Be Friends With Longboarders on Facebook

If only to enjoy their ridiculous status updates

You may or may not remember this, but about 10 months ago, I made these t-shirts, featuring a blood splattered longboard alongside two abandoned flip flops on the front, and a bloody trail of tire tracks on the back. For those of you with poor visual comprehension skills, the implication is that a enraged driver BRUTALLY MURDERED a roadside longboarder by plowing them over with their car, turning their worthless bodies into a twisted pile of limbs and flesh and leaving a blood-stained longboard and flip flops as the only recognizable remnants  of their miserable existence.

So, given that I had previously conceived this narrative, imagine my feeling of déjà vu when I opened up Facebook and found this on my timeline: Continue reading

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the year 2011, a list, yada yada yada (part 2)

AND NOW, THE LONG AWAITED, STUNNING CONCLUSION TO “The Top 10 Events that Verifiably Occurred, Without Any Particular Order or Grandiose Claims of General Significance, and Are Related, Even if in a Tangential Way, to Skateboarding in Columbus, Ohio”

Indoor Skatepark as a Lightning Rod for Cynicism

Cynicism and skateboarding often go hand-in-hand, and this relationship was no more evident than when Continue reading

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Pho-king Awesome (LOL GET IT?)

What is Academy Skatepark? I have no idea but their YouTube account recently uploaded a clip named after a Vietnamese noodle soup featuring mostly Max Palmer (including one of his famous no-land lines, see Whassamatta You credits for another example) and a clip of a creepy waving Ginger.

 

P.S. Part 2 of that other list thing is coming soon, be patient, it won’t be worth it, I’m busy, fuck.

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the year 2011, a list, yada yada yada (part 1)

Yes, list season has passed. Yes, we are already about 1/12th through 2012. Yes, most lists are insignificant filler content written to appease the brainless masses willing to read the opinions of anyone capable of stringing enough words together to compose lists as trivial as “Top 100 Shits George Clooney Took While a Cast Member on E.R.” or “Top 20 Sexy Inbred Pediatricians”, in order to momentarily distract themselves from the ennui of modern life, their own worthless existence, and the fact that they left their kid locked in a hot car during a “quick stop” at Starbucks that has resulted in them thumbing through trifling lists on their smart phone for an amount of minutes bordering on 100 while lazily sipping on a frozen coffee beverage that is more high fructose corn syrup than coffee. (Just keep in mind, just because someone wrote a list doesn’t mean they know anything about the subject, I got paid to write this list and I have never seen a single Bollywood movie, that list is simply an aggregate of information available on IMDB and Wikipedia) And despite the fact that those three reasons are only the tip of the iceberg of arguments against list-writing, I am that pathetic and uncreative that Continue reading

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ferdahomies

Set to a screwed Group Home track, Taylor’s new clip features both big names and local bros, including some footage of Ben that I may have stolen from Taylor for Whassamattayou. Well, I guess “stolen” isn’t exactly the right word. You see, I got the footage from Ben without knowing who filmed it or if they wanted me to use it or whatever. I kinda just went with it and used it, but that’s not really the same thing as stealing, is it? I guess it’s the moral equivalent of buying something off of Craig’s List that you have the feeling may be stolen, but you just ignore it and buy it anyways cause it’s such a hot deal. Ah well, I’m not gonna feel too bad about it, as I am guessing this footage was intended to be used for “Heavy in the Skreets“, a project that never materialized anyway.


 

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Fuck People

Skate construction supplies

(photos used WITHOUT permission of Jinglis)

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First Fish Perspective

Hey friends

I hope you hard a sweet Christmas or Hanukkah or Winter Solstice or whatever, and I hope you got lots of sweet, high-end, big ticket, consumer products. Myself, I received one of these:

A fisheye lens for my phone. Apparently they make these, although I have no idea what anyone would use these for besides filming for some sort of shitty, gimmicky skate video. But then again, I have no idea what people use normal sized fisheye lenses for, besides filming skateboarding, or like rollerblading, or any other aggressive recreational sportz. Eager to test it out, I used it to film Max do this amazing, stunning trick during a very merry Christmas session at Wo-town skatepark.

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