The Glen Plake of the Web


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10/31/05

Scott and Carroll are back from the Lakai filming trip and have both made their way into the office. But in a strange twist of fate, now Mike, not Scott, is the one having to make a hasty exit back to his small dog that he's left at home.

Schnurr, I don't know if there's an online café at the Hustler casino, but if you happen to read this it's time to cash out and go home. I know 36 hours is an awesome goal, but you've already blown minds with this 20-hour run.

I'm winning my first poll! I tried voting for Smyth three times but it didn't work. Mueller sits about ten feet from me with a stash of Quiet Life shirts always under his desk, so I'm not sweating it either.


QUOTES:
"He's sick of me."—Scott when asked if he was sick of traveling with Alex O.





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10/28/05

After a trippy couple of months, Rudy's Top 5 has finally been bumped by Burndog. Over there in the bottom right.

The Gav, Hime, Rudy, and Pat Lawlor headed to Vegas last night to see the singer of Phish perform. That seems like a pretty expensive trip when you consider that only one of those guys even likes the singer from Phish. You other three guys must be really good friends.

Schnurr's back piece that he got in Yosemite is finally healed up. I can't believe there's nothing poker related on there.


QUOTES:
"Just killing time at a big four, thought I'd call you."—Scott





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10/27/05

McCrank checks in:
"I just got back from Scotland this morning where I was hanging out in castles and performing various sacrifices at standing stones for Ben Colen. I also surfed and skated with John Rattray who, in my opinion, is one of the best skaters out there. Here are two images of me: One in a castle and one bombing a hill for 15 min. with a flag. Cheerio." —Rick

Okay Rick, you're back on with single "K" status. But please don't make me threaten you again.

It'd be cooler if he focused it at the end of the line.

I gotta agree with Leslie Potter, it'd be better to have a perv on your hands rather than a druggie. Especially a druggie that licks amphibians. Good one Lee Dawg.

Smyth pontificates on the variations of the Farley in Keepin' It Real, Episode 18. The backwards Farley is my fav. I wish I could have seen it Shelblack.

I knew Rickk used to work at Cinnabon, but this is shit is ridiculous. Brought to us by Rob Fields.


QUOTES:
"You can't play rap in the woods. That will kill the tree's for real."—Rudy on camping in Yosemite

"I'll bum the kids out all day long, but I don't want to start bumming out dudes my own age."—Mike Burnett





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10/26/05

Because of this thing called the Fourstar catalog I won't be in today. So in place of documenting the banal lives of Rudy, Schnurr, Smyth, and The Gav I'll be showing you these Park Clips of the Day. Besides it's been awhile.

We'll start if off with something tame. Kenny Anderson just bought a vintage Mercedes and more importantly he cut his hair. Not all of it, just some of it. Back lipper on the "China Bank" wall or the "vert" wall, depending on how old you are. And just so you young guys know there's no "vert" on that China Bank wall.

The newest member of Royal and Mt. Egypt fan, Raymond Molinar, attacks the bank to bench.

Kenny does it the opposite way.

If you are one of our domestic shop accounts you may have already met our new sales rep Freddy. If not here he is.

Kenny with a backside ollie to tail smash.

And finally Raymond with the ender ender. Frontside flip to tail.





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10/25/05

That's what I love about being a skater; you get to come across people like this.

I've received some responses to my claim that there isn't really much to show someone when they visit you in LA. Some points of interest that were pointed out to me were driving up into the hills to look at the "smoggy skyline," going to Real Food Daily for a celebrity sighting, and going to the corner where Biggie got shot. At least there was one good idea.

Rudy is currently at the forefront of what is sure to be the trendiest diet plan in town. His strategy is simply to order exactly what I order at lunch. You'll be looking like Video Days Rudy in no time.

Get your Turd Fergusson fix here. Thanks Brad.


QUOTE:
"That way I won't need to do any research."—Rudy on copying my diet





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10/24/05

The Yosemite Corpo Retreat Gallery. The tattoo gun made it! When the ink settled Larson and Smyth were the only two to walk out with new pieces. Full slide show coming soon.

Jereme's goofy ass finished first in the Goofy vs. Regular contest held this past weekend in Lake Forest. Stop winning so many contests Jereme, you're making Koston look bad.

Rick McCrank, if you don't make a Tap appearance (i.e. send in a photo of yourself or a quote) in the next month I'm changing Rickk back to Rick.

There's some new Choco boards, The Paper Pusher series, in the Crailshop. Did you know that our old receptionist, Jamie, the one who took all the calls asking for Cory, will now be personally packing all Crail orders? I now predict a spike in sales. 

I hung out with my brother, who is like a chubbier version of me, this weekend. And I realized that after taking someone to The Grove and the hotdog stand that's shaped like a giant hotdog there really isn't much to see around LA. Send me your LA points of interest here.

The good folks at Blueprint have posted a quality clip of their boys going to town. Lakai's own Danny Brady and Nick Jensen, or Lord Jensen as like to call him, are prominently featured. Job well done Mr. Chester and Sir Magee. My only complaint was that on there little trip they didn't bother stopping in Slough.


QUOTE:
"I get a boner when I find a signal."—Welsh when he finds an airport signal so he can log on to MySpace

"I caught some kind of poisoning."—Rickk





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10/21/05

After a week of ollieing in and into the garbage can, Schnurr finally snapped it in the park yesterday. Good job bud. Not off flat of course. Off a bump. Have you seen that guy lately?

Carroll invited everyone to his lady's fashion show last night except for the Mezas. Boy, have things change around here. To think he was one of my groomsmen.

Kenny if you want your photo of you and the rest of the Planet Earth Team Circa '95. Come by office sometime and get it.

Smyth, Lee Smith just wrote me one of his Euro vs. US emails and said that living "the L.A. lifestyle" was comprised of recycling jokes, eating at the same five restaurants, and arguing over which phone is better. He also said it's about comparing reality TV shows. I don't think he was talking about the L.A., sounds like he was referring to you Smyth. Keepin' It Real Episode 17.

QUOTE:
"If I wake up with a tattoo I'm gonna knock somebody out."—Schnurr





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10/20/05

Ringer you forgot to mention that someone's bringing a tattoo gun to the corpo retreat in Yosemite this weekend.

Here's the extent of Rudy's filming mission yesterday. Sorry Mark. We'll try again.

In between getting a box from Deluxe every other day, Sam got a box from Santa Cruz today. Baker, where you at? Keepin' It Real Episode 16.


QUOTE:
"I think I jacked off to a Big Brother before."—Smyth

"Are Thursdays the new Fridays for Gav?"—Bird





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10/19/05

Dorothy from accounting once sold me a mattress for my first apartment for $50. Like I said she's in accounting. Dorothy's pride and joy, her daughter Megan Case has been hanging out here for at least half her life. So it was high time to give her a Family Member Survey:




Fourstar's "Super Champion Funzone" DVD is now at your local skate shop. It covers the entire teams two-week trip to Tokyo as well as over an hour of bonus including a Brian Anderson full street part and the LA and SF Catalog Shoot videos. Pick it up and enjoy yourself. 

It's no secret that after a heavy day of hitting the mean streets with his camera and his skateboard buddies Ben Colen likes to indulge in a role playing game from time to time. When playing on line with others, he goes by the name of Leroy. Watch this clip of him bumming his fellow players out. Thanks Neil.

Carroll's back from the Lakai filming trip and into the arms for his dog Hyphy.

In addition to hawking scripts for chump change, Ben Gregory, who played Brian on the situation comedy "Alf" is also a fan of Fourstar. Welcome to the Tap Brain?I mean Ben. Good eye Patricia Golightly.

Reda is here. You ever noticed every conversation you have with him leads to him saying something to the effect of "Or we can go outside and throw our fists around a little bit." Sweet guy.





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10/18/05

Do you have a company owner who calls, from his cell phone, the receptionist who then pages you throughout the building letting you know the company owner is on line one, only to have the company owner ask you to bring them some toilet paper to the boys' bathroom? Well, we do. You have a one and four chance of guessing which company owner it was.

After a huge outpour of support (four emails) Smyth has taken it upon himself to respond to the accusations that he wasn't going to be Keepin' It Real anymore. One person wrote in to say he wouldn't be getting any more sweet 'tang since his weekly posting of Smyth's episode reviews on the company corkboard has upped his ante with his female coworkers. Here's what Sam had to say:

"I never intended to give up the column. The Real World is the best show on television. They have an infallible formula; goofs, bitches, racists, meatheads, booze, titties, violence, and drama. You can't write this shit, people! It's real life, enhanced, concentrated, and edited down to the good shit. Thank you for you letters of support. It's been a busy summer, and I appreciate your patience while I catch up. But I hope to remain your humble narrator for seasons to come." —Smyth

Jereme Rogers came in today 30k richer after the Dew fest. See that look on his face? That' the look of someone winning in a single afternoon what some people make in a year.


QUOTE:
"I got some of that cannoli cream out of my thighs."—Reda after skating the park

"What's up, I'm getting hate mail now?"—Ben Colon





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10/17/05

Rudy totally flaked on his film day for the Krooked video. He must be really stressed on this one. He was at Seal's wedding or something. Remember guys he only had like two tricks in Mouse and he had a board then, not just a guest board.

We said all it needed was a New Era logo. And thanks to Matthew Kruse now it's got it.

This dude they call Schmitty, who used to be a real dick when he worked at Go Skate, let us know that they've animated Guy's bank-to-bench banger on their website.

Jereme did the Dew this weekend and won first place at the Mountain Dew contest

Scuba Steve and Cale Nuske are here. Did you know that Scuba met his live-in girlfriend over the Crail phone? Now if that's not testimony that we have to bring that thing back then I don't know what is.


QUOTE:
"I will not take the blame for the New Era fad, it was fucking Fred Durst's fault."—Brian Mettee

"You got a week, dude."—Darin from Deluxe to Rudy





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10/14/05

Rudy’s been telling me all week that we’re going out to film for Krooked video this Saturday. He’s been pretty serious about it. But don’t expect to us on the mean streets for too long because he has a wedding to go to at four. Like I said he’s real serious about it.

Smyth goes into autopilot for this weeks Keepin’ It Real, Episode 15. Will Smyth fold before the seasons over? I think he needs some affirmation from the fans. Write to us with some words of encouragement and tell Sam what a good job he’s doing. He’s simply like that.

The Randoms would be longer today if Gav didn’t get me sick.





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10/13/05

David Klewicki is calling bullshit on the Hair is the Hat. According to him The Meat is the Hat is where it's at.

Smyth is back from Toronto. He thinks he might have stretched his stomach and is able to eat more food than normal. He also has a beard. Here's a gallery of events.

Frisco's favorite son Tommy Guerrero is now a landmark in cyber space.

There's some new boards in the Crail Shop, over there on the right.


QUOTE:
"The acid washed jeans are definitely my favorite part of the whole kit."—Matt Willigan on the Hasselhoff photos

"I like the Satan though."—Rick Howard

"I wish I had a twin."—The Gav

"That's funny. Nuts and pickles are both salty."—Desert Twin Eric





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10/12/05

I don't know if my favorite thing about these photos, is that he's riding a McGill or that the McGill has a Thrasher sticker on it. But I guess the best part is that it's David Hasselhoff fully tubed. He's huge in Germany you know.

You saw the frontside nosegrind. You saw the shirt. Guy Mariano is once again riding for ValSurf.

Sam McGuire, no relation to Ken I'm assuming, sent us a photo of his friend Joe and this message about the filming father...



"He straps his kid on board, and films. But not to stress, he never films line's cause that would be sketchy, baby in pouch and filming lines, yikes! Just to maybe relieve Ty of any worries that bearing a child with cause him to cease filming."

It is findings like this that legitimize Ben Colen's entire existence. All those long hours spent in your damp dark basement, cloak pulled tightly over head, elegantly rolling dice of various shapes and sizes, fingers stained by Fire Hot Cheetos flipping the dog eared corners of the Dungeon Manual, the rabid consumption of flat Root Beer, and nary a "real" female insight, were hours well spent Ben.

Artist, filmmaker, and miniramp champ, Mike Mills', first feature film, Thumbsucker is in theaters. As a fellow sled shredder you should check it out as it is well worth seeing. Congratulations Mike.

We here at the Tap wish Jose Rojo, who was recently injured in a serious car accident, a speedy recover. See you soon Joe Red.


QUOTE:
“I work from home, so it's all homework.” —Jeff Pang... sorry, Jefferson Pang





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10/11/05

All this needs is a New Era logo. Thanks Super Lew.

Bird is slowly unseating Smyth as our Atiba with yet another slideshow. Sam, you better have a gallery when you get back. Here's Bird's from his trip to NY.

While cleaning out my inbox I came across these precious moments sent in by some loyal Tappers. It's cool to find a Dude Who Looks Like a Dude photo but when you could turn back the clock and find a prepubescent spread eagle Jereme Rogers look-a-like then, like Scott Mackey, you're the coolest. I also came across Sean McConkey's Slapshot reworking. Scott knows that a good Canadian reference can go a long way around here.

Don't cross your fingers yet ladies, but Ben Colen could be getting adult braces. That's hot.

Conspiracy stoners trip out on what Hime sent us. He is your leader.





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10/7/05

Smyth's been so busy Managing Talent he's been kind of slacking on his gonzo journalist duties. And is the Real World even still on. Luckily he saved some face with this gallery of him and the dudes in Toronto.

You ever wonder what Mike Carroll would be doing in five years? We did too, back in 1998. I'll tell you shit hasn't changed much.

Speaking of porno in the closet, a person who will remain anonymous (but here's a hint; he's the Photo Editor of the magazine I used to work for, no wait actually he's the Creative Director) emailed some of us a slightly off color mpeg of a young couple having sexual relations in a manner that would have never occurred to me in a thousand years. When I brought it up to Carroll he simply said, "I always thought about that." 

Justin Martin rolled the proverbial 20-sided dice and came up with this Mazes and Monsters inspired design for the Ben Colen and DVS collaboration... I mean collabo. I don't own a shoe company Justin, but if I did you'd have a job.


QUOTE:
“If Koston said 50-50 this rail, I'd have to try it.” —Phelps





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10/6/05

That pesky millionaire, Mike Carroll, is back in the tabloids.

The Lakai dudes are going on a film mission for the next couple of weeks. Dimitry even tried to hop in but he was told there's no more room in the van. My have things changed.

The Ringer's little dumpling, Eric Anthony, is in a college alt rock band and they're playing tonight at Spaceland. They go by Dutchbunny. J/K about the college alt rock band thing.

Scott I tried to keep your story a secret, but a little Birdy let it out of the bag over at their site.

Supreme Curtis, your boy Supreme Jeff ratted you out as a Crail nerd. You better handle'em. Jeff's just a film nerd anyway.

Schnurr's here in flip-flops and a Hustler T-shirt, it's time to log off.


QUOTE:
“How'd you know I love gay movies?” —Charlene





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10/5/05

As the second entry for our Newly Endorsed program Chris McCabe from Pittsburgh, PA knows what keeps Reda juiced. Send your Newly Endorsed submissions here.

Sanger is on a serious run of hot video clips. We're stealing this one.

Ben Colen, we know you're not the marrying type (at least in the real world, I'm sure your 9th level cleric has tied the knot a few times) but if you should ever get so lucky we already have the cake picked out for you.

Also, last night Ben ate 21 hot wings and dropped one on his favorite shirt. Yeah, he probably won't be needing that cake.


QUOTE:
“What's up with Clooney becoming a serious director?” —Ben Colen

“I haven't been that close to death in a long time.” —Rudy on doing nitrous years ago





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10/3/05

Efrain Ramos has sent in the first submission of what we are calling the Newly Endorsed program. Rickk is now self assured and fully protected. Send your Newly Endorsed submissions here.

How is this our dude?

Sanger, this is when the internet is kind of cool.

Our Talent Manager, after taxes, won $1060, Canadian, at West 49's Canadian Open contest. It turned out if the team did good then the manager would get a little scratch. Smyth, remember to bring this up next time you go to your Beverly Hills dentist.

The Ringer will be glad to know that we got another team rider who has shit his pants, and as recent as this past weekend. But being a member of the brotherhood myself, I'm sworn to secrecy.


QUOTE:
“Enjoy yourself.” —Scott





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9/30/05

Our favorite D & D master, Ben Colen, may be coming out with his own signature colorway with DVS, as part of their photographers' series. If you have any graphic ideas that would apply nicely to a pair of Daewon 9s, send them our way. Remember think Orcs and Dragons.

There's some major fires around town for the last couple of days, causing the air to be more hazy than usual, and that's a pretty harsh haze. You can actually see the ash in the air. Well, Rudy thinks, after playing a soccer match last night, that breathing in the ash has cured his cold.

As you can see Russ Dahlberg has come in with quite a shocker with Featured Email #100. Inspired by his masterpiece we are calling on all of you to mock up some other products that our riders should endorse. Send them here, and we'll post the good ones.

Mueller's The Quietlife is having a photo show tomorrow night. I'm still waiting for the bidding war between The Quietlife and Skate Mental to commence over my official endorsement. Stop stringing me along.


QUOTE:
“What am I going to do, go home and watch Days of Our Lives?” —Matt Schnurr on going to the Hustler Casino in the afternoon





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9/29/05

What's a wedding without a Smyth gallery?


Mini Top 5
Top 5 reasons why Sam might think he's sick
1. Flying
2. Eating White Roughy up to three times a week
3. Accidentally eating a piece of lettuce
4. It's too cold in his office
5. Partying


Our European Editor Le Lee sent us this. See who's doing what down the big four. A better Webcam would be on Le Lee's fingertips.

Vote for Beibel, Lakai, and Girl here. Even Shelby Woods is nominated somewhere on there.


QUOTE:
“That's what we need on Crail, wizards.” —Ringer

“Or maybe owls.” —Larson





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9/28/05

Besides collecting free iPod Nanos, Rudy has also garnered himself a guest board on Krooked.

People keep sending me Dude Looks Like Dude despite it being banned from the column, but since it's Lance we'll let it slide. One has a mean sadplant and the other just made the hit Brit comedy The Office sad. Lance Mountain and Steve Carell. That's the last one Kurt.

A lot of people are upset about the myspace ban. But where else could you find gems like this?

Besides being the object of desire to young girls, Mike has been honored and imitated by the Japanese with their version of his short-lived Vans Shoe. Take a look at the Mad Carroll.

Apparently The Tap has had a heavy influence on the Wichita, KS music scene.

Tony Ferg and his partners have opened up an Alife store in Vancouver. Tomorrow night's the opening and as always, with any Vancouver happening, the first person to send us a Bob K photo at the event wins a prize.

Our good friend Travis Graves' new album is now available. Travis, you've come a long way from pissing your pants at skate camp for free product.


QUOTE:
“Eskimo's' prefer to be called 'Inuit' or 'Innu,' just like Americans prefer to be called 'God's favorite child'.” —Wade Crowchild





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9/27/05

Well Derek Wilkening was the first, after his own brother-in-law to "guess" that it was Tony Larson who was the "mystery writer" of yesterday and Friday's Randoms. Is it much of a mystery or a guess even after the answer was given out on Thursday? Do this sound familiar? "If the Randoms take a dip in quality tomorrow and Monday it's because Tony 'I have an office with an interior-window' Larson is doing them." Maybe the next time I bestow the honor of having someone take over the Randoms it should be someone who actually reads the damn thing.

They say the Eskimos have 100 different words for snow because it is so important in their culture. Well, Eskimos we got you beat when it comes to crack, which I bet is referred to as "snow" as well. Yep, it's on there, "snow cake." Now that's culture.

Two of the baddest, FTC and Dogtown, are joining forces on this art show. Look at Ando up there with the big dogs.

Smyth, now this is a vending machine. Thanks Joe.

Keepin' It Real, Episode 14.

Gav's wedding gallery tomorrow.


QUOTE:
“I do.” —The Gav





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9/26/05

Hello heathens. It's still me, the Mystery Guest, doing Random's today. Bummer.

For no apparent reason at all ,(other than the fact that it rules) this Random's post is dedicated to Metal. Heavy Metal. Not the cult classic animated full length feature movie. The music genre. Actually, genre is a limited term when describing where metal sits in our respective cultures. It's a way of life, truth be told. Plus, it totally kicks ass.

What could be more metal than death? Apparently Biebel agrees, as he's opened a business dedicated to death itself.

And as we all know, the goat is the Official Animal of Metal...Think about it..The acronym for Greatest of All Time is: G.O.A.T...the acronym for Music of All Time is M.O.A.T...what's more metal than a sick moat around your house?...These aren't coincidences, folks. Apparently, SAKS 5th Avenue agrees.

One of the best names EVER in metal is BOLT THROWER...Why? Because it's real close to "The Bolt's" which is a nickname for the best team in the NFL....Plus, you can just picture some badass Wizard sitting atop a dark, misty mountain, just hucking bolts down at Druid's and setting trees on fire. Just ask Ben Colen. He knows what I'm talkin' about.

Corey O'Brien always had great metal graphics.

If you didn't already know, Angela Boatwright is a highly talented, NY based photographer who is also a huge fan of metal. Her and I have often wasted time during our workday sending each other metal trivia questions. She always wins. I like to bite other peoples' ideas, so I did a Mini Metal Top 5's with Miss Boatwright:

1.Top 5 metal bands of all time?

Oh man, okay. This is tricky because this could be either the 'most important' metal bands of all time or 'my personal top 5 of all time'. I'll give you both.

Most important:
Black Sabbath
Kiss
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Metallica

My personal top 5:
Judas Priest
Diamond Head
Ozzy Osbourne (either solo or with Sabbath)
Scorpions
Slayer

P.S. If Thin Lizzy are considered heavy metal, which I don't think they are, then they would be on both lists...

2. Top 5 metal shows you've seen?

1. Bombers at the Garage in Bergen, Norway. 2005 (This is Abbath from Immortal's brand new Motorhead cover band and they fucking rip!)
2. Slayer at the Newport,Columbus, OH 'South of Heaven' tour 1989
3.Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith, Buckeye Lake, OH 1988
4. Dimmu Borgir/ Children of Bodom/ Nevermore at L'Amour's, Brooklyn, NY 2003
5. Children of Bodom, Austin, TX 2003( I can't remember the name of the venue. It was their first ever show in the States outside of the Milwaukee Metal fest.)

Top 5 metal band names?

You could go simple:
Hell
Satan
Venom
Weapon
Pentagram

or gross:
Cattle Decapitation
Bestial Warlust
Ripping Corpse
Rotting Christ
Guttural Secrete

or just plain perfect:
Pile Driver
Cloven Hoof
Praying Mantis
Blasphemy
Hallows Eve

Or names with 'witch' in them, maybe:
Angel Witch
Witchfinder General
Witchery
Witchfynde
Witchmaster
Warlock (kind of counts...)

4. Top 5 metal items a young metalhead must have to call themselves a true metalhead?

1. Scythe
2. Set of random hunting-type knives
3. Some sort of spiked wrist apparel
4. Empty Jack Daniels bottle with candle jammed into it
5. Big, cheap flammable Iron Maiden banner bought at fair (or mall)

5. Top 5 precious metals?

'Heavy Metal Mania' - Holocaust
'Hooked on Metal' - Acid
'Metal Gods' - Judas Priest
'Kings of Metal' - Manowar
'Metal Heart' - Accept

That F****n ruled. Now, go the mall. Meza's back tomorrow.

 

 

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9/23/05

What's up assdots?

Maybe you've noticed that this is not Meza posting. If you can guess who it is, I'll send something super sick to the first person who guesses correctly. Send your guesses to Meza.

This column is called "Randoms", so let's make it just that, shall we?

First this: French Moose.

We got a letter from Tom in London. Basically, I say bullocks (pretty good, eh Tom?) to re-writing what he said. The jist of the letter is that he's called out some of the 'Tap staffers who have "banned" MySpace.com. In fact, he found one of them on MySpace! Have a look. Shameful. Personally, I love MySpace. That's where I met Rihanna. We're doing great, by the way. 3 months and going strong...

More Randomness.

Sam, we got this from Mike Strapp,

"I think Smyth (Talent Manager) needs to decide if he wants to be in charge of talent or the ones that make him the real money at the tap.  The vending machines.  Just trying to have Smyth keep it real.  Here's some more vending envy."

How could you ever sleep on one of these dudes???...Dude's like, "We're not gonna take it, NO! We ain't gonna take it...."

or....

"Murdah!! Heel up, heel up, bring it comeback rewind!...We nah eat dat grain no mo'!...Lotta mercy!....so sick. Nuf respect, Goatman! You run tings!

Skate Randomness.

See ya Monday.

QUOTE:

"Come down and ye shall be suckethed."—Mat Arluck

 

 

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9/22/05

Sometimes I call in quotes, if you could believe that, for the following day's post, and today's simply said, “Don’t forget the one Rudy said about ‘broads.’”

Unlike making notes for a post, leaving yourself a message reminds me of this girl in junior high who used to send herself Valentine Grams on Valentine’s Day. Pretty lame.

Scratch what I said a few weeks ago, Goods is a skate nerd. Here's only half of his collection.


Mini Top 5
Reda’s Top 5 things that he likes to call and tell people he’s doing while he’s in New York and they’re not:
1. Eating a sausage and peppers sandwich
2. Drinking a coffee in front of the bar but not going inside
3. Skating around with no camera bag on
4. Eating a good cannoli
5. Just being in Brooklyn


Sanger, I don’t think Smyth will be reviewing “My Name is Earl Real”, but here’s Keepin’ It Real, Episode 13.

If the Randoms take a dip in quality tomorrow and Monday it’s because Tony “I have an office with an interior-window’ Larson is doing them. Thanks bud. I’ll be at Gav’s wedding trying to convince him that a goatee and yarmulke isn't always the best look.


QUOTE:
“Leave it up to a broad to just walk into a room and ruin the whole cipher.” —Rudy





CURRENT ENTRY
9/21/05

Sometimes I write down notes, if you could believe that, for the following day's post, and today's simply said, "More Gav."

Yesterday for lunch The Gav had half of a large pizza with salami, pepperoni, and jalapenos on it. They say in your first year of marriage you put on 15. Well, Kelly your man's just getting a head start. At this rate the goatee maintenance is gonna be on code red.

Oh, and Ringer you forgot to mention that whoever takes care of Gav's cats shouldn't work for the Humane Society or be too into animals rights because Gav had 'em de-clawed after they attacked his leather ottoman one night. 

And another thing, when we mention Kelly in conjunction with The Gav we're not talking about Kelly Bird. Just so you didn't think they were getting married. C'mon, you know Bird is not the marrying type!

Biebel send more photos. Haven't heard from you in a while.

New Top 5 coming soon.


QUOTE:
“And they still fuck everything up.” —The Gav





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9/20/05

It's true, it's true. Young Jereme Rogers is the latest dude to get a pro model from Girl Skateboards. Congrats Sperm.

This Saturday AntiSocial will be hosting Fourstar's "Who Chairs?" art show. I expect all of you to be back in Northern California for The Gav's wedding on Sunday. 

Starting late Friday, Gav is going to be on a 48-hour-goatee-watch for the Sunday ceremony. A millimeter difference in either direction can completely alter the shape of his face, which will be forever documented in his wedding photos. It has been the secret to his look for some time. So, whether you are one of the lucky few to be invited or not (you're probably not), please keep his goatee in your thoughts and prays this weekend.


QUOTE:
“I'm glad I don't have one. I think they're stupid.” —Rudy on middle names





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9/19/05

The Skate Fairy called me the night of his first anniversary to get the server info so he can do some posts. Sounds like romance is still the key to a successful marriage.

Remember this guy? He's located in the same town where Burnett lived out his "wild college partying days." Is he one of the Dicks, Mike?

Since our Talent Manager has taken a personal day, the big team announcement has been moved to tomorrow. 

I guess on a personal day you can still Keep it Real. Episode 12.


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“They suck on them like I'm the girl.” —Nick Diamond





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9/16/05

Wow, that was scary!
In our 36 hour absence, you might think the Gav's stock may have dropped, but fear not Gav fans, even the French will give him — even after a solid 7 years off his board — the top cover blurb of their magazine, as well as four pages inside. "Le Club: Tim Gavin"? Gav, your rep precedes you. Mag looks great guys.

All along you may have assumed, as did we, that Sam Smyth is a Team Manager. If you're a receptionist at a Beverly Hills dentistry you may be under the impression that Sam holds quite a different title. You see the intoxicating effect of being in the 90210, coupled with watching too much Entourage, compelled Sam to write down on his patient information form, under Occupation, that he was a "Talent Manager." Not a Team Manager. Nice one Sam.

Speaking of job titles, do you have a Production Manager who, back in college, smoked grass with members of 311 on their tour bus? We do! Owww!

As always Kelch is committed to excellence.

Guess who came by to pick up a copy of Yeah Right!?

Philanthropist Supra Pete is selling one of his most prized pieces, with all proceeds going to charity. If you want to get down, bid here.

Pat Heid, VP Carroll really wanted me to show the rest of the world one of the shoes that you'll be winning for your Rickk ad. It's one of a kind.

We'll make another big team announcement on Monday.


QUOTE:
“Chicks that run companies — well it's kind of different.” —Phelps

“I wish we had more footage of us punking fools back in the day.” —Smyth

“I thought, 'Why Not?'” —Smyth





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9/12/05

Finally, after a month of sitting in my office I get to shake this box of shoes that Rickk left in an attempt to "clean" his office. "Here's a Crail giveaway" was how he pawned them off. After the 30 or so entries it came down to a classic battle between mammaries vs. Mounties. Avondale, Arizona's Brian Dakulis' put his breast foot forward for this one and got a lot of laughs, but Pat Heid's "Blame Howard," had a little more design flair to take home the grand prize. Good job boys. Ty stole a couple of pairs of your size 11.5s the other day Pat, so we put in some size 9 one of a kind samples that Carroll left here when he tried to "clean" out his closet. He said, "Here's a Crail giveaway."


QUOTE:
“Do they take Dockers?” —Matt Schnurr on donating clothes to the hurricane relief

“Dude you were barely a sponsored amateur.” —Rudy to Nick Tershay





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9/09/05

Carroll! Scooch! Popps! It's officially official. Anthony Pappalardo now rides for Chocolate. Finally we'll have someone around here with worse posture than me.

Popps' personal filmer Fat Bill has pulled himself together and sent us some info on how to order his video "Dizzy" starring the Gonz. If you want to order the video, or just want to tell Bill you like his pink triple goose, email him here. He also sent us this teaser from the video.

We'll be announcing the winner of the win Rickk's shoes contest next Monday.

We said it was Staba's birthday yesterday, but we lied. It was the day before. So for all you cult like Staba fans who baked him a cake or printed out the photo of him from yesterday's post to add to your Staba shrine, you celebrated the wrong day. Now put the lotion back in the basket.

When I worked at Skateboarder this dude would email me about once a week asking us to do a Staba interview. At first I thought it was Brad himself, until the guy fully freaked out on me when I told him he might want to slow down on the emails.

After numerous phone calls and a sit down meeting Bird has completed his first slideshow for us. It's from his trip with the Lakai's French Connection.

After a week of almost total silence, Carroll called us to let us know that our server was down. And then he got really excited when I said maybe someone hacked in to our shit and shut us down. He's always had a flare for the dramatic.





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9/08/05

Today is Staba's birthday. He's two boards shorter and a year older. Happy birthday dude.




We got a park clip. It's Sherm on a backside tail in an expensive Diamond shirt. But he gets 'em for free.

Bird just got back from a French Connection tour of France and Belgium?I think. Anyway, if I'm wrong Boglio will write me an email to correct me. Here's a gallery.

Smyth must have to clear some room on his TiVo for the Fall season because he's been tearing through his back log of Real Worlds. Episode 11.


QUOTE:
“We're always giving back to skateboarding, it's time to take a little.” —Brian Mettee

“At first it didn't make sense, then I smoked a bunch of weed and read it. That's the best Top 5 there's been.” —The Hime about Rudy's Top 5





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9/07/05

We've extended the win a box of shoes by designing the best Girl contest until Friday. Usually it's because we were being lazy and didn't get around to picking a winner, but this time it's because the entries kind of suck. So anybody could walk away with this thing. Send your "ads" here.

Alex's dad, Steve, has a pretty epic photo today on Skatedaily. If little Alex were only half as cool he might actually kiss a girl by the end of the year. On the lips even.

Guess who was staying at Biebel's this weekend?

Sam in a very Felix-from-The Cut-like-maneuver painted his beloved Torture Totter for six hours straight, right down to the wire, only to not win most innovative obstacle. Smyth, you are out of style. You may take the runway. 

Luckily for you he was able to pull himself together and recompose himself to wrap up another episode of Keepin' It Real.

Raymond if you're looking for your Krooked boards that you left in the van, Biebel and Rickk used them as kindling for Biebel's new fire pit that they bought at Target. 

Tapper, Sean McConkey, catches Atiba with yet another rapper. Atiba you don't only have to send us the hot ones. You could send us the Hammer ones too.

Ty's got a new pet bug so I guess he'll start updating Skate Fairy again. 

I gotta go Tony Ferguson is in my office reading directions to a Fourstar sales meeting and looking confused.


QUOTE:
“I want to thank you for paying for it.” —Biebel to Rickk, after Rickk said he had a nice house

“Rickk you need to step your rim game up.” —Biebel

“If I'm G-Unit fitted, I'm more confident.” —Biebel

“I'm not gonna sit in a car for two hours just for some gash.” —Raymond




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