Taking the Holidays off. Happy Festivus, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc… to you and yours! If you’re hurting for holiday content, check out these past posts filed under Christmas and Holidays.

Santa slob air pajamas at Old Navy. Thanks to Danimal for the pic.

I was going to pass on posting about the re-rerelease of the Back to the Future Hoverboard replicas from Mattel until I watched a little bit of another Hoverboard video featuring Bob Gale, the co-creator of Back to the Future. He’s talking about items featured in an auctioned that benefitted the Michael J. Fox Foundation for parkinson’s research. Blah, blah, blah until you get to the part about one of the original props being auctioned at Sothebys for $17,000, and then being resold a few years later for $55k. (!) Also interesting, the mechanical effect used to make the hoverboard appear to float when thrown on the ground. The video shows two different boards, one used for the wire flights and one used for the throw down.

What does it all mean?

Powell’s got three Christmas themed items on sale for the holidays, not one, but two different Vato Rat skateboards and new this year, Ripper ornament. That ornament is only 6 bucks. I’m getting one.

A turtle on a fingerboard, as seen on making the rounds on Facebook. A Tumblr post from thetoxicgraveyard was as far as it could be traced.

– Thanks to Jason Duncan for the tip.

Screen snap from a recent Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Camp Woodward as the subject of one of the questions. Wow, a fly box? no way. I’ve never seen one in person. Har, har. If anyone caught this on video let me know please.

Via Neal Hendrix on Facebook

I should have done this at least a week ago. If you’re looking for something to give to a friend or loved-one that skates ( and don’t care if it can’t make it in time for x-mas…) here’s a few ideas:

H.O.M.O.S. books fromAntigravity Press. All your favorite Hopless Old Men On Skateboards as drawn and written by MC, plus extras that weren’t published on the web, and more.

Doc Skaterock’s Vintage Skate Rock – The history of skatesploitation in vinyl. The definitive guide to skateboard-themed music before the modern term Skaterock was coined.

Toy Boarders plastic skateboard figures. Fun for all ages, hardcore and posers alike.

Maple XO – Jewelry and more, made from recycled skateboards.

Better If You Don’t Come Back, a short, skateboard centric fiction book by Joseph DeMough, published by Fat Thumb Publishing.

And of course, anything from one of our fine sponsors:

• Merde Skateboards
• Unheard Distribution
• Rip City Skates
• Weirdo Skateboards
• Diesel Fuel Prints
• Cold War Skateboards

Just like Skate Bush before her, only more risque. It’s Skate Moss, a web site dedicated to fake skateboard graphics featuring Kate Moss.

This video is not nearly as annoying as I had assumed it would be, but that does not mean I’m going to buy/download/pirate Flo Rida’s Wild Ones album. I can’t believe that’s what he picked as his rap name. That’s the Goat Ramp in the top shot.

– Thanks to… How did I find this?