July’s eBay Watch is a day later to post because Neil gave it to me on a Sunday, and there is too much good TV on Sunday night. Mad Men, Hung, and True Blood. This is Stephen Moyer, the actor who plays Vampire Bill. He got married to Sookie, I mean Anna Paquin over the weekend, and was spotted the next day on a skateboard. I would have thought he would have been too worn out, but that might explain his big grin. You know, because skateboarding makes you happy. New eBay Watch in about an hour. – Thanks to Mrs Kilwag for the tip. [Source: US Magazine]

Still some time to go in this charity auction of art boards. In case you are unfamiliar with Skateistan, it’s basically youth outreach and cultural exchange for some kids in one of the sketchiest part of the world. Peace through skateboarding.

I went last night and had a blast. There’s a live band but the cast doesn’t sing, so musical is a bit of a stretch. It’s a fast and loose production filled with a “special” effects bonanza, including the infamous scene where the Ramp Locals ramp gets burned down. The Corey Webster character is cherubic, if not down right portly, but it’s played to perfection. Also worth mentioning, the ladies are representing. Pretty much the only actual skating during the production is handled by an enthusiastic crew of female rippers. Highly recommended at Dantes, tonight.

Invest in books Based on the 1964 Life magazine article “Skateboard Mania”

You can watch the Oregon Trifecta live on the Go211 webcast, in theory at least. Every time I tried to watch yesterday it was down.

Kids everywhere know that JCPenney… wait, try this. Known for their extreme… errr, well. The JCPenney miniramp at the Dew Tour.

Not enough to put a raised ridge in the middle of the bank, they had to put a fence up too. Tennis courts next to Grant High School in Portland. The TMR crew wuz there.

This is actually almost two weeks old, but it’s still well worth mentioning. Hats off to the Tony Hawk Foundation, who has introduced a new requirement for skatepark grants; No more prefab wooden parks. Read the press release titled “If Not Concrete, Then Why?”

I got a hundred tips about this skateboarding priest (right), all of which I failed to follow up because I assumed it was the two guys on the left that I had squirreled away for a while, no idea where I originally found it, but it’s could easily have been here. So here it is, a wacky Hungarian priest who obviously spent some time on the board before he was ordained. How about the Morman Church trying (on some level) to be hip? They’ve got a well done video featuring a guy named Josh Maready talking mostly about skateboarding, and a little bit about the Mormon church. He’s so articulate and normal that he almost makes Mormans seem cool, or at least sane. Check it out on Mormon.org. and because the heads in SLC doesn’t believe in allowing embedded video, I’m going to add a 2006 video of an Australian reverend cussing out some skateboarders in front of a church. He ended up resigning in 2007. – Thanks to Zach Olsen for the tip.