Dan Pensyl is a skateboarder’s skateboarder. He charges through life with the gusto of a drunken pirate who pillages the streets in search of unskated terrain.  He can skate anything put in front of him, which is funny because he does just that with his drinking.
            I asked his friend Justin Barnes to tell me a little about Dan and he emailed me this about him, “Pensyl is the kind of guy who will be losing money all night at dice and getting so pissed that he will just rip up all the money on the table.  On the next hand Pensyl would come up big and everyone would just give him all the ripped up money.  A few minutes later you would find him at the bar trying to convince the bartender to sell him some shots with shredded twenties.”  That was it,  I had to talk to him.
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Anger
Matt Pailes is not prone to the vice of anger. He stays centered by doing long lipslides.
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By far, of all the things that go into putting a magazine together, my least favorite responsibility would have to be getting these damn interviews done every month.  Phone calls are never returned, people don’t want to talk about anything that is the least bit incriminating, and besides, most people really aren’t interesting enough to care about anyway.
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Automatic: As a white kid growing up in Rhode Island — in what I assume was a middle-class, predominantly white suburb, since that’s my totally uninformed impression of the entire state — how did you get into hip-hop as young as eight years old?

Sage Francis: Well, RI is a very diverse state. It’s like a microcosm of the entire country. There are some destitute areas balanced out by affluent areas and a lot of things in the middle. Many different cultures and social environments. I grew up in a working class household, with a mother who worked 2 to 3 jobs at a time and a step-dad who bounced from job to job.
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