BlogFlockThere are a few skateboarding videos I go back to over and over. This is one of them. I like the message. I like the clips of Alva just skating down the street. Skating down the street is what it’s all about.
I work for a large not-for-profit as the only IT worker for 300 employees. Since 2020 and the onset of the pandemic, I have been deploying Microsoft Surface Go laptops to our staff. As much as I dislike Microsoft, these have been solid machines for the most part. The first…
I found this going through an old hard drive. I wrote it during the first year we lived away from Baltimore and I was super depressed. Now, I can look at it and smile.
A Love Letter to Baltimore 100 Things About Baltimore That I Will Miss, That Are Already…
My friend Joe sent a link to this skate video today (see below), which has a timeless vibe that resonates with me on some deep level.
At this stage of the game, my basic criteria for any skate video is if it resembles Rodney’s section from Public Domain, but…
Wow. Winter. Specifically, this winter. It’s been the worst winter for skating since the Snopocalypse of 2015.
Insane winds. Sleet. And then two feet of snow, immediately followed by a month of polar vortex (which had the effect of making sure the snow didn’t melt, and temps remained in the…
I had some people reach out very quickly about the last post. They wanted to know what the place looked like now so here are some side-by-side photos matching a few of the Polaroids as best as I could. I would have done the yard and bathroom but, truth be…
The internet has made getting the mail a chore. 99% of the time, going to the mailbox means getting a stack of things that might as well say “here, you throw these away”. Paper bills that get autopaid online, flyers for shady businesses, requests for donations to schools you will…
I have been using Linux on the desktop since the Mandrake 7 days in some form or another. The recent race to enshitification by Microsoft and the increasingly obvious ass kissing of The Fascist In Chief by Apple has made me move back to exploring it as my day-to-day computer…
As a kid starting skateboarding in 1976 my parent didn’t know anything about it, didn’t understand anything about it, and didn’t care too. They tolerated it. That was the best I could expect. It was enough.
I remember wishing that they did get it, like some of the parents of…
A Texas skateboarding legend died yesterday. A lot of people are thinking about him. We’re on this planet such a short time. Things are rough in this country right now, but I’m not going to let the orange dickhead steal another day from me. I can do that without closing…
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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.