Reposting for all the new adherents of Worm Theory.

This week, which Tampa Pro finalist is sponsored by a laser hair removal clinic? An argument for submitting to the worm, a really long and meandering essay about promotional campaigns in and out of skateboarding, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/ratatouillie...

[new trick] Thursday

Did a switch 360 flip today. It has been seven years since I last did one. Can't wait to do another in 2033.

Next month is the one year anniversary of the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, and to celebrate i would love to sell out the initial print run. It's a goal that's already close! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

For the afternoon crowd: hot goss

The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here: www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e... Campaign statement here: www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...

This week, we're feeling feelings about Antwuan Dixon, space travel, new skateboarding tricks, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-setting-...

Jimmyjam season

An excellent essay by Cole Nowicki about David Macfarlane's new book ON SPORTS

Happy to be back in @thetyee.ca this weekend with a piece about enjoying sports, not enjoying the deleterious effect sports gambling is having on most everything, and really enjoying David Macfarlane’s new book “On Sports.” Thanks to @jackie-wong.bsky.social for the supreme edits, as per usual.

”That space between awe and extraction is where the business of sport thrives. We’re at a point where it’s almost impossible to tell the two apart,” writes @colenowicki.com. 🏀💸

"If you are a person concerned with the best parts of being human, those feelings and that sense of community are hard to put a dollar amount on." Thank you @colenowicki.com for this wonderful @thetyee.ca essay on the tricky business of sports. 🏀 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

For the weekend peckers

Really fantastic article. "But ours is not a home with permanence — there is no “forever home.” As Bachelard said, “A nest is a precarious thing, and yet it provokes confidence and security.”

This week, @skateorphi.bsky.social returns to talk Bachelard and little miseries, I declare myself the only living PSL beat writer, a woodpecker pecks, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/i-gotta-star...

For the afternoon crowd, a closer look at an increasingly bizarre pro skateboarding league with Gary Payton II as its celebrity figurehead, which is faking it (i.e. lying about easily disprovable things) so hard that they might actually be making it (getting an arena built with their name on it).

This week, I spoke to the CEO of Visit Big Bear about the Skate Board Association and the proposed IDM Arena, and whether he's concerned about partnering with an organization that hasn't produced a single event and routinely misrepresents itself to the public. www.simplemagic.ca/the-future-o...

Going down to skate park with my friends to BE KIND.

A story true of a “gift economy”

You telling me STREET UNI X, the game with almost entirely positive reviews?? Where you do stunts on a unicycle?? Made by a beautiful transgender and their friends?? is on sale for less than 20 dollars?? On Steam?? Right now?? store.steampowered.com/app/2204900/...

For the afternoon crowd: a lil blog about how I became cursed by this signed Brady Tkachuk Ottawa Senators jersey.

I hear this was fun: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This week, Lau Willems rips, the victory horns of competitive skateboarding honk, Andy Anderson goes to Paris, I get cursed, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/commercial-f...

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/

They should invent a career you feel good about

newly posted: Heidi Elder : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Brandi Bird / reading next week in Ottawa as part of VERSeFest 2026! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/heid...

Here's a sentence that would have been incomprehensible to me two years ago: I wrote some short fiction for the new issue of Skate Jawn. skatejawn.com/frosted-flakes…

Apparently, the Skate Board Association and its parent company IDM (I Don't Miss, lol) are partnering with the Big Bear, California, tourism bureau to open the "IDM Arena." This is the AI-generated concept art they presented during a local news hit. youtu.be/dtH4nmC77qg?...

This week, several references to 30-something-year-old cartoon characters and being in your thirties. www.simplemagic.ca/just-a-lemon/

Took some photos of French skate spots.

This arrived in the post today. A pocket sized book by @colenowicki.com all about the social impact of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Cole puts out an excellent skate-focussed newsletter called Simple Magic, which is how I discovered his writing.

Tune in to hear voices from Slow Impact 2026 starting at with Ryan Lay and Leif Hauge talking about the Slow Impact shoe from NB then too many other homies to name. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or at the link below. www.mostlyskateboarding.net/2026/03/slow...

I hit the streets of Tempe during Slow Impact to get a little slice of the weekend (and annoy people with questions about their wheelbase) for Simple Magic: www.simplemagic.ca/the-spaces-b...

“The project felt like destiny; finally, I was merging my skillset as a librarian with my experience as a skateboarder.” 📚🛹

Today @keithplocek.com, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, his students using "AI" and the permission structure it gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity. www.welcometohellworld.com/sentences-th...

This week, @vadiparty.bsky.social and @ibrowning.bsky.social report on the people, happenings, and wheelbases of Slow Impact, I report on some things I saw on television, an AMAZING opossum video, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-spaces-b...

very kind of Thrasher Magazine to come all the way to the desert and cover our magnificent little conference www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/slo...

me and @ibrowning.bsky.social unite once more for @colenowicki.com’s Simple Magic

This week, @vadiparty.bsky.social and @ibrowning.bsky.social report on the people, happenings, and wheelbases of Slow Impact, I report on some things I saw on television, an AMAZING opossum video, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-spaces-b...

Yuto Horigome off Delta Airlines, on All Nippon Airways

maybe physical media is making a comeback

I never get to do BREAKING NEWS, but here's some: B.C. is scrapping the time change, which reams of scientific research and anecdata from exhausted parents can tell you is a good thing. here's an update to my reporting from last year, which now has a more celebratory tone:

Found my way to Tempe after all

Skateboard Nyjah Huston is on a roll

This week, Kyle Walker wants to save you some bread and I fall into a black hole of hustle-bro influencer pablum, Kevin Long goes to Yo Gabba GabbaLand, FIFA closes a skatepark(?) in Vancouver(!), and more. www.simplemagic.ca/step-into-pa...

Just wild, my goodness #vanpoli

I just generated a $250M scene from an AI prompt in my bathroom in 5 minutes. 🎥🔥 RIP Hollywood