Well, it’s already been kickstarted, it needs to be finished. This is a backyard bowl in Richmond, Virginia. The builders are looking for money to essentially fill the rest of the yard with concrete. Their motivation, besides the obvious, is the total lack of skateparks in Richmond. People pledge donations that are held in escrow on the condition that the $5,500 goal is met before time runs out. Visit the kickstart page to watch the video and learn more.

So many titles to chose from. There’s For Life, or For Now, and Fall On You Own Sword, or Victimized Again? What am I talking about? it only took six months for Mike V. to bail on By the Sword, the skateboard company he started after ditching Element. By the Sword heavily used the slogan “DIY or Die” in marketing and products. So what beats doing it yourself? Vallely has signed with Powell Peralta again, a company he complained bitterly about on several occasions. It seems every skateboard entity is intent on making Mike a “pawn” and exploiting his hard work and reputation, but I guess time and money heals all wounds. One can’t help but feel bad for all the shops and distributors that fully got behind Mike V. It’s almost like he used them like… pawns in his game. I realize this is a scene from Sid & Nancy. Somehow a reenactment of Sid Vicious singing “My Way” is more appropriate than the actual footage embedded on the official By the Sword web site, with no offense meant towards Gary Oldman.

Welcome Skateboards has a long time relationship with the Sorcery 118 crew. In fact they even released a Sorcery deck. If you haven’t watched any of the Sorcery videos, you should. Most of their vids are street and parks, but here’s some rare vert ramp action in honor of Grover’s return from Michigan. Sorcery crew is a prolific, you could spend hours there.

…will resume on Tuesday. I’m not sure what’s up with MC’s comic malfunction, but I’ve got nothing for Monday. More accurately, pulling it together for the Above Coping benefit show almost killed me, and I spent Sunday printing inane shirts for local college football fans. Instead of writing posts for S&A, I’m going to catch up on episodes of The Walking Dead.

We’re trying to raise $500 to finish the upper pocket at Brooklyn St. – come donate money, buy some raffle tickets, watch a great flick, drink some beer!

Here’s 1986 video for Hold It Now, Hit It that I’ve actually never seen before. Ad Rock is rocking what looks like an Uncle Wiggly board, unless Neil can correct me before this goes live. Please note, we’ve covered the existence of a later era Beastie Boys skateboard, although I could use a better picture. For the record, if that’s not an Uncle Wiggly, my second choice is Schmitt Stix. I am too lazy to go don in my basement and look through my copy of Disposable. UPDATE: I remembered the graphic, but not the name. Ah, senility. It looks like a Duane Peters. – Thanks to Eric Shea for the tip.