Posts from February, 2003
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Feb1Board on a Friday Afternoon: Skate Videos
Brian’s Top 10 Video Parts Ray Barbee: “Public Domain” – all time favorite Ocean Howell: Birdhouse “Ravers” – 2nd all time favorite Mike Carroll: 1st FTC Video Donny Barley: “Eastern Exposure- Underacheivers” Kris Markovich: Union Wheels Video Gino Innauchi: “20 Shot Sequence” Rick Howard: 1st Plan B video Tom Penny: ’411 Video Flip Steve Olson: [...]
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Feb3An Evening with Interpol
On Sunday I went skateboarding, feeling comfortable wearing a t-shirt and shorts. I remember smugly thinking that despite a lack of four distinct seasons, Austin’s weather is just so preferable to that of northern climates. Two days later our streets are covered in ice. Classes cancelled. My neighbor’s truck is glued to an ice-packed curb [...]
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Feb2The Hick Hunt
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate, and, yes, it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is nothing but wires and lights in a box.” Ed Murrow, renowned CBS journalist Off the radar of the Blog Universe is [...]
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Feb1Cruisin’ on a Kronan
If I remember correctly, my dad found the old Sears Roebuck cruiser in a ditch. He must have eventually tired of riding it because for years it sat upright in the garage, kickstand firmly extended. When I was a teenager the only vehicle in the garage that I cared about was a 1987 Toyota Corolla– [...]
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