Local Portland coffee roaster and media darlings Stumptown Coffee had an advert in the October 23rd issue of the Portland Mercury. Make a note of the location of the appendage holding the letter “T”. Stumptown is the coffee of choice in the tattooed crowd of Portland. When is Pabst going to get on the ball and shoot an advert at Burnside? They already runs ads with local bands. Donate that fee to the park. Larger after the jump.

Singapore has something called the Chinese Garden Lantern Festival. This year’s festival had a large Hello Kitty presence, including Hello Kitty and friends riding skateboards. These pictures are from SingaporeSights.com. There’s a couple more after the jump from a forgotten source. If you find any more shots, drop a link in the comments.

– Thanks to Jeff Hottle for the tip.

Hippie dippie tea company Celestial Seasonings is getting in the Extreme!™ kids marketing game with these drink mixes called Go Stix. Sure, they have extra vitamins, and half the sugar of competing products, but they are still meant to be poured into convenience store bottled water, which doesn’t seem “all good” as far as mother earth goes. Hey! What do you call a prehistoric monster that is asleep? Find out after the jump.

I’ll use any excuse to pst a picture of Annabella Lwin, including colored sugar balls stuffed inside a hollow plastic skateboard. There are at least two versions available, the invert espousing “Loose Bearingz” and the more succinct “Rad.” Pics and bonus vid of Bow Wow Wow’s version of “I want Candy” after the jump.

Suejay makes custom sculpted animal figures, including this model of Tyson the skateboarding bulldog. She’s got a video slide show of the construction (sort of) that is kind of amusing. It must have something to do with the jaunty old tyme music and the lump of clay that miraculously changes from a white turd into a fully formed mini Tyson. Maybe I’ll commission a miniature Grover figure, he’s kind of an animal…

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I went to McDonalds with the kids while trying to wait out the rain at a skatepark. They had these little Ronald McDonald figures in the corner of a glass case as part of another display. I told them I needed one, and they finally relented and gave it to me. I was prepared to buy it, but they weren’t for sale. The next time someone says “It’s not for sale,” just say “That’s OK. It must mean I can have it for free, right?” Right. It’s not a Happy Meal toy, rather part of the birthday party package that they have there. I think there were some with Ronald on blades too. It says copyright 2004 on the bottom. Made in china, of course. Group II Communications. More pictures than warranted after the jump.

Q spotted this and Dave Tobin told me about it. It was a newspaper insert advertising Qwest high speed internet.

Here’s another edition of Skateboard Gossip from My Wife, who incidentally, gets all her info from gay men who write celebrity blogs on the Interwebs™, so you know it’s relevant to this site too. First up, It’s Ryan Sheckler on the cover of ESPN Magazine, although it looks like he’s been replaced already. No, the word “Hot” is not editorial commentary from SnA, rather it’s from Perez Hilton, who seems to have a bit of a non-heterosexual man-crush. He’s reported on Sheckler before. Guess what? He’s officially a celebrity once non-skating gay males start fixating on him. This one is for the haters. From the cover, Sheckler appears to be quoted as saying “I want to give them more reasons not to like me.” It’s official again! Ryan Sheckler is Punk Rock! I’d love to get the rest of the context, but ESPN has some sort of convoluted “Digital Edition” of the magazine designed to annoy people enough to not want to read the content online for free. Part two of our feature is Linda Hogan, wife of Hulk Hogan, visiting their son Nick Hogan who is in jail for pulling an attempted Vince Neil. What did she bring him for his birthday visit? A skateboard of course.

Skaters love iPods and Pottery Barn. Now they can listen to their iPods by plugging them into a X Games shelf that looks like a skateboard and has built in speakers. The shelf can be used for magazines or copies of CD’s that they probably didn’t buy in the first place. Did you just get kicked off your skateboard team? Wrap yourself up in a nice X Games blanket and stare at your X Games wall mural from the comfort of your X Games bed sheets.

[Source – Gizmodo]