Hippishrooms1212 (9:05:13 PM): you need to tell the people that go to wiskate in the updates area that the east coast desert rap scene is blowing up like a slim shady.

There’s a DVS/Matix demo today at the 4 Seasons in Milwaukee. Supposededly these people are going to be in attendance: Kieth Hufnagel, Daewon Song, Mike Taylor, Brandon Biebel, Steve Berra, and Van Wastell. I think it’s supposed to start at 3pm, but I doubt in the entire history of skateboarding demos, that a demo has ever started on time.

There’s a Gravity Games contest at Four Seasons in Milwaukee today. What it’s all about, or when it starts…I don’t know. Call the park for more info 414-933-PARK.

Now for the ultimate in today’s news….Andy Mac is in town doing a signing at Payless Shoes at Southridge Mall! I bet there will be a line around the block for this one, so make sure to make it there early! If someone emails me a picture of themselves enthusiastically posing with Andy Mac, you’ll have in your hands a copy of the AMAZING Outlook Skateboards video…featuring the best techno freestyle part since 1986.

Well, those contests over at Summerfest yesterday were basically a bust. I managed to catch about two minutes of the pro best trick deal, and Tyrone Olson won that. I think Caine Gayle got third, and Lutzka got fourth, or something like that. I wasn’t there to see what tricks they did, or anything like that. After that, it rained. A lot. I left, and I don’t know if any of the other pro or am contests even happened. How’s that for reporting?

Also, one of those weiner kids from that lame-ass Good Charlotte band said “what’s up” to me as I was walking out. What’s up with that? I felt dirty after that.

This is already all over the internet, so I may as well post it here…Lutzka is off Krooked.

So I have been doing alot of traveling to the skateparks in our wonderful state. A few that I have been to have been great. Green Bay, the bowl in Wisconsin Rapids, and a couple of other ones have been fun. BUT, I have been seeing alot of these plastic molded, blacktop ground masterpieces that some company called Skatewave has been selling to these small towns. It’s a pity. Why would cities waste money on these things? I understand that it’s great that they are getting you guys parks, but they are taking the easy way out. If your city is even considering giving you a park, I urge you to go to the meetings and make sure you are getting something good. Please, stop this wave of bad skateparks. They are pushing you off the streets and into a crappy fenced in playground. It’s like a McDonald’s playplace. Don’t stand for it anymore.

Have you ever read a magazine, or heard some guy talking on some video of some sort and it sounded something like, “Yeah, it’s hard to drive around the country in a van, and skate some shitty course blah blah” you get the idea. Well boo fucking hoo you little pussies. These guys get paid to skateboard, period. Touring isn’t a new concept, people know what it entails and if someone is not up to it, don’t go. Now it’s true that most kids at demos are little bastards who want to either see Rodney Mullen or get a free bit of product, whichever may come first, but come on fuckers, you get paid! Most kids who ride skateboards spend about as much on skate equipment as someone who has a moderate cocaine habit spends on coke, so if you can’t get your pansy ass into a van for a few weeks to thank these kids for paying you, GET FUCKED! Regardless of what bullshit charades such as the Tony Hawk Skate tours make you think ,(no offense Tony)professional skateboarders are not finely tuned athletes who deserve to be waited on hand and foot. For the most part, they are dirtbags who like to party. Isn’t that what their useless tour videos have lead us to believe? Why would someone who blasts of bottle rockets in an enclosed van give a shit if they have to drive around for a few weeks in close quarters with people of the same nature? Why would people who drink themselves silly care if they are a little bit uncomfortable? These guys are not rock stars no matter how much their video part makes you think they are. They are normal people who happen to be really good at skateboarding. Basically, if they don’t like to tour, then stay the fuck in LA LA land and skate a fiberglass bench until you puke. In the meantime, realize that whether you like it or not, that zeek who just asked you to sign his faux-hawk is paying for your $60,000 car and that ipod you’re using to ignore him. Skateboarding is changing so you better give some back before you’re back to driving civics and eating hamburgers everyday.

Remeber kids, Skateboarding is EVERYTHING!!