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FIRING LINE: JOSH FALK

Birthplace: Mount Pleasant, Michigan Mount Pleasant is a city that serves as the county seat of Isabella County6 in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,946.  

Home: Southeast Portland, Oregon

Current setup: MM deck, Indys, Spitfires, Ninja bearings, Randoms hardware and Cal's Pharmacy grip.

Hobbies: Golfing, fishing, making music, and twiddling my thumbs Job: House painter

Best NW skatespot: The streets of Portland are a best-kept secret

Girl: My wife Jessica and our daughter Avery

Cars: '68 Riviera, '91 Blazer, '71 VW Bus, 2010 Allante

Up and comers: Brent Atchley, Shorty's coming back

Favorite Video: Bones Brigade Bones Brigade was a highly successful skateboarding team that rode under the Powell Peralta and later Powell banner. The team was created in 1979 by Stacy Peralta who picked most of the riders. They were very successful in competitions around that time.  Video Show

Food: Pizza

Heroes: Anti-Heros

Last words Last words are a person's final words before death. For a list of well known last words, see or use the link at right.

Last words may refer to:
  • Last Words, an Australian punk band (late 1970s - early 1980s)
: Love life

FIVE ...

Bands to Paint on Your Jacket if You're a Poser

1. Dead Kennedys

2. Black Flag

3. Slayer

4. The Casualties

5. Discharge

Legit Bands to Paint on Your Jacket

1. Poison Idea

2. MDC (1) (Mobile Daughter Card) See riser card.

(2) See Meta Data Coalition.
 

3. Filth

4. Tragedy

5. Assuck

--Matt Johnson, Boylston, MA

FUNBOX

Q: What did the rubber say after scamming money from a bank?

A: I conned 'em.

--Rex Gorden, New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , LA

AWFUL TRUTH

BOARD WARS: PUBLIC ENEMY #1--To skateboarders, Chris Loarie is the villain. To every one else, sick of the scratches and skid marks skid marks skid nplReifenspuren pl;
(from braking) → Bremsspuren pl 
 caused by 'boarders swooping over benches and handrails, Loarie is a hero, thanks to Skatestoppers, a simple invention that earned the Southern California entrepreneur more than $1 million the last two years. 'Tm not against skateboarding," says the 34-year-old father of two. 'Tin just helping people protect their property." Loads came up with the idea in 1998 after his brother Mike mentioned the mayhem skateboarders had caused outside a nearby church, 'Boarders have since sent him thousands of hate messages and even death threats. While Loarie finds the venom unnerving un·nerve  
tr.v. un·nerved, un·nerv·ing, un·nerves
1. To deprive of fortitude, strength, or firmness of purpose.

2. To make nervous or upset.
, skating guru Tony Hawk calls it misguided, "If he didn't [create] these, someone else would [have]," says Hawk. Then he adds, "But [they] aren't going to stop skaters."--People Magazine

POET'S CORNER

Skating true

Keeping it real

Skateboarding is what I feel

All else fails, board still there

Throw it, slam it, it don't care

So forget about the sorrow

Your board will be there tomorrow

--Brujo, Del Rio, Texas Del Rio is the county seat of Val Verde CountyGR6,United States. The population was 33,867 at the 2000 census.

Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican radio stations XERA in the 1930s and XERF transmitter powered each of
 
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Date:Jul 1, 2004
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