Dog gone.

The old Dog Bowl keeps flowing over. Maybe there's cash located somewhere past being over the hill? When last spoken of, Zephyr regime founding father Jeff No was publicly complaining about what he considered to be poor treatment by certain functionaries of the nascent film project Lords of Dogtown. Specifically, it was said that director/re-writer Catherine Hardwicke had given Hoa "Sign, or be written out" ultimatum. Sources close to Sony's hijinx are now alleging that Jeff was last talking about signing for 23 million dollars. Quiet on the matter is fellow Zephyr owner Skip Engblom, who has been off working on a Nike spot with Director (and Lords o' DT co-producer) David Fincher. There has also been talk in the backwaters of Hollywood regarding an Engblom biography that is maybe being penned by LA Weekly Editor In Chief Joseph Donnelly. It is said that a Teri Craft-directed Tony Alva bio-pic may perhaps be resurrected. Another much repeated drama rift regards a possible Jay Adams joint, which is a sort of combi truth as-I-lived-it-lack-of-cautionary book/film. Bonus features on the bitch may include Justin McCormack as producer and Ronin, the arte de provocateur, as director. The oddball outsider story to top it all is claimed to be a Ray Eames Mores flick that is claimed to be crafted by Venicewood screenwriter Tibi Rothman. Flores' improbable life careens from the Hobie team to Hare Krishna devotion to Alva-Dogtown to the Mormon priesthood and a career selling legit architectural antiquities. And that's just the first act.

The plague of the high art season is upon us and counter-establishment aesthetics related to tiding are fouling the kunshalls: Ed Templeton's massive new show of paintings and photographs sold out at Roberts and Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles. Half of the Hilton sisters were enthralled during the jam/action packed opening for Templeton's "The Prevailing Nothing."

Also in OZ was the well reviewed "My Xerox Weighs a Toone," at the Australian Centre for Photography at Sydney. Curated by Shatma Toohey and Misha Hollenbach, this 'zine an exhibition featured differing works by Sk8 Thing, Ben Sansbury, Todd James, Aaron Rose, Brandon Fowler, Fergadelic, Ari Marcopoulos, and Max Doyle.

Russ Milligan toured the tanks, banks, clubs, and pubs from Spain to the UK. He was accompanied by Gizmo, Brockman and Jeremy Morgan. They parlayed the dichotomy of winter's weather and concrete, as naturalists tend to do.