Four wheels, concrete dreams and Hasselhoff, Hasselhoff, Hasselhoff!
We hear at The Skateboarding Times take our job seriously – to bring you the most up-to-date news on skateboarding, skate parks and the struggle against the anti-skateboarding establishment.
Ok, maybe that was a little over the top. But there’s news on the skateboard front – the Portland City Council unanimously approved the site of a new skateboarding park at their meeting last night.
After months of deliberation the council decided on the Dougherty Field site, near the old West Elementary School on Douglass Street, over a location off the Back Cove Trail.
Of course the story’s just beginning as the park is expected to cost $250,000 - $350,000 to build. The city’s set aside $75,000 for the park and skateboarding groups have already raised around $10,000.
And now for something completely different:
Seeing as you all enjoyed yesterday’s birthday celebration for Mr. Burgundy/Bobby/Mugatu, there was no way I could pass this one up:
Yes, The Hoff turns 55 today. (*Note, I would advise you to check out that last link - it’s the Hoff’s personal page, which includes "Mobile Hoff" and "Club Hoff.")
We’ve had our ups and downs over the years – I’m talking of course about "Baywatch" (up) and the unfortunate "Baywatch Nights" (down)
Somehow you remain an American icon… you even got custody of your kids, despite your shirtless ways, and you are still (one) of the arbiters of whether America does have talent.
my girlfriend and i showed this to her mother for chrismas (the video) and we were all rolling around.
by the way, i've changed my mind about you and the portland press heald. screw nemitz. you're now my favorite part of the paper. and you be sure to tell him.
Posted by July 17, 2007 03:13 PM
When the Hoff says get in his car....you get in his car!!!
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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