Gang of Four

Gang of Four

Never gets old.

This article, SUBCULTURE IS DEAD: THE ALGORITHM ATE THE UNDERGROUND came across our radar at Neverwas Skateboarding today, on our Discord server.
I checked out the rest of the site, and honestly it’s not my thing. I found it kind of douchey, but I did think this article was really…
It has been a minute since I have felt like writing anything. The winter, the state of the world, and lack of sleep have been weighing heavy on me. I just keep telling myself to take small steps. So, here I am, taking a small step and writing a small…
I ordered these wheels a few weeks ago. I’ve had the smaller versions of them and the slightly larger versions. They’ve all been pretty good. These are the 56 mm ones. I’m thinking about bumping up my wheel size to 56 mm from 54 mm on my ditch board. 2…
I came of age in 1990s Baltimore. It was my very dangerous, drug-addled, murder playhouse. The city was pretty much disintegrating around me as I passed by on my skateboard, bought my first house, and had my first real adult career. It was a very different city then. It was…
When I was 18 and about to graduate from high school, one of my mom’s friends asked her if I was excited about going to college. My mom’s response… “Bob doesn’t really get excited about things.”
She was almost correct. Not quite. And she knew that. When I was a…
Well, it appears that one year ago today I made this post about the set-ups I was riding at the start of 2025.* How did the rest of year play-out, and where am I at the start of 2026?
Over the course of 2025 I solidified the fact that bigger…
In this episode I talk about some skateboarding stuff that I’ve already talked a little bit about unblock posts. But you should listen anyway.
Same clips in slo-mo
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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.