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.

It’s a two-for from Twonks and Goob. Good stuff.

Tony Hawk as a spokesperson for Cancerguard is gratuitous Tony Hawk that I can get behind, especially since Tony lost his father to cancer. Cancer sucks. My only complaint is that I live in country that claims to be the leader of the free world and yet we don’t have universal healthcare. Health insurance and hospital bills can be impossible to navigate here in the USA. You have to double, and triple check everything because they gouge you wherever they can. What I can’t get behind is the fact that this test costs $689! (!!!) which is insane. Also, these two videos have embedding turned off… so this company sucks. Yeah they have to make money for the investors, but in the immortal words of Laszlo Cravensworth, “Get fucked.”

While digging around looking for Lucky Charms images a couple days ago, I spied this Hot Wheels Skate Tony Hawk Cereal Skate Bowl fingerboard set. I ignored it initially, but it did trigger a memory something I had flagged when scanning vintage skateboard magazine ads. Volume 2, number 5 of Skateboarder Magazine had a photo a near the end showing a fiberglass wave that Skitch Hitchcock had built and was carrying around in the back of a rental truck.