Jalopnik: lew

The PUMGO May Well Suck

Davey G. Johnson — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:00:00 EDT

"Every once in a while, somebody with an engineering degree tries to 'remake' skateboarding and we end up with another action sports novelty item."

-Lew

Mister Markman has proven himself chock full of gems relating to our childhood today, first with the heads-up regarding what's undoubtedly one of the most brilliant ad spots ever created, and now with a bit on the PUMGO, which eather sounds like a brand of knockoff soccer-clothing produced in Brazilian sweatshops or some sort of absurdist porn series. Maybe both. In actuality, it's a skateboard powered by the rider's back and forth motion. In an even more harsh actuality, even the Christian Science Monitor seems to think it's lame. Somewhere, a geek weeps.

Skateboarding gets a makeover [The Christian Science Monitor]

Holy Crap! It's the Seagle!

Davey G. Johnson — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:00:00 EDT

Lew, hero and friend to all, has been working with the crew at ad agency Nemo Design, who in turn, have been collaborating with Nike on the campaign for Nike 6.0, the athleticwear giant's action-sports brand. And what hath all of this collaboration wrought? The goddamn Seagle! We don't care if the thing was built as part of a corporate ad campaign, this simply, plainly, totally, and completely rules. Who doesn't want a six-wheeled Eagle limo designed for madcap action-adventure mayhem?

Built by the whiz kids at Turtle Transit, the recently-completed Seagle (recently meaning "a few days ago") is on its way to the NSSA competition at Trestles, which if you're into surfing, will mean something to you. If not, read it as big-dealy beach thingy. Look for a Jalopnik test-drive of the Seagle in the next week or so. This thing might just be the best marketing ploy since Bruce Jenner on the Wheaties box. Even if our prior statement might be hyperbolic, we'd a-thousand-times-much more rather ride to a gala in this than a six-wheeled Hummer.

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The Obligatory SEMA T&A Post [Internal]

We've Been On Fire With Sally Field: The Fall Guy Intro

Davey G. Johnson — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:00:00 EDT

Sez Lewman: "Yesterday after I hopped off chat I went to the store and on the way they played the theme from The Fall Guy... I forgot all about that show, and, that song, "The Unknown Stuntman." Since you're on the '80s show intro video tip, you should flash back and post the intro to the OG FG." Yes Lew, you are entirely correct. Now we're gonna go take a bubble bath.

Hoons of the Decade: Jackass Sequel Trailer

Davey G. Johnson — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:00:00 EDT

According to Lew, who should know, since he worked on the damn thing, Jackass: Number Two is twice as good as the first movie, which is literally one of the funniest films we've ever seen. Says the character they sometimes refer to as Markman: "The movie is gonna blow up again. It's easily double the everything compared to last round. Double the stupid. Double the gay. Double the gross." Plus, dragstrip tooth-extraction! We know we're gonna start cracking up and wincing as soon as the guitar chime from the Minutemen's "Corona" kicks in. Trailer is live as of now. Go watch.

Jackass 2 Official Site [Internal]

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This World is Big, And So Are We: Trans-Americas Journey

Davey G. Johnson — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:28:14 EDT

When Ray and Austin crashed the parade in Indy and ended up in a car with Karen Catchpole and her husband Eric Mohl, the masterminds behind Transamericas Journey, for some reason, it didn't click. And then in some sort of delayed reaction, we hear from the mighty Lew last night, saying "Karen Catchpole!" And it still didn't click. And then he added context clues and we were like, "Oh, duh. That Karen Catchpole!"

The Karen Catchpole who wrote for the incredibly ruling Sassy! (Lew worked on the equally-ruling "Sassy for boys" concept, Dirt, which everyone lucky enough to catch during its brief run laments as ahead of its time.) Needless to say, people like Lew and Karen had a big impact on us and the women we've loved during our formative years. And now she and Eric are off on a three-year, 70,000-mile journey all over North, South and Central America in a Chevy Silverado. And as Karen said to us in an e-mail this evening, "Despite the fact that I'm on the road for three years driving through North, Central and South America and that — in and of itself — assumes that the world is BIG, I am sometimes very glad (and tickled) when it turns out to be this small." We entirely concur.

Support these people. Write them and convince them why they should come to your town and see weird things. Buy them odd regional foods only sold in the southeastern corner of your county. Show them the strange and odd facts about and strange-ass artifacts of your town. We're totally taking them to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. And to the apartment where Watt and Boon wrote the first Minutemen record. And maybe, if we're lucky, we can repeat the dork maneuver we made a week ago where we drove past George Hurley's house cranking Double Nickels on the Dime while George was outside talking to his neighbor.

Trans-Americas Journey [Internal]