Street straight.My son is almost 12. For his birthday last year all he wanted was a skateboard, and I quickly ran out and got the best one that I could find. He was surprisingly pretty good right from the start and rides it every day. Rain, snow, sleet sleet, precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If they pass through a layer with a temperature below the freezing point, they turn into sleet. , or shine---he is out there. He wanted a subscription to 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. this year, so I again quickly ran out and got it. (I too had a subscription when I was his age.) When the mag arrived, however, I was truly and honestly more disappointed than I can even explain. This was not the Thrasher of my day; it's full of ads for drinking and countless pictures of skaters smoking and doing drugs, and half naked women. Just what happened to straightedge? What happened to vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. ? What happened to that whole pure, friendly, skater movement? It doesn't exist? Or has it become so unpopular or uncool that someone up in editing has decided that the only way to sell the mag is via sex, drugs, and unruly behavior! I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. about the rest of the world, but my son would buy this mag regardless of how many shocking shots of bad behavior were inside. And by the way, he was so excited to share this with his friends he brought it to school and then came home with a referral, two nights of detention, and a letter into his own permanent record for bringing this inappropriate material to class. Thank you. Thanks a lot. If I had known, I wouldn't have invested in the subscription. I would assume that the target age for this magazine is between early- to mid-teens to early- to mid-20s. And I would also guess that most of your readers are in the early-to mid-teens range. And if you are in your 30s, chances axe that you are way past having a mag subscription. So why not work on molding a whole new generation of skaters, minus the drugs, half naked women, drinking, and sex? We keep pushing the envelope to what's appropriate and what's not. Some things are great without the added dog and pony show Dog and pony show was a colloquial term used in the United States in the late-19th and early-20th centuries to refer to small traveling circuses that toured through small towns and rural areas. . I do not believe it was the topless lady smoking a joint on page 97 that lured Tony Hawk
Renee Maxwell Syracuse, New York
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