Fat check.

Did the Rob Dyrdek/Big Black MTV show really get renewed for three more seasons? Is it just us, or is Rob & Big the newest Seinfeld-inspired show about nothing? And in other boob tube rumors, did the mega-contract for Bam's new newlywed show really include rights to the divorce show, too?

In the most unlikely of pairings this side of reality: the Nipponese High Couture salon, Hysteric Glamour, is teaming with Madrid to craft further super fuzz chic skateboards. Huh? Also, designer Nobuhiko Kitamura's recent employment of Terry Richardson and the aged Rolling Stones was ostentatious in a fashion-forward sense. But how will all of that Tokyo runway street chic blend with Jerry Madrid's Huntington Beach firehouse gutter casual?

The marathon meeting of the International Association of Skateboard Companies seems to have produced a consensus opinion amongst participating manufacturers. Expect proactive moves and pronouncements of solidarity in the New Year. Most likely ASR will be the forum for dissemination of this political manifesto.

Black Box Zero leader Jamie Thomas was duly honored with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. The global evaluators of managing risk and shareholder perspective felt Thomas was the best in the category of consumer business products and also consumer services. All of this proving that while The Lord may work in a very mysterious manner, it is skating that's often even stranger. Go figure.

In an unrelated event, J Grant Brittain held an exhibition of his photographs at the esteemed OPT Underground Gallery in Oceanside, which had its very own element of corporate appreciation. Canon USA was on hand to loan out their high dollar digitals and free high-resolution prints. Does this means that JGB is now an official endorser?

Soiled Mattress and the Springs performed at the NYC opening of the Christian Hosoi and Mark Gonzales salon presentation at Journal. Both Gonz and Hosoi professed graphically that "Blessed is the man who endures temptation."