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...industry for equipment and clothes that is reckoned to be worth, overall, about half a billion dollars a year. It says something about the devotion the sport engenders that with such big bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally lame." But get it right...
Clothes are important, and a thrasher turnout has standard components: oversize T shirt, baggy shorts, high-top sneakers and, often topping it off, a kind of revisionist Huntz Hall cap. Those basics allow for infinite variations in color and design, and the skateboarding T shirts sold in stores like Rip City in Santa Monica, Calif., have a heady graphic punch that combines elements of biker insignia, psychedelic coloring and underground-comics' goofiness. Surfers favor light colors, but skaters go for darker hues. "Dark colors make more of a hard-core statement than bright surf wear," says Santa Monica Artist...
...spiced with occasional shots of black humor, all based on our exclusive knowledge that behind the smiling stepdad exterior lurks a raging psycho. Family Number Two is struggling for a reconciliation, and the Stepfather suggests, "C'mon, honey let's bury the hatchet." Gulp. But all you slasher-thrasher fans out there be warned. The Stepfather would rank low on Joe-Bob Briggs boobs'n'blood scale; this is suspense you bozos: protracted anticipation laced with adrenaline, not gory gratification every six and a half minutes, Friday the 13th-style...
...gone too far. Hordes of historians, squads of sociologists have despaired of a single answer. On the other hand, perhaps their field research did not alert them to a long-ago incident: the time is the early 1960s, the setting a small, deservedly obscure village in North Dakota. Anthony Thrasher, 15, lives here and calls the place Ulalume. This allusion to the verse of Edgar Allan Poe helps explain why the boy is still languishing in the eighth grade. He suffers from premature sophistication...
...Mark Thrasher...