I can’t remember why I had this bookmarked, or how I found it, but it must have been for a good reason. Must have been because it looked fun. Lots of cool banks.

Lizzie Armanto has a small piece in Seventeen magazine. With excerpts like this, it’s no wonder Lizzie has neglected to update the “coverage” section of her web site. In many ways, 20-year-old Lizzie is totally typical—she takes silly selfies with her BFFs, loves sleeping in, and munches on donuts after practice… It’s not the type of hard hitting journalism I’d expect from the first (1944) American magazine published for teens. I can’t tell if this is an online only appearance or if she’s in a print edition too. I must have let my subscription lapse. – Thanks to S&A contibutor and avid Seventeen reader Seth Levy for the tip.

Not sure if this custom Ducati mod is supposed to be called a “Street Thrasher,” but the photographer’s web site calls it a “Street Trasher”. Either way, it can probably take this Baretta. There you have it, a skateboard rack built into your $10,000 motorcycle, for those days when your chauffeur can’t make it to the session. After deliberation, I like it. But I’d be worried that the laser cut grip tape would start to peel off after a short while, making an expensive bike look, well, like trash. – Thanks to Owen Williams for the tip.

Check out Volume2 issue one of Spunk Skate Zine online. It’s got a good mix of content including street, park and vert photos, interviews with Tim Kerr, Kira Roessler, Sam Hitz and Nora Vasconcellos, plus Keith Meek talking about his iconic slasher graphic. Lots of recognizable names in the masthead too. There’s a bit of a bug in the html code, you might have to wiggle your browser in order for the page navigation links (top right and left) to show up.

The Daily Mail has pictures of mice riding fingerboards. Apparently there’s a guy out there teaching mice to skate and surf… although it could more accurately be described as teaching them how to hold onto miniature skateboards and surfboards. Still, it’s amusing to watch, although not as much as Rastamouse. There are some additional photos at Global News. – Thanks to Drew Moody for the tip.

Thanks to the Facebook-Site “Skateboarding Hall o Fame” for finding that rare video from 1965, featuring italian-born Piccola Pupa on the microphone and Wendy Bull on the skateboard.

Gvk Trip to east coast. Stop. Produces sotw at Northside skatepark in the heart of Norfolk, VA. Stop. The kid had it 4 out of 7 trys. Stop. Old man Gvk Couldn’t make it straight. Stop. Cease Transmission.

The bootleg graphics (on the top picture) look exactly like the ones on the original Variflex decks. Variflex shifted production to Taiwan somewhere in the 80’s, so maybe they made both branded and unbranded decks at some point. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to bootleg such wildly successful graphics. Variflex had a great pro team and produced very decent skateboards in the end of the 70’s and the beginning of the 80’s, but then started to produce rather shoddy completes. You can marvel in the mediocrity in the Living Variflex Museum (of Crap), or read about their history on Skateboard Of The Day. Thanks to Walter Meus, J.P. Begel and Pat Cash for the pics. Thanks to kilwag for the edits.