Skateboard as illustration for an article about collectors in the April issue of Art & Antiques (For Collectors of the Fine and Decorative Arts). “eclectic collectors are everywhere, but what distinguishes a so-called serious collector from a mere gatherer with unusual tastes?” Hmm. I must fall somewhere in the middle. I would collect everything skateboard related were it not for the limited capacities of my bank account, storage space, and patience that my wife possess. I can’t figure out hot write that last sentence properly. Let me break it down for you. I don’t have enough money or space to collect everything I want, and even if I did, my better half already thinks I have a problem. Is being a completist mutually exclusive with being a curator? I’m just trying to compile the Encyclopedia Galactica of annoying skateboarding memorabilia.

Another Bizarro strip from Dan Piraro. Notice the skateboard action in the upper right corner. You might remember the Gettysburg Tweet? Bizarro is one of the few funny comic strips in syndication anymore. This is a Piraro/Bizarro take on the classic kid’s magazine exercise of finding something wrong with an illustration. Dan, if you’re reading this, send your skateboard comics this way.

– Thanks to Jazz Pickle MC for the tip.

Eazy E shot by Mike Miller back in 1992, holding a 101 Natas Kaupas deck. There’s another photo of Natas holding a print of this photo floating around Facebook, credited to Miller, but I can’t find it on his web site.

Captain America and the Falcon, Volume 1 #196 dates to 1976. In issue 195 the Captain somehow lost his shield and now must enter in the Kill-Derby in order to win it back. Marvel Comics has posted some digital versions of old comics online. They require a subscription fee to read beyond a few pages. I thought this issue was in there, but it isn’t. You can view the skateboard related excerpts here on S&A – he said, until Mickey mouse’s lawyers crushed him… I was going to the refrain from Captain Sensible’s Wot as the title, but I’m pretty sure I’ve already used that joke at least once. Instead, the title comes from one of the panels in the story.

An iPhone case in the shape of a broken skateboard, complete with truck and wheels, making it impractical for carrying anywhere besides a purse. It’s times like this that I start to rethink my policy of “sometimes it’s good to execute an idea, no matter how impractical it is.” It comes in a bunch of different colors too.

UPDATE: This post originally contained links to the web site ducksizedhorses.com. Almost 3 years later, the domain appears to have been hacked, or lapsed and was taken over by unscrupulous parties, and as of 5/4/16 is a suspected phishing site. The links have been removed.

[Source: Duck Sized Horses (Site infected) ] – Thanks to Matthijs for the tip.

Well, street mostly. Jenkem Mag asks if skateboarding is ready to openly embrace a transgender skater, and responds “I think so. I think it’s just waiting for someone to step up to the plate.” It’s an interview with Hillary Thompson, a skateboarder born with male genitalia that has always identified herself as female. It’s called Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria. True to, er… form, King Shit Magazine actually broke the story, but in the tabloid/Big Brother style they made famous – remember the Jarret Berry interview? You can read that interview in one of the most annoying Flash-based magazine readers I’ve ever seen. Jenkem’s approach is more mature and journalistic, like something you’d find in a sympathetic mainstream magazine. Hillary’s got the skills, as many photos will attest. Her own peers accept her for the most part, but at her age she’s in no danger of turning pro, so there’s little chance the rest of the skateboarding world having to come to grips with it.

[Photos: Sam Mcguire]

POLICY UPDATE: I’m going to delete any asinine comments here. Don’t even bother commenting unless you have something intelligent or thoughtful to say. You don’t have to agree with anything presented here, and you can rattle on about choice versus nature, but you do have to be an adult about it. (Yes, I’m aware of the irony of my statement in light of recent discussions)

I obviously don’t know how to write about music, because I could never come up with “something less like VHS-dubbed memories-of-memories than an underwater DJ set,” as Marc Masters did in his Pitchfork review of Cankun’s Culture of Pink. That has got to be Rodney Mullen on the cover, like some grainy, rubylith masked 35 mm enlargement from a newsprint magazine… Dang. Don’t know how write about album covers either.

[Photo: Restoring Sounds] – Thanks to Charles Glover for the tip.

Oregon Live reporting on an annoying law mandating helmets for anyone under the age of 18 who rides a skateboard or a bike (Seriously, how did our population survive until the new millennia?) is bad enough. But the companion bill leaves the choice out of the hands of adults should they choose to enter a contest or participate in a public demo:

Senate Bill 741: Requires person of any age to wear helmet when using bicycle, skateboard, scooter, in-line skates or roller skates when participating in organized exhibition, competition or contest.

It’s not a law yet, but has been introduced to the state senate by Chris Edwards.

– Thanks to Mac for the tip.

Issue 181 of Sad Sack dates back to September of 1966. It may look like a second rate rip off of Beetle Bailey, but Sad Sack debuted as a comic strip in 1942, while Beetle Bailey started in 1950. It has a 40’s aesthetic though. You know it’s bad if the props have to be labeled, as in the case with the skateboard. It says “loved by Millions” on the cover of this Harvey Comics publication, but the contents are pretty horrible inside. At least Beetle Bailey was sometimes actually funny. Full cover after the jump, and no skateboarding in the contents. I bought this on Ebay from a real skateboard historian, Scott Starr. I didn’t realize he was the seller until after I bought it.

Sometimes it´s really weird what kinda artists recorded songs about skateboarding or let´s say at least with a connection to skateboarding.