“Revolutionary skateboard breaks all the rules! The OBOARD!”

The OBoard, as in “Oh crap, I just wasted $131.95!” or “Oh no! Look what I’m riding!” You can fill in the rest yourself. They got a streetskater with some skills to do the demo too. You haven’t seen so many neear tic-tacks since the 70’s.

Sure, it’s got nice packaging, fancy electronics and a marketing campaign to back it up, but I bet this Math Mission game for the Leaptster Learning Game System isn’t nearly half as gnar as Radical Mathematical.

From the Burton web site:

DNA Distribution, which includes skateboarding brands Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex, today announced that the company has been acquired by Burton…

“We are very excited to bring the DNA family of brands to Burton – a company that we truly respect,” says Chris Carter, Chief Executive Officer for DNA Distribution. “Burton clearly leads their market in terms of team, innovation, marketing and values. Joe, Mike and I look forward to leveraging Burton’s strengths to reach the full potential for the DNA brands: Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex.”

Blah, blah blah…

Where’s Steve Bacon when you need him? You’re right. You rule dude. You must be so stoked.

your guys are fucking losers! ha, my friends and I skated this pool for the last 1/2 of summer w/ no one bothering us, so fuck you guys, you will NEVER be able to skate it

Don’t make me dig up pictures of the nude bowl…

Letters. We get your letters. Keep the fan mail coming.

here are some shots of a pool in CORVALLIS that you will never be able to skate. ha ha suck it

Colin

Maps and GPS coordinates follow.

Up for auction we have rare and hard to find Fisher Price Skateboard and the Little People Asian Boy who rides it.

Fisher-Price Little People are an iconic toy. They started out being constructed entirely out of wood in 1960, eventually adding plastic bits and ultimately ended up being molded out of plastic completely until they were discontinued in 1990. In 1997 Fisher-Price revamped the Little People. Although they are highly detailed injection molded pieces, (seen above on the right) they are ironically somehow more generic looking than the very simple original versions. The classic little people had a school play set in the late 80’s that came with a skateboard toy for the kids to ride. It looks like it has bindings (kook!) but surely is less painful to ride than the new version that is more akin to a butt plug.

Look a picture of old skateboard wheels! Internet denizens Mark Freuenfelder and Mr. Jalopy Have teamed up to create a pdf ‘zine called D+R Dispatch. I saw it on BoingBoing where you can get the details and download the two part ‘zine.

I got a my film back from Saturday’s Lincoln City trip. Here are a couple of additional views of the snake run in progress. Link to a larger view after the jump.

Yes, I paid $2.99 to make fun of Ryan Sheckler, so who is the bigger loser? Me, by most standards. Sheckler makes no less than two appearances in the February 2008 issue of Seventeen Magazine, and they’ve even got an online extra.