eBay Watch: March 2010

Ha ha! No excuses this month because this one should be right on time! Midway through the following month is right when you should start looking for Baywatch, and I pretty much made it! Some months are a chore to write, and it feels like pulling teeth, but some months just flow easily, and that […]

eBay Watch: February 2010

Damn, it seems like I make excuses every month for how late the column is! Well this month I have a real excuse: I was in Maui on vacation. I considered taking a laptop with me for about 10 seconds, but then the hassles of getting it through security and having something else to carry […]

Agent Orange past and present

Agent Orange is playing Sunday 28th at Slabtown Bar in Portland, along with Grindline, the Band. Meanwhile, John Egertson was converting some old vinyl to mp3’s and pulled out this mail order sheet from Agen’t Orange’s This Is the Voice, their ill-fated 1986 semi-major label debut on Enigma records. I think these guys even had […]

Olympics, no. But what about the Laff-A-lympics?

It’s skateboard polo in the Laff-A-Lympics,There’s a caveman, but no caveman slides, and everyone pushes mongo. That’s 1977 for you. – Thanks to Kevin Cann for the vidcap.

Am I pretty?

Yes. Thanks to an update from MC, you can now view the animation outtakes from the surf movies this graphic was taken from.

A kidney donation from Finland

Since we’ve already discussed the merits of natural and synthetic wine corks, I feel we can confidently add modern landscape design our list of high brow topics. I’m not talking about skate plazas or the appropriation of public spaces. I’m talking about how Thomas Dolliver Church, the acclaimed author of Gardens are for People and […]

Disposable: A history of boulder boards

This has been stated so many times before that I don’t even know how to say it any other way now, but my primary impetus for beginning work on what would eventually become The Disposable Skateboard Bible was to tie up a few loose ends that I wasn’t able to find or include in the […]

That’s Life

It doesn’t get much purer than this. You have to build it before you can play. That’s your barrier to entry. Also worth mentioning, non-athletic shoes. VIntage Life magazine. – Thanks to Andy Wylie for the tip.

Axle extenders old and new.

I was checking out plastic skateboards on eBay and I found this old GT that someone was auctioning. These things are a dime a dozen, but this one had axle extenders on them. The auction was very matter of fact about the phenomenon, as if it was commonplace. So I tried to research them and […]