Category: skateboarding

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Don’t Annoy Me

I went to one of my old spots to skate yesterday. The little ditch I’ve been skating since I was 14.

​As I started to skate, the dog behind the fence on the south side of the ditch started going apeshit. It was annoying. I figured if it annoyed me that much, and the dog was that annoyed, then the neighbors of the dog owner would probably be annoyed as well.

I feel bad for dogs that just live in the backyard. When we lived in Lockhart, Texas, that was common. Dogs are emotional creatures and I think just sticking one in the backyard is abuse. At any rate, I don’t like being the cause of an innocent dog’s distress, even if it’s a dog that would love to kill and eat me.

I took a couple of runs and then left.

It left me feeling kind of uninspired, so I just went home and made plans to go skate a really good ditch in Fort Worth on Sunday (2 days from now) with my friends Dale and Carter. Feeling very inspired for that!

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Yet another new web project

A couple of friends and I are working on a web-zine. The idea is to create a website as the homepage of the zine, and each zine is done as separate issues. Not an ongoing blog. A zine, with discrete issues. I’m fiddling around with it here…

The Cookies of Discontent

As part of this project I am building the site “old-school.: No content management system. No commenting system. Not even an RSS feed. Just hand-coded html pages done in a text editor, server-side includes, and CSS. An email address people can use to comment if they choose to do so. I feel like interactions like “likes” are bullshit. They’re cheap. If someone really wants to comment, then email us. No associate social media sites. We’ll notify a few friends of the project, and that’s it.

It’s been a lot of fun to work on this.

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A favorite trick

This is me a couple of years ago. I’m not this fat now. This was before I went back to Aikido, after at least two years of pandemic life. I wonder what damage that period of time actually did to me. Being out of shape like that for a couple of years plus all the stress of the pandemic and cancer in the family must have some lasting effect.

Anyway, this simple trick is one of my favorite things to do. Sometimes I’ll do a 180 shove-it out. It’s simple but you can flow into and out of it nicely. This is the kind of thing I like to do now.

Some people would not even call this a “trick.”  I would say they are wrong.

The World Freestyle Skateboarding Championships were in Germany over the weekend. A lot of my friends from all over were there. Do I have anything left that is worth sharing? I need to think about this.