What a week! Obama came out in favor of gay marriage and Tom Gabel of Against Me! is transitioning into a woman. Some skateboard stuff happened too, I guess.

An organization is threatening to close Skatepark Amsterdam. Please sign this petition to make sure Dutch skaters don't lose an important hub for their scene.

The first episode of Arto Saari's Epicly Later'd premiered to a great response.

Flip picked up new am Greyson Fletcher and Magenta picked up Japanese quick-footer Koichiro Uehara.

Darkstar announced their new video, Forward Slash, which will premier on the Thrasher site on July 9th.

Jason Dill still won't stop styling on you. Somebody call him up and film him reading the thread, please.

Read Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 this week and talk about it in the first meeting of the SLAP book club.