Kolie and the Funeral is the title of this coloring book given out by some funeral homes to help kids deal with the death of the loved one. It was published in 1988, so Kolie the koala (should have been K-ollie) might be preparing for the death of the skateboard industry… Zinger! I’d hate to be the kid who gets a brief glimmer of joy when he sees the skateboard on the cover and then realizes the whole damn thing is about his dead relative. A couple sample pages after the jump. – Thanks to Dan for the tip.

From Elias Parise: Willis, Andy, Mark and Lorenzo getting it at Pier and Unheard, during one of the weirdest and coldest weeks of the year. 12.28.12-01.01.13 How thoughtful, a skate session on my birthday! Oh wait, I wasn’t invited. That’s OK, I would have stunk up the video. A little Unheard facility footage too. Music by Ghost Alien.

McDonalds stickers from 2000. I see everyone has on the prerequisite bicycle helmets. You know, before I met Colin Sharp, I had never eaten in an American McDonalds for my entire life. I did eat at one in Warsaw, circa 1993.

Daymond Dodge snapped these pics off his TV. He happened to catch Let’s Make A Deal with host Wayne Brady. A Zonk prize? Now way! Who wouldn’t want a skateboarding gorilla? Even if you couldn’t keep the guy in the monkey suit, that’s the sweet spot for novelty oversized skateboards. This type of video is worth it’s weight in gold to a historian/connoisseur such as myself, so if anyone caught it on tape, please share the wealth. CBS has full episodes on the web, but Daymond caught this on the 28th of December, and they don’t have any from that date. I think it’s a repeat.

Pacific Park in Vancouver, Washington is so close, but I always forget it’s there. Here’s a video from Landshark Wheels featuring two Northwest rippers, Danny Tumia and Mudhoney (via the soundtrack.) The song is “Sonic Infusion” from the album “Since We’ve Become Translucent.” Check out the recently released Mudhoney documentary I’m Now. The Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Two great tastes that go together.

Pretty sure I’ve used that one (here) before. This is a pleasing form for a skateboard rack. I have to imagine it feels nice let those wheels down in that little cradle. The stress point at the mounting holes looks fragile. Check it out on Instructables. I use a chunk of 2×4 with two dowel rods inset at an angle.

Well, 13 minutes really. 1991 Münster Monster Mastership. A lot of it is just mellow practice runs, but hey, It’s the first full work week of the year, and you’ve got buckle down for the long haul. SOme blasts from the past, and some guys still on the scene today. Includes Danny Way, Neal Hendrix, Jason Ellis, Bryan Pennington, Jeff Kendall, Omar Hassan and others. From the VHS video vaults of the deceased John Findlay, edited by his friend Michael Mulhall.

From the Unheard Skate Supply feed on Instagram. Modern Monopoly pieces. I haven’t played Monopoly in a few decades. If I’m going to spend a few hours playing a game it’s got to be Risk. And it’s got to be a classic edition with wooden pieces, those plastic ones disrespect the game.

John Egertson enjoyed these photos, and it led him to send in this week’s Shot of the Week. I loved that post about the ramp out in the desert made of old signs and poached lumber. Got me thinking of two great ramps we road back in the day… The “wooden wave” was a sketchy, shaky thing built on a public sidewalk by the Duke Street / Telegraph Road overpass in Alexandria, VA. It was built entirely from scraps of lumber found here and there by my friend Dave Alexander. The photo attached is Dave, probably around 1980, taken from up on the overpass. You can see the ramp is not a classic beauty, but it was way fun. The top piece of ply was over vert. It lasted a week or two before someone torched it. Wooden Wave really was ridiculous. It truly was 16 feet tall as painted on there, and over vertical. You can see that Dave painted on some faux tiles and then after that decided to stick another piece of ply up there to make it taller. Despite the photo, Dave Alexander, his brother Mike and myself all got close to the top of that…