Gold metal

Thrasher Magazine, April, 2005

Jim Fitzpatrick and Tony Hawk are said to be working with a consortium of high-profile entities including the United States Olympic committee and NBC. The goal is to get skateboarding included as an official event in the next Olympic Summer Games. NBC is said to be hyped on this development, as snowboarding was deemed three times more popular to both attendees and the world television audience than downhill skiing was in the last Olympic Winter Games. The ubiquitous Fitz, who coined the phrase "skateboarding isn't figure skating," is believed to be pushing hard for an objective judging system where higher is higher and faster is faster. Hawk's ramp demo at a past Olympic's closing ceremony was by far the most watched skateboarding event of all time.

The Sean Cliver Disposable tome on skate graphics has sold out of its first edition. This has generated an instant gold rush of re-sales on eBay. Cliver, in an odd career move, turned down a subsequent request to exhibit part of his extensive collection of Powell Peralta and World Industries decks and art at the vanguardist Orange County Museum of Art. Former Cliver patron George Powell, however, apparently had no such compunction about self-promotion. GAP opened his own Museum of Powell and was observed personally standing there alongside a life-size cut out of Animal Chin at the debut in San Diego. No one was certain which of the two was the more popular tour leader.

Sippy was allegedly overviewed interjecting Lowcard agi-prop into an unnamed big budget Hollywood motion picture that portends to deal with skateboarding. Will the legal department of the major sponsoring studio ever be able to decode this subterfuge?

Is Michael "Fordy" Shukin, one of the founding producers of the Lords of Dogtown, currently interested in optioning the GSD tell-all book "This is Not My Life?" Garry Scott Davis claims his book is not for sale but some Canadian sources state that the contents of it are already being serialized as we speak for a maple leafed periodical.

The 8 Mile/Splash/Blue Crush producer Brian Grazer was again viewed all up in Ed Templeton and Aaron Rose's mix. The aforementioned semi secret private audience is perhaps implicit confirmation that the much-storied Grazer skate epic is in the offing.

The Vitello brothers took it all down to Tijuana. Ultimately, Deutschland mover Julius Caesar Dittman was held at the border for a few hours in some "Welcome to Amerika" stunt, and the long-time H-Cartel associate Jamie was popped for pissing on the front of the US Border Patrol Headquarters.