Tony Hawk and Eric Koston had brief cameos hamming it up on the Aquabats Super Show season 2 premier. Gotta love the Aquabats. The show is a fun one. Like a low budget cross between the Monkeys and Ultraman.

Our normally reliable web host had a few issues while switching us over to new hardware yesterday, and as a result, S&A was unvailable for about 12 hours today. As I’m writing this we’re still experiencing sporadic difficulties and outages. Kind of reminds me of the reason we switched web hosts in the first place, about 4 years ago. Check out some vintage GVK tech satire after the jump, and stick with us, they should have everything shorted out shortly.

These pics are from the “Catch ‘n Air” ride operated by Thomas Amusements in Newfoundland, Canada. I’d link to their site, but Google says it’s infected with malware at the time of this writing

As reported in The Onion. “Since 2001, recreational skateboarders have tried to perform 8.4 billion tricks and have successfully executed zero of them,” said social anthropologist and the report’s lead author Richard Burbridge, who confirmed that the overwhelming majority of failed attempts occurred after one of the riders remarked to another, “Hey, check this out.” “As it turns out, not a single amateur has landed anything since July of 2001, when a then 14-year-old boy by the name of Derek Wilcox carried out a basic ollie on an outdoor tennis court in Pasadena. And even then he didn’t get much height.” – Thanks to KC for the tip. UPDATE: This just in… Angelina Jolie Stuns In First Rollerblading Competition Since Double Mastectomy. Also via The Onion.

Steve Caballero and his wife own a little boutique in Campbell, CA. Thieves stole a bunch of signed boards from it Friday night. Tonight around 11pm at least two people broke into the store and stole about 14 signed Powell decks. If you see or hear anything please contact me @rachaelbluesky@gmail.com. They knew exactly what they wanted. The cops got some good fingerprints and found one deck stashed across the street under some leaves. #karmaisabitch Ebay buyers be aware.

…and other assorted crap. Man fights off a cougar (not Courtney Cox ) with a skateboard in Canada – See here. Low-tech version of high-tech motion capture provides instant feedback for learning skateboard tricks (Here’s some feedback… Weak!)- See here. Skateboard clipart and stock photography wallpaper for your Droid phone – See here. Bad clipart from the Texas State Library – See here Iphone case material tested on a skateboard for some reason – See here. French guy who looks like a Russian gangster riding a Vespa scooter in a skatepark – See here. – Thanks to… You ought to be ashamed of yourselves!

Anybody know what the deal is with these plastic boards? I see them on eBay every once and a while. At first I thought it was some off the shelf Santa Cruz stickers stuck on some new Chinese crap in order to pass it off as “old school.” I’ve seen construction like this before, and I want to say it’s a late 90’s phenomenon at the earliest. However, that sure does look like an old school truck mounting pattern. I give up. Are these bona fide NHS gear from a past era? Don’t get offended. All the major skateboard companies have done sketchy things in the past. Or in fact, are these the work of a con artist with a stack of stickers? Sa ka roulé has amassed a stack of photos of these injection molded mysteries.