Enjoy (?) this horrible game with a beloved character from a horrible cartoon. And you thought he only dug slalom. Nothing but screen captures after the jump. – Thanks to Kevin Cann for the tip.

Duane Peters is back on the horse again after his gnarly injury. Looking like Duane again, not really taking it easy at all. Amazing considering the doctors wanted to amputate his leg. A little video after the jump. – Thanks to Eric Fleming for the tip

Home foreclosures and mortgage woes mean lots of empty pools in some parts of the country, and it even affects people with built-for-skate facilities like the Barrio Bowl in Las Vegas, reportedly selling for 32k to appease the bank. This picture comes from Picasa user Eric, and minimal details are available on Concrete Disciples. – Thanks to unlikely CD troller MC for the tip.

This Spaghettios label was found on Flickr, but the original link was lost. My money was on this guy Gregg Koenig. He’s got other Spaghettios labels presented in a similar fashion, but it didn’t come up in the search, maybe there was a typo on that one. I was going to look through his whole stream but he’s got an insane amount (2,522) of old food images. It turns out it belongs to Jason Liebig and it dates to the 90’s. This post reminds me of a story. Sometimes it’s a long trip to the store just to find out it’s closed. – Thanks to Boy Ipoh for the tip.

January was a fun month overall. Normally we get the post Xmas letdown in January because everybody is all spent up, but not this year. We got plenty of high priced decks in every category with a number of decks going for over $2000. Alva decks of every description were going super high, and we had a couple of classic Chinese rip-off graphics. Plus a great selection of bargain decks too. Editor’s Note: This marks the first appearance of eBay Watch on the new back end for the Features section. It’s a work in progress and a bit buggy but I decided to push forward regardless. Right now you won’t see the comments in the “Recent Comments” on the sidebar. It’s segregated right now, but it will come together soon. Same thing goes for the search function, segregated for now, but when the whole site gets integrated… I’ll have to actually make features again.

Check out this photo of Powell Peralta rider Aldrin Garcia setting a new high ollie record of 45 inches on Tuesday. He almost looks like he’s doing a lien air off an invisible jump ramp, but as you can see in the video, it’s his tail tweaking out. Amazing stuff. UPDATED: Indeed a superior camera vantage point, notwithstanding the seven second PG-13 intro thanks to, uh, Barf.

I’m kind of taking the week off from posting on Skate and Annoy, but I’m not being lazy. I’m actually working on the back end of S&A, cleaning up some code and CSS, preparing to dump all the old static content into the the database. It’s annoying and slow going, but also long overdue. So watch this video of wacky germans who have invented a sport that combines streetstyle and freestyle skateboarding with the art of sitting on a stool. And not just any stool, it’s got to be a stupid expensive sport stool. Anything goes as long as you land on the stool. I thought it was a well executed parody, but a search on Youtube reveals way too many Hockern enthusiasts to be a hoax. Extreme sports stool! You will feel like loose stool after watching this video. [Source: Gizmodo] – Thanks to Seth Grossman and Aaron Polansky for the tip.

I’m swapping out hard drives and cleaning out an email attachments from a program I haven’t used in two years. (Eudora is dead! Long Live Eudora!) and I found these blurry cell phone snaps of some skateboard valentines from 2009.

I was hanging out with Subsonic Scott, who is nice and all, but I wish I actually knew someone in the Subsonics. Scott had a brand new bucket of something from Franklin Adhesives called Multibond SK-8. From what he gathers, it’s just a relabeled version of one of their other adhesives. I guess they are selling enough of it to skateboard manufacturers that they renamed it in hopes of getting more of the market share.

That’s no lady, that’s… oh I don’t know. Lady Tries Too Hard with a skateboard, shot by Terry Richardson for an upcoming issue of the French fashion mag Purple. http://mother-monster.com/ [Source: Rushcard] – Thanks to Eric Cherry and Karl Whetzel for the tip.