Zine:
Skate and Annoy #2
From the collection of Kilwag
Date: 1988
From: Urbana, Illinois
Format: Letter sized, folded in half. White paper.
Type: Photocopy, handwritten
Pages: 16
By: Randy Kilwag, Neil McDougall
Art: Kilwag, Neil
Photos: Laura McDougall, Possibly Pam Susemiehl, uncredited
Featuring: Front page cover of Mike Poor from Fatzjam coverage in the local paper. Somehow we got ahold of a print and didn’t have to use the newspaper version, might have been taken by friend of the zine Pam Susemiehl. Fatzjam 86 contest, A Very Serious Editorial (about commercialism in skating, sheesh…) comics, zodlac product reviews, Lance Mountain promo photo centerfold from Bones Brigade tour promotion, salacious gossip (probably with little to no basis in reality.) A way-too-in-depth review of the Doggy Style album “Live at Sun City.” A fake ad for the Nash “Fish Pizza” which we thought was almost as hilarious as the real Nash “Dog Cheese” model. Friend of the scene Ray Johnson who was stationed at nearby Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. The start of our longstanding one-sided feud with Jeff Kendall. – See editor’s note.
Honorable Mentions: Known associate of Skate and Annoy Karl Kingery lands himself in the hospital after a slam. Record Swap in Champaign Illinois. We had two unpaid ads in this issue for both locations that carried copies of S&A on their shelves. The first for Frames N’ Thangs which was our local skate shop, actually a bike shop with a small selection of skateboards. There’s a business card for Frame N Thangs, and a business card sized blank space where the Record Swap ad was supposed to go. I can’t recall if we ever rectified that. Maybe my single copy was a test run. It might be because there is a bit of a continuity error, I might be missing 4 pages.
Spots: Downtown Champaign, site of Fatzjam 86, where KRandy Kilwag infamously choked during his runs and didn’t really land anything. I’m still traumatized, but not as much as the crew from Springfield who had to watch me flail as they competed in the lower division.
Editor’s Note: Still taking ourselves very seriously. 4 pages longer than the last issue. Looks like we were getting prepped for an upcoming stop on the Bones Brigade tour. This issue marks the start of a fascination with skateboarding in popular culture. There’s tiny M&M illustration with a skateboard and skateboarding content from the Wall Street Journal of all places. How did that come into our orbit? Probably friend of the zine and future editor of the Skate and Annoy Update Mike Timble, AKA Swiv the entrepreneur. Skate and Annoy Update was a short-lived regional one page newsletter containing upcoming contest and demo info in the Midwest. We took forever to get issues of the zine put to gather so all that would have been out of date by the time anyone saw it. Unfortunately, we none of us kept any issues of S&A Update. What’s up with our beef with Jeff Kendall? TLDR: He showed up to do a quick demo before the am contest. He was late, not super friendly, and probably unimpressed. We had hoped to interview him and he brushed us off, so we really laid into him. In retrospect it’s embarrassing that we were so juvenile about it, who knows what was going on in Jeff’s world at the time. He was probably having a bad day, upset that he was back in the deep midwest… I had an exchange with Jeff’s friend Bob Pribble at some point in the 2000’s and he was asking what our beef was. We ragged on Kendall for a couple issues… I sort of explained we were young and dumb, and upset that Jeff blew us off… Sorry Jeff! I apologize, I don’t know if Neil does or not.
More Embarrassing stuff: Looking at Neil’s part of the Hate Page, Neil hated everyone, and yikes a, little old fashioned casual English racism in there too. Swiv throws some “humor” in there that is hard to stomach.
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