Bad things.I subscribed to your magazine and I think it and Big Brother are the greatest skate magazines in the world. I want to thank you for all of your hard work over the years, bringing us the latest news and sickest tricks. I also want to thank you for all the stickers that you included in the package. You guys kick ass. Before I had a subscription, I used to spend hours in the supermarket sitting on my skateboard reading your magazine when I got tired of sessioning the local spots. Then I would get stoked stoked adj. Slang 1. Exhilarated or excited. 2. Being or feeling high or intoxicated, especially from a drug. and then go back out. I always liked Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. for its skate or die and skate and destroy mentality. Magazines like Transworld have more of a clean-cut feeling, and I don't think they express what the true scene of skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean is about. Thrasher is punk oriented and I like that; although, it still does showcase all the different genres of skating and expresses the individual mentality of each skateboarder out there, which is great. It tells you who is into what and what they are about, although you can usually tell by what companies they ride for ... but not always. Anyway, I have an inspiring story for you about myself. Five or six years ago, a few of my friends and I were really into acid. We used to trip in school all of the time, and this one day we decided to do a lot more than the average amount. I was tripping so hard I could not even go to class because I was sure I'd get caught. So after my third period class I spent the rest of the day in the lunchroom. When I really started to peak, things got a whole lot weirder. I kept thinking that life was meaningless, and that I should kill myself just to find out what would happen. One thing led to another and I ended up eating about 100 aspirin aspirin, acetyl derivative of salicylic acid (see salicylate) that is used to lower fever, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and thin the blood. Common conditions treated with aspirin include headache, muscle and joint pain, and the inflammation caused by rheumatic to kill myself. After I ate the aspirins I felt tired, so I figured I would go to bed and die in my sleep. But as I was falling asleep I started looking at the skate pictures on my wall, one in particular. It was a shot of Brian Anderson Brian Anderson may refer to:
adj. mel·low·er, mel·low·est 1. a. Soft, sweet, juicy, and full-flavored because of ripeness: a mellow fruit. b. handrail, and the caption read, "Brian Anderson is so suave it's ridiculous." My only thought was that if I died I'd never be able to skate again, and I got so sad that I almost cried, but I figured it was too late and soon after I fell asleep. I woke up three days later--I was probably in a coma coma, in medicine coma, in medicine, deep state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused even by painful stimuli. The patient cannot speak and does not respond to command. , but my parents thought I had the flu--and the first thing I saw was that same picture of Brian Anderson. I felt so happy--not just lucky to be alive, but just fucking stoked that I would be able to skate again. To this day I have a shirt I made that says "Skateboarding Saved My Life." Live to skate. Skate or die. Ryan Donohue Buffalo, NY Aspirin? Dude, try Drano.--T-ed |
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