: Checking-In I haven’t been writing much of recent. Hell, my last post was in late April. Here are some random …
: Small Arts, Resonance, and Repellence: Random Thoughts on a Rainy Sunday It’s a rainy Sunday. I was just scrolling through some skate stuff on Instagram. So much of modern …
: The Best Skate Photo I've Ever Seen I’ll be writing more about this photo in the future, but for now, I’ll say that this one of the best …
: Pad Appreciation Post This clip is one example of how/why I have really grown to love knee pads, even for “simple” …
: Drastic Measures It’s time for something drastic. I’ve been dealing with a pulled groin muscle since the middle of …
: Quote of the Day But most importantly, and this goes back to Mark Gonzales and Julien Stranger, we wanted to show …
: Quote of the Day All the warnings of the 1980’s have come true. Out of control consumerism. Addiction to …
: Quote of the Day: “Skateboarding is, and will always be my political standpoint. The act itself is a …
: The 8.75" Anomaly Retired this today. Cracked it on a nose blunt to disaster over a spine. This was a special deck for …
: “Today’s skateboarding is a highly refined version of everything that came …
: Change For the Sake of Change...isn't always a good decision. Sometimes you just need a change of pace, or scenery. That happened to me about three weeks ago. …
: Rediscovering What I Had Already Known I saw a post on the SLAP fourms that sent me down an intorspective rabbit hole: What are …
: Back on the Board. Sort of. My pulled groin muscle is not 100% healed, but it is doing better. Against better judgment, I went …
: The January Desert & Jake Phelps A few random things… The Vast January Desert In my phone I keep short-hand notes of things going on …
: Godspeed, Prof. Dugan If you are lucky, you will have one teacher in life who changes everything, and you end-up carrying …
: Out on Injury | Nuke Boy & Trucks | 187 Fly Pads: Cast to Flames I went skating last night. There were three take-aways. First, I am officially off the board for an …
: Nuke Baby: First Ride Yesterday I had the first session on the Nuke Baby deck (see previous posts). It was raining out, so …
: The Nuke Baby Set-Up I mentioned the Blind Danny Way reissue I was setting-up a few posts ago. Below are two photos of …
: Killer 187 Fly Knee Pads: First Impressions & Initial Observations I am revisiting Killer 187 Fly knee pads. These are a “lower end” 187 product. I’ve actually had …
: Gear Madness, 2023…Well, Not Really Well, there are two other residual “gear madness” things kicking off 2023…but I don’t really put …
: Random Disjoints Random, disjointed thoughts, ideas, and projects going into 2023 The Sicks: I start 2023 off with a …
: Wise Words from Chris Pulam “I’ve gotten so much from skating over the years. As an outlet for creativity, a way of …
: Silent Night The temperature was 15 degrees tonight, with a “real feel” of -2. I always make it a point to go …
: My Essential Skate Gear, Part V: The Non-Essentials This is the fifth, and last, post in “My Essential Skate Gear” series (posts made in the order of …
: My Essential Skate Gear, Part IV: Combating Nature This is the fourth post in “My Essential Skate Gear” series (posts made in the order of importance). …
: My Essential Skate Gear, Part III: Battle Armor This is the third post in “My Essential Skate Gear” series (posts made in the order of …
: My Essential Skate Gear, Part II: More of the Basics This is the second post in “My Essential Skate Gear” series (posts are made in the order of …
: My Essential Skate Gear, Part I: The Basics Well, I am off the board for a bit. Pulled groin muscle. I’m using some of my free time to …
: Dying Embers: The Madness Goes Dark The one last dying ember of The Madness was 8.5/14.4wb Baker deck I mentioned a few posts ago. That …
: The Magic is Real In Jr. high school I had this friend named “Mike.” He was mostly a flatland BMX freestyler, but he …
: The Madness: 8.5 Aftershocks I’ve been posting about my recent spell(s) of Gear Madness. It was mostly over. There has been, …
: Madness: The Epilogue & Fallout, Part 2: Casting the Raney to Flame One of the other decks I visited during the most recent spell of The Madness (see previous posts) …
: Keep Chopping The poem below is by Charles Bukowski. Sometimes when I read his stuff, I am convinced he is an old, …
: Warning Sounds Last night I saw a random guy fall down on the sidewalk. He fell backwards, with his ass taking the …
: Variables in the Same Equation I watched Future Primitive again last night. I remember watching it as a kid, and more-or-less …
: What inpires me to actually go skating…
: Madness: The Epilogue & Fallout, Part 1: The 8.25 I recently went through another episode of “Gear Madness,” which is obsessing over, and trying out, …
: Purity of Essence: A Guy at the Park I was sitting in the car, just watching. Captivated. Amazed. Inspired. Whenever I arrive at a skate …
: The Madness Becomes Exhaustion I’ve hit the final stage of The Madness: Exhaustion. I know this stage. I’ve been through it before. …
: The Madness Comes to and End The Madness winds down even further. Today I eliminated the 8.5/14.5wb (Black Label) from the quiver …
: The Madness Ends (or, There is Never a 14.25 Option) The 14.25 Madness Bracket quickly came to a close today, thankfully. The two decks I was trying …
: Madness, In a Sleek New 14.25 With the 14.5” bracket out of the way, we are now moving to deep-territory Madness: 14.25wb decks. …
: The Madness Narrows: The 14.5 Bracket Closes The Madness brackets are narrowing. Yesterday I took out the two 14.5wb decks for a head-to-head. …
: It's On... UPS came today. I now have all the decks wanted for the full-on Madness Experiments. Tomorrow will …
: Session Report & Mico Madness Update It’s been rainy and very foggy for over three days now. The current dew point if 63F and the actual …
: Overdue At the beginning of last week I did some damage to my shoulder. I didn’t skate for a few days …
: Embracing the Decent into Madness: The 8.75 The 8.75”. This is the deck that started it again. The Madness. DLX 8.75”, 14.62” wb, 32.43” Indy …
: Embracing the Decent into Madness Last night I decided to embrace the decent into (gear) Madness. The only way out is directly …
: I’m off the grid for few days. In the meantime, never forget why you started, and try to tap …
: It’s staggering how these simple objects can be perceived as controversial, …
: Fall Down Go Boom! I’ve had on/off linguring shoulder pain for awhile. Yesterday’s slam (see previous post) …
: The Madness Continues & Falling Down Today brought two revelations. First, The Madness continued this afternoomn, but I have limited its …
: An Affliction of Madness The Madness has taken me. Again. For a long period I had quelled its shadowy, menacing tendrils. But …
: Rolling Through the Wastelands My friend built this DIY. With his own hands. Alone. It is located, in what is most likely a …