Danny Way, who started on the pole position in Saturday’s Toyota Grand Prix Celebrity Pro and lead the celebrities the entire race, crashed in the final lap with a little help from the Disney Channel’sRaven Symone. Not surprisingly, he wasn’t happy about it, according to the Long Beach Press Telegram.
I got robbed,” said the skateboarding great, who will certainly take some heat from fellow X-Gamers and previous Pro/Celebrity Race winners Bucky Lasek and Dave Mirra. “I worked hard to get the best lap. It’s not my fault that effort was taken away. Everyone knows if she didn’t crash that I would have won.”
Even though Danny turned in the fastest lap time of the day (faster even the Al Unser Jr.) it was Keanu Reeves, who was able to avoid the crash and cross the finish line for the win. Yep, that’s racing.
Vancouver, BC resident Douglas Coupland has written many fine books. Great to read, hard to remember. Polaroids From The Dead is one of our favorites. But look at what is up on the homepage of his website right now. This:
Wait a minute, aren’t those are our logos? The image is from part of a new series of art pieces titled Mom and Dad. And it reminds us of a quote from his book Microserfs:
“Should some future historian ever feel the need to duplicate a San Fracisco coffee bar circa “The Dawn of Multimedia,” they will require the following: thrashed PowerBooks covered with snowboarding and Chiquita banana stickers. . .” Douglas Coupland, Microserfs, pg. 115.
That was written in 1994. Looks like Douglas has been stuck on boardsports for quite a while now. Then again, so have we.
This is old news to anyone who follows Tony Hawk on Twitter, but last night he casually tweeted that a sports museum that he had loaned some memorabilia to had just gone bankrupt and the court wanted him to pay $1,500 to get his stuff back. Apparently, his stuff was being treated as an asset.
Today, CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell blogged about the tweet today and added a little detail:
We’re not 100 percent sure, but we think Hawk is talking about the Sports Museum of America, a national sports museum that was based near Wall Street and was actually open for seven months before shutting down in February. . .The museum’s parent company filed for bankruptcy the following month with $56 million in assets and $177 million in debt. The museum was displaying Hawk’s second-place trophy from a 1979 youth skateboarding competition.
Hopefully, Tony will get his trophy back. He won it once already and he shouldn’t have to win it again.
Ah, not so sure about his recent surfboard shapes, but when it comes to body lotion we trust Kelly Slater, especially his new Limited Edition Superbly Restorative Body Lotion created in collaboration with Kiehl’s. Here are just some of the details:
100% of proceeds up to $100,000 will support Waterkeeper Alliance, Helps improve skin’s resilience and texture, Helps enrich skin’s moisture barrier and most importantly it leaves skin soft with a healthy-looking sheen, and Formulated with a naturally-derived preservative system.
The label on the bottle features Kelly doing a big ol’ bottom turn. Wonder if Kalani has been giving Kelly some post heat-loss rub-downs with this stuff? The lotion costs $55 for 16 ounces and is all for a good cause.
Russel Crowe says that work on the Bra Boys film that may be his feature directorial debut is progressing nicely, according to Sky News.
“We are on our third different take on the story, probably on our second draft of our third take,” he said.
“We approached it in one way and it worked and encapsulated it nicely but it left too many things on the table so we’ve tried it a second way and had the same result. . . . We’re now in a place where we’re trying it a third way and it’s a little more satisfying in terms of the punch of the overall film.”
The film is not based on the documentary, but on the best-selling book My Brothers Keeper, by investigative reporters Charles Miranda and Angelea Kamper and follows the story of “standover man” Anthony Hines, his meeting with infamous Sydney surfing gang ‘the Bra Boys’, and his killing. According to Russel, the film will not start Mark Wahlberg and instead will feature Australian actors.
“This is a great Australian story and it belongs to the Australian film industry and it’s all well and good to finance it from overseas because film is an international medium but we’ve got great actors in our country.”
Tony Hawk joined Hilary Duff, Jessica Biel, and Slash to remind people that getting involved and sharing your time is a good thing. Here’s a little of what Tony says:
I believe everyone can change the world you don’t have to be rich and famous, you can start in your own community: start locally. Help people that are in need. Help causes that interest you. . . .A lot of people want to help or say that there are these problems, but you have to physically go there and do it and that’s what makes a difference.
Slash obviously had a hard time being on camera without his guitar, but Tony’s comments were right on.
Kellan Lutz the lead vampire from the crazy popular Twilight film had a little confession to make in the LATimes. Apparently, he likes to snowboard.
Kellan told the Dish Rag that he was going snowboarding this weekend. . . “I love snowboarding, but I can’t tell that to the studio because I’m not supposed to be snowboarding just before shooting.”
This little blurb is for the thousands of bookish, teen girls who frequent our site. You’re welcome.
After all Tony Hawk’s recent twittering about going to Ireland and flying with his baby on the plane, and dropping free decks out all over the world, we never figured out what Tony and family were actually doing in Ireland. Not, that is until we were perusing Celebrity Baby Blog. Only then did we learn that Mr. Hawk was in Ireland to accept a prestigious award.
Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk poses with wife Lhotse Merriam Hawk and daughter Kadence Clover, 9 months, on Friday in Ireland. . . In the country to accept the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of the University College Dublin, Tony skated with students at the school after receiving the honor.
The award is given to “those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field.” Tony joins Monty Python’s Micahel Palin, Writer Salman Rusdie, UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, politician Jesse Jackson and Tony’s business partner Will Ferrell (among others) on the list of winners. We don’t believe it possible to come up with a more eclectic bunch. But congratulations, Tony.
As the world’s longest-running and most prestigious celebrity racing event, the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race has introduced more than 500 celebrities to the sport of real race car competition. Pitting popular personalities against professional racers, the 10-lap sprint around the 1.97-mile downtown Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach street circuit gives celebrities the chance to put the pedal to the metal from behind the wheel of race-ready Scion tCs.
The Honolulu Symphony announced that they have added Laird Hamilton as one of two new “honorary board members.” The other was actress Marcia Gay Harden, according to a story in The Garden Island.
Both Hamilton and Harden are dedicated supporters of educational philanthropy, as well as many other civic organizations. They join a dedicated board of community leaders who are committed to keeping a world-class orchestra in Hawai‘i and offering high-quality music education programs in the state’s schools.
We’re going to have to explore the whole “honorary board member thing” sounds like a nice way to attach people’s name to projects they have nothing to do with.
