A couple of years back Honda had an ad compaign for their low emissions and fuel efficient cars. I think it predates the Hybrid Civics actually. Somewhere I have the pages which might have a date. Right now all I can find is the scans which have a creation date of 4-28-00.

There’s a kick ass web site called spamusement.com whose description is “Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!” Tony Hawk just happens to appear as a reference in one of the cartoons. At this point he has entered the collective subconscious of the non-skating public and has become a pop culture reference. This cartoon isn’t one of the best or worst from that site. There are some that are laugh-out-loud funny. I highly recommend it. This one is currently 164 out of 323 which would date it at approximately 2005 according to the copyrights on the web site.

Kicking off the inaugural post of Gratuitous Tony Hawk Appearances is Deck Dogz, an Australian movie out on DVD. Here’s Tony greeting the protagonists towards the end of the flick.

This is going to be everywhere soon. As near as I can tell, Grindline is building a figure 8 snake run style skatepark in Dillon Montana. Instead of the jump over the middle there is a full pipe. Sure, Dreamland’s park in Hailey is close to the same, but this one is scaled down and geared more towards being able to transverse the park in any direction. Park slalom anyone?

Grindline via Earth Patrol Media

More pics of St. Johns Pier Park in progress. We sort of busted some kids sneaking into the park to skate. We gave them a friendly lecture and tried not to sound like old men. Conahan has the keys some don’t need to hop a fence. These are a couple weeks old but to the casual observer it doesn’t look like much has happened lately.

The Briefs! Two great shows in two nights! Two music posts in a row too, don’t worry I won’t make a habit of it. The Briefs played a free show at Dantes last night. Also on the bill were the Punk Group (also great) and the Nice Boys (depends on the show). Not nearly as packed as it was for the Buzzcocks. Steal Yer Heart is the latest Briefs CD. When asked about a new release, the ever gracious Kicks said they were writing new songs. More pics after the jump.

The Buzzcocks played in our town last night. They are still putting on good live shows and more importantly, still putting out really good records. The set started out with about six songs straight from the new release Flat Pack Philosophy on Cooking Vinyl before launching into a non-stop barrage of tunes from the first three releases with Orgasm Addict thrown in for good measure. During an encore they played Sick City from the 2003 release Buzzcocks

Oh yeah! Diggin the Kool-Aid theme song, and this Kool-Aid Dixie cup dispenser. So this is the first entry into the blog that I’m integrating into the web site that you know and love, Skate and Annoy. I’ve resisted the temptation for a long time until I realized that it makes perfect sense it’s the least painful way to make frequent updates. The bitch of it was integrating it into the structure of the curent web site. I’ve got a redesign on the backburner, so this is just an quick and dirty fix. I’ll be tinkering with it for quite a while, but a work in progress is better than no progress at all. So yeah, we’re blogging, but there’s no way in hell that I’m getting involved in all that Myspace nonsense. Besides, I’m married and don’t need a date.

This post was originally static HTML, it was backdated and inserted in the blog because it was too small to pretend it was an actual feature. And yes, this does hurt my OCD! Can you believe I used to have to hand code this? I integrated the blog into this site in July of 2006.

Hey, it’s the new park in Toledo Oregon. Built by Airspeed, strictly for the locals with beginners in mind. Not a so-called “destination park.” One high wall about 7-8 feet with a slight bend and cement coping. The rest is pretty much averages out to be waist high or less withthe ocaisonal higher spot. Metal coping of varying sizes. Included in the park is a bowled end that is 3 1/2 feet deep with simulated pool tiles and oververt! (?) Smooth concrete to skate on and funky castle looking forming made on the sides. This is not one of your typical wide open Oregon skate parks. It’s got a quirky design, that requires some effort to find the best lines, but can be a lot of fun adapting to. The important part is, all the locals were stoked. Well at least all the kids from nearby Newport were. Almost everyone we talked to was from Newport and said two things: The Newport Park sucks and they love the Toledo park.

This post was originally static HTML, it was backdated and inserted in the blog because it was too small to pretend it was an actual feature. And yes, this does hurt my OCD! Can you believe I used to have to hand code this? I integrated the blog into this site in July of 2006.

I was in Carnation Washington for a couple of hours. I spent most of the time at the park completely by myself. As I was getting ready to leave some people showwed up, including some Sleestakers. This is a small park. The shallow end is a little steep, the coping is not set consistently, and it’s a little to spread out in places, but it’s still fun.