Doesn’t the homeboy look like Eric Cantona. I know dude is a Liverpool supporter, but COME ON! The resemblance is uncanny.

“Born in Cuba, but lookin’ like Bruce Springsteen.”

How many of you have skated with an award-winning author. Congratulations @colenowicki.com📚

I was on a panel at Slow Impact asking Does Skateboarding Need Journalism? You can watch it here. youtu.be/1-7DL3-iBWs?...

Tired: Hotel iron Wired: Travel steamer 💨

I recently read a comment on a music blog that referred to The XX as “Sonny & Cher for Millennials.” Being a music snob is about to come roaring back into fashion.

Easily the most uninspiring Coachella lineup in recent memory. Playing it safe for the influencers.

Super duper timeline cleanse

Joy Division “Unknown Pleasures.” 1980 Factory US pressing. File under: GRAIL OF ALL GRAILS

#timelinecleanse 🪣🧼🧽🫧

Horrible trends in band / artist names: -Any kind of punctuation after the name -ALL CAPS -Name that’s a little too close to one that already existed (Field Mouse, Field Mice) -Using the same word as others (Wolfmother, Wolf Alice) -Using characters/symbols most Americans can’t pronounce (ü, ī, ø)

Back in 1995, Molson sponsored a “Polar Beach Party” with Metallica, Hole, Moist, Cake, and Veruca Salt in Tuktoyaktuk, NW Territories, Canada (pop 854). Why? To promote Molson Ice. You can’t buy alcohol in the town, which is inaccessible by road. Only 500 contest winners + some locals attended.

90s and early 00s artists: If your band was played at Britpop dance nights or indie discos and you’re not touring…doggg. YOU’RE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE.

Tired: Who is Banksy? Wired: Who is (or who are) KID PK?

Oasis Night 1 @ The Rose Bowl was indeed, BIBLICAL. Lots of bucket hats. Track jackets (even in 90° F heat), Vintage football kits spotted: Man City (of course), Man U, England (especially Italia 90), Ireland, Wales, Brazil, Argentina,Celtic, Arsenal, Leeds, Chelsea..

What year is this?! Pulp are on tour, Suede has a new album, Supergrass are playing tonight in LA, Oasis this weekend in the Rose Bowl. Cool Britannia is alive and well, huh?

Skaters who appear in or lead FOIAable virtual meetings also counts as footage.

Is it Friday yet?

“Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. It’s the first of tha month.”

How many times do I have to remind y’all: PUT YOUR VENMO ON PRIVATE, FFS

having fun over at Simple Magic 👨🏽‍💻 thanks @colenowicki.com & @kigongo.bsky.social for the help on this one!

“Postal operators around the world have announced they will suspend certain deliveries to the United USA, ahead of an end to a long-standing [de minimis] tariff exemption for packages worth $800 or less." This is going to hurt small to medium-sized businesses, hobbyists, and consumers.

Two of the most timeless skateboard graphics of all time: -Guy Mariano, “Accidental Gun Death” (Blind Skateboards, 1992) -“I Survived School Today” (Quasi Skateboards, 2022)

MTV True Life: We are somebody’s bad day away from the next Kent State. (And this country is wholly unprepared for that kind of rupture).

The name of that beverage is too long by three words. What happened to regular seltzer?!

“Stomp clap?” That was indie folk, sometimes freak folk (spending on the level of yelps). “Indie sleaze?” Why. For better or worse it was hipster. What’s with this clumsy neologisms? The existing words were just fine. -Sincerely, someone who wrote about, played, and DJ’d music from 2006-14

Printing up prayer cards and making floral arrangements because I’m planning a funeral for my Imposter Syndrome. (RIP)

Tired: Calling them YouTube pranksters Wired: Calling them nuisance streamers

High Fidelity might be the best record shop in LA…

Drake should take 5 years off from music and return to acting.

Endless Beauty and private equity got @frozenincarbonite.bsky.social, @colenowicki.com, and I talking on this week’s Mostly Skateboarding Podcast. Listen at the link in below, or at iTunes, and Spotify. www.mostlyskateboarding.net/2025/08/endl...

Tame Impala’s descent into H&M music, while tragic, was inevitable

Early Modest Mouse (right up through The Moon & Antarctica) captured suburban alienation and atomization better than any emo group.

Worst snare drum sound ever? “Blood Sugar Sex Magik.” I’m not taking creative advice or listening to a podcast by the dude who made that!

Album coming soon…

“What is White flight and divestment from American cities, public services, and education, Alex?”

Some proper investigative reporting from one of my @mostlyskate.bsky.social cohosts 🕵️‍♂️

#plantcheck 🌱🌼🌻

Why y’all still out here RT’ing Mark Cuban?

-Can’t have cool art / music scenes if rent is OD high. That’s how you end up with arts and music being filled with bored posh kids -How are young people supposed to become independent if they can’t move out on their own? -Lack of housing mobility means staying in bad jobs, bad relationship, etc

Why is your Venmo still on “Public.” The scammers are watching!

Is it still gonna be a prank if a player, a member of the coaching staff, or a venue employee gets hurt? Real talk, this whole “Chill! It’s a prank, bro” nonsense is insufferable and dangerous

Elite tier assessment. As a product manager and music nerd, this post gets a solid 10/10. PS At least Serge is cool and can score a screamer of a goal while drainpipe jeans and pointy shoes.

All of those careers disrupted or destroyed…for what? All those sleepless nights, the anxiety, the frustration. All those people whose services or benefits were reduced or cut off…For what?

Dinner time?!

America is full of people who’ve survived authoritarian governments, family members who’ve been disappeared, who’ve had their citizenship revoked etc. These are the folks who should be interviewed on TV and in the papers. But the “English-only” posh kids at NY Times, WaPo, and CNN can’t be bothered.

Stay weird, LA. Stay weird.

"There was a goal to 'to reach a specific threshold in cuts ... . But in practice it’s clear there was no intent for actual savings. The losses in services, and time wasted fixing systems because a critical purchase as small as a website certificate was held up was significant.'"