We’re hoping the skaters of Perham, Minnesota are just playing some punk rock jokes on their city council because if they are it’s hilarious. After holding a contest to name their new park it came down to their two favorites: “Oompa Loompa Factory” and “Kowabunga, Dude.”
Following a ten-minute discussion the name “Kowabunga, Dude” was chosen and skateboarder Brendan Lauer won a “certificate for a free t-shirt.”
“Atrocious” and “horrible” were the reactions to the name “Kowabunga” by Councilmember Harriet Mattfeld. . . “In the long run, I think they’re going to be sorry they named it that,” said Mattfeld at the August 11 Perham City Council meeting.
This may be the one time we’re going to have to agree with a City Council regarding a skateboard park.
Troubled Utah mom Alicia Blood (who might not look too bad with a little makeup) is in court because she allegedly hit her 16-year-old son in the head with his own skateboard and then tried to run him down with her car.
Witnesses say the mother, Alicia Blood, and her 16-year-old son were arguing at a Tooele skate park last Tuesday when she hit him in the head with his skateboard. . . . They called police when they say the teen tried to leave and the mother got into her car, drove over the curb and chased the boy across the grass. . . . Police say she hit the boy with her car, got out and yelled at him again, then drove away.
She is being charged with “aggravated assault and child abuse.” Looks like the kid won this argument pretty handily.
About 3,500 pairs of 2007 Rossignol HC snowboard bindings, made in China by Rossignol Ski Co., because the t-nuts that attached the buckles to the straps on the snowboard’s bindings can detach, posing a fall hazard to consumers.
We knew it wouldn’t be just hats and accessories very long at Brixton. Now, the company is branching out into a “limited collection of timeless jackets and flannels.”
The Clampdown is a classic worker’s jacket altered for a slimmer fit. A quilted nylon interior accents the heavyweight cotton and is available in black and grey herringbone twill. The Debaser is a military jacket tapered for a modern fit. It is available in a heavyweight black canvas and grey herringbone twill. The third addition, the Cedar, is a classic flannel with a contemporary cut and detail.
This thing has “back to school” written all over it.
Ever wonder what happened to Westbeach founder Chip Wilson? No? Well, as many will tell you he left the snowboard industry that was littered with sweaty men 11 years ago and went after an industry loaded with sweaty, hot women: Yoga.
Now, Chip’s yoga clothing company Lululemon Athletica has 80 retail stores across Canada and the US and is valued at US$2.3 billion, according to a story in The Montreal Gazette.
Wilson believes his pursuit of mega-material success has made the world a better place by popularizing yoga and by helping Lululemon staff and others take courses offered by the controversial Landmark Education Corp., the motivational education company developed by people connected to Erhard Seminars Training (est).
Hey, if joining something the French government has classified as a “cult” brings this much success, maybe we should have listened when our lawyers suggested we attend.
We know we said we weren’t going to discuss the X Games, but then we saw this on You Will Soon regarding Tony Trujillo’s bronze medal in Super Park.
Personally I’d like to congratulate Tony not so much for a bronze medal in X Games Super Park, but just for being so fucking awesome. You got the rest of the guys in there sucking their energy drink’s sponsors dicks with full print Monster shirts and Red Bull new era hats, and then you got this fucking skid slashing the park in a spray painted t-shirt. Not just that, but he may not have done the sickest tricks of the day, but he was schralping the hardest.
It’s refreshing to hear the simple truth everyone once in a while, isn’t it?
Lisi will get $77,222 to work on his theory, which involves using a recently mapped 248-dimension mathematical structure called E8 to unify all the fundamental particles and forces, including gravity. In the last round of awards in 2006, FQXi gave Lisi $77,280 over two years.
Looks like 2008 is shaping up pretty well for Spy Optic’s parent company Orange 21. In a financial report released yesterday the company showed that net sales increased 17% to $14.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2008. That’s up $2 million over the same period in 2007. The company still had a net loss.
A net loss of $0.3 million was incurred for the three months ended June 30, 2008 compared to a net loss of $1.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2007.
We didn’t watch any of the X Games and had no plans to even mention them, but Danny Way on Late Night with David Letterman is just too good to pass up.
