Night Court by Darryl Gussin - Dave-O, Emilor, and Jiffy
Jiffy Marx ended up having a longer quote than I used about skateboarding than appeared in the Straight article I just did.
The whole thing reads as follows:
“I broke my arm and dislocated two fingers skateboarding in July and am still recovering. I was doing a fairly basic trick when it happened so I guess you could call it an accident and like the song says, ‘accidents will happen.’ That said, I don’t know if I will keep skateboarding, and that definitely bums me out as I have been pretty into it for almost 40 years. It’s hard to explain to anyone who doesn’t skate, but skateboarding is the funnest thing. It’s also good exercise and great for my mental health but unfortunately, as I’ve learned recently, it can be detrimental to fingers which doesn’t help playing guitar and bass.”
But I was wearing and explaining my Night Court t-shirt to my in-laws this morning, which features X-rays of Emilor's busted finger and a previous skating injury that Jiffy took to a tooth. And Peter Lax, my father-in-law, wanted me to look up Dan Gelbart on Youtube. He's a 79 year old Nanaimo engineer, and he still skateboards!!!
There is video of him online skating, but I was unable to find it... this is his Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@dgelbart
Also check out Jeffrey Pop's new record wall!!! ...apropos of tonight's gig.
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