (yes, roller-skated) through the streets. It was like
a hippo chasing a cat through traffic. Here’s a
gallery from the trip. Check out the slideshow in the Featured
Features column as well.
>>
Skate
More site is still taking entries for the Win Two Tickets to the
Skate More premier, but it still doesn’t say anything about
going out for Hot Wings with The Gav. Gav you gotta sell that added
value.
>>
Jack
from New Zealand pays his respects to our friend and one of the greatest
skaters ever.
QUOTE:
“Fire
me up a Drumstick.”
Bird
CURRENT ENTRY
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
>>
Among
trying kickflips on his bike, Mark Gonzales has adapted other skate
tricks to his bike-riding repertoire like this classic
coffin.
>>
Spike,
an ex-BMXer, hit’s the board with this backside
wall jam. So alternative.
>>
Even
while relaxing at the beach, Colen can’t help but the let the
spirit of D&D spillover into every facet of his life, like his
sand castles.
>>
There’s
an Active
demo on the 30th. Come meet the losers we talk about
on this very site.
>>
Gonz’
friend Goods makes these cool
boards that take a lot of time.
>>
If
you thought you were bad listening to "Straight out of Compton"
in the back of your Indian friend’s Celica with the personalized
license plate “Prasad 1”, then check
this out and naughtier than ever!
>>
Mike
must be back from Spain because all of our inboxes have bestiality
porn clips in them.
QUOTE:
“That's
where I saw the homeless guy with elephantitis.”
Tony Larson
CURRENT ENTRY
Monday, April 18, 2005
>>
Spike
and Gonz. More tomorrow.
CURRENT ENTRY
Friday, April 15, 2005
>>
Our friend, and winner of Smyth’s sword, Wade Crowchild won’t
tell us what he does for a living. But he did send us these
photos
as a hint to what he does. We still have no clue, but it looks a lot
sketchier than working our shrink-wrap machine.
>>
Park
Clip #19. The Longboard Cam and Kenny
are back!
>>
As
you know, when cool cover boy Alex Olson was a
kid, he bore an uncanny resemblance to the Road Warrior’s
Feral
Kid. Well, the plot thickens as we find that the Feral Kid was
in fact Alex. Here’s the
proof, a photo of him and his dad, Steve Olson.
>>
Just
a reminder to check out the Chico Top 5 before it’s replaced
with a Top 5 from the heaviest of EMB heavies.
>>
Gonz
and Spike take Manhattan visual documentation next week.
QUOTE:
“I
would tell you some crazy shit, but I'm havin' coffee with Gino and
checking out bitches.”Reda
CURRENT ENTRY
Thursday, April 14, 2005
>>
“Lardog”
has been taking up his valuable lunchtime, which normally consists
of eating fast food salads (about as healthy as Larson gets) and watching
sports on a big screen TV (raw jock!), to contribute to Skate Mental’s
Blog
Mental.
>>
Justin,
I got your email about contributing to Blog Mental and after about
the third sentence it seemed so complicated that I couldn’t
deal. Sorry. I’ll try again later.
Mini Top 5
Tony Larson’s Top 5 guitar euphemisms:
1. Axe
2. Six String
3. Rig
4. Git-Tar
5. Woman
>>
Not
to be left out of the sexy world of art, the Tilt Mode soldiers and
the BMC have put together the Ugly
Winners show in San Jo.
>>
When
I was attending South San Francisco High School the Cholos, which
were also known as the B-Wingers (because they had their lockers on
the B Wing of the school, duh!), used to talk about going to “San
Jo” (pronounced “San Ho”) on the weekends to pickup
chicks. Not me though. I was way above cruising around in a mini truck
yelling at Cholas with five-inch high bangs and Raiders Starter jackets.
Yeah, I was too busy going to Embarcadero, skating the fountain curb
and hoping that Kelch would say hi to me. How dumb was I?
>>
Do
you think our huge Canadian following even knows what a Cholo is?
>>
Mike
and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day #19. 50
Beebz. Wow, Mike actually filmed this one!
QUOTE:
“What
was the name of the Christian company that I used to ride for?”Jeremy
Carnahan
CURRENT ENTRY
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Worst
lunch ever! If you go to a Torrance eatery where the waitresses wear
cowboy hats and chaps over a bikini and sell you raffle tickets where
the prize is you snuggle up in a cheetah print wool blanket, with
two of the waitress, on the floor, while someone takes a Polaroid,
make sure you don’t order the Mahi Mahi cause even fish isn’t
supposed to smell that fishy. We didn’t win the raffle either.
But at least lunch was on Gav! Go to Skate-More.com
and enter to win two tickets to the Skate More premiere and maybe,
just maybe Gav will take you to Texas Lucy’s. If you’re
lucky.
Mini
Top 5
Larson’s
Top 5 guitarists
1.
Hendrix
2.
Eddie Van Halen
3.
John Frusciante
4.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
5.
George Lynch
Mike
and Rick’s Spain Clip of the Day #8. Beeby
Cent.
Park
Clip #18. Rumor has it that the people want more Reda.
I don’t know that’s the rumor.
Our
CrailTap’s own Alex Olson has earned the
front page of The Boarder! And more surprisingly, Ben “Lighting
Bolt” Colen took some time off from his busy schedule of vanquishing
Fell Beasts and Winged Nazguls to snap the flick. Congrats to both
of these babe magnets.
QUOTE:
“South
Dakota is dope!”Staci G
CURRENT
ENTRY
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Jake
E. Lee winner! Dennis Vieira was the first person to email us with
the correct answer, (or at least the answer we were looking for, apparently
Jake E. Lee was in a couple of bands) of Jake E. Lee being in Ratt
before he joined Ozzy’s band. Some fun
facts brought to our attention about Jake E. Lee. He’s the
son of a Japanese mother and a white father who was in the military.
Just like The Gav! And he shares a birthday with yours truly. Not
the same year, though just the same date! For God’s sake. Congratulations
Dennis. Here’s what we scrounged up for you; Girl Sweatbands,
a Skate Fairy Shirt, a Fourstar hat, a Fourstar in SF DVD, Smyth’s
team coverage tally for the year, and a mix CD from Jake E. Lee’s
biggest and baddest fan, Tony Larson.
Mike
and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day #7. A triples
run with the dudes in Spain.
Park
Clip #17. Reda’s back from more and this time he wants a
piece of the Hubba.
Speaking
of Reda, if you’re ever skating the Supreme bowl make sure he’s
there screaming and trying to break his board because he’s not
as good as Tony Trujillo or something. Then make sure when he goes
to focus his board it accidentally rolls into the bowl and causes
you to slam. Then you can focus his board yourself and call him an
asshole. Just like Scott did the other day.
In
the Loop with Biebel. 10
minis to the room, please.
Making
the same grammar mistake as the Ringer in the paragraph previous to
the one I called out in was totally, totally intentional. C’mon
I was the editor of a magazine for Pete’s sake.
QUOTES:
“I
don’t have any injuries from skating. They’re all from
partying.”The Gav
“Fo sho pimpin that's what I'm out here fo.”Biebel
CURRENT
ENTRY
Monday, April 11, 2005
Lee Smith came up with a new department for us called Guess Whose
Fronts? Apparently they’re experiencing a comeback. If this
were like ’94 we’d have no problem filling Lee’s
requests. Here’s a short list of who could have played the game
back then; Chico, Lavar, Maurice Key, Jovontae, Pepe Martinez, Lennie
Kirk (religious fronts of course!), Joey Suriel, Javier Nunez, Keenan,
Billy Valdez, and Greg Hunt. But we’re gonna have to wait for
the trend to hit before we can dedicate anytime to this Lee. Just
kidding about Hunt, too.
Larson Artifacts #3. Here’s
his 10th grade Pee Chee folder, customized with some of
his heroes; George Lynch, Eddie Van Halen, Dave Murray, Ozzy, Jake
E. Lee, Yngwie Malmsteen, and The Crue. The first person to email
me what other major band Jake E. Lee played in before Ozzy will
some shit from me and Larson.
You
can buy some original,
OG Girl dolls from Antisocial. With the American Dollar you get
a quite a discount. If you’re running Euros than this is a major
steal deal.
Oh, and Ringer, it's than not then. "The Randoms
will be better than my column" not "The Randoms will
be better then my column." I've been meaning to tell you
about that one.
QUOTES:
“I’m
back to being hip hop. I got gold fronts!”Lee Smith
“I’ll take a day off with the Cheeks.”Seu
Trinh
“He don't know shit but how to film fucked up for 411!”Biebel
about a dude he might bitch slap
CURRENT ENTRY
Friday, April 8, 2005
Chico
Brenes once stole my belt. As a form of retaliation, I bring you the
Top 5 with The Cheeks.
Larson’s
Artifacts #2. Tony and his buddies used to pass
notes to each other in Junior High. Kind of weird. But in the
letter Tony’s buddy talks about getting the new Slayer and banging
his head until it bleeds, so it’s cool.
Park
Clip #15. Little
Alex Olson handles the hubba.
Mike
and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day #5. Biebel
goes backwards on a tall pad. Carroll sent some clips, not this
one, but he sent some so his name remains in bold.
There’s
yet another new Anderson around here. First there was Brian, then
came Kenny, and now there’s Diane
Anderson, Kenny’s beautiful baby girl.
Wade
C. as the Ether
Bunny.
The
Gav did one of those things yesterday where he calls you and says,
“Where are you I was just in front of your house!?” Like
he was trying to hang out with you and he can’t believe you
weren’t just waiting around for the off chance that he might
stop by unannounced. But when further pressed about what he’s
about to do he always conveniently has other plans. Ah, being friends
with the Gav.
And
in the biggest news since Biebel getting gold fronts with fangs, he’s
alive!
QUOTES:
“Maybe
that John Burnett guy that went on the King of The Road tour?”Spike
“I
already have the outfit for that, dog!”Joey Suriel
about a new Diamond shirt
CURRENT ENTRY
Thursday, April 7, 2005
>> We have a winner for the Riffs for Royal Rudy Contest, but first let’s get to the runner-ups. Michael Webster sent in this masked man who was humors but lacked the chops to impress Rudy. And it just takes so long to load. (You’ll need to click on the collaboration tab to download it.) Then there was David Deutsch who probably had the most technical prowess, a la Joe Satriani, but as Rudy put it, “Reminds me of a guy playing at Guitar Center.” But hey Deutsch when it comes to soloing you’re better than Rudy or I, and maybe one day you’ll even get your own gear named after you. But when the fingers stopped flying over the frets and the amps let out their last gasp, Rudy was totally down for Jimmy Ostrander’s playing and attitude (i.e. taking a swig and then using the bottle to play with). So Jimmy you win! Box on its way.
>> Mike and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day #4. MJ’s sleepin’. I don’t think Mike has actually sent us a clip yet. I’m thinking they’re coming from either Rickk or Ty. Bring the pain Carroll or I’m gonna have to change it to Ty and Rickk’s Spain Clip of the Day
>> Park Clip #14. Once again Kenny gets chased by longboard cam.
>> The Park Clips, actually most the clips and photos you see in this column, are shot with Smyth’s camera. Yesterday I noticed that the damned thing is falling apart with most of the tiny screws that hold it together missing. When I brought it to his attention he said, “I know the screws keep coming out.” See I thought it was my fault because this happened the day before. So I just went along with what Smyth said so I wouldn’t have to buy a new camera. That would suck. It reminded me of the time when I tried on Stevie Williams’ gold and diamond cross necklace and I was parading it around the hotel when the thing fell apart. I thought I broke it and waited like a half hour to tell him just to find out it was already broke. Having to replace a new camera would have been lame, but having to do a jewelry run in Philly to replace a one of a kind gold and diamond cross would have been the lamest.
Mini Top 5
Top 5 unhealthy things that Jason Dill does every day
1. At least four coffees, before noon
2. Bacon sandwich for breakfast, steak for dinner
3. Smoke a pack
4. Drink a bottle of wine or more
5. Don’t sleep
>> Lew wrote in feeling my pain about the whole is it the Tap, or The Tap, or Crail Tap, or Crailtap thing and said, “I used to have a verbal litmus test to determine what kind of idiot somebody was based on the personal nicknames they would use to refer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” Then he gave these examples; RHCP, The Chili Peppers, The Chilis, The Red Hots, Chili Peps, The Peppers, or The Funky Monks. He didn’t tell me which one indicated idiot status, but my guess is that if you referred to them as The Funky Monks you’d be deemed worst guy ever.
>> There’s another video premier tonight for FTC’s “A Fine Line Between Love and Haight.” It’s at 9:00 pm at Legends on 5236 2nd St. in Long Beach. It’s free.
QUOTES:
“When are we doing Tip Tap, Pop War, Pop Tap?”Dill
“Where are we doing lunch? Let’s keep it under 10.”Rudy
CURRENT ENTRY
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
>> The Riffs for Royal Rudy Contest is over. No more entries please. We were lying when we said we were going to announce the winner today. We're doing it tomorrow.
>> Mike and Rickk's Spain Clip #3. Ty gets behind the lens and gets a scabies slide.
>> Park Clip # 13. Kenny violating on the "No Pros" quarter.
>> This one will be short lived, but here goes: Larson's Artifacts #1. Here's his junior high ID card. I called him out for wearing a blouse, but he's claiming it's a Hawaiian shirt. Judge for yourself.
>> Mikey, Alex Olson called from your house the other day while you were out of town. Might want to look into this.
>> We've gotten thousands of emails asking what's wrong with Rickk's feet. Actually we only got one. Well, Neil Bromehead think of the fungus that grows in bleu cheese... now spread it all over Rickk's size twelves, then add itching powder and Tabasco sauce. That's what's going on with Rickk's feet.
QUOTE:
"You talk like a nigger."
the new secretary at Kelch's job
"Where I'm from that's how whiteboys talk."
Kelch to the secretary
"And I'm gonna grow some more."
Biebel after showing everyone the hair on his head
CURRENT ENTRY
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
>> Twenty-four hours until we announce the winner of the Riffs for Royal Rudy Contest. If you haven't sent in your video clip of you laying some lushes licks you will have no chance of winning the Royal booty. Send your last-minute, I'm-a-pathetic-procrastinator, even-when-it comes-to-winning-free-shit, entries, here.
>> Biebel's back with glitter and gold with his self-produced In the Loop with Biebel photos. It's been so long that I can't remember what number we left off on and I'm too lazy to check the archive. So I'll make it up. In the Loop with Biebel #916.
>> Today marks the triumphant return of another bygone feature of The Tap. Park Clip, let's say, #12. Kenny is chased on the mini-ledge, he's got a pulled hammy, by the long board cam.
>> Rickk's clip from Spain from yesterday has been fixed. He sent me another one today that won't open, but we do have this photo of Carroll a la Slap '92 that he sent as well. So we're off to a rocky start already with the Mike and Rickk's Spain Clip of the Day. But please do not abandon hope quite yet. And please, don't judge us.
>> Tomorrow we bring you pictures of a prepubescent Larson and of contest winner turned friend of The Tap, Wade C.
>> Sometimes I don't even know if I should refer to it as the Tap, or The Tap, or Crail Tap, or Crailtap. Kind of like when I worked at Skateboarder we would write Antihero, Anti Hero, and Anti-Hero all in the same issue.
QUOTE:
"Now that game is gonna be so much sicker because you can link him to rappers."
Smyth on Kevin Bacon being in Beauty Shop
"They're talking about my shit in Chinese. It's tight!"
Nick Diamond
CURRENT ENTRY
Monday, April 4, 2005
>> Super sales rep Shea la Craze's wife, Jennifer, is an ultra hipster who likes Radiohead and Wes Anderson. Just don't call her a housewife.

(click image to see survey)
>> Mike and Rickk's Spain Clip of the Day #1. I actually don't know if they're going to send a Clip of the Day every day, I just wrote that in hopes that they would. Lunch on Gav if you guys come through. I would expect that this would take precedent over trying to film for the Lakai video.
>> Ty, I know noticed that you referred to Bully as Chompy's son. How do you know it's a he?
>> You have to understand that for some one like Nick this is about as good as it gets. He can die happy. Go to NikeTalk.com, click on Retro Nike, and then look for the Diamond Supply Company Tiffany Dunk thread.
>> Bird getting his background props on Smyth's mini Top 5 from last week. To Bird's left are Berra and Koston and to his right, dare I say, Dyrdek.
>> Hey Meg, Mueller gave me a new svelte Quiet Life sweatshirt. Same color. It's gonna be a long summer.
QUOTE:
"I ate two patty melts this weekend."
Smyth
CURRENT ENTRY
Friday, April 1, 2005
>> Have you checked out Mic-E's new DLXSF site? Yeah, pretty funny Mic, now Carroll's gonna have to toss you off the deck at next years Tampa. Gerwer you're gonna have to deal with the wrath of a topless Ty.
Mini Top 5
Smyth's Top 5 things he saw while perusing mags from the '90s
1. A hip-hop Van Engelen
2. Carroll's mega Japan off the jump ramp at the Venice contest.
3. Karl Watson switch tre, with Maurice Key and Joey Alverez in the background.
4. Tobin Yelland pictorial, with Julien shaving Cardiel's head.
5. Brad Staba frontside flipping the Gonz, on my turf without a pass.
>> Smyth also inhabits Thrasher's Poet's Corner this month. Looks like Smyth doubled his mileage out of this one. First he used it to win $300 bucks at a poetry contest here at HQ, now he's pawning it off to the major pubs for some national exposure. Smyth crossing over ain't nothing but a double cross.
>> Sherwood chew on this one.
>> Raymond and Justin, just so you know, Larson stayed in at lunch today to work on his Skatemental blog. Now if that's not deserving of a signature Frisbee than I don't know what does.
>> Alex Park/Olson was seen with a girl this week. This isn't an April fools either. He really was. Go get 'em killer.
QUOTE:
"I have such a good attitude. I wish I had the body to go with it."
Smyth
See past Randoms