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A War To End All Wars
I read Catch 22 in fifth grade. Although I have forgotten most of the characters and plot, the quote “man is matter” has resonated throughout the years. I think about this truism often. Whether...
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Coming Soon: A Brief History of Anglophilia
photo via @theskatenazi ‘s instagram …including, but not limited to, a City of Rats write-up type thing.
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A Brief History of Anglophilia
note: Nautica shirt Dig, if you will, a journey into pre-civilization celtic vibes. One wanders for days across a shroomed-out version of the default Windows XP desktop background. Time loses all...
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“Bookmark Me, Maybe?”– 2012 Song of the Summer/Video Part of the Summer...
Summer 2012 fucking killed it. I skated a bowl, then got hammered on the beach and jumped in the ocean–thus getting wavy in both a literal and figurative sense. I skated the TF in the rain, drank a...
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#comingsoon: Freudian Shoe Review (plus five year anniversary)
I started this site (on the old blogger domain, before porting everything over to wordpress) five years ago today. Shoutout to anyone that has ever read, linked, or commented on my shit. Also...
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Freudian Shoe Review : Nike Challenge Court
Megan used to answer when you called the 800 number, right? Is there a Gino of psychiatry/psychology? During my handful of visits, I should have asked my shrink this, but just explaining to her why...
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#prettysweet and #parentaladvisory : a Venn Diagram w/ BONUS: a year-end list...
click to enlarge “Videos are dead! No, wait! STOP THE PRESSES! Full-length skate videos are back, bro!” That’s what Transworld said, in paraphrased form. Finally, after obtaining a physical of Pretty...
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#COMING SOON — Physical Graffiti: Physical Media & The Life Cycle of a...
self-imposed deadline–end of the month
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Physical Graffiti
“What are you, some kind of masochist?,” as the one-shot intro to Pretty Sweet appeared on a drop-down screen at a local bar. My friend posed this question to me after I told him that I had still not...
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#comingsoon : Triple Threat Book Review: “Infinite Crab Meats” by Byron...
forgot to cancel Hulu Plus The homie Galen has the skate book review game locked down. However, the following three things recently happened at the same damn time. First, after a year and a half, I...
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Triple Threat Book Review: “Infinite Crab Meats” by Byron Crawford,...
Infinite Crab Meats by Byron Crawford One of the fun mental games we like to play at this web site is “Would [historical figure ] have skated?” I have created a spin-off: “What would [historical...
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Canadian Gino
“Remember how cold it was when you took the bus up to Montreal?” “Yeah.” “Winnipeg is colder.” The above is an excerpt from an internet discussion between me and my homie in MTL. I think I had...
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2013 Song of the Summer/Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
DATELINE: IBIZA In the dead of night, a Bell AB-212 descends onto the heliport of David Guetta’s Ibiza compound. A slim, tall African-American lady descends the stairs onto the tarmac. Her hair is...
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Total Loss: Skate Cars of the 1990′s
scan via skately.com “the NSX pull out the driveway/feelin’ like Scarface. desperado on the case” -Royal Flush, 1997 “Right when I moved to California, I bought a ’95 Civic Coupe. I had it for no...
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A Little Something Re: The FTC Book
In 2009, a Crailtap employee told me that Smyth was working on an EMB book, or some shit. The status of said tome remains uncertain, but, until its completion, the recently released FTC Book is as...
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Bill Belichick’s Terrible Horrible Life
“Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.” -Mary McGrory You don’t have to be an MIT...
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Gagriel Rodriguez: "We got away with pretty much most of it"
Reblogged from Memory Screened: Gabriel at home, Mid City Los Angeles. Photo © Seb Carayol To Gabriel Rodriguez, the board graphic world opened its door upon a biblical revelation. Not for him, but...
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Chris Franzen Interview
photo: Blabac The genesis of this interview took place about five years ago, when Chris emailed me after reading this post. In the years between then and now, a certain subdivision of skate nerdery...
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THE ULTIMATE #90′s SKATER POWER RANKING BRACKET
(CTE – click to enlarge) VOTE HERE (You need an account to vote, but you can use your twitter or fb. Twitter works better, I think.) UPDATE 3/21 – ROUND 2 (see updated bracket above) This experiment in...
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