Animal Vegetable Mineral group show opens Thursday at Commonwealth in Portland. Featuring works by Jason Angelo, Ashley Anson, Will Beardslee, Anthony Bradford Ciarlo, Alex Davies, Jack Graydon, Hayes Peterson, Josh and Charlotte Rodenberg, Craig Wheat, Dave Wien, and more. Thursday, Nov. 8, 6-9 p.m

Barack Obama is back for second term rebate, so you’re getting a rebate of his best fake skateboarding moments.

My first ever 10-minute crack at making an animated gif. Nicely done sir.

Considering the fact that 90% of voting Oregonians have probably already voted by mail, this very last minute “Official Skate and Annoy Endorsement” of Portland mayoral candidate Charlie Hales is pretty pointless, but here it is for all the procrastinating undecided voters.Charlie was instrumental behind legalizing skateboarding on the streets of Portland. On his own Facebook page he gets hassled for not wearing a helmet in this photo. [Source: Cal Skate via Facebook]

Woodsy Owl was/is the mascot of the US Forest Service. He had his own comic book from 1973-1976. Here he is getting down with some 8 wheeled action in issue #4 from 1973. There are no other skateboard stores inn this issue. [Source: Retrogasm]

Hawaiian Punch iron on transfer. The seller says it appears to be from the 80’s but that doesn’t look like 80’s era iron transfer technology to me. I’m thinking closer to mid to late 90’s. UPDATE: Added pics of an 80’s era Hawaiian Punch skateboard. UPDATED UPDATE: This board came up in discussion in the S&A Facebook group and coming back to this 2012 era post with 2012 era low res graphics was embarrassing. Added some better pics of the board from a 2021 auction. And because it was Josh Baker that brought it, up an image search also turned up his 2013 post of the t-shirt transfer that has much better pics.