...no one could get illahh. Seems like Ghostface has a new album every Christmas. This year it was mostly a rehash of old work, though. I'm all about it even though he's been doing some questionable collaborations in recent years. Anyway, Ghostface has been confirmed for Tampa Pro in March. The Chef is coming, too. Raekwon. Details coming soon.

While our friend Paul from Fuel TV was in Tampa for the Am Contest, he filmed this girl fight at The Castle. A gargantuan set of muffin tops smashed a poor goth girl to pieces before the crowd pulled her off. Welcome to Tampa!

There are a few new photos in Derewenko's Darkroom. Knibbs and DP are on it.

Check out Bristol's story of how a skate session turned into a jailhouse ham and cheese session: Outstanding Police Work. I can't go public with my method of payback for all this crap Officer Doofy pulls, but I do get even when I get tickets, arrested, or generally harassed for skate related stuff. Hopefully Bristol, Boston, Angel, and Shane can get their mess cleared up. Good luck with the felony charges.

If it wasn't for party photos, I would never know what an awesome time I had: SPoT Ghetto Christmas Party 2008.

The "News Your Dad Reads" did a story on Boards for Bro's. That and a whole bunch of other news stories they've done on us can be found here: News Channel 8 loves skateboarding.

This weekend we gave out about 200 free skateboards to kids that hopefully has the same impact on them as skateboarding has had for all of us here: Boards For Bro's 2008.

Destructo sent some trucks and you can win a set on this Destructo This/That Giveaway.

Last night was another Boards For Bro's assembly line. Tomorrow we are giving out a ton of skateboards in the hood.

Yesterday there was a gingerbread house in the SPoT employee meeting. Everything else was fairly boring bid'niss as usual. No pooper complaints. Cool. Thanks to everyone that came out to spend the eBay shoes loot.

Thanks for all the ASS entertainment. We will be fully caught up and on point today and I'll be back to putting dumb crap on the site soon. In the meantime, check out some more Tampa Am coverage: Nike SB and Shred or Die.com. Also, here's a bid'niss interview with Ryan Clements. Someone Photoshopped me in front of one of those fruit company computers. Please ignore.

I am incapable of saying anything silly or funny about these photos right now due to full brain fry after a long ass day. Check out some one word captions and Clem's full Red Bull Battleship 2008 story. You can also check out Red Bull's footage.

Here are the full bracket results from the Red Bull Battleship Contest. The ASS (Asian Sweat Shop - online order packing) is rammed from the big sale this weekend. I have to help Lako and Body with that today so all your orders get out on time. Coverage coming up sometime after that.

Check out results from the Red Bull Battleship Contest.

Today there's a crew from Tampa here in North Carolina to run the Red Bull Battleship Contest. See you there at noon if you're in Wilmington, NC.

Check out some Old Man Bowl Jam photos by Christa Sherker.

Don't look below until 12:01am Friday morning when this huge sale starts. Thanks. The sale excludes all new Nike SB shoes added after 11/1/08.

Another one bites the moat. Here are five photos of moat attacks on cars: The Great SPoT Flood of 2007, that Wrong Way sign is pretty ironic, Officer Doofy to the moat resuce, ghetto gowns and cars in the moat is no coincidence, and finally a fantastic moat parking job.

Here are the highlights from the weekly SPoT employee meeting that just went down. Boston is wondering how the toilets are clogged before we even open. What? Who dat? Damn. Respect the pooper, please. Frosty said he can show you how to use a plunger if you're scared of one. Wizard Smoke mentioned that this is our tightest crew of employees ever (except for pooper manners) and that because of that Tampa Am went as smooth as ever. Miami Jackson says there were lots of compliments on the new fish bowl all weekend. Dark Mark's pony tail looked picture perfect as it has in every single meeting since he started working here. I think it could be fake. Body says if he catches you sneaking in, he makes you pay then kicks you out afterwards. Nice work, detective. In what could be the signs of a comeback, Jacob mentioned that kids are asking to have lights on the vert ramp. Hmm. Angel suggested a suggestion box. Clem says the 99 Bottles Art Show raised about two grand for Boards For Bro's. With that loot, Deluxe is hooking it up with skate stuff for us to build more boards. There are currently about 150 back there ready to be passed out in your local hard hitting neighborhood before Christmas. Tuesday at 7pm, the SPoT staff is hopping on cruiser boards and pushing over to Channelside Hooters where the proceeds from my eBay shoes auction are paying for wings and sauce for everyone in attendance. Kelly said some Nike head on the phone goes, "I understand you're a girl, so let me talk to a dude." He then filed a complaint with Clements. Thanks for the laughs, man. Until next week...

This weekend in Wilmington, North Carolina is Red Bull's Battleship Contest, in association with SPoTlight Productions. There's a $7,000 purse and it's for shop sponsored skaters only. The shops are Vertical Urge, SPoT, Westside, Endless Grind, Skate Barn, Continuum, Board City, and Ambush. After the entire internet covers the event, you can check for my coverage last in line here. For the record, "SPoT" is short for "SkatePark of Tampa." Someone mentioned to me they tHouGhT wE wUz beIN' KeWl bY wRiTIn' iT liKE tHaT, omg, LOL. Uh, no.

Derewenko shot some photos of this secret ramp at his secret house that's not really there because it's a secret, so don't look at these photos because they're a secret: Jump in the Fire.

Body wrote down several Schaefer quotes from when he was on the mic at Tampa Am. Those are the ones we can repeat and/or publish.

Here's a list of links to some of the best Tampa Am covererage out there so far: [Red Bull Podcast: Finals] [Red Bull Podcast: Day 2] [Red Bull Podcast: Day 1] [Tacky World Footage: Finals] [Tacky World Footage: Qualifiers Day 2] [Tacky World Footage: Qualifiers Day 1] [Thrasher Footage: Finals] [Thrasher Footage: Day 3] [Thrasher Footage: Day 2, Part 2] [Thrasher Footage: Day 2, Part 1] [Thrasher Footage: Day 1] [Transworld: Party Photos] [Transworld: Finals Footage]

Our friend Ashton Maxfield that does public relations over at etnies has the mainstream news your dad reads covering their latest stunt. They threw a party for adidas employees who had their party cancelled due to budget cuts. Don't forget how easy it is to crash a corpo Christmas party, that is, unless you got a mop on your head like I do these days.

So far two team managers from legitimate companies have asked me about Ishod Wair, the unsponsored kid that made it to the Finals in Tampa Am. They're both board companies so I guess pretty soon we'll see who wins him over.

A homies video is always a fun project. All your friends get a part, people get better at filming, someone becomes an expert in editing, and maybe a career in skateboarding might be born. Check out the trailer for Trife Life, a homies video featuring SPoT locals. Starting a homies skateboard company - now that's something you should think twice before doing. I learned some valuable lessons there. Not sure if the lessons were as valuable as the cash that fell out of my pockets, though. Speaking of homies, check out a 10-minute video by Josh Stewart that he made for the new Slap site. There's no direct link to download the video and they don't mention that it's a gargantuan 80mb file so the page takes a year or two to load. Click it, go skate, return later.

There's more footage of Tampa Am at that Euro site, Tacky. That big flip CJ did over the pyramid at the beginning was switch.

There are a few different ways you can check out skate photos from this weekend. You can use the Tricks Page to see all the 360 flips that went down and more, or you can use the Photos Page to check out just sequences, or you can look up your favorite skaters and check their profile for new photos, or you can just see a list of all the photos in this article here: Tampa Am December 2008 Skate Photos. Not so easily done on the fruit company's computers. Quick, efficient, and easy as a kickturn on the monopoly company's operating system. Maybe it's just me, though. Sorry the photos are so late. I had to switch back to a PC.

I'm having a busy Monday and some issues with my computer. Skate photos coming up later. For now, check out Tampa Am December 2008 Chill Time.

I went home and fell asleep after the Contest yesterday. Hope the After-Party was fun. My coverage will be up later today. In the meantime, check out how much faster everyone else is: Josh Stewart and crew have been filming all weekend for Red Bull's Tampa Am coverage. Blair has been doing daily updates at the Transworld site and P-Stone has footage at Thrasher.

Here are full Tampa Am December 2008 Finals Results and Indy Street Best Trick Results. Full coverage coming up tomorrow.

Check out Street Semi-Finals Results. Luan just blew minds. Finals are coming up right now. David Loy broke his arm this morning so he's not in the results. He's back at the Park now watching the Finals go down.

Girls don't get judged any different in any of our events, especially Tampa Am. That could be why there has never been a girl that made the cut to Sunday in Tampa. Lacey Baker changed that today. She killed it - noseslide back 270 out down the hubba, hardflipped the stairs, 360 flip the hip, and more. Derek Elmendorf was first run, first heat and ended up getting the Golden Ticket for today after finishing up his run with a switch frontside feeble down the rail. Ishod Wair, who got in with video footage and has no sponsors, also made the cut today. Every time someone skates that got in with footage I'm always nervous that they're going to totally suck it and I'll get ripped to pieces on the mic by Vern and Clements asking me why I let him in. Ishod came through. Check the full Saturday Street Qualifier Results. Top 16 make the cut to Sunday. Heat sheets for the Semi-Finals are right here.

Here's your reminder to check the Jail Birds Page to see if your friends, family, teachers, or people in the contest get locked up this weekend. At least one person on the heat sheets today is currently sitting in Orient Road Jail on an alcohol related offense. Check back tomorrow after the Anniversary Party tonight. Hope I don't end up on there.

Damn, Collin Hale did like 20 tricks in his run. Anyone film that? He goes straight to the Finals for that Golden Ticket run. Top 16 from today's Street Qualifiers make the cut to Sunday. Check the full results here: For some footage from yesterday, check out P-Stone's Tampa Am Explosion on the Thrasher site. P-Stone's ass has been having an explosion every 10 minutes right next to me here. Last night's 3am pizza is hurting everyone up here at the judges' stand. Go to Centro Ybor tonight at 8pm for the Deathbowl to Downtown premiere. Doors open at 9am tomorrow.

If you skate on Saturday, you can't bring your board in on Friday. If you skate on Friday, you can't bring your board in on Saturday. Here are Tampa Am December 2008 Street Qualifiers Heat Sheets. David Loy and Cody Davis from Damn Am Costa Mesa, Scott DeCenzo and Chris Mendes from Damn Am Vancouver, Rob Maatman and Bulard Adrien from AmsterDamn Am, and Evan Smith and Chaz Ortiz from Damn Am Minneapolis all got spots in the Tampa Am Semi-Finals from making top two at a 2008 Damn Am Contest. You won't see them skate until Sunday.

Welcome back into the Skatepark, Jonathan Yonnie Cruz. Check out an interview with Yonnie on Thrasher's site.

Luan De Oliveira just checked in for Tampa Am along with a ton of other killers. It's going to be a ripping weekend.

Check out the results so far for the Damn Am of the Year website Readers' Choice Award. Only votes with a valid email address that get confirmed are counted. Duplicate votes from people with obvious multiple email addresses will be deleted before the final results are done. If you haven't voted yet, you can do that here. If you're one of the cheaters, keep it up because we're all getting a good laugh about it up here in the Shop. Clements and I are behind the counter all day today and tomorrow checking people in for Tampa Am. Welcome to our crusty little town.

You can catch the Skatepark of Tampa Party Team episide of the Captain and Casey Show online.

Just a reminder to all my industry pals that only do things at the last minute. If you're a Team Manager that hasn't paid your riders' Tampa Am entry fees yet, they will be pretty bummed when they can't get past the Wizard Smoke working the Shop. People are starting to show up from all over the world, including Bulard Adrien from France. My notes on him say, "no speeka Engrish." Baby Wieger is pretty nerdy looking, but keep your eye on him. He kills it. He goes straight to the Semi-Finals on Sunday because he got 2nd in AmsterDamn Am. Top two from each Damn Am of 2008 get to skip Qualifiers. Heat sheets will be posted on Thursday night.

See what the nerds think of the iPhone skateboard game.