Or so says recent new father Danimal – Congrats! However, I have it on good authority that “Dad” bought this for himself for X-Mas, and not for his firstborn, shown here. This particular bowl appears to have made the rounds with skaters of a certain age this year. I know three people whose “kids” got one. More details on this particular artifact later.

Beaverton, Oregon voters apparently passed a $100 millilon parks bond recently and Schiffler Park redevelopment is a project that’s coming up. There’s an open house coming up and Chad from Skaters for Public Skateparks points out that the THPRD staff seems more interested in putting in a skatespot than the public does. That can’t be right. Skaters should show up to the Open House and set the record straight.

Public Meeting: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at Fir Grove Elementary School in the library from 6-8 p.m.

A giant photo of MC appeared briefly in Times Square, New York, courtesy of the Vans billboard and an excellent camera work by Bryce Kanights. You can see the photo and more from the session over at Antigravity Press.

What are you still doing at work? It’s New Year’s Eve. Take off early. Nobody will notice. Still here? OK, then enjoy this Casey Morrow video from Ditchslapped 2009.

– Thanks to Carl Warren for the tip.

Someone complained that I was completely slacking on the Pier Park stop of the 2009 Oregon Trifecta. So here it is, coming down to the wire for 2009. Ken Fillion on the invert here. Hooray! So obviously, I let some four months go by before I got around to this, so everything is less than fresh in my mind. Fortunately I wrote the wrap up months ago. Unfortunately I didn’t write the captions until last night during a rerun of Glee. I am gay. (?)

Oops! Forgot the link. Check out the Oregon Trifecta at Pier Park.

One of our Argentine readers (Sure, why not? It’s the Internet!) Is checking out this board on the local Argentine equivalent of eBay. It’s made of fiberglass, don’t ya know? Well in case you didn’t it says so right on the top of the deck. Enlarge-o-rama.

– Thanks to Mariano Tolosa Gomez for the pic.

Yeah, that’s right. I read Woman’s Day all the time. I like to brush up on my jello recipes, kick-knacks and diets. You know, keeping it real. Imagine my joy and delight when I perused 8 Incredible Ice Sculptures, which included this photograph from Eugenio Franchi. There are skateboards made out of ice, and then there are skateboards made for riding on the ice. Almost a year ago I did a little digging around on the history of ice-boards. The daughter of Willard Gebien, one of the inventors wrote in to let us know she first ice-boarded in 1964. Debra Fischler had this to say:

The winter of 1964 I was iceskate boarding. It was fun! My father is Willard Gebien… I only have one still picture on hand -1966 my dog riding the skate board, however my cousins may have home movies and pictures in their attic. Also, I remember the Ice Capades in Chicago used the board in their clown act.

Catch the picture after the jump.