BlogFlockI am not sure if it was the late winter blahs or my own lack of motivation but it has been very quiet here at theczarbar. Real life, however, has been very busy with trips to Atlanta and Omaha. Lots of soccer and coaching and sore knees but a lot…
In the afternoon of April 17th, 1986, I walked down some abandoned trains tracks. It was my twelfth birthday.
A few days ago, on April 17th, 2026, I walked down those very same tracks.
What is truly astonishing is not that, 40 years later I am still here, but the…
Skateboarding blogs run by individual skaters. Not marketing bullshit "blogs."
Old. Broken. Fading skills. More pads than tricks. Washed-up, life-long 50-year-old skater, following my little version of Stoke deep into the twilight. My musing on skateboarding, and life, as I roll into my "later" years.
Existential musings on the inter-relational metaphysics of skateboarding and life.