I’ve got an Autumn skate shop T-shirt that features a Zombie doing a hand-plant. It’s basically a homage to the old Valterra “Skate Zombie” graphic from 1987 (above). Perhaps you’ve seen it before? Perhaps you don’t know what I’m talking about. Chances are you don’t even care.
I thought it was the best t-shirt I had for inspiring fear in small children and the elderly, until today when I received my brand new
BORN UGLY Magazine T in the mail. Just look at it! Not only does it have a mean looking skeleton/zombie doing a little grab over my guts, it also has a big inverted crucifix in the background- Evil. Eviler still- the Daisy Duke cut-offs I’m wearing. Also known as my ‘House Shorts’ because I wear them year round in the privacy of my home.

Tré evil, no? And pretty filthy. I yanked that pic off the BU website. That’s not my filth… just so you know.
BORN UGLY is a FREE Skate Zine coming out of Richmond VA. Go to their website and hassle them for stickers like I did.

The ever enduring zombie aesthetic in skateboarding. I wanna say it’s flourished in the last couple of decades, but really, it just sort of… resumed. If it ain’t broke- don’t fix it. Here’s the Foundation Skateboards 2009 Zombie Series designed by the amazing Chris Hope- 22 years after the Valterra Skate Zombie, but still sooo goood.

Fuck! I just spent nearly two hours looking at Zombie related bullshit on the web. Gotta get to werk. Here’s a random video to fill this post out.
Have a great Monday!