no mention of kick flips. interesting.

I wonder if there is a space to write about books you love that isn’t quite reviewing but something more like telling a tale or entering into the poem of a novel. I tried it out with Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole

upcoming trip to england / ireland suddenly has a new purpose

i have this feeling that altman is using AI for many if not all of his ideas

This is maybe a little beside the point, maybe, but that is a Very Tall Skateboarder holy cow

gaby calvocoressi reading in santa fe this friday. GABY CALVOCORESSI READING IN SANTA FE. THIS FRIDAY. www.eventbrite.com/e/gabrielle-...

Happy one year anniversary to this video breaking containment, and thanks to @skatebylines.bsky.social for introducing my work to a whole gaggle of people I hope to never meet. youtu.be/C2YMMfSy2as?...

my version of the "what older you could tell younger you" fantasy is popping back to the late 80s and pointing at the screen during the neil blender/lance mountain/o "junk skating" part in "ban this" (1989) to say to preteen me, "you can do this with gender, too! don't take it so seriously; PLAY!"

"the hubristic belief in your ability to transform yourself" on skateboarding and transitioning, just beautifully www.simplemagic.ca/i-dont-have-...

Resurrecting a fictional skate brand that never actually existed to see who’s paying attention

always read tadd, always

I cannot tell you how many times I've tried this trick. I can tell you how it's never worked, ever, often comically so. How baffled I've been by it until today when, for whatever reason, something very small or large must have been different. I have no idea. It's a mystery. Skateboarding is so good.

100%, yes. Marc always foregrounded reading as part of his life, always. Culture more broadly, everything beyond skateboarding found its way into his practice.

if anyone you know is a skateboarder you've likely heard that Marc Johnson, a legend, died yesterday at age 49 youtu.be/J48y_Z2fuic?...

that is right, motherfuckers. the soul is BACK and it's beautiful.

Abolish grades.

if i had a dollar for every time Éireann said something extremely smart that is ALSO extremely skateboarding, I'd be able to build my cabin no sweat.

oh so you guys already knew this, you're so familiar with their work that my observation is old hat, sure. sure. sure.

cormac mccarthy: "tenantless" david f wallace: "untenanted" thank you very much, please venmo resources to fund my cabin

rolling a ball of shit. you don't care because you live very far away from me, but imagine how big it will be by the time i get to your house.

waiting anxiously on my antrhopic settlement so i can pour a modest concrete slab and build a cute little Fuck Your AI cabin

no more contests, no more awards, just UBI for artists let's go

Ted on Embarco and Vaillancourt and vibrant downtown plazas, just excellent

years ago, my friend dave wrote the greatest Chicago song in a long history of great Chicago songs

try being a vector of things you would like other people to encounter, for once

The (esteemed) Association of Future Former Skaters of America

a lot of people talking about Bsky & twitter as if they're subject to spatio-temporal "herenesses" but we don't even say hello to one another (i think probably let's ditch the hereness hooey and admit that none of this is reality)

strangers online saying good morning like it's a small town and we're out walking the dogs

If you give Kyle your email address, you get to read phrases like “a look of blissful, flotational disengagement from the sartorial pressures of our suicidal species.”

I just sent out a new little essay about skateboarding and life in the desert by email, just now, just moments ago. Please let me know if you'd like to join the list.

there will be other sunsets—there will be one every day—but this one will not repeat

abolish grades, man. it's the only way forward.

look i know you're here for the ursula leguin bot or whatever, but i wrote a really good press release tonight and the least you could do is help me celebrate

i'm teaching my sentence writing / being a human class on the morning of Saturday, May 30. at the risk of boasting people tend to really quite like this class

Go to Chicago to catch Rush, stick around for a really quite amazing lineup

despair and capital, a love story

i'm teaching my sentence writing / being a human class on the morning of Saturday, May 30. at the risk of boasting people tend to really quite like this class

infinite jest-->the art lover-->all the pretty horses-->hurricane season (wow novels are amazing, reading is so good)

abolish grades, man. it's the only way forward.

Ocean Vuong, my dude, you're going to have to produce a clip or two if I'm to believe a word of this eight-stair business.

i have a number in mind. when i reach this number of fundraising texts received from spineless centrist dem candidates who refuse to say 'abolish ice' or 'genocide,' i will henceforth commit to not ever voting again for any democrat, ever. only i know the number. it is not very high.

For the afternoon crowd: Thom's dispatch from London is full of good questions, answers, and celebrity cameos.

Happy May Day! Organize your workplace this year!

You are getting played so hard, man.

get the fuck off of substack!

Great question! Easy answer. Great interview. Singular writer...

like many developments, we can blame a whole lot of this on harry potter, per the great Christian TeBordo:

who remembers "the bones brigade"? man skateboarding in the 80s was wild

I suppose one thing that's changed since I left my tenured position is these days I'm much more often paid in weed.

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...