It's not every day that an email from an "internationally renowned sneakerographer" drops into the News blog inbox. But that's what Al Cabino calls himself. It's not entirely clear what Canadian Al has done to earn such a title, but apparently it means he is the Jacques Cousteau of sneakers.
Anyway, his mission in life seems to be petitioning Nike to begin selling the futuristic sneakers (or trainers for the British readers) worn by Michael J Fox as Marty McFly in the film Back to the Future Part II. This grey moon boot-type footwear (pictures are here and here) was specially designed by Nike for the film but never put into mass production. As I write the petition has almost 20,000 signatures. It's apparently not the first time that a fictional product from this film has become the subject of a consumer frenzy. BTTF2's Wikipedia entry claims that people were demanding to buy hoverboards at toy stores after director Robert Zemeckis joked that they were real. Not everyone got the joke.
