Frigo string cheese man (does he have a name?) loves skateboarding. Head on over to the Frigo Cheeseheads web siteto watch him get radical and play a bad skateboarding game. I think they might have used a skateboard on packaging at one time as well. I know I have a used string cheese wrapper with a skateboard on it somewhere in my boxes of crap (I mean important socio-historical artifacts) in the basement.

– Thanks to Mark Pendergrass for the tip

Last chance to get in on the Qlasp headphones drawing. Just leave a comment in this post. Don’t bother if you already did over here, I’m going to weed out duplicate email addresses. Oh yeah, these guys will ship to the U.S. only so sorry to all our Kiwi readers. Contest ends whatever time I pick the winner on Saturday.

Also, somewhere in the Czech Republic, Marek is riding one of these boards from Death Factory/Fidelity and formulating his review.

I know nothing about this band but the hard working gal from their publicity company has sent me a thousand emails about other bands and even a few CDs that I have never gotten around to reviewing, so Kaytea, this one’s for you. These guys are playing a few stops on the Dew Tour and are having a contest to win a custom Paper Tongues skateboard. You enter by making a skate video with a Paper Tongues sound track. You can get the details here. Give us a heads up if you enter.

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Skateboard Market at it’s new location in Fort Collins, Colorado on Sunday Aug 8th between 4-7pm and see a photographic exhibit of 21 years of JDZ. And Again, this has nothing to do with John Doe

Not much interesting about most no skateboarding signs, except in the case of this one from New Zealand, someone used some vert ramp clip art and turned the image upside down so the skateboard would be on the ground. The giveaway is the negative space where the coping should be. By the looks of the relative brightness of the red stripe, someone keeps adding these signs to their private collection.

– Thanks to Kiwi reader Campbell for the pics.

Do New Zealanders get annoyed being called Kiwi’s? I don’t mind being called a Yank, but it mostly just makes me feel pity for the person calling me that, since I don’t think anyone really uses that term actively. “That poor, out of touch dweeb” is what might come to mind. I suppose that might be happening to me every time I mention Flight of the Concords.

The Gatorade Free Flow Tour hits the Department this Saturday July 10th. Get some before it shuts down. The Department, not the contest series. The Alliance of Action Sports puts on this tour and the Dew Tour. I saw some of the Dew Tour on TV the other day under the program name of “Action Sports.” More interesting is the fact that they aired a commercial for their online store. I don’t know if they are carrying their own inventory and doing their own fulfillment or… hold on. I just called the 800 number, and once I got past the corporate phone tree messages, the person that answered said they were from StandardBoardShop.com.

The BCSA is holding a memorial skate challenge for Tommy McGuigan called “Dawn of the Shred” on Saturday July 10th @ 1pm. The event will be held at the Eric Scott McKinley Skatepark in Corvallis and is a fundraiser for the proposed Corvallis Skate Bowl. We will have live music from Hermit, The Left Ovaries and others and a BBQ. The skate challenge includes a skate track time challenge, long ollie (ramp to ramp), longest grind in the bowl, best trick and highest ollie/hippy jump.

I love watching videos from the Far East Skate Network. They sweat skills and poop creativity. Keep watching, because just when you think you know their next move, they throw a curveball.

– Thanks to t Skate D for the tip.

More girls in catalogs with skateboards today, although these gals don’t actually ride them, what with no grip tape and all. Justice is the name of the catalog. Never seen it before, but then again I don’t have any tween daughters.

– Thanks to John Egertson and Matt Jamison for the tip.