Times are hard right now for first world fat heads. I joked recently that back in ye olde middle ’90s, when I was living on a steady diet of TVP and LSD, reading Terrance McKenna’s “Invisible Landscape” for the first time, and sitting around with my friends, like a puddle of stoned poodles, running on [...]
Category Archives: Skateboarding
Uganda Skate Union
Also posted in Event, Places, Pleasures, Review Tagged 2012, Rick Steves, Terrance McKenna, Time Wave Zero, Uganda Skate Union Leave a comment
Go Skate Kabul Day
On Tuesday, the longest day of the year, over 180 kids in Kabul got together in the park to be… kids. Go Skateboarding Day is an international holiday meant to celebrate the great sport of, you guessed it, skateboarding. It’s celebrated here in the states, it’s celebrated in Europe and it’s celebrated in Afghanistan. As [...]
More Info On Possible Chicago 24-Hour Skate Park
Ever since Daley was cited in an article a few weeks ago bragging about an 24-hour, indoor skate park at 16th & Clark I’ve been trying to find out more information on this project and just who to badger in order to see that this goes through. As I learn more I’ll post it here, [...]
Posted in Skateboarding Tagged 16th & Clark, Chicago, Chicago Park District, Logan Square, Mayor Daley, Pat Dowell, Ping Tom Park, Rahm Emanuel 2 Comments
2010 Pro-Tec Pool Party Masters Session
The old guys are still leading the way.
Also posted in Event Tagged Christian Hosoi, Jeff Grosso, Lance Mountain, Pro-tec, Steve Cabellero, Vans Leave a comment
Old Skate Photos from Venice Beach in the late 1970′s
I got turned onto these photos from Richard Metzger’s “Dangerous Minds” blog. It’s a collection of skate and surf photos from southern California in the late 70s. These photos, more so than anything else I’ve seen, capture an idyllic time and space that I’ve always wanted to go to, though I’m sure never existed. It’s [...]
Also posted in Event, Health, Instructional Tagged Blue Oyster Cult, California, Delta 88, Houses of the Holy, Led Zepellin, qualudes, Venice Beach, Venicepix Leave a comment
Chicago to Get 24 Hour Indoor Skate Park!!
Think of how many cubes can be gleamed in this totally free, indoor skate park! “I’m very, very happy with that. It’s right on the corner of 16th and Clark. It’s gonna be an indoor park and it’s gonna be fabulous for skateboarders. Really,” the mayor said. “It’s gonna be open 24 hours-a-day. A lot [...]
Carving a Pool on a Longboard
Despite the snow we woke up to this morning, Dawn Patrol at Wilson is close enough to smell the homeless suburban skate rats sleeping in the bottom of the blood bowl. If the stench of parentless delinquents and fresh blood caked on pavement isn’t enough to inspire you, maybe this video of a guy carving [...]
Hated Skateboards “Fuck Life” Video
If you missed the premiere for Hated Skateboards new video “Fuck Life”… you missed an evening of cheap beer and generally good-natured knuckleheadedness. However, you did not miss the video itself, you lucky such and such. Here it is in all it’s glory.
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Hated Skateboards @ the Hideout, Sunday 4/10 8pm
Chicago’s Hated Skateboards presents a night of Beer, skateboarding, free stuff, and beer. Rounding out its second year, Hated Skates proudly unveils it’s cinematic masterpiece “Fuck Life.” The company will also be unveiling its new skateboards for the year. A $2 evening not to be missed! Hey, it’s at the Hideout.