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Bread and Badger and Unicorns

These are Bread and Badger sandblasted glasses with a unicorn riding a skateboard. As seen at the Crafty Wonderland retail shop in Portland. Looks like it’s available as a coffee mug, travel mug, cocktail glass, and wine glass too.

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Retro Loonacy

This is an expansion version of a card game called Loonacy. The Retro edition features artwork reminiscent of the old Mille Bornes game. I’m not sure why, but that skateboard says “Pink Thunder” on the top.

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Cannibal Kinder Surprise

Kinder Joy Surprise toy found inside little chocolate eggs, for sale by a cannibal in Hong Kong. I’m clearly phoning it in today. Bonus Kinder Surprise after the jump.

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R.I.P. Lemmy: Killed by Death

Lemmy Kilmister dead at 70, two days after being diagnosed with cancer. His bandmates have explicit instructions on honoring his life. Long live Lemmy. [Photo: Independent]

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Season of Giving

A detail from Johnny Sampson’s print titled Christmastime: A Love Story.

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Peanuts: June 20th, 1965

Peanuts Wikia says this cartoon of sally on roller skates while the rest of the gang rides skateboards, including Linus, Snoopy, and some random kid whose name I can’t figure out even with the help of wikipedia, which has an extensive listing of main and minor characters in Peanuts. Newspapers across the country have been […]

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Brooke McCarter R.I.P.

Brooke McCarter died from a genetic liver disorder yesterday. To pedestrians he is best known as a vampire in the Lost Boys, but skateboarders of a certain age will recognize him from his supporting roll as a Ramp Local in Thrashin’. [source: People. Photos: Left – Lost Boys Sanctuary, Right – Chiveta]

You’re doing it wrong

Thanks to Jim Goodrich for this photo of Health Net insurance billboard.

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Merry Christmas from China

A random sample of email I get form companies in China trying to sell me skateboards. I thought I had posted this before but it didn’t show up when I searched for Elephant. The “blog” section of Skate and Annoy has been running for about 10 years now… it’s hard to keep track of this […]