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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #8: >> THIS JUST IN FROM NATE: "I BEEN GETTING PILES OF E/MAILS FROM HUMANS THAT DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT MENINGITIS. AND ITS LIKE THEY ASK ME CRAZY STUFF LIKE IM SOME SORT OF NERO SURGON. THIS LINK IS FOR THA HUMANS THAT NEED TO EDUskate THERE MINDS ON EVERY BIG AND SMALL THING ABOUT IT: Musa.org can give them all the info they need on it. any humans that want to know about MENINGITIS SHOULD CHECK IT AND IF THEY WANT TO TALK, LIKE ABOUT FUN GREAT STUFF IN LIFE. LIKE BACK FOOT FLIPS AND LATE BIG SPINS THEY CAN E/MAIL ME. OR IF THEY KNOW ANY GOOD SITES FOR ME TO CHECK. CLEAN ONES PLEASE. OR ANY MOVIES I SHOULD RENT. OR IF THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE TRUE MATHMATICS VIDEO VS THE 1800 SKY PAGER VIDEO. OR IF THEY WANT TO CONVERskate ABOUT CHOMP ON THIS. THEN COOL /MAIL ME IM JUST SITTING HERE ALL DAY TRYING TO RELAX" - ElNatoFlip@hotmail.com >> A SKATE
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HEADS OF THE DAY: >> Good news! Mikey's Friendster Party got put off until this Friday! Stay tuned for info on how to get tickets/invitations and directions to the party that you can't afford to miss. >> Seeing as Mikey's shit got delayed, we obviously hit up Camp Whatevs. Tomorrow we'll post some photos courtesy of the Kelly Kam, the Koston Kam, the Clive Cam and the Cory Cam. >> We were going to post just a brief mention about the new Lakai zine going up on their site but we don't have much for you today so in order to up the word count and make it look like you're getting more Randoms than you actually are, here's what Bird has to say about it: "Today we went ahead and posted the Holiday 03 catalog supplement ZINE in the ZINE section. Much more editorially in depth than it's Summer / Fall predecessor, the Holiday edition features great articles such as Danny Garcia's "Movie Quotes for all Occaisions", Rick Howard's "Recipe for a Cavity", Cairo Foster's "I Get Around" and Anthony Pappalardo's "Day in the Life". If you don't work at a shop, you've probably never seen the ZINE, so now is your chance to see what you've been missing." >> Keeping on the topic of zines, we still haven't heard any word about that TWS thing. >> BIRD IS EXTREME, ARE YOU? (send us photos of the stuff you've built to skate soon because we're this close to being totally over it): "This is my friend Matt tearing up his mini in the cuts of Connecticut." - Bill >> Sifting right now. Sorry.
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #7: >>
SHIT HOT SKATE GOSSIP: >> Woe is Tito. >> BIRD IS EXTREME AND SO ARE YOU (send us the photos of the things you've built to skate): "So we didn't actually build these, they were found in a school yard. In the end we were foiled by shoddy workmanship and what can only be attributed to our state's reluctance to properly fund our educational institutions." - D >> Party.
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Spike's Top 5 Ty Evans Sayings: >> Tito just wandered around the house today but he wrote some stuff that you might like to read. Tito Larue: UNCENSORED might not be coming so soon. Sorry. >> Just to
let you know how righteous of a deal you're getting by us giving you
a free modern chairs sticker sheet with every Crailshop
order, let's look at it like this: >> Remember Ask Mikey And Then Ask Spikey? We've received a lot of questions for those dudes and we're about to send the best questions over to them so they can provide the poper advice, but we're making one last call for people who need advice. When sending questions in please remember that not only is Mikey a great skateboarder and not only is Spikey a great filmmaker, but they are both very well versed and knowledgeable in everything to do with life. They've been there and done that and are all knowing and wise on many topics ranging from how to stop your mom from making macaroni for dinner all of the time to what kind of toothbrush is best to how many times you should check that your doors are locked before you leave the house. Before you send in a question about how to conquer your fear of handrails or what camera you should get, you should think about what your REAL problem is. The problem that's at the very root of all the other problems. Mikey and Spikey are here to make you a better person so send them a question if you need advice on anything. >> Evan Hecox's Japan show opens tomorrow night. Also, his first book is being released in conjunction with the show. >> Nate
got out of the hospital and is chilling out until his next surgery,
looking for new hobbies because he's stuck at home not able to skate.
The first thing he wants to do is: >> Camp Whatevs kicks off tomorrow but Clive isn't leaving until Saturday so maybe as a special Camp Whatevs treat he'll write you a short story about the time his uncle dropped his false teeth in the bottom of an outhouse and had to go swimming in there for them. Actually maybe not because that's pretty much the extent of the story. Speaking in the the third person is totally Rick Raymond. Sorry about that last paragraph, Rrick. >> There was a bunch of other shit I was gonna tell you about but I forgot what it was. Sorry.
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>> Simply because we love you so much, with every order placed in the Crailshop over the next month we're giving you a free Girl modern chairs series sticker sheet. >> Extra special super deluxe Fives coming soon. >> Also coming
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #6: >> How many times do we post the same similar news blurb before it gets boring and people stop caring? Ask the Costa Mesa Skatepark Coalition. Anyway, there's another LOVE Park rally on October 5th at 2:00. We've been told they have permits and it's official so if you're not bored and you live in Philly and you want to take back the spot then show up at Love at 2:00 and start a riot... I mean a peaceful protest. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Who would hump that guy?" - Megan
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #5: >> KELLY BIRD IS BACK AND HE'S MORE EXTREME THAN HE EVER WAS, ARE YOU? (send us photos of the things you've built to skate): "Hey, my name is Darren and I am from Newfoundland, Canada and this is a pic of me skating a fun box that me and my friends built" - Darren "This is our set up at a pool in Saskatoon" - Kyle >> Smyth has some hot news under his Giants hat today but he wouldn't tell us what it is. We think it might have something to do with his plan to bring in another soda machine here because we overheard him saying something on the phone about the Coke machine having "had an illegal monopoly for far too long". Keep in mind that this is mere speculation at this point and that this has not yet been confirmed. >> OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE QUOTE OF THE DAY (for immediate release): "A household name in the Generation Y demographic, Rick Raymond is considered one of the world's most consistent vert skateboarders. To keep his fans in the loop, Rick has teamed up with Crailtap.com in Torrance, California to develop and maintain the recently launched Romper Room column. With a frequently updated column, Raymond is able to communicate with his fans, post skate tips, dates of upcoming appearances, and his favorite pics. Check it out." - Clive Noctchaw >> I guess we're still giving away free patches because today we received some amazing Marilyn Manson postcards in an envelope in the mail. If you have any Marilyn Manson memorabilia please send it to the address below for a free patch. If it's really good ("really good" meaning a size medium t-shirt), we'll send you a t-shirt. Send to: Clive Wears
Black Lipstick If you don't have any Marilyn Manson memorabilia you can still get a free patch by mailing a letter and something good and nice and/or fun to: Clive "Patch"
Noctchaw >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I draw the line at 'synergy'" - Jenkins on words he won't use in a meeting "The Lee Dogg is too tired to skate right now" - Lee Smith biting Rick Raymond's shit
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LEW'S NEWS CRUSIE #4: >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Diana would move anywhere right now. I think she's trying to get away from something" - The Mez on his new wife "The flash is giving me a double chin" - The Mez "Tito's bitin' my shit! He drinks a couple of bottles of wine and all of a sudden he thinks he's Raymond" - Rrick
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #3: >> We've received a bunch of letters asking for advice (thanks to everyone who has sent in those so far), but we've still got a grip of people mailing in questions to Mikey and Spikey about Yeah Right and Girl team rumors and other general Q and A crap. So in order to save Mikey and Spikey some time, we've come up with some standard replies to e-mails that we receive from people who send in letters that aren't asking for advice. Please read carefully before you send that e-mail to Mikey and Spikey: If you're sending
in a question like "Why don't you guys send me the Yeah Right soundtrack?"
or "Why didn't so and so have a longer part in the video?"
the answer is: If you're sending
in a question like "Do you have a favorite movie?" or "I
heard that so and so did such and such, is it true?" or "You
guys rule, can you send me a free board?" the answer is: If you need advice on something, please send an e-mail to us and we'll pass it along to Mike Carroll and Spike Jonze so that they can help you with your problems. If your only problem is that you're painfully stupid, please keep your questions to yourself. Thanks.
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SHIT BOX CONTEST! >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I'm down for breakin'" - Rudy Johnson "Megan, what is a Maserati?" - Spike before receiving the loaner car
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #2: >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I got my pop back" - Spike "And then we started talking about time travel" - Marc Johnson "Are bowl cuts hot right now?" - Rickk on Bob K's new hair style "Calling the police names and telling them you can jump over the fence faster than they could is not a good way to deal with people" - Security company to Megan
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LEW'S NEWS CRUISE #1: >> Some shuff-shuffling has been going on at Girl Distribution lately. The Art Dump's Rob Abeyta is the new Fourstar art director and fellow Dumper Jeremy Carnahan is going to "begin the process of watching over Royal as he works on his design chops". Yep. We wouldn't lie to you. Okay, maybe we would, but we're not lying about this. >> OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It enables
both Girl and myself to build upon our individual successes" said
Rick Raymond "Crailtap represents the quality and tradition
of all my branded products to date." >> Kenny Anderson came into Girl not wearing a beanie today and it pretty much put everybody on their ears. >> Nick Tershay discovered astrology today. He's an Aquarius in case you were wondering. >> Wow. People are actually suing fast food chains in obesity claims. Just thought you should know. >> Have you ever been added to a Christian spam e-mail list called The Pizza Connection and wondered how on earth they ever got your e-mail address? Yeah. Me, too. >> Dr Bon Jovi, please report to the emergency room. >> This guy answered a letter with something about spending less time "arsing around on a skateboard" and more time doing English homework. That's kinda awesome. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "The life of Brad is hard" - Brad
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ENTRY >> McCrank got 2nd at the Gravity Games! Koston got 4th! And Bob K got 3rd and 6th! >> Just so you're clear on this ASK MIKEY AND THEN ASK SPIKEY thing... it's an ADVICE COLUMN, meaning that if you plan to send in a letter you should make sure that it contains a request for advice. Also, the idea is to send in ONE QUESTION that gets answered by both Mikey and Spikey. EXAMPLE
OF A LETTER NOT TO SEND #1: The above letter is NOT one in which the sender is seeking advice. Letters like this will be deleted immediately. EXAMPLE
OF A LETTER NOT TO SEND #2: The above letter poses two questions, one to Mike and another to Spike. ONE QUESTION, people. Send in ONE QUESTION and you will get two different answers for it, one from Mike and another from Spike. EXAMPLE
OF A LETTER NOT TO SEND #3: The above letter is simply retarded so you should know better than to send Mikey and Spikey letters like that. Okay, now that you're clear on how this whole thing works, go ahead and ASK MIKEY AND THEN ASK SPIKEY. >> Diarrhea Cupca... I mean... Tito's back! And with stories from The Hot Chocolate Tour, no less! >> The free patch thing yielded some more good mail today, two of the best items being a copy of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet on cassette and a purple rain pancho. No, no... not a Purple Rain pancho (that would be amazing), a purple colored rain pancho. Send us something cool or fancy or funny or even something totally lame and we'll send you a free Crailtap patch. Send to: Clive "Patch"
Noctchaw >> The worst contest we've ever held, Nick Tershay's Gangsta Gangsta contest, is over today. I mean it was pretty much over before it started, but we quietly picked the winners and sent them their clocks today. At least the photo of Nick wearing the clock around his neck looks dope. He can use it in his Friendster profile or something. >> We got a postcard in the mail today that told us that Chocolate's Evan Hecox is having a show in Japan at Rocket Gallery that opens September 26. If you're in Japan and you read english then you should check it out. Non english readers / speakers are also welcome. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "I broke open a bottle of tea tree oil, smells sort of nice, right?" Rickk on the aroma in the Spascalade "Would they try that shit at Macy's?" - Bob K gettin' serious about the Crail Store
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ENTRY >> Remember Ask Mikey? Well, we're working on a new thing called ASK MIKEY AND THEN ASK SPIKEY. If you need advice on anything, send us your question so that Mike Carroll and Spike Jonze can each provide an answer for you. Please don't send in questions like "Yo! Mikey! You rule, can I have a free board?" or "Spike, do you need a gaffer for your next film? I'm trying to make it in the industry. Holla back!". It's an advice column. If you need advice, please send a question to ASK MIKEY AND THEN ASK SPIKEY. >> The Hot Chocolate Tour is over, folks, and the video that's not a tour video is in the works. Here's some photos of Richard Mulder, Larry, Scott Johnston and Sam Smyth, all taken by our very own Rick Raymond. >> HEY! The Villa Villa Cola cupcakes fund raiser t-shirts (designed by our friend Lori D and produced to help fund the upcoming VVC video) are available online! Go to the site, have a read through the words on the right and then click on ADD TO CART to buy one or click on the t-shirt on the left to learn more about what these cats are up to. >> New things are happening over at the Girl Skateboards site. All new product and skate photos and yes go there now please. >> BIRD IS EXTREME AND SO ARE THESE DUDES (send us photos of the things you've built to skate): "This is what we skated in Saskatoon Canada until the city took them away" - Dylan "This is our Training Facility in Ocean Township, NJ. it was once a plant nursery but now it's just an abandoned warehouse. There's also a bank propped up on a windowsill. There used to be a big window in front of it but it broke when i tried to wallride it. but now since all the glass is cleaned up you can do tricks off the bank and out the window." - Mr Smash >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "When people see footage of me I want them to be psyched" - Scuba Steve on his 6 stair nose slide "They're gonna make me radioactive today" - Nate on some weird CAT scan injection thing the doctors are going to perform on him
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>> The Girl Skateboards art dump show in San Pedro (see yesterdays Randoms) is going to be called PEDROSIDEWAYS: Helping Some Dudes Under A Bridge and the artists involved are: Andy Jenkins
>> There's some Lakai stuff for sale in the Crailshop now, and some of the products have brand new (cheaper than cheap) prices. >> We're not exactly sure what this video clip is but the kid in it is wearing a Crail Tap t-shirt. >> LOCAL PAPER DISCOVERS SKATEBOARDING. >> Kelly Bird has been bumming because nobody has sent in photos of the things they've built to skate for a while now. His BIRD IS EXTREME, ARE YOU? segment of the Randoms is waning. Help him! Are you still skating that thing that you built out in front of your house? Take a photo of it and send it in so we can post it here. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "He looks like he wouldn't be coordinated but he really is" - Megan on Spike "I'm bathing in it right now" - Lewman on Fucker Sauce (two words, not one) "I shit you negative" - Nate
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OF THE DAY: Outlandish. >> Here's some info about that Girl art dump show thing: it's from October 18 until November 22 at Walled City Gallery in San Pedro and the proceeds from the show will be donated to the San Pedro Skatepark... the one that those dudes built. Remember the Thrasher cover with John Rattray doing a handplant thing on that concrete quarterpipe thing not long ago? That place. We're keepin' it grassroots, bro. >> The Ring Ring Ringer was going to put something about Jereme Rogers and his girlfriend coming into Girl in their pajamas in their column today. I guess the Ring Ring Ringer forgot. Anyway, Jereme Rogers and his girlfriend came into Girl today in their pajamas. >> Clive's
been getting some cool stuff in the mail in exchange for Crailtap
patches. Today he received a coupon for a free comet goldfish at
Jack's Aquarium And Pets, a polaroid of a dog that looks kinda like
Chick, a two page hand written fan letter for Koston (huh?), two United
States one dollar bills, one Euro penny and one hood ornament from a
Chevy Malibu. To get a free patch, all you have to do is send in a piece
of mail to Clive. It can be anything, but make it good. Send mail for
a patch to: >> The Lewpolls are back! Watch for 14 new Lewpolls over the next 14 days. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Dude, Crownfarmer is so cool!" - [censored] "I think I'm in love with Bob K" - [censored] "I'm going to write a letter to the newspaper" - [censored] "It's cool to check Crail and let us know what we're doing wrong, thanks, DUDE" - [censored]
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>> Did you see the October issue of Skateboarder Magazine yet? Imagine if that photo on the cover (above) was of just a normal kickflip and not a 360 flip. I mean the exact same photo except it said "Kickflip" as the caption. That'd be a pretty amazing kickflip. >> Ever heard of the IASC? It's the International Association Of Skateboard Companies and it's kinda like the Free Masons or the Shriners or one of those groups where men get together and discuss business, except these guys talk about Skateboarding (with a capital S). Anyway, our very own Rick Howard used to be on the board of directors of the IASC until they recently re-grouped and gave him the boot. We think it might have had something to do with the fact that he hadn't sat in on a meeting since 1995 but we're not entirely sure. We'll get back to you on this one. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Maybe Transworld Biz will want to come interview us if they know we just got a letter in the mail from a lawyer" - Girl Employee "Everyone seems to be tearing it up" - Spike Jonze "My idea for the Crail Tap video got even better on the way to work today" - Bob K, editor, photographer, horn tooter
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Faking Out Friendster >> OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Just when everyone thought that all of the large opportunities on the Internet had already been tapped, along come rule-changing companies like Crailtap and Friendster," Kronbauer said in a statement. "The opportunity that lies ahead of the companies is huge and global, and I am thrilled to be involved." >> We haven't received any serious entries to Nick Tershay's GANGSTA! GANGSTA! contest yet. I guess no real gangstas read the Tap, but as Nick would say "Where my dawgs at?" or "Holla at your boy, boy!" (we actually heard him say both of those things in the last 3 days).
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"Patch" Noctchaw >> KELLY BIRD WILL ALWAYS BE EXTREME, WILL YOU? (send us your photos of the things you've built to skate): "This is our backyard setup in my tennis court in Rancho Santa Fe, CA near San Diego." - Steve >> OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It was amazing to see how much talent is out there. I have always wanted Crailtap to have an event like this for the underground rippers, and raise money for a charitable organization at the same time." - Clive on the FREE PATCH thing >> SKATE LINK OF THE DAY: Keith Hufnagel has a shop called HUF in SF. You knew that, right? >> Oops! That
letter that Tony from eS sent out yesterday wasn't a press release!
We accidentally posted his cell number for all you people to call him
on because we thought it was another one of those Soletech press things
that we get all of the time. Sometimes we're kinda dumb over here so
you might want to be careful what you send us.
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>> It's Nick Tershay's GANGSTA! GANGSTA! WHAT TIME IS IT? Contest! Win a fancy Fourstar street pirate clock by showing us that you's the baddest ass gangster out there. Send us your hip hop demo tape, photos of you hangin' wit hella bitches in the back of a strech Hummer, a video of you wildin' out straight gangsta steez or breakdancin' or some shit that proves you the most mackin'est G in town. Maybe send us a stack of hundred dollar bills. Damn, that'd be gangsta! The contest ends September 19, 2003 and we're giving away three of these clocks to three lucky winners so send in your entries today! Send to: GANGSTA Y'ALL >> The heated controversy over who gets to hold on to the nickname "Skittles" has been settled. We've been informed that Kenny Anderson's Little Skittles Breakdance Crew nickname is already Joopie, so Rick Howard holds on to the name Skittles. Phew, aren't you glad we cleared that one up? >> It's that time of year again! We've once again managed to avoid any pesky accolades that Transworld Skatebiz magazine might have bestowed upon us in their yearly Retailer Survey Results. Contrary to what all of our distributors and retailers tell us, neither Girl Skateboards nor any of it's affiliated companies are in the top three nor are we even in the top 7 or 8 or even worth mentioning category... with the exception of Royal Trucks who somehow squeaked into runner up for the fifth best selling trucks in North Central USA. Way to tarnish our otherwise spotless reputation as a lame group of companies, Royal! >> Do you ever look over at that CRAILSHOP window? No? Look over there now, then. Thanks. >> QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Just got a new Nextel. The Sprint bills were a little much, so this is my new Soletech number: [***.***.****]. You can reach me at anytime on this number." - Tony Evjenth, eS Team Manager
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>> We received a bunch of mail in regards to the FREE CRAILTAP PATCH thing. So far some of the most noteable items we've been sent are: -
1 Tylenol tablet If you would like a free Crailtap patch, just send Clive something good in the mail. A sticker, a drawing, a nice letter, a postcard, a polaroid of your dog, a list, maybe a photocopy of your report card from school, anything. All entries get a free patch so send something today: Clive
"Patch" Noctchaw >> SKATE LINK OF THE DAY: Color Magazine is a new print mag out of Vancouver, Canada and is partly run by some dude that Clive used to skate with in high school. It's a nice magazine with pretty pictures and good words. Get a copy.
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A BIG FAT YEAH RIGHT SOUNDTRACK CONTEST WINNER! I MEAN... WINNERS! >> Yesterday we mentioned that you can watch the trailer for Spike's DVD here and today we're mentioning that you will be able to purchase it from the Crailshop October-ish. Tomorrow we probably won't mention anything because we'll be in bed recovering from celebrating both of these facts.
NEW CONTEST! WIN ALL OF THE BIG FAT YEAH RIGHT SOUNDTRACK CONTEST ENTRIES (APPROX 40 ENVELOPES AND 80 BOOTLEGGED YEAH RIGHT SOUNDTRACK CDs)! UPDATE: CONTEST IS OVER. ADRIAN FROM CHULA VISTA CA IS THE WINNER. >> It's Friendster Friday and Mike Carroll has been sending so many Friendster messages lately that he decided to create a new computer language that's catching on fast. Mikey's always on the cutting edge. >> THIS JUST IN FROM ON VIDEO: "We did an article on the making of that book that you mentioned in the randoms; Diptych. It will be in the coming issue of ON, our Winter 04 issue with the Love Story. The warehouse article is cool though... Our view is an outside take on the creating of a book based on his look at skaters creating these skateable obstacles. Sort of like our Junkyard Dogs article a few years back, but this time itıs called Space Aliens skate build destroy. Gonz skating and the other nor cal dudes you saw in the Slap article. Now you just get to see the skating mixed with the behind the scenes type of shit." >> Remember the SKATE LINK OF THE DAY?: The kids at Post22 just put up another new issue. Viva la skate zine!
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