extremely large note to self

History doesn’t repeat itself, it looms menacingly

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?...

def going on the reading list for this fall’s storytelling for action sports class

For the afternooners.

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!"

Pleased to publish this lovely comic by Ruby Arnone about skating, transitioning, and the endurance required for each. www.simplemagic.ca/i-dont-have-...

As usual, Cole’s got the goods

Wrote about Marc Johnson, one of the best to ever do it www.simplemagic.ca/take-somethi...

Wrote about Marc Johnson, one of the best to ever do it www.simplemagic.ca/take-somethi...

Double flippin’ for MJ

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?...

There is a photo of a lovely little dog wearing a Spurs kerchief in this week's newsletter for those looking for additional pre-game hype.

This week, @ibrowning.bsky.social went to Seattle to do some on-the-ground/foot reporting at Wheels of Fortune 13, Marc Roca's business empire appears to be imploding, Lau Willems is about to explode (positive), some thoughts on how and what we look at, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/wheels-and-s...

Tony Hawk is investing in a new MMA league. Sure, why not. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I've got competition

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

For today’s, tomorrow’s, and the forever afternoon crowd

This week, I talked to Don Luong about the new Foundation Skateboards video, a look at some 2008-style handrail skating in 2026, a desperate plea for some banks to ledges, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/today-tomorr...

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.”

If you're in the Vancouver area, you can oppose the latest proposal for data centers in Mount Pleasant. It takes under a minute to let the city know you're against these projects. Spread the word :) www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

Not sure what to do with your remaining $50? You can delegate that, too.

Wrote about short and long-term influences, real and imagined, of Being a Skateboarder for @dirt.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2026...

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

Wrote about short and long-term influences, real and imagined, of Being a Skateboarder for @dirt.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2026...

I mean, just look at this curb.

Spencer Pratt running the Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner Clean U.S. Party playbook here in LA

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

This week, some friends and I skate a really nice curb, a bit of slop talk, some skateboarders are planning to make golf shoes, the MoonPay X Games League sold a pair of teams for a pretty penny, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-most-bea...

Elections Alberta says over 550 people accessed the database with the leaked personal info of nearly 3 million people under investigation. And Alberta’s privacy watchdog now says she’ll be doing her own probe too. From me and @reportrix.bsky.social: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

NEW: What I learned spending Monday outside the closed-door Alberta Christian Leadership Summit, formerly known as the Premier’s Christian Summit. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Street League has started giving AI-generated YouTube Face to the skateboarders featured in their video thumbnails.

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

[Holding paperback books] -Are these books, too?

This week, a special correspondence from Thom Callan-Riley, Dylan Jaeb does it, the metaphorical weight of an eight-stair ollie, Pulaski is desecrated in a new and worse way, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/way-to-go-dy...

these mfs played to a blood pressure score

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

The TF talk had me thinking about the man who coined the term, Rob Dyrdek, and his TF part in Transworld’s IE with a custom “TF” music track. youtu.be/GpCIA4itOk4?...

This week, Dylan Jaeb eats Rincon up, some upsetting puppets, a defence of Jim Greco's House of Hammers, a look at some plazas capped and uncapped, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/unfortunatel...

This week, Dylan Jaeb eats Rincon up, some upsetting puppets, a defence of Jim Greco's House of Hammers, a look at some plazas capped and uncapped, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/unfortunatel...

In this edition of “Doubles,” @knowngaslighter.bsky.social and I pick at, pull apart, and examine some of skateboarding's ritualistic sacraments and why they compel us so. www.simplemagic.ca/doubles-skat...

In this edition of “Doubles,” @knowngaslighter.bsky.social and I pick at, pull apart, and examine some of skateboarding's ritualistic sacraments and why they compel us so. www.simplemagic.ca/doubles-skat...

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