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>> One more High Fives video clip coming at you soon. Call Ty Evans on the Tap Phone at 310-619-4213 and ask him when he's gonna have that thing done. >> Did you see the BIG FAT CONTEST that we launched yesterday? It ends soon so ENTER NOW! >> And also in the big and fat department, our Honorary Crail Canadian, Rick (McCrank... you know, Rick with one K), wanted to make sure that you've seen this ping pong Matrix video clip. He also wanted you to know that they've got real live green grass growing as a part of the front window display at Antisocial right now. Head to 2425 Main Street in Vancouver to view the indoor lawn spectacle and to buy a copy of Yeah Right! >> Wow, remember Thrashin' for the new millenium? We heard from a very reliable source that there's three more movies that are very similar to it headed to theatres soon. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I make brands, I think" - Bird "This is a professional skateboard event dawg, BOUNCE" - Rickk (or Rick, you choose) "People are fucking annoying, but I'm down" - Mike Carroll
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Today we're kicking off the BIG FAT YEAH RIGHT SOUNDTRACK contest, and the winner will be taking home both of the limited edition Yeah Right! boards pictured above. All you have to do is send us a CD containing all of the tracks from Girl's Yeah Right! video, along with a list of all of the tracks and the artists that performed them along with who's part in the video the tracks appeared in. If there's more than one correct entry, all of the entries will be put into a draw for the boards. This contest is pretty tough, so if you don't know a couple of the songs you should enter anyway because you never know, dude. The
deadline for entries is August 1, 2003 so send your soundtracks
along with track lists today to: >> Darrell Stanton has just joined Eric Koston, Mike Carroll and Rodrigo TX on the exclusive Diamond bearings team (Nick Tershay made sure that we put the word "exclusive" in there for you). >> Remember when those wicked xtreme contest dudes put on that street contest at Love Park last year and all the locals were pissed? Well, this year it's going down at the infamous West LA Courthouse, and we're not sure what the locals have to say about it but something tells us that it might not be such a hurrah. >> Wait a second... did I just see Robbie Mckinley, Chris Roberts, Anthony Van Engelen and Richard Mulder all walk by with matching FREE THE WEST LA COURTHOUSE shirts on? >> YOU F**KING SHRED THIS STUFF AT YOUR HOMES (YOUR PAL KELLY BIRD ISN'T AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, BUT SEND US YOUR PHOTOS OF THE STUFF YOU'VE BUILT TO SKATE ANYWAY): "This is me and my friend Josh killing it in Iowa" - Dan "Hey my names George the Arab, from Dedham, MA and since P.J. and Jereme got all the spots knobbed in Boston, we built this box" - George "Natick, MA" - Huh? >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "See you on the dance floor!" - Greg Nice
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DON'T HATE ON THE NATE: >>
One of >> It's the Crailtap Achievments In Advertising Awards nominee #10. Wow. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I'm going to eat an aluminum can to make both Bob and Brad feel normal" - Megan after hearing that Bob K ate tin foil on purpose to make Staba feel better about eating tin foil on accident
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ENTRY >> The Girl Skateboards site just got updated with tons of new photos and stuff. Is it just me or does Rickk's hair look really weird in that photo on the main menu page? Call the Tap Phone at (310) 619-4213 and ask Rickk what was up with his hair in that photo. >> Friendster Friday just isn't the same when Mikey and Ty are out of town without a DSL connection to the internet. >> LINK OF THE DAY:
We got an e-mail with a photo about a skateboarding radio show out of Holland, but it's in Dutch and we don't speak or read Dutch so yeah dude. If you speak and/or read Dutch then click the link above and then click on "Luisteren". >> Doe enig van u fockers Nederlands spreekt? Waarom de hel is ik, die van deze nieuws verstuurt? >> This just in from our homeboy Nate Sherwood: "THANKS FOR POSTING MY DRUNKING E/MAIL UP ON THE TAP. YOUR MY HERO MAN. HEY YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE RAD. IS IF YOU POSTED MY E/MAIL ADDRESS. I NEVER GET E/MAILS EVERY HUMAN I KNOW HATES ME AT THIS POINT EXEPT WILLY SANTOS AND JEREMY KLIEAN. and the tap crew and i think you? i got insperskated by you guys posting the tap phone up on the site. so i wish to put my email up. SO IF ANY HUMANS WANT A CUSTOM LAME DRUNK MISSPELT EMAIL FROM ME DROP A E/MAIL TO elnatoflip@hotmail.com i would be stoked to send a rad email back. plus im looking for free music for this video me and jerimey are workin on so if any humans want to donaskate some music to owr project. please no hate mail i get enough in the real mail as it is. i fucking sport gloves and a gas mask when i go to the box outside my fuckin door lol." >> KELLY BIRD WANTS TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND TAKE PHOTOS OF THE THINGS YOU SKATE BUT HE'S TOO BUSY TO SO PLEASE TAKE THE PHOTOS YOURSELF AND SEND 'EM TO US (send 'em here): "This is what we skate on in Dedham, Massachusetts when were not hittin' up Beantown" - George K "We skate this all the time in Toledo, Ohio" - Joe "Hey my name's Shane, I'm from Hamilton, ON, Canada. This is the mini ramp me and some guys just finished making. (picture was taken after a rain)" - Shane ST "Mike S doin a crail on Buckys ramp" - Matt P >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I guess I'm Puffy and you're Suge Knight" - Megan to Greg C "Park this thing. I gotta take a shit" - Jeremy Carnahan, upon returning to Girl from lunch today
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>> Gino Iannucci is the newest pro on Fillmore Wheels! The team now consists of Mike Carroll, Justin Eldridge and Gino. >> Somebody we don't know sent us an e-mail today saying that Paul Rodriguez has an interview in the latest issue (August 2003) of the latino version of People magazine. They said to "go to your local international news stand and pick up a copy". This could quite possibly be true. >> I wonder if Mike Carroll is ever going to get around to answering the second round of ASK MIKEY questions or if we're going to have to get Arvedis to take over the column. Stay tuned for advice column developments. >> Did I just see somebody (not Spike) hand Spike Jonze's house keys to somebody else (also not Spike) in front of my office? Did that same person say something about going out quietly through the sliding glass door in the back when the job was done? Is that sketchy? >> That's all we've got for you today. But you know how the person who writes RING RING RING always promises that tomorrow will be a brighter day in their column? Well, we're gonna blow the back doors off of this place tomorrow. Really.
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ENTRY >> In case you missed today's CRAILTAP DAILY on the front page, check out the video clip edited by Ty on the I-5 tour. Awesome. There'll be two more of them coming your way over the next few days. >> Do you know what time it is? It's time for you to stop being shy and call the Tap Phone. Talk to the Girl team on tour at (310) 619-4213. There's a few hundred repeat callers who all have their names programmed into the phone, and these are the new ones from yesterday: Tippa
>> Skateboarder Magazine is looking for a new art director to fill the shoes of Chris Yormick who's leaving the company for reasons unknown to us. If you have experience with art direction and would like to work for The Mez at one of our favorite magazines, send your resume today. Mez told us to "Make the job sound sick!", so yeah... the job is totally sick. If only a tiny bit of Mez-ness should rub off on you during your time working there, it'd be worth it. Send your resume now. >> Remember the BBQ thing in Vancouver that we told you about yesterday? Well you're gonna have to shine it because it's the same day as the Girl demo at the Tsawassen park up there. Oops. GIRL DEMO IN VANCOUVER: SUNDAY, JULY 20. If you're lucky, Peter Sullivan might even be at the demo with an extra lawn chair that you can sit on as well as an extra bag of peanuts for you to eat, but don't count on it because he'll probably be off somewhere doing something trivial... like helping his wife give birth to his child. Ever wonder why McCrank is our lifetime Honourary Crail Canadian? >> BIRD'S BACKYARD BBQ AND BLAST RAMP BLITZ (send us photos of the stuff you've built to skate at home): "OK MY PC IS TO LOW BUDG TO SCAN PHOTOS, PLUS I'M TO POOR TO HAVE A SCANNER, BUT THIS IS TRUE... I HAVE A RAD HARD BOARD BOX THAT IS 35 IN TALL AND A RAD RAIL ROAD TIE THAT IS LIFTED BY TWO FOOT TALL BLOCKS OF WOOD. AND A KING RAIL FLAT BAR. ITS A RAD SET UP." - NATE SHERWOOD >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I like the 80's, dude" - Rudy Johnson "It was off the hizzy" Mark Lewman on yesterday's Girl demo in Eugene, OR
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ENTRY >> Those Fourstar bandanas in the Crailstore are going fast. Only white and burgundy ones are left. Get one now so you can be totally fuckin' gangster or totally fuckin' rock or totally fuckin' hobo. Be whatever you want to be, but make sure you get a fuckin' Fourstar bandana first. >> I think we just used up our F word quota for the Randoms this month. Check back in a couple of weeks when we cuss again. >> Below is the caller list from DAY 5 of the Tap Phone Up The I-5. If Fedex comes through on time, we'll have a special High Fives quicktime treat for you tomorrow that you won't want to miss (call (310) 619-4213 to talk to the Girl team on tour): Zak
from Oak Park loves boys in tight pants MVP
CALLER: >> BIRD'S BACKYARD BONANZA (send Kelly photos of the things you skate at home): "Hey my names Patrick F from ATL. I skate this crappy plastic ramp. I called the crail phone and they said Rick Mccrank was sitting on his skateboard. I like crailtap!" - Patrick F "So the other day I was takin one of my nature walks and I got lost in the woods. Then, I came across these two happenin' dudes (Chris Carpenter and Shane Milek) and they were in the middle of this mad session and invited me to join them. I did." - Chris Hubbard "Hey, this is my friend Paul doing a crooked grind on a little ledge we conjured up during a rainy day." - Nick H from Perth Australia "Hey, you f*ckers, I left you a message [on the Tap Phone] that said f*ck a bunch. I hope you like my picture of my ramp." - Stuart P "Me and my buddy were in North Cakalaka helpin my mom move down to South Florida... anyway... we made this makeshift gap out of her carport." - Bill S >> Every summer in Vancouver, BC, Canada somebody (not exactly sure who) puts on a series of contests/BBQs called the Bowl Series to take advantage of all of the bowls that are up there. I guess the last one got cancelled because of rain, but we got an e-mail today letting us know that the Griffin Bowl Series rain date is this Sunday the 20th at high noon. If you live in Vancouver you should head to Griffin Park in North Vancouver to skate or just watch and eat hamburgers off the BBQ. It'll be fun. Promise.
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>> And now for the moment only a few of you have been waiting for!!! It's time for us to announce the winner of the I LO-O-O-OVE PAUL RODRIGUEZ contest! Little Miss Lauren Ward from Minneapolis sent in this love letter, this photo, this something or other and the envelope pictured above absolutely soaked in some sort of perfume that the seceretary at Girl told us the name of but we forgot soon after. Congratulations, Lauren, you're the winner of Paul's autographed and framed Skateboarder Magazine cover! >> Brad Staba went on a trip to the Ukraine with Slap about a week ago but somehow ended up in Paris after a couple of days of Ukrainian hospitality. Joining Mr Staba are Reese Forbes, Stefan Janoski, Joe Brook and potential Skate Mental Euro rider, Tyler Reid. Last we heard they were doing keg stands under the Eiffel Tower. We'll keep you updated on their status. >> Is Ukrainian spelled "Ukrainian" or "Ukranian"? Are we gonna have to apologize again tomorrow for another damned spelling mistake? >> THERE'S A BOATLOAD OF YOUR RAMP PHOTOS SITTING IN KELLY BIRD'S HARBOR AND WE'RE TOO BUSY TO POST THEM TODAY BUT WE'LL GET EM TO YOU TOMORROW SO INSTEAD HERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD PROBABLY CARE LESS ABOUT BUT MAYBE NOT (send us photos of the things you've built to skate): Marilyn Manson has been barred from performing at the August 11th Ozzfest date in Darien Lakes, New York. A spokeswoman for the Six Flags venue hosting the concert claims the park was within its contractual rights to block individual performers, but she offered no further comment. "People do acknowledge and recognize me as truly dangerous," Manson tells Crailtap.com, adding, "Only Marilyn Manson, out of all the bands, has been considered inappropriate." >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I was gonna call, but I've been too busy settin' it off over here" - Staba "I don't think I've ever really looked at him" - Andy Jenkins on one of the art dump interns
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from Long Beach MVP
CALLERS: SHIT
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OOPS! We forgot all about Friendster Friday! To make up for our
mistake, it's officially FRIENDSTER WEEKEND AT THA TAP!!! All
we have to offer you is a small list of Friendsters that have called
the Hooray for T-Mobile Tap Phone: >>
Have you called the GO T-MOBILE Tap Phone yet and talked to the
Girl team? If you yourself have a T-Mobile phone, Mike Carroll
wants you to send photographs. Here's a list of callers from day 3 of the HIGH FIVES UP THE I-5 tour: Marice
from NM CALLER
MVP's: EASE
UP ON THE 600 MINUTES LIST: SHIT
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ENTRY >> Look for Yeah Right! DVDs in your local shop next week. A whole whack of em just got shipped out. >> We tried calling the Crail I-5 Phone to get the scoop on the Girl tour but it was busy so it looks like you're gonna have to try and get through to the team yourself. Call (310) 619-4213 to talk to the Girl team. Apparently, the thing has been ringing non stop and the first 600 minutes of airtime are compliments of T-Mobile but after that... well, we're not sure what's gonna happen. So let us take this opportunity to say WE LOVE T-MOBILE! YAY FOR T-MOBILE! GO T-MOBILE! T-MOBILE TOTALLY RULES, DUDE! in an attempt to get unlimited minutes. Here's the list of people who called the YAY T-MOBILE! Crailphone on day 2 of Girl Skateboards' High Fives Up The I-5 tour: Jim
from Detroit MVP
CALLERS: SPECIAL
NOTES: In
other Crailphone news, this message came in from San Francisco today: >> In case you were wondering, Jeremy Carnahan of Girls art dump got his switch frontside kickflips back last week. >> KELLY BIRD IS PROUD TO PRESENT CRAILTAP'S 100TH "THE STUFF WE BUILT TO SKATE" PHOTO THAT YOU, THE TAPPERS, HAVE SENT IN (send us your photos): "Hey this is what we skate on in Holstein Iowa. Since we have nothing to skate in our little rural town, we have like 4 of these mini parks set up. Have a nice day." - Eric Ehlers >> Nate called today to let us know that a documentary film entitled "Under Pressure: The Nate Sherwood Story" is in the works right now. More news on that one as we get it. >> SKATE LINK OF THE DAY: Mandatory Information is now thenews.com.au. Browse their classic skate ads gallery and other shits that they have to offer.
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Six righteous dudes from the Girl
team are making their way north on the second day of the HIGH FIVES
UP THE I-5 tour. Want to hear the latest on the tour? Call them
on the Crail I-5 Phone! Daniel
from Seattle >> KELLY BIRD'S RAMPS AND OTHER STUFF THAT YOU'VE BUILT TO SKATE (send Kelly your photos): "Hello, I am Mike, 14, of Massachusetts. I called the Crailtap cell phone and then my voice was made fun of. It was quite nifty. Anyways, here is my friend Zac skating a setup made by many skaters at my school. It was up for a few days and it was fun, everyone had a good time!" - Mike L "Hi Crailtappers. This is our box, the dude sitting on it is my brother. Look at the background and figure out from what country we are (It starts with an H and ends with Olland) Cheers." - JP >> Follow Rick McCrank's lead and take today's poll! Rick answered "Plays well with others".
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The HIGH FIVES UP THE I-5 tour kicked off today and sitting on
the dash of the tour van is the CRAIL I-5 PHONE... >> Rick McCrank was in here earlier today showing off the insoles for his next pro model skater dude shoe. They (the insoles) look like soles in this photo, but they're actually those things that go inside the shoes. INSOLES. They (the insoles) were designed by our good pal, Lori D. Buy a shirt off of Lori D and support the Villa Villa Cola video project she's working on. >> BIRD'S BACKYARD BLITZ AND PHOTOS OF THINGS YOU'VE BUILT TO SKATE (send us your photos): "We're a bunch of dorks from Belgium, Europe and we're building a mini. I've included a pic of our mini in progress (almost finished). Kreeltap schopt reten! (Crailtap kicks ass!)" - Van Der Vieren This came in to us last week from Dave Metty at the Visalia YMCA Skate Camp. Going to camp this summer? Think about Visalia. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "This is stupid" - Rick McCrank on the Sexiest Way To Wear Clothing poll .
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>> LINK OF THE DAY: In case you missed it last week, here's the trailer for the Thrashin' of the 90's! I mean, the new millenium! >> The High Fives Up The I-5 tour hits Bakersfield and Visalia tomorrow. If you live anywhere near either of those places, put down the Cheetos and the Nintendo controller and get your fiver gloves on, dude, because GIRL IS COMING TO TOWN! >> Hey we haven't mentioned it, but we're selling Fourstar bandanas in the Crailshop now. Get one of each color while they're still in stock. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Lately I've been thinking, in pro skateboarding, there's a few guys that have it good and a million that want it really bad" - Bird
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ENTRY >> The Girl team is gonna be high fiving up the I-5 starting this coming Wednesday, and Crailtap (that's us) has got Ty Evans filming and editing a quicktime featurette thing in three parts for you. Stay tuned! >> In case you missed Thursday's Randoms, we put a call out for jokes for our first (and last) annual HA HA VERY FUNNY joke contest. Over the weekend we received a ton of lame racist, sexist, perverted jokes and other assorted ones that were in general poor taste, but a few good ones came in and so we bring you... THE HA HA VERY FUNNY CONTEST WINNING JOKE: Q:
What did the frog say to the skateboarder? AND THE HA HA VERY FUNNY CONTEST RUNNER UP: Q:
Why do you not play cards in the wild animal park? >> KELLY BIRD'S RAMPS AND CRAP (send us a photo of anything that you've built to skate) "This is a picture of my rail I made. next to it is my board." - James Yukawa. Culver City, Ca. >>
The folks at Skatenerd
sent us an e-mail today: >> Remember the blueprint for Kickstands Dog Home? Well, Mr. Staba just finished building that home. >>
FIRST TIME EVER #1: >> The Tapper 5 Snackers poll made a 3% jump over the weekend. It's officially official that 48.96% of you eat a lot of snacks. >> APPROPRIATED LINK OF THE DAY: The Dutch skateboard.
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>> I guess it's Friendster Friday again (our fifth in a row), but we don't have any interviews or anything exciting and/or Friendster related for you. Sorry, but you're going to have to find your own way to celebrate. Wait, it's Thursday. Never mind. >>
JOKE CONTEST! >> We were going to post the winner for the I LO-O-OVE PAUL contest today except Clive went big last night and is complaining about the winning entry being doused in some sort of cheap perfume that will only make his headache worse. Hopefully by the end of the weekend he'll be brave enough to open that envelope and scan it's contents for all to see. Stay tuned. Here's to Clive's mild weekend. >> The HIGH FIVES UP THE I-5 Girl summer tour heads north next week. Check below for demos in your area! Oh, and they added Vancouver Canada as a stop in case you didn't notice. >> Sorry, but nobody sent in photos of the stuff they've been skating today , so there's no BIRD'S BACKYARD BLITZ for you today. (send us your photos of the crap you've built to skate). >> Did you know that more than 2/3rds of the American population eat 5 or more snacks each per day? It's true. Tappers must be a leaner breed, as only 46% of you eat that many snacks. Congratulations! >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Skate Mental or don't skate at all" - Tim O'Connor
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ANOTHER SHOUTOUT TO THE FINK THAT WILL MAKE EVERYBODY WHO READS
THIS WHO IS NOT THE FINK (ALL OF YOU EXCEPT FOR ONE) GO "HUH?":
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KELLY BIRD'S ALL TIME FAVORITE THING ABOUT CRAILTAP: "This is me taking it to the streets in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada!" - Zach Dulmage >>
ANOTHER TOP SECRET CODED MESSAGE TO THE FINK: >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "If you ever order cupcakes from them again you're fired" - Rick Howard, obviously not pleased with the bakery that sold us red, white and blue cupcakes for our Canada Day party
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TAP: Tell us about Gregster's date.
CHOMP ON THIS is planning to take out Bam Margera's record of having thousands of Friendster friends. CHOMP ON THIS wants to be your friend, so if you're romping in the devil's playground, add first name "Chomp" last name "On This" to your friends list. If you've already sold your soul to Friendster, don't worry: they're probably going to be charging for the service soon, so you can always buy it back. That's all the Friendster news for today. >> LINK OF THE DAY: Here's the trailer for the Thrashin' of the 90's! I mean, the new millenium!
>> Stoked on the fact that he's no longer known as Fat Face, The Gav was ripping it up in practice yesterday at that big Vegas contest. On Monday we'll let you know who broght home the cheese. We're putting our money on The Gav. If you're going out there to that contest to cheer him on, download this PDF file of a poster we made and wave it in the air during his run. GO THE GAV!
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ALSO IN THE "YEAH!" DEPARTMENT:
>> Feeling a little flabby around the bushings? Tired of the ol' spare wheel? Tone your ollies and tighten your kickflips with this skate workout! >> YOUR THINGS THAT YOU'RE SKATING AT YOUR HOUSE THAT DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE BIG RAMPS LIKE THIS ONE (send us your photos!): "This is the Stimulus ramp in New Jersey, built by Mike, Will and Mike. It took the 3 of us, working only a few hours a nite, after our full time jobs, about 5 months to finish." >>
A WARNING FOR THE RAT: >> We've somehow just been added to an Orange County surfer mailing list. We got this message today: "We are having a Shin Dig to blow off some steam with our friends at the Blue Beat in Newps to rock the lemonade tonight. Come if you can." Killer. If you live in Newport Beach and you surf, it's on, bro. >> YET ANOTHER UNSOLICITED, UNANSWERED E-MAIL: "yes
hellos yous know you're not gonna be happy with this question dude but
what his the song in during the just throwing skate episode with the
big crook thing who put me down everyone time. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I made the skylight smaller and added blinds to the doghouse" - Brad Staba "You can't fade the Wal Mart of home repair" - Staba on Home Depot "News travels fast!!!!!!! Be careful what you have for lunch!!!!" - Anonymous >> You know what tomorrow is, right? Cool.
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WARNING: THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH IS RATED R. THE VIDEO CLIP FEATURED WITHIN
IT IS RATED G: >> HERE'S SOMETHING THAT A FELLOW TAPPER HAS BEEN SKATING AT HOME (send us your photos of the stuff you skate): "My scene used to suck, but no longer. I'm gonna try to get the Zero team to demo here this summer." - Jim Limb in Roca, Nebraska >> We're thinking about rewarding two of Paul Rodriguez's sponsors with honorary entries into the Crailtap ACHIEVEMENTS IN ADVERTISING finals for 2003 for their three-frame sequence ads that they've been running of him lately. We'll keep you posted on that. >> Oh, and we're picking a winner for the I LOVE THA P-ROD contest this week. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I like the bright colors" - Rickk on which flavors of Gatorade tickle his fancy "Home Depot is if you just need a paint brush or a roller, not the fancy stuff" - Marc J schooling Brad "How are your balls?" - Rickk to Eric "400 thread count Monday through Friday, satin on the weekends" - Greg on his linens "I just like the way carpet makes a room feel cozy" - Mikey
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ENTRY >> Yes, you really should click the image in the new scrolly window thing that's just below this one and to the right and then print out that poster. And if you happen to go to one of the demos make sure to bring that poster with you and get the dudes to sign it for you. And be sure to tell em Crailtap sent you. And be sure to call them "dudes". Be all like "Hey dudes! Crailtap sent me!" >> If you're not into posters or getting them signed by the dudes, perhaps you would like to learn how to dance? Follow Hamtaro's lead and do the Ham Ham Dance. >> THE STUFF YOU SKATE (send us photos of the stuff you're skating in your yard): "This is a place I call BCTF. It's in my unfinished basement. BCTF stands for bear crotch training facility. I call it this cause me and some friends are making a video called Bear Crotch. Look out for it. Peace." - Corey H "Hi there! Here's a snap of my Ghetto Princess ramp! She's pictured here getting all high and arty at a performance festival that Andrew Pommier and I took part in. Doesn't she look sweet? Real hard to ride but if you manage to hit that sweet spot... BOOM! to the moon!" - Tullis Rose >> Below are the results for our poll from yesterday. Apparently there are a lot of creative heads out there and a few strong arms: COMPARED
TO MOST PEOPLE YOU KNOW YOUR AGE, ARE YOU: >> You know that Marc Johnson and Justin Eldridge are both on Chocolate right? Yes they are. Justin is also on one of our other companies but I'm not sure if we're allowed to tell you that yet... so all I can say is that he rides for one of our truck companies. >> The missing ping pong trophy mysteriously re-appeared a few days ago soon after a memo from the management about nobody getting paid until it came back was sent out. So far nobody has owned up to the kidnapping, but the Bloodhound Gang is currently running surveillance on all employees who live paycheck to paycheck. >> Look out for Tim Gavin ripping it up for Team Crailtap this weekend at that big phone company's skateboard contest in Vegas. Did you get his limited edition Matix pro board yet? What are you waiting for? Call Podium now! >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I guess it runs in the family." - Girl Skateboards' beekeeper, Brian Mettee, on Girl employees getting beat up
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ENTRY >> New Crail column penned by the one and only Rick Raymond... coming soon? >> Hey, have you checked out the ZINE section of the new Lakai site yet? It's roughly one hundred times more interesting than the Lakai Florida / Mid Atlantic tour article thing that we just brought you. Look forward to no more Lakai tour updates on the Tap in the future. >> THA TAP'S MINI INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT JOHNSTON AND ALEX KLEIN: CLIVE:
Hey dudes. >> "YOUR RAMPS N CRAPS" GETS BUMPED UP A COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS (send us photos of the things you skate at home, holmes): Did you know that the ollie was created by a dude named Alan "Ollie" Gelfand way back in the day? I bet you did. Anyway, the dude still skates. We got an e-mail from Alan about a place he calls Olliewood in Florida that he skates every day. How awesome is that? Some dude named Alec sent us this photo of a ramp in a backyard somewhere. Just the photo, no explanation. But from the looks of the way the bark is peeling on that Eastern Yoshino cherry tree in the foreground (which only grows in certain regions of the USA), we're fairly certain that the ramp is located somewhere in Maryland. >> MINI SNACK NEWS FROM THE SF VENDOR: I am happy to announce the return of the Clif Bar! The Peanut Toffee Buzz seemed to do well, so that's what I'm runnin'. If anyone would like to try another flavor, please hit me back. Thanks. Now GET SNACKY! >> LARSON'S OBSCURE LINK OF THE DAY: >> We would like to thank Skateboardingsucks.com for setting the record straight and for also giving Bob K a new alias: THE THIRD BIGGEST FAKER IN SKATEBOARDING. Here are the survey results from Skateboardingsucks.com: Who's
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>> BACKYARD RAMP PHOTOS AND MAGICAL DISAPPEARING LOGOS (send us photos of the stuff you skate at home): Robin from Sweden sent in this one of his lil' miniramp. "This is Cody. He works at my skateshop in Fort McMurray AB (Canaduh!). He is a little genius carpenter and he scammed his school into letting him build this QP in his wood-shop class. The best part was that he got to keep the fruits of his labour." - Perry Pugh
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THA TAP: How was your Friendster date?
TAP: Would you date her again?
TAP: Does she think Diamond is a girls best friend? TAP:
Does she like apples? >> Holy crap! We got an amazing entry to the I LO-O-OVE PAUL RODRIGUEZ contest via UPS today. It was soaked in Clinique Happy perfume (Chuck the secretary pinned down the scent for us) and the letter enclosed said something about wanting to "back that ass up" for Paul. Shocking. We're gonna wrap the contest up and get Paul to choose a winner at the end of next week so, ladies, send your entries in now. >> BIRD AND GARCIA'S WILD WEEKEN... I mean, the final entry for the Lakai Florida / Mid Atalantic tour is up! >> Tito Larue has closed down the Shampoo Lounge and is talking about doing book reviews for Tha Tap. What do Tappers read? Take today's survey. >> Skaters repent! Huh? I think it's supposed to be some sort of "funny joke". >> Here's another religious link... THE CHURCH OF THE MEZ! >> LINK OF THE DAY? Not entirely sure what this is, but there's a bunch of skateboarding photos if you click on PICTURES. Oh, and there's more skating in the VIDEOS section if you dig far enough. >> SIDEYARD RAMPS WHERE TANK TOPS ARE OPTIONAL (send us yours): "Here is my little setup that I skate when I come home from college. It's at my house in Westlake Village, CA." - Steve Kuehl >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Get out some more you homebody..." - The Mez practicing reverse psychology during a recent sermon
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