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Chinese Elephant Mutates

My kid finished his dinner at Red Robin and showed me this plate with an Elephant jumping over… the visitor center at the Great Wall of China? I recognized it from some solicitation I received from a Chinese skateboard manufacturer. I assumed the Chinese company had made the graphic, but the skateboard is different from […]

The chick is not included

Only in the 70’s (and 50’s, 60’s 80’s and 90’s) could you get away with a line like “Unfortunately, the chick is not included” coupled with a headline like “Your pad or mine?” The black and white photo is from product release news in the 1st issue (1977) of Skateboard Scene. It’s about a new […]

Body Expanded

There’s a giant skateboarder outside of the Body Expanded exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago. MSIC is one of a few museums in the world to have a permanent display from the creators of Body Worlds. I did not enter the exhibit to see if there was more skateboarding action. What was […]

Moose and Squirrel, no Moose

Jeff Longo rescued a newborn baby flying squirrel. The only reason you’re looking at on Skate and Annoy is because he eventually took a picture of it standing on a fingerboard. [Source: Laughing Squid.]

Skateboarding Nesquik Bunny Part 2

This is the print campaign associated with the 1994 TV commercial and toy prize giveaway uncovered in the Mega-Nesquik post from last year. This one was found on Ebay Italy by “Cool Steve.”

Ay, Caramba Red Rye India Pale Ale

Ay, Caramba is a red rye India Pale Ale brewed by Holy Roller in Tallinn, Estonia. Nicolas Bouvy sent this picture but declined to review it since he’s predisposed to dislike IPA’s. Me too, actually. Here in Oregon, if you go to the grocery store to buy any beer that isn’t Bud or Pabst, you’ll […]

Mondo Gecko is a Shredder

Random guy standing next to me in line at the airport. I believe this is Mondo Gecko from TMNT, wearing a Ramones shirt. Radical!

It’s Officially Olympic time.

International Olympic Committee Announced street and park skateboarding events to debut in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The IOC has some live video of the even with a horrible interface, but there’s an interesting bit where a reporter asks about the lawsuits in one of the so-called governing bodies of skateboarding, as well as anti-doping. The Tokyo Skateboarding Commission sounds […]

Words fail me

Two illustrations from Christoph Niemann’s illustrated children’s book titled Words. Christoph says “I am inviting kids (and readers of all ages) to intuit and puzzle out meaning, and to see language as a source of ideas and stories.” Is that a bunch of hooey to justify a pet project? I don’t think so. I have to admit, the juxtaposition of […]