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Nah, Lev would have him on Palace in a heartbeat if he ever became available.
From what I heard from a guy that's been flow for flip the last 10 years, is that Penny's/Cheech & Chong boards were always a bestseller through the years, so I guess it's a win/win situation for both parts.
And from what I've heard from people who were very close to Penny around the Sorry years, he himself absolutely hates (or hated) the whole drugs/shroom marketing around his skating and name, funny how it all works. At least it fed him.
I'm surprised to hear that with all the drugged out stories about Tom Penny. Always seems like he's trippin on something, somewhere. I remember a Boulala story where he was living with Penny in France in that countryside castle thing with a mini ramp inside it. He recounted how Penny's friend who was living there too was tripping on something and started throwing all their shit out of a window and was smashing everything. So if that's the company Penny was keeping back then, I can't imagine the drug marketing from Flip was inaccurate.
Sorry to have to say it for your own good but in that reply of yours, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, don't know anyone involved and are just recomposing fantasy stories on the basis of names and hearsay you probably got from the Internet that only reassure people because they consolidate a longtime industrial narrative, in the words of the great Wesley Willis: you can do better than that to yourself!
I'm teasing you a bit but more sincerely now, HisNameIsntWarren is right on the money. Because someone has private, personal subtance use/abuse history doesn't, and by all means shouldn't, mean that they're de facto okay with that one arbitrary trait of theirs turning into the whole of their public portrayal. In fact that's one pretty insane and scary leap in logic to take there (but one towards which it makes sense the masses would be encouraged; commercial gimmicks are literally designed to lure people and so I would be a fool to put it just on you, when most are bound to fall for it).
Is it okay by now or too conceptual for this world yet to talk about skateboarding as the individual expression it fundamentally is again, that means skaters first and foremost are creatives who once they reach pro status essentially become their field's equivalent of a published author who may or may not aspire to communicate something more pure and personal with their art than easy, tired, superfluous and arguably toxic commercial shticks?
Tom's case is very particular in that, again and regardless of how artificial, the shrooms/drugs association probably secured his subsistance in the long run by appealing to the average teenage stoner throughout the years and so commercially was the right thing to do, but it did that number on his image for both the best and the worst depending on which angle one is looking at it. In a perfect, idealistic world where raw talent would be recognized and compensated by more than usually artificially inflated numbers, his skateboarding would suffice for doing all the talking; except the modern man is braindead when it comes to appreciating art for what it is and seemingly needs all those artificial hooks in order to start relating even to stuff that intrinsically is really cool. It's a complex topic at large in which this particular case we're discussing is one observable example out of a possible infinity, but if you're into reading stories featuring pro skater names online I'd recommend you do some research on the initial reception of Tom and his skating in the U.S. before everyone realized they could milk his name and thus came the whole way around; some very colorful stories of prominent people bullying him at contests, spitting on him from the top of ramps and generally heckling him as the new threat from abroad they feared was just about to steal their jobs.
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