Shane Cross 1986-2007.SHANE WAS AN AMAZING a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. SKATER and a really great kid. I met him a few years ago when he came to the US for the first time to visit Matt Mumford. We ended up shooting a big interview in a week and Matt and I had a great time torturing Shane like an honorary little brother. After that, he got hooked up with all the best sponsors but his personality never changed--he was still the same goofy Goofy bumbling, awkward dog; originally named Dippy Dawg. [Comics: “Mickey Mouse” in Horn, 492] See : Awkwardness , happy kid who was always smiling and looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. fun. Shane was humble to a fault. He could do any trick he wanted, but would sometimes get too nervous or embarassed to skate skate, fish: see ray. skate Any of nine genera (suborder Rajoidea) of rounded to diamond-shaped rays. These bottom-dwellers are found from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 9,000 ft (2,700 m). in front of people--especially his heroes, whom he was now traveling the world with. More recently, it seems he'd come into his own--wearing those tye-died shirts and wacky headbands and getting comfortable in all sorts of situations. It was great to see him loosen up and enjoy all the wonderful gifts and opportunities he had. At the Pizzey event he was dropping into the gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. kinked bowl fight alongside all the hurlers, grinding from corner to hip, and having a ball. Shane meant the world to a lot of people and I hope that once the shock of this tragedy passes we can all celebrate Shane the way he celebrated every day. In the last interview I did with him a couple of weeks ago he said that the worst thing he could think of was "that New Year's is only one day of the year." Shane Cross was a kid who loved his friends, loved 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 and loved life. My thoughts go out to all who loved Shane, especially his family, Matt, Jake, Joe, the Barties, the Mapstones, Ewan and his many, many friends. |
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