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

lol

President Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner

"In an age where the endless pursuit of capital is as insatiable as it is unavoidable and stupid, especially when it comes to the scourge of private equity whose only concern is wringing everything it can from a company before discarding its bones to whoever is willing to pay for them..."

Repost alert 🚨

This week, I deny myself SEO with this headline, Dylan Jaeb's heated rivalry(?), Enjoi's strange victory, Rayssa Leal gets a cover, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/im-exhausted...

Brickbanklunchbreak: 2°C and mostly sunny

friends,

There are some illuminating Paul Rodriguez factoids in the "About Paul" section of his YouTube video descriptions.

Finally, some good news calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/16/s...

Pouring this one out again for the afternoon crowd

This week, a hot chocolate accident, skate stats, skate docs, and some attempts to describe how Lee Yankou skates. www.simplemagic.ca/retired-af/

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

I talked to TJ Rogers about going through chemo in the midst of a career as a pro skater, and what to post, in the latest Rules of Skateboarding. Also worth mentioning that we got day-one Rules artist @cosmestudio back on the header! skatebylines.com/2026/02/11/t...

Verified Tumbler Ridge fundraiser organized by Parent Advisory Council

For the afternoon crowd, an extreme amount of good stuff

The skate studies community dropped some academic hammers last year. @skateorphi.bsky.social takes us on a comprehensive journey through their work, the trends found within it, and reveals the 2025 SSSOTY. www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...

Our EIC Dave Beers - and also the founder of @thetyee.ca - is retiring (for real this time lol). We're looking for a new EIC - please share in your #journalism circles! thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Repost for those on their commutes home

This week, some parallels, PROs, and various forms of PR. www.simplemagic.ca/some-of-your...

New Barrier Kult video: Amazing Singular spoiler: Switch Lazer Flip

From Hawk's team: "This is not true — Tony has never been to Little Saint James, and his wedding took place in Fiji."

From this Friday's newsletter: Did Tony Hawk get married on Jeffrey Epstein's island?

"'I spent six years of my blood, sweat and tears trying to get Hootsuite to where it is, but there’s a level of pissed off and a level of betrayal, but also a level of ‘Of course it had to be this way.’” @jenstden.bsky.social on the weekend's ICE protesters in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

for the older heads, a hastily-assembled x games ceo jeremy bloom word salad X heyday-era powell peralta ad copy mashup:

This week, the AI and crypto fancies of action sports entertainment CEOs, unity online and off, a $10 app that should not be $10 just quite yet, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/action-sport...

please enjoy my ken sim bitcoin podcast collage

Personally, I cannot wait for the MoonPay X Games League, cheering in the stands decked out in my MoonPay X Games League swag, and watching the world's best action sports athletes compete for MoonPay X Games League gold

An astonishingly boneheaded way to justify your company providing services to a government agency murdering and disappearing civilians.

It's a good one this week!

This week, anecdotes about my eccentric physiotherapist and the time a neo-Nazi showed up at the skatepark. www.simplemagic.ca/at-the-cross...

Has Carney said anything about saving the Drumheller dinosaur yet?

Execs at local company are absolutely giddy about working with an organization that's murdering, kidnapping, and destroying the lives of countless people. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

MJ Lenderman, with J. Mascis, “Lotta Love” (Neil Young cover), 1/16/26, Riviera Maya, Mexico www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMp...

Crisp lil Saturday w/ @curbisland.bsky.social

For the afternooners. The eveningers, too.

This week, I try to work out my feelings and worries through the art of blog, along with some other stuff. www.simplemagic.ca/uncs-at-the-...

Did this in 2012, learned how to do it around 2004, and am now posting it in 2026. Old Trick Thursday, yes.

Honored / honoured to contribute to Simple Magic ❤️ thx @colenowicki.com

This week, I get excited and long-winded over a pretty standard PR statement, the virtual triumphs over the real, an important question about Phantom Ganon, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/life-and-dea...

Showed up to the spot dressed like the bus, smdh

At the gym, watching a guy lean his phone against a water bottle to film his set, thinking how wack that is, before suffering an aneurism when the countless memories of leaning my phone against a water bottle to film my little tricks at the skatepark all come rushing back at once

Zohran next Thursday

Some supplementary reading about SLS's presenting sponsor, Stake www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...