4 years ago I went somewhere and cycled through the San Diego airport. There were a handful of skateboard sightings in the airport, ranging from displays in the shops, a restaurant, and some tourism focused electronic signage on the wall. I was trying to link the post about Tony Hawk’s restaurant to this post, but it turns out I never made this post, until now. These are photos from 2022, so who knows if these are still there. Someone made it point to highlight that San Diego has a history of skate culture, as if that is some sort of big tourist attraction. I mean, it is for me…

I bought this comic when it originally came out in 1987, but I have no recollection of where I found it. I wasn’t frequenting comic book shops at the time, so it’s a bit of a mystery to me. Skate Slate #1 has a glossy color cover and 32 pages of black and white illustrations inside. There are 3 main stories and a couple random pages that include character profiles, and ad for a Slate Skate t-shirt, and a call to submit your artwork. It was part of (well the entirety of) the Hot Shot Comix imprint out of Lexington, KY. It appears to be the only title or issue ever produced.

It’s 2026 and the gift of Gratuitous Tony Hawk keeps on giving. Novecientos Grados by Tony Hawk opened in the San Diego airport in fall of 2025. Novecientos Grados translates to 900 steps (degrees, probably), and Tony hawk translates into $$. Skateboarding decor, ramps hanging from the ceiling, wheels on the walls! Extreme!™®©. What’s up readers? Too buys with your tik-toks and your what’s-apps to send an old-timey email to your grandpa at Skate and Annoy to let us know? This tip came from former S&A editor Neil McDougall.

This one reminds me of the semi-recent auction of the Nash Girl shirt. $14 for an old Skate and Annoy sticker? It is 19 years old… OG? You’d have to back to maybe 86 or 87, and those stickers were photocopied in sticker paper. I’m half tempted to “sell one like this” and list them for $2 shipping included. What exactly is a Z84A? It shows up in a lot of auction descriptions and the closest meaning Google can find is the medical code Z84 which indicates a family history of skin decease. Maybe Z84A indicates a family history of skinning people with overpriced skate memorabilia. I thought I might still have a stack of a hundred or so of these in my basement, but I only have a handful. In any case, be prepared to be blinded by my opulence.

– Thanks to Seth Grossman for the tip.

Spotted at Corner Antiques and Collectibles in Forest Grove, Oregon. This is a ceramic type figure of a real dog known as Zelda who had a line of books and figurines and probably other tchotchkes as well. This one is item number 4783 from Westland Giftware. Zelda must have passed by now, certainly the web site has, because it redirects to some sketchy football (soccer) site now. This figure was released in 2002 and is not quite as creepy (or sad looking) in real life as it is in these photos.

I mean sure, why not? Maybe “Baby Unicorns” was already taken, so they went with newborn instead. Another in a long line of cheap plastic crap offered in blind containers. These pictures of a display stand in a grocery store were taken in 2022, but you can still buy these destined-for-landfill gems at the time of this publication. Looks like this newborn unicorn is riding a drop-style longboard.

You should know how it works by now. Usually I’m looking for something else and my curiosity gets peaked by some unrelated skateboard ephemera that shows up in the search. This time it is the Tasmanian Devil by Nash. I was hesitant to believe this was a Nash deck because although the plastics say Nash, I’m not familiar with the “Gold Line” shown on the tail. Red Line? Sure. Gold Line? Never heard of it. Still, it does say Nash on the tail. The top only says “Tasmanian Devil.” These graphics are poor, even by Nash standards. That’s a real Tasmanian Devil in the second slot, courtesy of Australia Zoo.

Jughead volume 2, number 37 was published in September of 1992. It features two stories with skateboarding in them, Love Connection, and the Things We Do For Love. There’s also a Sales Leadership Club advert in which you can earn a Nash Beach Bum skateboard.

It’s spring now, right? This is one of those toys that comes in those Kinder Eggs. Doc Skaterock tagged me in a post circa 2022 and when it popped up in a memory I realized I never posted it on Skate and Annoy. So here it is. It’s impossible (for me at least) to see anything with a small, cute sheep and not think of Shaun the Sheep. I wish this was Shaun the Sheep.

You’re looking at Sharky, Volume 1 #4 published by Image Comics isn 1998. You’d think with a skateboard featured prominently on this glorious cover that one would show up again on the inside pages. Alas, this is not the case. This is puzzling, but the whole comic book is puzzling. It’ shard to read, hard to follow, and feature a zombified (and evil) Captain America and Vampirella. Apparently Vampirella was on loan from another imprint. I’m not sure a how they got around Marvel with the Captain America zombie.