Archive for the 'Skateboarding' Category
…Seriously?
I need my memory jogged.
What was that short-lived, totally effin’ raaaadical extreme sport that enjoyed brief popularity in the 90’s and was practiced solely by young girls, clumsy, uncoordinated teenagers, confused middle-aged couples and a couple other classes whose one unifying characteristic was either “doesn’t know any better” or “complete lack of shame?”
Oh yeah, rollerblading.
I [...]
Getting Old
I got my first paycheck a week ago now and, after I had taken care of my bills, immediately went out to purchase a new complete. I had been skating the same board for a year and it was totally falling apart on me. The deck was chipped and splintering, it had lost its pop [...]
Read More..>>Correction: The Cancer That’s Killing Skateboarding
So it’s come to my attention that an old post of mine has been linked to from a post in a longboarding forum, inciting a wave of longboarders to come bitch on my blog about how much “stoke” I’m killing. Nevermind that my original post said nothing bad about longboards, just the recent increase of [...]
Read More..>>The Cancer That’s Killing Skateboarding
A couple weeks ago I was going through the new Skateboarder Magazine and stumbled across a full-page ad for got2b hair care products depicting some lame-ass non-skateboarder model on a skateboard showing off how much attitude his hair has. It had been a while since I picked up a Skateboarder Mag, so maybe they’ve just [...]
Read More..>>New Skate Pics
So a couple weeks ago I ran into some guys at one of the skate parks near my apartment who have been cool enough to help me get acclimated to skateboarding in Portland. In fact, I didn’t know about the other skatepark about a mile from my place until I met these guys. They’re total [...]
Read More..>>Authority Trip
He can get away with this with a 14-year-old because anybody OVER 14 wouldn’t put up with this bullshit. Fucking cops.
Read More..>>Weekend Wrapup
So aside from shooting photos at the Church of Scientology protest, this weekend the excitement whale breached the surface of my ocean of existence, which in this analogy has been covered by a thick layer of ice representing the boredom of tagging MP3s and trying to find the worst-sounding chord on guitar. Unfortunately, the surface [...]
Read More..>>Lakai Fully Flared
Oh man, I hadn’t watched a skate video for close to a year when I stumbled across this teaser online last night.
I had to get the movie, and it’s just amazing. Jaw-dropping skating, gorgeous cinematography, all backed by a great soundtrack — one of the best all-around skate videos I’ve ever seen. Highly recommended.
Read More..>>Plan B
My winter-wear of choice for the past several months has been my Plan B Skateboards hoodie which, I’ve learned, suffers from an unfortunate layout. “Plan B” is in tall, thick letters across the chest and “Skateboards” is in a much smaller, barely readable font underneath. I learned a while back — a comment from a [...]
Read More..>>ZHX: Converted
A while back I posted a blog bemoaning the fact that Thrasher Magazine was running ads for Untitled Skateboards, a Christian skateboarding company, that I thought compromised Thrasher’s integrity. Seven months later I received a reply from, yes…an outsider. TWO replies, actually!
Harrison Greer says:
Well i think is real and u should check em out [...]
